The Avengers

[merssong]

We all know you've seen it. Possibly multiple times by now. What do you think? What do you love? What do you hate?

[Rebecca]

I think I want to see it again!

[merssong]

I'm starting to feel behind the times: a lot of my friends have seen it multiple times, and I've only seen in once.

[Rebecca]

I've only seen it once, so far, too.

[Stephan]

So have I. Sorry for the late response here.

I absolutely adored the film. I think the only two things I disliked were Mark Ruffalo's acting when he wasn't green, and the way Black Widow was handled. Way too much focus on her body, not enough on her character and personality. A shame, really, because those have great potential.

Other than that, it may well be the best film I've ever seen.

[Marnie]

I'm way late on the response here, but I LOVED it. I saw it three times, and wish I could have afforded to see it some more. I usually really dislike the Hulk and find him annoying, mindless, and destructive, but they just made him so damn likeable! I, unlike Stephan, really loved Mark Ruffalo. He was probably my favorite one, honestly.

Agreed, though, on the Black Widow thing. When she was interrogating Loki all I could think was, "DAMN, DAT ASS."

Also, Loki was great. Just, so great. And I'm a little in love with Tom Hiddleston after watching interviews and such with him; he's so weird/funny! (example: http://www.mtv.com/videos/movies/765213 ... ston.jhtml). And Agent Coulson! Hell yeah!

[MsFehrwight]

I'm going to be shunned for this, but I saw Avengers once and, quite frankly, that was enough. It was a good film, and maybe I just don't get it because I lack knowledge of comics and didn't even see any of the previous ones except for Iron Man. Oh, and I know precious little about Joss Whedon.
But yes, I enjoyed it. I laughed a lot. (Most of all when my friend cracked up the first time someone said 'Asgardian'. I knew that would happen, and I still laughed.) It was a tad on the long side, methought, but it was very together. The only thing I was left missing was more on Hawkeye - there was precious little info on him.

So on a very limited experience on superhero movies, it was good, but I feel no need to re-watch it.

[Stephan]

Oh wow! *Shuns MsFehrwright* Honestly, I get it. One of the reasons I loved The Avengers so much is that I've spent years getting emotionally invested in those superheroes.

Also, you're right. Hawkeye was pretty badass in the battle, but there's so little about him. I'm really hoping he'll get his own film soon.

[merssong]

I hope both Hawkeye and Black Widow get their own films. They certainly deserve them, and Whedon did a good job of letting you know that there are some incredible stories there.

Honest, MsFehrwright, I'm more likely to shun you for not knowing Whedon. For shame! Go watch Firefly, Serenity, and Dollhouse at the least!

[myyrdneopia]

Uh. No. We need a BlackHawk double feature film. At least.

And yes, DAT ASS. Straight male over here with no significant other to hurt me for saying that.

(And yes, I'm aware of all the crap female actors go through, and I don't agree with it—neither does Joss or Scarlett, but they recognize its place in American movie culture and did it anyway, despite their misgivings.)

I think my favorite scene was...nevermind, that's the whole movie.

Oh, and Loki won.

[Stephan]

My significant other kept checking out Captain America's behind, so I'm totally save checking out Black Widow's. I think.

And heck yes Loki won! The next Thor film won't be about him, but I sure hope he'll get the Infinity Gauntlet somewhere during it.

[merssong]

Yeah, the only other villian I can think of who's made it to three films is Magnito in the first 3 X-men. But supposedly Loki isn't the main villian in Thor 2.

And yes, a film with Black Widow and Hawkeye jointly would also be tasty. However! Whedon can't write/direct that film, because then either the relationship will be even more disfunctional than it already is or one of the two will eventually die a tragic death.

[myyrdneopia]

Hey, now. Not necessarily. It wasn't Joss who killed off Coulson. That was a higher-up decision that they told Joss he had to abide by.


...I /think/ they may have filmed a couple more BlackHawk moments for The Avengers. If so, I hope they're in the rumored Director's Cut of the film in August. Along with all the Cap scenes.

[Stephan]

That would be awesome! Also, I refuse to believe Coulson really died, until I get to see a body!

[Rebecca]

Yeah, there's a rumor online that actually seems pretty credible that Coulson lived and Fury lied about his death to get the team more riled up to fight.

[merssong]

I have my doubts as to Coulson as well, but can you imagine his pain when he sees what Fury did to his Cap trading cards?

And I'm not blaming Whedon for Coulson...just for every disfunctional relationship in his other works, as well as killing off Wash.

[Stephan]

Wash. Ow yeah, those trading cards! That's so sad!

[myyrdneopia]

BUT HE NOW HAS THE REAL THING. IN AS-MINT-AS-POSSIBLE CONDITION. Ahem.