I posted a thread about whether The Avengers would live up to the massive hype.
Damn. It exceeded the hype more than I could ever fathom or imagine
I really didn't think it would THAT good.
(SHIELD was getting on my nerves the more they were included in these movies, and their bravado was REALLY getting on my nerves. If you guys are so know-it-all awsome, fix the problems your damn selves! ....luckily, it's ALL explained in the movie, and built on in wonderful ways.)
First off, for the horny among us (which is most of us )
Scarlett Johanson's first scene - her, tied to a chair in a Russian warehouse, in black pantyhose ....and no shoes.
Heart, stop....stop! Oh, wait, then she starts kicking the shit out of the thugs who grabbed her, many close-up pantyhose feet shots, and finally one
with her walking away, camera near floor.
I really WILL buy Josh Whedon a drink if I ever saw him!
NO, NO, NO!!! Barefoot lovers! No, don't be sad! Gweneth Paltrow, first scenes, button down shirt, really short shorts....and bare legs and bare FEET! Woo hoo for you guys!
And, she actually has a role and does a great job as an actress! I liked that when Coulson walks in, she doesn't just SIT THERE all silent, she fully engages him.
Feminists, rejoice, the women here aren't just window dressing, they're assertive, intelligent, and for the guys, hot!
And while you're in the theater being all turned on by all this, the rest of your nerd brain will kick in and you'll have orgasms at the fact that:
-The Screenplay is wonderful, witty, dense, and you'll be laughing half the time, and on the edge of your seats the other.
But the humor isn't forced, stupid humor, it's earned and the audience laughed for half the movie. There was one scene where everyone started cheering.....
haven't seen that in a movie theater forever!
-The actors are not only all excellent, but stick to their character. I was afraid Tony Stark would lose his wit, that Captain America wouldn't be as heroic.....oh no, Cap is like "Yes ma'am," "No sir," while Tony Stark is even more at ease and feisty than he was in Iron Man 1 or 2. Bruce Banner's guy was great - liked him better than Ed Norton.
-Everything is authentic to the comic books - and I mean everything - no added stupid characters, stupid plots....
Now, the one thing you think they changed, they didn't. The bad guys are not called the Skrulls..........but they are the Skrulls. 20th Century Fox owns the Skrulls, so they had to name them something else...but they're the Skrulls.
I was amazed how EPIC this movie was. The trailers certainly didn't give that away. (Many movies, the trailer show all the good parts. This whole movies was "The good part." )
In fact, as I watched this movie, a thought kept popping in my head: You could take any 10 minute section of this movie, and it would equal a full length whole 'nother typical movie.
Thor fights the Hulk in one scene. It's magnificent. That would be a whole movie any other time. (This WAS a made for TV movie, and the fight here dwarfs that entire old movie by a landslide.)
It'll take me a year to process how miraculous this movie was.
If you like comic books, you've waited your whole life to see a movie like this.....
Damn. It exceeded the hype more than I could ever fathom or imagine
I really didn't think it would THAT good.
(SHIELD was getting on my nerves the more they were included in these movies, and their bravado was REALLY getting on my nerves. If you guys are so know-it-all awsome, fix the problems your damn selves! ....luckily, it's ALL explained in the movie, and built on in wonderful ways.)
First off, for the horny among us (which is most of us )
Scarlett Johanson's first scene - her, tied to a chair in a Russian warehouse, in black pantyhose ....and no shoes.
Heart, stop....stop! Oh, wait, then she starts kicking the shit out of the thugs who grabbed her, many close-up pantyhose feet shots, and finally one
with her walking away, camera near floor.
I really WILL buy Josh Whedon a drink if I ever saw him!
NO, NO, NO!!! Barefoot lovers! No, don't be sad! Gweneth Paltrow, first scenes, button down shirt, really short shorts....and bare legs and bare FEET! Woo hoo for you guys!
And, she actually has a role and does a great job as an actress! I liked that when Coulson walks in, she doesn't just SIT THERE all silent, she fully engages him.
Feminists, rejoice, the women here aren't just window dressing, they're assertive, intelligent, and for the guys, hot!
And while you're in the theater being all turned on by all this, the rest of your nerd brain will kick in and you'll have orgasms at the fact that:
-The Screenplay is wonderful, witty, dense, and you'll be laughing half the time, and on the edge of your seats the other.
But the humor isn't forced, stupid humor, it's earned and the audience laughed for half the movie. There was one scene where everyone started cheering.....
haven't seen that in a movie theater forever!
-The actors are not only all excellent, but stick to their character. I was afraid Tony Stark would lose his wit, that Captain America wouldn't be as heroic.....oh no, Cap is like "Yes ma'am," "No sir," while Tony Stark is even more at ease and feisty than he was in Iron Man 1 or 2. Bruce Banner's guy was great - liked him better than Ed Norton.
-Everything is authentic to the comic books - and I mean everything - no added stupid characters, stupid plots....
Now, the one thing you think they changed, they didn't. The bad guys are not called the Skrulls..........but they are the Skrulls. 20th Century Fox owns the Skrulls, so they had to name them something else...but they're the Skrulls.
I was amazed how EPIC this movie was. The trailers certainly didn't give that away. (Many movies, the trailer show all the good parts. This whole movies was "The good part." )
In fact, as I watched this movie, a thought kept popping in my head: You could take any 10 minute section of this movie, and it would equal a full length whole 'nother typical movie.
Thor fights the Hulk in one scene. It's magnificent. That would be a whole movie any other time. (This WAS a made for TV movie, and the fight here dwarfs that entire old movie by a landslide.)
It'll take me a year to process how miraculous this movie was.
If you like comic books, you've waited your whole life to see a movie like this.....