Is it time for us nerds to start anticipating THE AVENGERS, directed by Joss Whedon?

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well the punisher kills a lotta people so i guess he's a supervillain?

(Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link

i think we can agree that we're all heroes in our own magical way

of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link

nah, we're all villains

bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Thursday, 17 May 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link

Punisher = more 'anti' than 'super'

Mark Ruffalo! is gonna tell us! about empathy! (loves laboured breathing), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link

seeing this tomorrow, apparently

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link

Hate it lots, so we don't have to.

Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link

not expecting to much to hate, honestly...? altho I'm not a fan of Transformers-style smashbangloudincomprehensibility action sequences so maybe I will hate those, I dunno.

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link

first Marvel movie I will have watched since the first Iron Man movie, which was fine

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link

smashbangloudincomprehensibility

This movie doesn't really have any of these.

polyphonic, Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link

great!

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link

nah it does but they're outweighed by the movie's other qualities

diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link

The action scenes were totally comprehensible. They barely had any cuts! Very well orchestrated.

polyphonic, Friday, 18 May 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link

^^^one of the best things about this movie

He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 18 May 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link

The action scenes were almost irrelevant, tbh. The chemistry of the core is where the fun is at. Faceless aliens and snakemonsters flying about basically just there to give the Avengers things to hit.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 May 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link

Polyphonic & AP otm

man I loved the shawarma scene

dayo, Friday, 18 May 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link

cap'n america was basically http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-grandmother-tries-indian-food,2472/ during it

dayo, Friday, 18 May 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link

aka a true to life recreation of what it's like every time I bring my parents to an ethnic restaurant

dayo, Friday, 18 May 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link

Amusing anecdote about that scene: http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/05/04/backstory-avengers-secret/

Robert Downey Jr. has just entered the room, and immediately begins mocking the prosthetic that Evans needed to hide his beard for the scene. (Evans also, you’ll notice, covers his face throughout that footage by resting his cheek against his hand.)

“Where is Chris Evans? Getting his face replaced?” Downey asks.

Evans hasn’t arrived yet, but that doesn’t hold back Downey. “Chris, why the long face? Chris, why the WRONG face?” Downey says as the other guys laugh.

. . . “Hello, sir!” Evans says cheerfully as he enters the conference room — unaware that his prosthetic-covered lower face, and the difficulty he had speaking, are the hot topic.

“Not without my beard,” Downey says, mumbling like his jaw is wired shut.

Suddenly Renner, who has been low-key this entire time, breaks into a Chris-Evans-with-prosthetic-make-up Buffalo Bill impression from The Silence of the Lambs: “‘I’d f–k me!’”

i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link

lol

duddest character for me was hawkeye - they tried really hard to make him look cool shooting arrows but that just doesn't translate well into cinema form. the one good shot he had was the one from the trailer, falling down and shooting up

dayo, Friday, 18 May 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link

arrow shooting is incredibly cinematic! much moreso than gun shooting!

Hungry4Ass, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link

I really like that they made him just as dud in the movie as he is in the rest of Marvel continuity. The enormous chip on his shoulder is due to the fact that he knows exactly how second-string he is.

Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link

"second string". I see what you did there.

EZ Snappin, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link

it's rough being a shitty knockoff of a shitty knockoff

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link

It makes that throwaway moment when he aims off to his right and hits a target without even looking even more perfect.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link

(altho tbf Green Arrow eventually developed into a really interesting character imo)

xp

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link

well it can be if they made him take down that elephant thing HARDCORE. but the most he did, besides fall while shooting, was shoot blind xp

dayo, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link

I guess it might all have been better if his bow was a little meaner. he carried that thing around like he was a concert violinist. it looked like a cosplay bow. so lame.

dayo, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link

i guess i don't understand how hawkeye is not "super powered". isn't he "unable to miss"? or is that somebody else

goole, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link

That's Bullseye, the Daredevil villain.

Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link

jeremy renner looks so lame and miserable in this cast, hanging out with all the megafamous people with superpowers with his stupid little bow and arrow and mountain climbing outfit

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having now seen the movie i feel like he at least played a part in the storyline enough that his presence wasn't totally perfunctory but i still basically feel the same

the girl with the swag and tattoo (some dude), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link

ultimate hawkeye has cyber eyes!

mh, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link

He does? I haven't followed Ultimates/Ultimate Barton since Millar had him pull his own fingernails out with his teeth to use as little projectiles.

Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link

I guess they are enhanced, not cybernetic.

mh, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link

In the "Old Man Logan" series Hawkeye is completely blind but can still drive a car and hit pretty much whatever he aims at. Of course, that story also has T. Rexes merged with Venom symbiotes, so. Mark Millar is kinda dumb.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4K0OYHwYwGY/TCyn0oSeDUI/AAAAAAAAABc/oTbI9hJ3s6o/s1600/T-Rex%2BVenom.jpg

i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link

He kind of went over the top on his gross-out rape-humor on that one, right? I thought it was half ok, half utterly reprehensible.

mh, Saturday, 19 May 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link

btw venom t-rex is awesome

mh, Saturday, 19 May 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link

still waiting for Shakey's review

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link

over all, I enjoyed it. It zips along, well-cast and well-acted throughout, and successfully provides the kind of charming, irony-laden banter most action films aspire to but fail miserably to achieve. Maintains a playful tone that serves the action well and keeps what might otherwise be ponderous or ridiculous fun and engaging.

That being said, it isn't really *about* anything and pretty much everything you need to know about it is right there on the surface in first viewing, so I doubt I'll ever be compelled to watch it or think about it ever again. And the last fight scene goes on too long but I guess Hulk has to smash SOMETHING, right?

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link

one major flaw: no scene of Loki and Stark enjoying a single malt before the former's carted off to the Asgardian hoosegow.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link

The fights in this movie were so badly done, as "big" as it felt they were trying to go it felt a lot like TV (espesh the whole middle part on the flying aircraft carrier)

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link

to me it's enough that I can follow them

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link

Finally got to see this and I think the fight scenes were so much better than any other recent superhero flick. They were easy to follow, without all the ridiculously tight close-ups and rapid cuts that made the fight scenes in say, Dark Knight, nearly unwatchable. I thought this was really fun overall, even if the plot pretty much didn't exist.

heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link

I thought they were all close up and choppily edited tbh

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link

compared to which action movie from the last twenty years

hot slag (lukas), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link


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