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The Lovely Bastard · April 2012

on par

manwiththemachinegun · April 2012

Godfather wrote: »

Oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit with the Iron Man red lasers

That minute and a half of action where Tony and Rhody rip that Hammeroid force limb for limb is probably the best coreographed super hero fight possible in that time frame. It's brutal, vicious, and FAST. I believe it was story boarded by Genndy Tatarkosky too.

Prohass · April 2012

Guys I only just now realised there is more than one Robocob movie, how could I have gotten to this age with such a blindspot?

Kuribo's Shoe · April 2012

honestly you were better off

FAQ · April 2012

red skull has been the best marvel movie villian thus far

Zonugal · April 2012

FAQ wrote: »

Loki has been the best marvel movie villian thus far

Blake T · April 2012

Yeah.

Loki was the reason to like Thor.

I wasn't a huge fan of Captain America to be honest, which was a shame as he is probably my favourite marvel character and I love his world war 2 stories. Like, it wasn't bad, it just lacked a little something.

FAQ · April 2012

one was nazi werner herzog, the other a spoiled toff

Gatsby · April 2012

I really liked Blonsky.

Blake T · April 2012

Blonsky was great.

But I really like Tim Roth anyway.

nightmarenny · April 2012

FAQ wrote: »

red skull has been the best marvel movie villian thus far

Noooope.

He had little motivation, no connection with the main character and doesn't do anything for like 90 percent of the movie.

nightmarenny · April 2012

Baroque And Roll wrote: »

Zonugal wrote: »

Thor is my favorite Marvel film.

I love it so much.

Thor is the worst Marvel movie.

Hell, it's a bad movie.

Why do we have to do this every time? Why can't everyone just except that the Marvel studios movies are some weird anomaly where consensus simply can't be reached.

Every time I say my favorite superhero movie is Thor a guy at my comic shop gives me shit but he didn't like Incredible Hulk either so I'm pretty sure he's a bad person.

FAQ · April 2012

nah, neither of those were great

FAQ · April 2012

avengers may be the best by a wide margin

Dark Raven X · April 2012

Iron Man
Avengers
Thor
Iron Man 2
Captain America
Incredible Hulk

Blake T · April 2012

Oh jeez.

Now I understand why there are bad opinions.

FAQ is speaking.

CrackedLens · April 2012

Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »

honestly you were better off

Robocop 2 wasn't too bad

It had the kiddy drug dealer

Sir Platypus · April 2012

Watching Batman: Under the Red Hood.

It's good, unless you are someone who whines any time someone that isn't Mark Hammill voices The Joker.

FAQ · April 2012

I'm not a big fan of the marvel movie universe in general, avengers is pretty cool though

Blake T · April 2012

Under the red hood felt that joker was more of a gangster than a villan though.

nightmarenny · April 2012

Blake T wrote: »

Under the red hood felt that joker was more of a gangster than a villan though.

I did think he was one of the better Joker though.

Also what?

Joker IS a Gangster. So are like half of Bats enemies.

Sir Platypus · April 2012

This is where he won me over.

nightmarenny · April 2012

Bad review from D&D

Apothe0sis wrote: »

I saw The Avengers the other night, and it was appalling.

It looked awful, the script was full of purple prose, the plot was not good, it had stupid plot advancement.

As Ross is wont to observe - the screenplay is the easiest and cheapest way to improve a movie, but somehow they didn't do this. Possibly because while Whedon probably isn't a rapist he definitely is an extremely limited writer.

It had the occasional laugh, but so many obvious gags fell flat. The action was interesting enough and I was quite pleased that it didn't at all involve people being depowered as a substitute for an interesting climax, but the fact that no one died, at all during the climax was obvious and comical and really made the whole thing seem something of a joke. There were more than a few pointless scenes/overexplanations/reexplanations of previous scenes. I will give it credit that Scar-Jo and Hawkeye were incorporated in a way that wasn't too straining - but there were some extremely naff scenes of Johansson cocking her tiny peashooter guns while the Hulk hulks and Iron Man irons. Captain America was bland as cardboard and their attempts to cast him in a leadership role really underscored the fact that he's just a really strong dude with a shield. Thor was painful to listen to and looked ridiculous (though, to be fair, no more so than Captain America's stupid costume).

