Regarding the US military and rapid mobility, aircraft can be scrambled within minutes, especially on the east coast. They could have had jets over Manhattan in less than an hour.
Probably still would have been too late, but the Air Force can mobilize pretty damn fast.
Just got back from The Avengers... I'm pretty sure I had a giant grin on my face throughout the whole film.
Now, as for best moments, well, I'd say it was a tie between every scene....
Okay, as for my really favorite scenes.
Tony: "Jarvis, ever heard the story of Jonah and the whale?"
Jarvis: "I would not consider him a roll model."
Hulk utterly thrashing Loki was terrific.
Flying the nuke through the portal was great as well.
And one of my favorite funny moments was between Cap, Thor, and Fury.
Fury: I'd like to know what Loki did to turn two of my best agents into his personal flying monkeys!!
Thor: Monkeys? I do not understand--
Cap: I do! ...I got that reference.
Just got back from The Avengers... I'm pretty sure I had a giant grin on my face throughout the whole film.
Now, as for best moments, well, I'd say it was a tie between every scene....
Okay, as for my really favorite scenes.
Tony: "Jarvis, ever heard the story of Jonah and the whale?"
Jarvis: "I would not consider him a roll model."
Hulk utterly thrashing Loki was terrific.
Flying the nuke through the portal was great as well.
And one of my favorite funny moments was between Cap, Thor, and Fury.
Fury: I'd like to know what Loki did to turn two of my best agents into his personal flying monkeys!!
Thor: Monkeys? I do not understand--
Cap: I do! ...I got that reference.
Just got back from The Avengers... I'm pretty sure I had a giant grin on my face throughout the whole film.
Now, as for best moments, well, I'd say it was a tie between every scene....
Okay, as for my really favorite scenes.
Tony: "Jarvis, ever heard the story of Jonah and the whale?"
Jarvis: "I would not consider him a roll model."
Hulk utterly thrashing Loki was terrific.
Flying the nuke through the portal was great as well.
And one of my favorite funny moments was between Cap, Thor, and Fury.
Fury: I'd like to know what Loki did to turn two of my best agents into his personal flying monkeys!!
Thor: Monkeys? I do not understand--
Cap: I do! ...I got that reference.
Oh Captain. You adorable so and so.
He's so cute. I watched him while he slept. I mean, I was there while he was unconscious.
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Some guy wrote this on my facebook status regarding The Avengers (minor spoilers):
I know that this is the hot geek flavor of the day, but, seriously, there's never been a good Hulk film. There never will be. It wasn't even that good a comic book when I was a kid. The Captain America movie was a few scenes and a couple of VERY LONG montages that made no real story sense. When you are reduced to your strange villain writing the names of cities on the aerial bombs in English, you know this film is aimed at very, very low IQs. Let me say, I loved the first half of Iron Man and the "I am Iron Man" moment at the end (Iron Man fighting bigger, badder Iron Man father-figure gets rather tiresome, just as Hulk fighting father starfish or bigger, badder Hulk gets tiresome). I love the first Superman. And the much maligned second Fantastic Four film, which was sloppy and goofy, at least felt like I was reading a comic book rather than reading someone trying to channel Shakespeare through the comic book universe and having neither the talent nor the skill to pull it off (biggest sinner: Thor, the absurd). And Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are brilliant fun with flaws overcome by a purity of vision that seems unencumbered by the ever-present commercial stamp on the Marvel films. The Avengers, whose success is poised to literally destroy Disney Studios as we know it, is the grandest offender on so many levels. Half-baked characters (excepting Iron Man) who, frustratingly feel the need to fight each other for no reason (and, as we know, with no real physical or story consequences), only to finally "assemble" to take on the evil step-brother from outer space. Great superhero stories present the moral dilemma. You can do anything you want, but you can't do everything you want (Spiderman I tried this, but, of course, did it stupidly by making the moment atop the 59th St. bridge absurd). The Dark Knight threaded this brilliantly, playing on our fears that we can't trust each other to act selflessly. But The Avengers (as in Cap America, Thor, The Hulk movies) there isn't even enough internal logic to create a scenario like this that about which we can care. You either just love the characters or you don't. And if you don't, this movie seems almost fascist in its notions. Even Iron Man's supposed grand act of self-sacrifice / destruction of the enemy seems both un-earned and buffoonish. Hey, I love absurd villains. But they have to be smart. You can do anything in a film as long as there are some kind of rules to the universe. If Iron Man is just a guy in a suit, well, he can't decelerate from terminal velocity to dead stop and still be alive. The suit won't save him. His internal organs will mash up and splat inside his body like milk shake. Captain America may be able to heal up quick, but he has weaknesses. Thor is a wonderful character in the comics I read in the 70s, but in these films he's just a joke, a character who is continual comic relief, the Baby Huey of the Marvel universe, doing at least as much damage as good (up to the very, very end, of course), but looking quite handsome. But the most wretched thing about The Avengers is just how unimaginative it seems to be, and intentionally unimaginative. So glad we haven't seen aliens attack NYC before. So glad we haven't seen the military brains deciding to launch the big one when, if they had just trusted our hero, all would have turned out okay. Every scene had this familiar beat of this Spider-man film or that Superman film or Batman film. Alas.
