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

you'll be a superhero to me if you stfu

wasn't even what I meant anyway

lol alfred

you'll be a superhero to me if you stfu

kisses

you keep smiling and shrugging it off but no, really, you need to chill

what's the problem? serious question.

we already got a guy to ponder it all fyi

http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/img/g/Guy_Gardner.jpg

i nerd out about superhero semantics for the space of one post in the avengers thread. so what?

ok, withdrawn.

if you can let it go now.

sheesh, italics and everything

re: expertise, i think superheroes would be a better set of "experts" to consult on the worthiness of this shit than professional comic book critics, who i assume would reject it out of hand

New ILC Board description

hahaha, works for me -- that C.A. "wank" quote was only ever meant to be a placeholder anyway.

I think if you save the life of one person (or stop a violent crime) then you are a hero, and if you multiply that to saving multiple lives - tens, hundreds, thousands - then you are a superhero.

I don't think having bizarre powers or life-altering mutations or whatever should be a requisite.

that's a pretty great and concise argument, am definitely going to use that if (god help me) i ever get caught in this kind of convo again

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

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

nah, we're all villains

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/4f8bcd4b198f49fe14a8870c1dae978f/169887.jpg

http://www.theshannongallery.com/images/shirts/shirt_slyvillains.jpg

Punisher = more 'anti' than 'super'

seeing this tomorrow, apparently

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

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.

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

smashbangloudincomprehensibility

This movie doesn't really have any of these.

great!

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

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

^^^one of the best things about this movie

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.

Polyphonic & AP otm

man I loved the shawarma scene

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

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

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!’”

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

xp

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

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.

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

That's Bullseye, the Daredevil villain.

http://www.funnyordie.com/articles/f814fde23b/the-avengers-request-to-remove-clint-hawkeye-barton?playlist=featured_pictures_and_words

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

― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Thursday, May 3, 2012 1:33 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

ultimate hawkeye has cyber eyes!