If it weren't for the always incredible Downey Robot Jr. it would have been unwatchable.

The sting/post credits bit was a hint of more terrible to come.

What the hell was the point of Robin Scherbatsky? They would have lost nothing if they had have cut her.

nightmarenny · April 2012

It should probably be noted this poster also posted this

Apothe0sis wrote: »

Saw trailers for Spiderman, Prometheus and Bathuman before The Avengers.

Prometheus looks rad as all hell.

Spiderman looks terrible from a brain point of view, but pretty ok from a "let's see some action" point of view. On the other hand, they made Emma Stone blonde which is very terrible. I do not think I will enjoy it overly much.

Batman I am torn about. On the one hand everything about the plot, such as was revealed looks not good, Bane in particular is nonsense. On the other hand, it looks like it's going to be a visual spectacle in the same way The Dark Knight does, which I am feel very reassured about.

So yeah.

YaYa · April 2012

ergh

thanks, now I have to tear out my eyes

Dark Raven X · April 2012

Prometheus does look rad as all hell.

His complaints about the Avengers are all valid, especially what he said about Cap. It's just stuff most people wouldn't / shouldn't care about.

Except the bit about the visuals, that's silly. It looks amazing.

nightmarenny · April 2012

YaYa wrote: »

ergh

thanks, now I have to tear out my eyes

If I must suffer so must you all!

Prohass · April 2012

Whatever your thoughts on the movie, it is simply not appalling. There is no angle you can look at, no amount of 'reading too much into it', that can result in it being appalling. At absolute worst it is an ok film. Compared to most Marvel films it is fantastic. As a person whos not a big fan of superhero movies as well, all the characters worked, Apothesis complaints about Captain America just being a guy with a shield, and Scarlette Johanson using 'tiny gun's or being ineffectual, is especially weird as I kind of latched onto those two characters and never found it jarring that they were fighting alongside the Hulk and Thor (as a non-comic fan or not a big marvel movie fan). There are numerous scenes in which they both save the day, either through violence or dialogue. So yeah, Apothesis is being a silly goose.

The fact that there are 'stronger' people out there fighting at the same time, doesnt mean Scarlette Johansons character, the archer and Captain america dont play a pretty crucial and fluid role, it never felt like they were just cutting to them to give them some air time. I mean you could argue the whole thing could be solved by Thor and the Hulk, but the movie doesnt instill that sense in the audience.

furthermore not one joke fell flat in my audience. And as for the 'purple prose' complaint, I dont really remember any.

When the hell does this come out in America anyway? its been out in australia for like a week, so you guys wont have to fret over silly opinions. For instance 'it looked awful' is just objectively not true, every shot was framed well, especially the action sequences, they were far and away the best ive seen in a long time in a superhero film, not just because I could tell what was going on, but because they were inventive and interesting. Maybe the only thing I didnt like was the aliens, I could never really get a good look at them, but the lack of focus on them actually made it easier to track the fighting and heroes.

Blake T · April 2012

To be fair, while I'm not frothing at the mouth about them, Cap could have been a bit more interesting and Maria really did have not real point to the story.

Meta reading though.

Spoiler:

nightmarenny · April 2012

Goatmon wrote: »

nightmarenny wrote: »

FAQ wrote: »

red skull has been the best marvel movie villian thus far

Noooope.

He had little motivation, no connection with the main character and doesn't do anything for like 90 percent of the movie.

On the other hand, Hugo Weaving.

True.

Goatmon · April 2012

nightmarenny wrote: »

FAQ wrote: »

red skull has been the best marvel movie villian thus far

Noooope.

He had little motivation, no connection with the main character and doesn't do anything for like 90 percent of the movie.

