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This is quite possibly the greatest panel I have ever seen in a comic. Ever.
(source is Batman Inc. vol 2 #1)
Give me a fucking break.
“Welp, it eats planets so there’s no sense in trying to stop it”. Glad you never were the one to lead the charge against Galactus buddy.
I can’t wait till this piece of shit is over so we can start reading Carol as Captain Marvel come July and see if the Avengers will be readable again since Bendis will be gone.
Movie Review: The Avengers
Haven’t got a graphic for this because well I’m too tired to be bothered to find one. Besides that would take up space and there is a lot I want to say about this film.
What can I say? It’s already been said. What comicgeeks everywhere have been waiting for years to see finally arrive, and Joss Whedon pulled it off. The end.
So short, spoiler-free version: Yes it is damn good. See it. The experiment in seeing if comicbook style continuity can translate to film has yielded great results. Almost every critic agrees with me (except Roger Ebert, but he’s so out of touch now that he wouldn’t know a good movie if it smacked him in the balls nowadays). So yes. See it.
Anything else…well, this is going to get into spoilers. Go away now if you don’t want ‘em. Giving you a chance to turn back now.
Warning.
I’m not kidding.
Turn back.
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Okay, we get all the fights we wanted to see. Not just between the heroes and the bad guys, although those are pretty damn good. Cap gets a very good scene fighting Loki, and Loki getting beat up by the Hulk at the end will probably go down in history as one of the most hilarious scenes in a superhero movie ever, but we get all the battles between heroes as well as they struggle to come together as a team. Of course it also serves to satisfy all the fanboys who spend their days wanking on Internet comic “battle” boards debating over who can beat whom.
Wanted a Thor vs. Hulk fight? We got it. We also get Thor vs. Iron Man and as a bonus Widow vs. Hawkeye. Everyone gets a chance to shine. Worries that Iron Man would hog all the glory were all in vain. Everyone gets equal billing and everyone gets those “Oh HELL yes, that’s the man!” (or woman) moments.
MovieBob of the Escapist is right on one thing…you really don’t need to be overly familiar with the previous Marvel films (Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger) to not be lost but it does help. Whedon does a good job of putting in some backstory for everyone, especially for Widow and Barton since those two didn’t get their own movies, but it doesn’t take up half the movie like it could have had those previous five films not come out. Instead he sums up everything neatly and nicely. He introduces everyone, and everyone experiences some good growth and development in getting to know one another and coming together as a team.
Stark and Banner in particular get very good scenes together. Ruffalo is excellent as Banner. I liked Bana, but hated the 2003 Ang Lee “Hulk” film. I liked Incredible Hulk okay, but Norton was just…well Norton being Norton. He just wasn’t believeable as Bruce Banner to me. I didn’t buy it. Ruffalo is perfect and I don’t know if Marvel is wanting to try making another Hulk film but if they do decide to do it they need to cast him. If nothing else, since at the end of the film it’s implied that Banner and Stark are going to be roomies (there’s a comic strip just waiting to be written) maybe he’ll make an appearance in Iron Man 3?
Captain America was an outstanding movie and Evans hasn’t lost his touch. He really stands out here, realizing his potentional as the great leader Captain America should be. He’s the one who pulls the team together and gets to know exactly where each of his teammates strengths lie, and what to say to motivate them. Telling Hulk simply to “smash” after giving the others orders in the big fight during the third act is a great example. Even Stark comes to respect him over the course of the movie from pretty, shall we say, grudging beginnings.
I look forward to seeing what Loki’s punishment will be, which I’m sure we’ll see in the upcoming Thor 2. He really was the perfect villain here, and not just because he was actually the first enemy the Avengers had as a team in the comics either. From the first five minutes of the film, where we got thrust into the action even before the opening credits, he presented himself to be a truly epic and serious threat. Hiddleston was perfect in Thor and he’s perfect in this film still. He pulls of evil and driven yet deeply conflicted perfectly.
The bonus scene after the credits, depending on how you feel about a certain Darkseid ripoff, will make you either groan or cheer. I myself have never been a fan of the Mad Titan but since a model of the Infinity Gauntlet was photographed on display at SC Comicon a couple years ago I wasn’t surprised the moment I heard the “courting death” line. Yes I groaned. There could be other villains in line for the Avengers to fight in the inevitable sequel but since Doom is still owned by Fox, Kang would throw all sorts of time traveling headaches that I’m sure they really don’t want to hit movie audiences with into the stew, and there was no Hank Pym (thank God) in this film so there probably won’t be an Ultron, it was probably the logical choice.
Yeah I groaned, but then I wasn’t an Iron Man fan before his movie came out. I’m still not very crazy about the comics version, but movie Tony has won me over. Maybe movie ThirdRate Darkseid Ripoff will too.
Most all of all though this film made me laugh my ass off, but I was laughing with it not at it. The Hulk and Loki scene is just one great example. Joss hasn’t lost his touch with throwing humour into the mix even when things are serious. Even the Raimi “Spiderman” films didn’t make me laugh so much as smirk indulgently. The new Spiderman coming out as well as other superhero films will have a lot to live up to.