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Some guy wrote this on my facebook status regarding The Avengers (minor spoilers):
I know that this is the hot geek flavor of the day, but, seriously, there's never been a good Hulk film. There never will be. It wasn't even that good a comic book when I was a kid. The Captain America movie was a few scenes and a couple of VERY LONG montages that made no real story sense. When you are reduced to your strange villain writing the names of cities on the aerial bombs in English, you know this film is aimed at very, very low IQs. Let me say, I loved the first half of Iron Man and the "I am Iron Man" moment at the end (Iron Man fighting bigger, badder Iron Man father-figure gets rather tiresome, just as Hulk fighting father starfish or bigger, badder Hulk gets tiresome). I love the first Superman. And the much maligned second Fantastic Four film, which was sloppy and goofy, at least felt like I was reading a comic book rather than reading someone trying to channel Shakespeare through the comic book universe and having neither the talent nor the skill to pull it off (biggest sinner: Thor, the absurd). And Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are brilliant fun with flaws overcome by a purity of vision that seems unencumbered by the ever-present commercial stamp on the Marvel films. The Avengers, whose success is poised to literally destroy Disney Studios as we know it, is the grandest offender on so many levels. Half-baked characters (excepting Iron Man) who, frustratingly feel the need to fight each other for no reason (and, as we know, with no real physical or story consequences), only to finally "assemble" to take on the evil step-brother from outer space. Great superhero stories present the moral dilemma. You can do anything you want, but you can't do everything you want (Spiderman I tried this, but, of course, did it stupidly by making the moment atop the 59th St. bridge absurd). The Dark Knight threaded this brilliantly, playing on our fears that we can't trust each other to act selflessly. But The Avengers (as in Cap America, Thor, The Hulk movies) there isn't even enough internal logic to create a scenario like this that about which we can care. You either just love the characters or you don't. And if you don't, this movie seems almost fascist in its notions. Even Iron Man's supposed grand act of self-sacrifice / destruction of the enemy seems both un-earned and buffoonish. Hey, I love absurd villains. But they have to be smart. You can do anything in a film as long as there are some kind of rules to the universe. If Iron Man is just a guy in a suit, well, he can't decelerate from terminal velocity to dead stop and still be alive. The suit won't save him. His internal organs will mash up and splat inside his body like milk shake. Captain America may be able to heal up quick, but he has weaknesses. Thor is a wonderful character in the comics I read in the 70s, but in these films he's just a joke, a character who is continual comic relief, the Baby Huey of the Marvel universe, doing at least as much damage as good (up to the very, very end, of course), but looking quite handsome. But the most wretched thing about The Avengers is just how unimaginative it seems to be, and intentionally unimaginative. So glad we haven't seen aliens attack NYC before. So glad we haven't seen the military brains deciding to launch the big one when, if they had just trusted our hero, all would have turned out okay. Every scene had this familiar beat of this Spider-man film or that Superman film or Batman film. Alas.
what a f*****************************************t
Just watched it a second time. Interesting the stuff I missed the first time through.
-When Loki mind projects back to talk to the "Other", he is constantly maneuvering and trying to see up the stairs to see who's really running things.
-After Loki arrives and steals the Cube, he is staggering and needing help to leave.
-Before the R&D room argument, Captain America starts to say that Loki's staff sounds a lot like the Hydra weapons from his movie. Nick Fury ABRUPTLY cuts him off. Later in the movie, Cap finds the Hydra weapons and they were of course created using the Cube.
I'm sure there's a ton more.
