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

clearly A.O. Scott doesn't have a monopoly on thinly veiled brags about his superior film taste and intelligence

Can I suggest, Morbs, that if you have no intention of seeing the movie you just go shit up some other movie thread? If A.O. Scott wants to post here about the movie's shortcomings, he's welcome to. Because, you know, HE SAW IT.

stick to yr dance music scholarship, sexy

xp

yes, new universal ILX rule about posting in yr expertise threads only

bye

when i remember how i psychically knew that skyrim was the worst video game ever made and the struggle it took me to not constantly remind the people who were deluding themselves into enjoying it that it was awful, well, then i think i understand how morbs feels

I mildly liked Iron Man fwiw, but only a bare unshaven Evans torso would entice me for this.

The crowd here loved it. Not being a huge comics fan (although I like many of Joss Whedon's tv/movies) and being surrounded by them, I was just sitting there the whole time trying to deconstruct it.

Morally compromised/ambiguous leader Nick Fury leads shadowy paramilitary group (consisting of a narcissistic billionaire technocrat, super soldiers, casualty of atomic experiments, 'god'—demigod?) against a rival, protogothy-looking demigod for control of a mysterious, potentially unlimited power source that also has the downside of potentially unleashing extradimensional monsters that trash NYC. The big theme of this movie = nuclear proliferation and terrorism.

And what is it with Hollywood's war on goths?

PS - I must be the least fun person to watch movies with.

Only bummer is thanks to riotous applause I missed Hulk's line after his climactic scene with Loki.

ha, same thing happened in my screening tho more like riotous laughter. after all the comic-book-iz-serious-bizness adaptations it was refreshing to see somebody have fun with the big hero/villain showdown.

stevie otm abt this being a comic book movie that gets what's great about comic books.

man, THAT'S a loaded statement

plz don't go fanboy on me

I don't give a damn about "expertise" (like five people here get paid for writing about film), I care about SEEING THE GODDAMNED MOVIE.

Many xps

paid, you might be overestimating

but morbius it's basically a screwball comedy, you like those, right

Haha, ok, bylined

Scotts review was only a thinly veiled brag about his superior film taste and intelligence. Who lets these reviewers review genres which they obviously despise? If I hated romcoms I am most definitely not going into the next Katherine Heigl romance fest with an open mind.

As a reviewer you should be more professional than this and not go into the movie theater prejudging the film because of the dollars it makes.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 4, 2012 8:07 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

is that a c/p from rotten tomatoes

the funny thing is that scott didnt even pan the movie. he compares it to rio bravo!! if it wasnt for RT adding their little splooshed tomato graphic next to everything im sure nobody would've noticed that it was a 'bad' review

The whole RT rotten v fresh thing that makes no allowance for 'mixed' totally enables the full-diaper crowd.

Full-diaper crowd

In Germany he compels a crowd to kneel before him in mute, terrified awe, and “The Avengers,” which recently opened there to huge box office returns, expects a similarly submissive audience here at home. The price of entertainment is obedience.

this is one jaundiced motherfucker.

it's sad really because it they got a 100% metacritic score they were gonna make a sequel
now we're all gonna have to make do with Defenders in 2016 with megan fox as Valkyrie and andy dick as ROM spaceknight

The metaphor would've made more sense applied to a Nolan Batman movie, really.

Full-diaper crowd, y'all

I wonder if AO writes the obnoxious opening and closing paragraphs first or the actual review in between

to be fair the full-diaper crowd exists at both ends of the maturity spectrum

lol

Empty your diaper true believer

Now that's an untapped revenue stream the theater chains could exploit: vending machines with depends and huggies in the lobby!

hey can anyone confirm that fucking stan fucking lee is not cameo'd in this goddamn film?

afraid not

We can not. Now even the full-diaper crowd recognizes him when he shows.

does he at least get killed?

after stan lee dies his mummified corpse will be used as a prop in all future marvel films

surrounded by two buxom women and the ghost of kirby

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/ohnoes.png

^ love this guy

Stan's playing chess in the news clips near the end, claims none of it happened.

anyway this was fukkin sweeeeeeeeeeeet. funnest superhero movie ever probably, crowd was going insane. i always knew whedon had a great chance to hit a home run on this - its just sooo squarely in his wheelhouse, especially making the character stuff 'pop' in a movie this crowded. its so easy to imagine how this could've been a boring disaster, where the only thing you can appreciate is all the computing power onscreen (see: Battleship). everyone otm about hulk, ruffalo was awesome, scarjo was surprisingly awesome and Widow ended up being an interesting character

Pretty good! I was impressed that Whedon didn't suffer from the X-Men problem of too many people in tights and not enough dialogue. Every character had something to do. Whedon even had the lightness of touch to make Cap America's boringness work for him.

I could watch a whole movie of RDJ and Ruffalo bantering.

Demerits were few: the invaders from outer space were spectacularly underwhelming -- basically Return of the Jedi's imperial scouts on speeders; and the Thor-Hulk meet-cute.

I'm also confused by how powerful these Asgardians are supposed to be. If Loki's a god then how the fuck does he stay in a plexiglass cage? Unless he did it on purpose, which I suppose makes sense if he's the god of mischief or whatever.

I thought the first act had some fat that could've been trimmed, but I went along with it knowing it was setup.

traditionally the writers fudge their godliness according to the story's needs (thor goes toe-to-toe with iron man when he should be demolishing him) - but yeah loki allowed himself to be locked up in there, he could've escaped any time. I was pretty shocked at who Loki killed on the helicarrier!

Hulk sucker punch almost certainly the biggest laugh of the movie, along with Cap's punching bags.

for some reason the audience whooped at RDJ's Shakespeare in the park quip

Hulk sucker punch almost certainly the biggest laugh of the movie, along with Cap's punching bags.

My audience dug Hulk vs. Loki more than either of these.

the first Hulk punch is like an appetizer for the moment with Loki

Hulk vs. Loki got the crowd so worked up that I didnt hear what Hulk said after ("puny god" apparently)

post-credits SPOILER: there's no way THAT CHARACTER will look cool onscreen.

he's not a cool character that's for sure

yeah, he's gonna be tough to pull off for a lot of reasons. Though I thought the bit of his face we saw was cool!

hoping to fuck you guys are talking about MODOK
do not tell me yet

maybe producers can cast Tom Cruise for the teeth.

fingers crossed next movie is just extended Captain-Marvel-acid-trip/cosmic cube-sequence

or MODOC