The Avengers (Joss Whedon)

[Winston*]

AVENGERs (by Marvel)
Director: Joss Whedon

imdb link



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/

[Winston*]

I liked when Loki called Scarlett Johansson a "mewling quim". That cad!

[Winston*]

Thank you invisible mod for fixing my thread title. Now no one will think to vote for the Uma Thurman Ralph Fiennes vehicle

[Morris Schæffer]

Do we still need spoiler tags here? I'll do this one. It's kinda safe to read though.

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Harry Dean Stanton!!!

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[Raiders]

Thank you invisible mod for fixing my thread title. Now no one will think to vote for the Uma Thurman Ralph Fiennes vehicle

I did it because the database reports I pull use the title you give the thread and since we have established a format, I would like to stick with it. But whatever.

[Morris Schæffer]

By the way, there's this moment when [

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Stark pokes Banner with a pointy object and peers into his eyes to see if he's changing, and in the shot after that Banner's got a smile, except it looked like it was out of character, that it was Ruffalo who was smiling. Like it wasn't in the script and he was caught off-guard by what Downey Jr. Did.

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but it didn't bother me. It was great.

[Winston*]

I did it because the database reports I pull use the title you give the thread and since we have established a format, I would like to stick with it. But whatever.

Makes sense. Sorry. I was drunk when I posted this thread.

[B-side]

Despite the rave reviews and positive reaction from trustworthy individuals, I just can't be bothered with this. It seems I'm broken.

[MadMan]

More than likely I'm seeing The Avengers this on Thursday. I figured that I would end up viewing it before I ever saw The Cabin In The Woods. Yet I really sort of viewed both movies as potential rentals instead.

[Saya]

This was fun! Hulk was my favorite of the heroes. I think Mark Ruffalo deserves his own spin-off Hulk movie. He did a good job with the character I thought.

[Morris Schæffer]

This was fun! Hulk was my favorite of the heroes. I think Mark Ruffalo deserves his own spin-off Hulk movie. He did a good job with the character I thought.

Ruffalo was fine, but it was really his alter ego that stole the show so on account of that, I can't say that Ruffalo deserves his own spin-off Hulk movie because of Ruffalo.

[number8]

Ruffalo did full face and body motion-capture. He played the Hulk too.

[Saya]

That makes his performance even better for me.

Hulk had all the best moments in the movie. He was really funny. I enjoyed the interactions between Tony Stark and Bruce Banner as well. Wouldn't mind seeing more of that.

[Morris Schæffer]

Ruffalo did full face and body motion-capture. He played the Hulk too.

I expected this answer, but it's not as clear cut for me as Serkis and Gollum. Hulk gets angry period. I can't say I detected nuance while he was angry, but perhaps these are things picked up on a second viewing.

[TGM]

Personal matters prevented me from being able to attend the midnight showing last night, but hopefully I'll be able to catch a showing at some point today.

[TGM]

Yeah, I'm pretty much just head over heels in love with Loki after this movie.

[Watashi]

The first act REALLY drags (Loki's uneventful escape from SHIELD and his rendezvous in Germany), but once everyone arrived on the Helicarrier, it picked up steam and the fun really started.

The movie plays more like a comic book than a comic book movie which was something solely lacking from the previous Marvel films. Even if the end is shit going boom, Whedon at least gives us money shot after money shot and coherent action to make it worthwhile.

[Watashi]

Also, leave it to Whedon to get the best ScarJo performance since Lost in Translation.

[Fezzik]

Also, leave it to Whedon to get the best ScarJo performance since Lost in Translation.

I agree. Her performance in this is really being overlooked, I feel. I thought she was tremendous.

[Mara]

I'm watching Thor. It's kind of bad.








I mean... it's really kind of bad.

[ledfloyd]

saw this last night. the more i think about it the more i love it, despite how heavy on action it is. i agree with you guys that scarjo pretty much owns the first half of the film, which she hasn't been getting enough credit for. possibly because hulk owns the second half and is as good if not better than advertised. i'm pretty confident in calling this my favorite live-action superhero movie. i don't think anything is going to touch the incredibles (especially within the corporate framework these marvel films are a product of), but this is the closest anyone has come.

Damn, great cameos.

MARA. YOU WILL LOVE THEM.

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i apparently missed the denisof cameo, who was he? harry dean, skolimowski and gjokaj were all pretty cool.

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I think I'd watch a movie of just RDJ coming up with funny nicknames for all all the superheroes. "Legolas" and "Point Break" were my favorite.

this caught me off guard after reading that interview with whedon in which he claimed there wouldn't be any pop-culture references. "reindeer games" was pretty funny as well. i like how stark is there more or less to make fun of everything and keep the film from taking itself too seriously.

[dreamdead]

The first act takes a while to establish itself, and the third act is a bit of a chore in wall-to-wall excess, but the character beats are solid. Clark Gregg was frequently the best thing on screen, Ruffalo was the best of the three portrayals of Banner, and I liked how Johannson's character felt necessary here, which is totally counter to Iron Man 2.

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the Hulk's sucker punch of Thor.

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[Kurosawa Fan]

This was okay. Certainly not bad, but not nearly as spectacular as it wants to be. It can't avoid the familiar tropes of its genre, with the fake deaths and the grave peril before a last minute solution, and I'm a bit uncomfortable with

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the approved use of nuclear weapons, something argued against earlier only to be utilized to vanquish the enemy later.

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Didn't really understand

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Hulk's ability to channel his rage. It's given no other explanation than, when falling, HDS claims to have seen him steer toward an empty building. Yet minutes ago he had tried to kill Black Widow, Thor, and a fighter pilot. He shows up at the end and has things completely under control. That was lame.

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Also found Loki to be far too inconsistently characterized. Flip flops from petulant, embittered child to serious, threatening menace far too often for me to take him seriously. Still, the film had some good laughs along the way, and the action sequences were well done. RDJ steals the show, Johansson is bland as per usual, and the rest are sort of along for the ride. It's nothing I'd ever watch again, but it was a nice diversion, and my son liked it.

[Grouchy]

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the approved use of nuclear weapons, something argued against earlier only to be utilized to vanquish the enemy later.

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Eh, not really.

I want to wait a week or so and I might even watch this again on theaters. It's just too much fun.

That Agent Coulson theory sounds incredible.

[megladon8]

This was okay. Certainly not bad, but not nearly as spectacular as it wants to be. It can't avoid the familiar tropes of its genre, with the fake deaths and the grave peril before a last minute solution, and I'm a bit uncomfortable with

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the approved use of nuclear weapons, something argued against earlier only to be utilized to vanquish the enemy later.

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Hmmm...can't say I agree with this analysis.

I don't think the film or the characters ever said they approved. Something had to be done with the missile - blow it up here on Earth, or in outer space.

I don't think Stark's intention flying through the portal was to use the missile against the enemy. I think he just wanted to throw the missile out into space.

That the enemy ship happened to be directly on the other side of the portal was just a coincidence.