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

if y'all want solid fight sequences, go see Lysette Anthony vs Sydney Pollack in Husbands and Wives.

I will add that unlike the lyrical teen fantasy Chronicle or Neveldine-Taylor’s daring Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance which addressed life, death, morality, Marvel’s The Avengers has little to say other than “Buy me!”

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, May 21, 2012 7:10 PM (1 hour ago)

ha, I thought I was the only person who dug ghost rider: SoV. a tough sell after the first but it was pretty damn good.

alfred said the dark nought again!!

will never be better than bozelka's "the dork knight" typo

after Gamer there's no way im ever intentionally watching a N/T movie again

man I wish mine were a typo

just say you meant The Dark Nougat

I will add that unlike the lyrical teen fantasy Chronicle or Neveldine-Taylor’s daring Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance which addressed life, death, morality, Marvel’s The Avengers has little to say other than “Buy me!”

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, May 21, 2012 7:10 PM (1 hour ago)

ha, I thought I was the only person who dug ghost rider: SoV. a tough sell after the first but it was pretty damn good.

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, May 21, 2012 7:30 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you and armond

looooooooool i was wondering what shakey's obviously quoted post was from

i guess this movie's probably all talked out but: this was pretty much what i expected, dumb but pretty fun. it could have been just hulk and iron man and would have been just as good, if not better. i liked the captain america movie but he and thor are basically the same character, both humorless and upright and anachronistic and without much in the way of powers other than being strong. hawkeye and black widow were totally pointless. i like cobie smulders getting a chance to break out of how i met your mother, though she didn't really have a character here.

i mentioned this on facebook but my favorite LOL Loki moment was him giving his taunting speech to a crowd of Germans ... in English (who all mysteriously know what "kneel!" means).

thor was the only one of these fucking movies i haven't seen so i was kinda pissed that the main bad guy/plot came from that movie because i didn't know what was going on when he was suddenly in space talking to an alien on a meteor

thor was where the aliens taught the germans english

thor & cap had two of my favorite lines, cant see at all how it'd be better without them

There's a powerful scene in Thor where the Asgardians show Superman II and there's a closeup of young Loki watching General Zod while the music rumbles ominously and Loki nods.

looooooooool i was wondering what shakey's obviously quoted post was from

― tell peeta my fire dress is draggin on the floor (some dude), Monday, May 21, 2012 6:18 PM

i almost made a "turning into armond white" crack

Thor is a lot of things but "humorless" is not any of them! (cf. "He's adopted.")

Ya there were some dece LOLs

lol armond white

Thor is actually pretty funny in his own movie too

Jesus Christ this was a great movie.

I loved Iron Man as a kid and still find him pretty badass in the movie !

http://maxgif.com/2sU

puny god

that got the hugest laugh

puny god was drowned out by all the laughter the first time i saw it, only caught it the second time around
he's adopted also got massive laughs both times

i was just so gleeful seeing the avengers on screen as that was one of my fave childhood comics

actually feel like i need to do a proper write up on the experience

just saw this crazy link where some put together every avengers cover together
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blprnt/7128032299/lightbox/

saw again. still awesome. cobie smulders smoulders. Thor's p good might catch his movie.

Thor's movie is pretty meh. Seems like it's all filmed on the same four square block set, with no clear villain (snooze giant robot), albeit plenty of villainy.

otm about the set. it was very weird.

Is there a precedent in the comics for the huge percentage of redheads on the bridge of the helicarrier?

nick fury likes redheads, nothing weird there

this was really good but it felt long (and was long)

SHIELD's pro-redhead hiring stance I fully support.

this was really good but it felt long (and was long)

― flopson, Sunday, May 27, 2012 1:09 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

out of context thread

i really liked that thor seemed like it was filmed on an intersection

This was fun. Too long, dragged a few times, but fun. As has been pointed out many times in this thread, Ruffalo had the stand out performance.

It's actually a Ruffalo/Downey stealth sequel to Zodiac.

Finally got around to seeing it and I didn't really dig it that much; maybe I've become cynical in my 26 years but dizzying action scenes and dialogue that is almost exclusively A) lame one-liners or B) foreshadowing something that happens 5 minutes later in the movie. It actually reminded me a lot of the Expendibles, more impressive visually but not as funny. I counted maybe two lines that didn't seem incredibly scripted (and I think both of them were RDJs!) but I suppose that maybe I'm looking into this too much as the last oh say 90 minutes of it was just one big action sequence that got more ridiculous and improbable as time went on. I get that all these guys are smart dudes but their ability to formulate the perfect plan or to understand incredibly complex technology despite getting repeatedly whacked in the head was kinda irritating. But I give the movie 1 zillion points for not going too far down the Jeremy Renner/ScarJo dumb romance story which would have killed everything.

All that said I think this was probably the greatest visual spectical since say Spiderman2 so that counts for something

"incredibly scripted" could be a way to compliment dialogue, actually

"incredibly scripted!" - frogbs, ny post

Reminds me of an Eddie Izzard bit

the 'awesome like a hot dog' bit?

No, the one about how a lot of people think his show is completely improvised but in fact it is very tightly scripted.

spectical

http://images.mylot.com/userImages/images/postphotos/2364334.jpg

I finally saw this! It was terrific! I'll read whatever the fuck you people had to say about it now.

ha ha shakey thought it was the skrulls. fantastic four and silver surfer give a shit about skrulls and krees and shit. Avengers are like, planet what? you're a SPECIES? we up against pantheons muhh

Is Tuomas ever not the wrongest dude about this kind of stuff? yes, let's keep the face-codpieces on everybody all the time, also, purple bird flair has never been a bad idea!

It's actually a Ruffalo/Downey stealth sequel to Zodiac.

PREQUEL

http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/bwe/images/2012/05/Avengers-Hulk-Loki-1337008016.gif

what did Tuomas post?