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

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

Refresh my memory, Morbs, you've said before that you don't like actual irl amusement park rides, right?

well, he does read Dennis Perrin tweets.

Perrin tweet reax shots:

http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/roller_coaster_faces.jpg

http://www.awesomelol.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/completely_freaked_out_roller_coaster_ride_faces_18-550x411.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SpMEXv1j3_Y/ThGTCGWvbOI/AAAAAAAABwA/-YToOZlKAdA/s1600/roller_coaster_faces-16.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Qs_anG965tY/SL2Km03-5hI/AAAAAAAAChE/DNIrAGLhjwk/s400/DAL_0856_01.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n_Hv8M9x5zQ/To8Yk-LK2dI/AAAAAAAABOQ/jbxv_CfRop8/s1600/enhanced-buzz-25157-1317916226-40.jpg

you wanna hear Ferrigno talk watch Pumping Iron I Love You, Man

Anyway, yeah, I did the midnight thing last night and the crowd just loved it. All the laugh lines hit well, the visual gags all worked, etc. ( And, being the provincial rubes that we are, every time any of the Cleveland-shot footage showed up on screen there were cheers. ) Did not feel even remotely close to 2 hrs for me but i have a lot of patience for this stuff. Only bummer is thanks to riotous applause I missed Hulk's line after his climactic scene with Loki.

Both post-credits scenes hit BIG. (BTW that second one was filmed not only post-wrap, it was filmed after the UK premiere.)

I don't like actual irl amusement park rides that are "EXCITING," no.

I am hesitating seeing Bonjour Tristesse this week at the Film Forum WITH AN AUDIENCE bcz, you know, they will laugh through it. cuz it's about STUPID OLD NON-MARVEL PEOPLE of the PAST and their HEARTBREAK.

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.