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

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

well, no. there's one.

I know. Chris Evans' muscles aren't quite big enough. But work with it.

Th eidea of there being a second, US-only, after credits scene is baffling. I didn't stay for the first one (because the credits on this bad boy will be LotR length) but after reading what it was I wish I had.

watching the Chris Evans Captain America movie last night, I wondered whether Cap America was always such a bore in the comics. At least Evans didn't get much dialogue.

i thought the s******* scene was on the europe release - i felt bad for not staying all through the second batch of credits after the t***** scene

otoh, the rest of the credits do seem to have been >15 minutes of the advertised running time, so not all that bad

yeah, Captain America is pretty boring. I mean look at him

the cap movie gets a lot worse once he gets all superpowered and stuff, it seemed like his head on top of some other dude was altogether a better performance -- this wasn't the only reason but

If Hulk is this movie's MVP, Capt.Am is its albatross.

he does get one good line though

Refresh my memory. I found it hard to hear what he was saying when he was on screen.

"flying monkeys"

Hah, that one really DID slip by me.

No, the s******* scene is post-credits in the US only, although that does make sense then that there are credits after the one I didn't watch.

why would they do that? it seems like the world's worst thought out anti-piracy measure

I don't u********* what you are t******* a****

Presumably I'm guessing they thought only people in America would know what s******* is. Don't laugh. People have thought stranger things.

We're being secret about the post-credits stuff, like filmmakers want us to.

I didn't hate the Captain America movie but the ending was so rushed the takeaway became "see you at The Avengers!" Ironic considering it'd have the most dramatic ending of any of the pre-Avenger movies if not for the "nevermind he's fine" that immediately follows his self-sacrifice

Apparently they filmed the s******* scene after the movie had wrapped? It doesn't have any dialogue anyway

I dug captain america from a look & design standpoint, plus it is one of the darker marvel films - his best friend dies and "nevermind he's fine" is paired w/ the realization that his unrequited love is long dead. also idgaf about spoilers obv, these are superhero movies not les diaboliques.

and if you guys are actually starring out the word shawarma, you are a bunch of eff star star cunts

aw, you ruined it

I didn't hate the Captain America movie but the ending was so rushed the takeaway became "see you at The Avengers!" Ironic considering it'd have the most dramatic ending of any of the pre-Avenger movies if not for the "nevermind he's fine" that immediately follows his self-sacrifice

― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:20 (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i liked that the self-sacrifice and the "he's fine" (which is ... kind of an odd way to read that?) were both scenes lifted directly from other movies

i thought 'shawarma' was the same as a doner kebab but apparently it is what british kebab shops often call a shish kebab, even though it is not a shish kebab

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/avengers-samuel-l-jackson-slams-ao-scott-ny-times-review-319966

skeletor i think

AO Scott is jaundiced imo

sick "jaundiced" burn a.o.s; ilx needs u now more than ever

get these muthafuckin critics off this muthafuckin etc

THE CROSSOVER YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR

Jaundiced! "Affected by or exhibiting envy, prejudice, or hostility," motherfucker!

pretty sure he meant jaded but jaundiced could work too

same thing, really. "jaundiced" is a good way to go, imo. i'm over "jaded".

well, or a similar thing, anyway...

absolutely recommend seeing it w/ an audience.

^^^^Seriously. Crowd ate this movie up.

This was about as good as these kinds of 'splodey skyscraper movies get. Very satisfying, other than the slightly clunky opening.

Hulk was awesome, easily the scene-stealer of the movie.

Fuck, even Scarjo was passable in this.

I enjoyed it, but AO Scott has a point re "hectic emptiness"

I guess, but I felt like Whedon's affection for the material allowed the so-called "hectic emptiness" to be positively buoyant at times.

I understand fatigue with this genre though.

really thoroughly enjoyed this. a great comic book movie, that understands what makes a good comic book (or at least a classic marvel comic book)

enhh - it goes kind of boilerplate and dull whenever it has to do cosmic - i mean, it works around that inasmuch as it makes loki a figure of fun and a failure at supervillainy - but there never seems to be all that much at stake, even when the interdimensional aliens start invading new york

huh, they gave them the same name as the ultimate marvel skrulls. i thought at first they were going to be skrulls but then they didn't do anything particularly skrullish and they kept using this name i never caught.

I figure they they just needed a generic alien name and didn't want to actually call them Skrulls in case they use them down the line somewhere

I don't know, the Ultimate skrulls, the Ultimate Nick Fury, Maria Hill from the Ultimates... looks kind of planned to me.

absolutely recommend seeing it w/ an audience.

^^^^Seriously. Crowd ate this movie up.

cuz it's A RIDE, eh

looking up the name of the ultimate skrulls just started me on a two-hour marvel comics wikipedia black hole

dr morbius have you seen this movie

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.

i think seeing this at 5pm with a mostly high school audience is likely to be an experience