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

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.

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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)

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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

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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!

He does? I haven't followed Ultimates/Ultimate Barton since Millar had him pull his own fingernails out with his teeth to use as little projectiles.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GXT7ihFSU6U/T2fn6-geMTI/AAAAAAAAAuc/HDtLfa8VC6s/s1600/Barton_Fink.jpg

I guess they are enhanced, not cybernetic.

In the "Old Man Logan" series Hawkeye is completely blind but can still drive a car and hit pretty much whatever he aims at. Of course, that story also has T. Rexes merged with Venom symbiotes, so. Mark Millar is kinda dumb.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4K0OYHwYwGY/TCyn0oSeDUI/AAAAAAAAABc/oTbI9hJ3s6o/s1600/T-Rex%2BVenom.jpg

He kind of went over the top on his gross-out rape-humor on that one, right? I thought it was half ok, half utterly reprehensible.

btw venom t-rex is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HqylM387CU

still waiting for Shakey's review

over all, I enjoyed it. It zips along, well-cast and well-acted throughout, and successfully provides the kind of charming, irony-laden banter most action films aspire to but fail miserably to achieve. Maintains a playful tone that serves the action well and keeps what might otherwise be ponderous or ridiculous fun and engaging.

That being said, it isn't really *about* anything and pretty much everything you need to know about it is right there on the surface in first viewing, so I doubt I'll ever be compelled to watch it or think about it ever again. And the last fight scene goes on too long but I guess Hulk has to smash SOMETHING, right?

one major flaw: no scene of Loki and Stark enjoying a single malt before the former's carted off to the Asgardian hoosegow.

The fights in this movie were so badly done, as "big" as it felt they were trying to go it felt a lot like TV (espesh the whole middle part on the flying aircraft carrier)

to me it's enough that I can follow them

Finally got to see this and I think the fight scenes were so much better than any other recent superhero flick. They were easy to follow, without all the ridiculously tight close-ups and rapid cuts that made the fight scenes in say, Dark Knight, nearly unwatchable. I thought this was really fun overall, even if the plot pretty much didn't exist.

I thought they were all close up and choppily edited tbh

compared to which action movie from the last twenty years

your mom: the movie

honestly thought the best fight scene was the first one between Iron Man/Thor/Cap

ok but what else

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i'd hate to see what s1ocki things of, say, the fight scenes in the Bourne movies if he found these close up and choppy

I thought they ruled but PG is basically the only dude who can pull that off

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!”

Ghost Rider's visuals were impressive for the movie's cost! The plot and film as a whole, not really

The Dark Nought is unwatchable in considerable part thanks to the fight scenes.

It certainly doesn't help that it features a dude dressed in black fighting in the dark.

and a dude whose Scary Voice is less convincing than my niece's.

the human action was poorly shot (thor vs loki especially) but the big spectacle parts were super duper good

Yeah the sterling battle finale p much redeemed a lot dark, hard-to-see shit in the beginning