I’m looking forward to seeing where things go now that Marvel has pulled this off. 5/5.
This still doesn’t mean I want to see a live action WB-made Justice League movie anytime in the future though.
Unless it’s directed by Whedon.
Yep, still looks like shit.
Garfield’s corny jokes are just…bad. Maguire doing the Spidey wisecrack stuff made me groan, albeit in a good way. Garfield’s delivery is just…awful. And as for the rest of it as well as the other trailers I have seen….if I want to see Emo Spidey I’ll pick up the fucking Ultimate books thank you very much. There’s a reason I have avoided Marvel’s Ultimate line and not the least because I am not into the idea of the Hulk being a cannibalistic rapist or that of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver being twincest lovers (for that matter the Strucker twins are that way in that Universe as well…what is it with that line and wanting to make every set of twins keep it in the family?)
Also the CGI looks like shit. I’m having flashbacks of last summer’s godawful Green Lantern movie.
And if it’s true that they’re changing his origin story, this really will be shit. It won’t be Spider-Man. It will be just some emo douche being written to have a destiny, one of the laziest plot devices ever contrived. Yawn.
Didn’t we already do the “destined child gains powers due to experiments performed on him by his father” thing in Ang Lee’s 2003 “Hulk”? And did it work THEN? (Answer: Hell no)
Sony, give it up already and give the damn rights to the Spidey franchise back to Marvel already…ya know, people who will actually know how to handle it.
……
Uh uh. No. Scott doesn’t get away with this.
The Avengers don’t want to take Hope into protective custody because she’s a mutant. They are seeking to prevent her from getting possessed by a destructive cosmic force who has eaten planets.
And making threats against anyone who disagrees with your isolationist and militant stance isn’t the best way to handle mutant-human relations.
I’m sorry…but no. No no no.
This just confirms in my eyes that Scott is a douchebag. Always has been a douchebag, always will be…and this…this entire run is a crock of shit. It’s a travesty. A total joke.
I feel hurt and betrayed. I grew up loving the X-Men. I was a huge fan. They were a great symbol of tolerance and striving to seek peace even with those who are different than you.
Now in the past decade all of that has been chew up, shat out, ground into fertilizer, then dragged through the mud to feed more shit vegetables to make more shit sandwiches which were then chew up and shat out all over again.
I can’t deal with this. I just can’t.
And Cyclops fans…save it. I’ve heard all the defenses, all the arguments, all the counter-points. None of them hold water in my eyes. None of them take away my feelings of anger and betrayal.
I feel sick. So if you want a fight due to disagreement with my opinion…look elsewhere. I have no fight left in me. I’m just broken.
The Award for Most Unnecessary Reboot of the Century…
…goes to Van Helsing.
Written by the same guys who wrote Transformers.
Starring Tom Cruise.
Yeah.
Van Helsing wasn’t that bad of a…okay, it was that bad, but at least it had nice eye candy in the form of Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale. Tom Cruise stopped being cute two decades and several rejected prescriptions due to Scientology’s stance against psych meds ago.
What next?
And in less pleasant movie news we have….this.
They supposedly improved Bane’s voice but he still sounds like an asthmatic. Catwoman’s dialogue is cliched and boring, but what else can we expect from Nolan who cannot write female characters to save his life and has repeatedly rejected themes of feminity and sexuality while trying to incorporate a character who is associated with those two things in order to satisfy the fanboys, we have the least interesting guy from Inception, and a bunch of boring, boring, boring stuff.
Yeah, I think Nolan’s Batfranchise is going to fall victim to the Third Movie Curse. Going the way of Spider-Man 3, X-3, Superman 3, Batman Forever, and others who have fallen into the third spot of a franchise series, ending up being the movie that signaled the moment when a franchise went completely off the rails and into the realm of the suck.
Ah well. I’ll see it anyway but might wait until iTunes…or if I get bored enough to see it in the theatre will wait a week or two.
Good news about “The Avengers”
And to ease everyone’s (including me) fears: No, Iron Man doesn’t take up all of the movie like many (including myself) were afraid of. Phew.
Also: WB, yes you do need to take another look at Whedon’s “Wonder Woman” script, especially considering the fact that no one else seems to have been able to pull off a live-action version of her lately (See: the shelved pilot to her wouldbe TV series of last year, which I finally saw and no it isn’t as bad as I thought…it is so, so, so much worse and thank God it got axed and didn’t see the light of day).
Dear Marvel:
Please stop giving my favorite female characters fauxhawks. First Songbird, now this? I wasn’t happy with Carol’s upcoming haircut before but I figured I could deal. Now?
Mohawks and fauxhawks don’t make a character badass. They don’t make them come off as strong, independant, or as a force to be reckoned with. They make them look stupid. Hell, even Marvel Ares realized that and ditched his.
The only comic character who ever looked good with that haircut was 80s Storm and even she was, well, borderline. But hey it was the times.
Strong and independant doesn’t mean they have to have fugly haircuts. Seriously, get your act together.
I’m looking forward to this series but MAN….
About Ramblings of a Geek
Tracy is a grown up Goth and geek living in the Southern United States. She's a Scorpio and a ferret freak. Want to know more, ask. She doesn't bite.