On the other hand, Hugo Weaving.

Blake T · April 2012

Scarlett's gun, next to everyone else did look ridiculous though.

Other than his issue with the script, his points are valid to a degree, but none of the points make it appalling.

Dark Raven X · April 2012

I had no problem with Black Widow, but for Cap;

Spoiler:

But then, he's my least fav of the characters anyway, so I had no real problem with it.

Would like to see more opinions of people who liked the Captain America movie on how he is in Avengers...

Blake T · April 2012

I know people hate Millar.

But I love his Cap, all ultra confident, forever trying to g people up. Like an old forties movie star.

Prohass · April 2012

I felt like given that it showed her guns actually killing the aliens, it was no more ridiculous than the guy with arrows? I mean, I just read her as the 'soldier/assassin' kind of hero archetype, it would've been cool if she'd used other gadgets I guess, but it showed her

Spoiler:

with those guns, so I wasnt like "just go have a sandwich and let the super guys deal with it'.

As for cap,

Spoiler:

Blake T · April 2012

That's true.

And he did tell hulk to smash.

Prohass · April 2012

Blake T wrote: »

That's true.

And he did tell hulk to smash.

I think this is a crucial thing. And im not joking, because it stands to how well this film establishes everything, as a result of pacing, levity, earnestness but not over-seriousness, that I totally bought that he would say that, and that the Hulk would nod and go "yes sir" with his Hulk eyes, and that everyone in my cinema erupted. I mean that doesnt just happen, not matter how little respect you have for the movie going-public. The same scene, without the same kind of lead up, would've been eye-rolling or hit with a dud. But everything had so much energy. I think thats why i feel its odd to hate the film, or say its abysmal, its energy was just spot on.

Lost Salient · April 2012

Prohass I'm with you as far as coming across to me at least that he was the moral center of the group, which is good on them because honestly I just don't care about Captain America and there had to be a semi-believable reason for me to buy him as the leader. And I felt they achieved that. Maybe it was sort of ham-handed how they achieved it, but it's an action movie and sometimes you just gotta say "LOOK HERE IS THE LEADER TO SOLVE YOUR DUMBASS ARGUMENT THAT IS WHY HE IS THE LEADER, MOVING ON."

Blake T wrote: »

To be fair, while I'm not frothing at the mouth about them, Cap could have been a bit more interesting and Maria really did have not real point to the story.

Meta reading though.

Spoiler:

Her character is going to turn into coulston's where she will cameo everywhere.

Problem with this is

Spoiler:

Saying that as someone who has for years now been obsessed with the lives of the non-superhumans who live and work around superheroes every day, which is neither here nor there but a true thing. Like, all the people working on the Watchtower in Justice League. Who are those guys when they go home at night?

Blake T · April 2012

True Sandra, but personally,

Spoiler:

nightmarenny · April 2012

Lost Salient wrote: »

Prohass I'm with you as far as coming across to me at least that he was the moral center of the group, which is good on them because honestly I just don't care about Captain America and there had to be a semi-believable reason for me to buy him as the leader. And I felt they achieved that. Maybe it was sort of ham-handed how they achieved it, but it's an action movie and sometimes you just gotta say "LOOK HERE IS THE LEADER TO SOLVE YOUR DUMBASS ARGUMENT THAT IS WHY HE IS THE LEADER, MOVING ON."

Blake T wrote: »

To be fair, while I'm not frothing at the mouth about them, Cap could have been a bit more interesting and Maria really did have not real point to the story.

Meta reading though.

Spoiler:

Her character is going to turn into coulston's where she will cameo everywhere.

Problem with this is

Spoiler:

they'd have to make me like her like I did Coulson, because as it is I don't give a craaaap

Saying that as someone who has for years now been obsessed with the lives of the non-superhumans who live and work around superheroes every day, which is neither here nor there but a true thing. Like, all the people working on the Watchtower in Justice League. Who are those guys when they go home at night?

Spoiler:

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