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Some guy wrote this on my facebook status regarding The Avengers (minor spoilers):
I know that this is the hot geek flavor of the day, but, seriously, there's never been a good Hulk film. There never will be. It wasn't even that good a comic book when I was a kid. The Captain America movie was a few scenes and a couple of VERY LONG montages that made no real story sense. When you are reduced to your strange villain writing the names of cities on the aerial bombs in English, you know this film is aimed at very, very low IQs. Let me say, I loved the first half of Iron Man and the "I am Iron Man" moment at the end (Iron Man fighting bigger, badder Iron Man father-figure gets rather tiresome, just as Hulk fighting father starfish or bigger, badder Hulk gets tiresome). I love the first Superman. And the much maligned second Fantastic Four film, which was sloppy and goofy, at least felt like I was reading a comic book rather than reading someone trying to channel Shakespeare through the comic book universe and having neither the talent nor the skill to pull it off (biggest sinner: Thor, the absurd). And Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are brilliant fun with flaws overcome by a purity of vision that seems unencumbered by the ever-present commercial stamp on the Marvel films. The Avengers, whose success is poised to literally destroy Disney Studios as we know it, is the grandest offender on so many levels. Half-baked characters (excepting Iron Man) who, frustratingly feel the need to fight each other for no reason (and, as we know, with no real physical or story consequences), only to finally "assemble" to take on the evil step-brother from outer space. Great superhero stories present the moral dilemma. You can do anything you want, but you can't do everything you want (Spiderman I tried this, but, of course, did it stupidly by making the moment atop the 59th St. bridge absurd). The Dark Knight threaded this brilliantly, playing on our fears that we can't trust each other to act selflessly. But The Avengers (as in Cap America, Thor, The Hulk movies) there isn't even enough internal logic to create a scenario like this that about which we can care. You either just love the characters or you don't. And if you don't, this movie seems almost fascist in its notions. Even Iron Man's supposed grand act of self-sacrifice / destruction of the enemy seems both un-earned and buffoonish. Hey, I love absurd villains. But they have to be smart. You can do anything in a film as long as there are some kind of rules to the universe. If Iron Man is just a guy in a suit, well, he can't decelerate from terminal velocity to dead stop and still be alive. The suit won't save him. His internal organs will mash up and splat inside his body like milk shake. Captain America may be able to heal up quick, but he has weaknesses. Thor is a wonderful character in the comics I read in the 70s, but in these films he's just a joke, a character who is continual comic relief, the Baby Huey of the Marvel universe, doing at least as much damage as good (up to the very, very end, of course), but looking quite handsome. But the most wretched thing about The Avengers is just how unimaginative it seems to be, and intentionally unimaginative. So glad we haven't seen aliens attack NYC before. So glad we haven't seen the military brains deciding to launch the big one when, if they had just trusted our hero, all would have turned out okay. Every scene had this familiar beat of this Spider-man film or that Superman film or Batman film. Alas.
Some guy wrote this on my facebook status regarding The Avengers (minor spoilers):
I know that this is the hot geek flavor of the day, but, seriously, there's never been a good Hulk film. There never will be. It wasn't even that good a comic book when I was a kid. The Captain America movie was a few scenes and a couple of VERY LONG montages that made no real story sense. When you are reduced to your strange villain writing the names of cities on the aerial bombs in English, you know this film is aimed at very, very low IQs. Let me say, I loved the first half of Iron Man and the "I am Iron Man" moment at the end (Iron Man fighting bigger, badder Iron Man father-figure gets rather tiresome, just as Hulk fighting father starfish or bigger, badder Hulk gets tiresome). I love the first Superman. And the much maligned second Fantastic Four film, which was sloppy and goofy, at least felt like I was reading a comic book rather than reading someone trying to channel Shakespeare through the comic book universe and having neither the talent nor the skill to pull it off (biggest sinner: Thor, the absurd). And Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are brilliant fun with flaws overcome by a purity of vision that seems unencumbered by the ever-present commercial stamp on the Marvel films. The Avengers, whose success is poised to literally destroy Disney Studios as we know it, is the grandest offender on so many levels. Half-baked characters (excepting Iron Man) who, frustratingly feel the need to fight each other for no reason (and, as we know, with no real physical or story consequences), only to finally "assemble" to take on the evil step-brother from outer space. Great superhero stories present the moral dilemma. You can do anything you want, but you can't do everything you want (Spiderman I tried this, but, of course, did it stupidly by making the moment atop the 59th St. bridge absurd). The Dark Knight threaded this brilliantly, playing on our fears that we can't trust each other to act selflessly. But The Avengers (as in Cap America, Thor, The Hulk movies) there isn't even enough internal logic to create a scenario like this that about which we can care. You either just love the characters or you don't. And if you don't, this movie seems almost fascist in its notions. Even Iron Man's supposed grand act of self-sacrifice / destruction of the enemy seems both un-earned and buffoonish. Hey, I love absurd villains. But they have to be smart. You can do anything in a film as long as there are some kind of rules to the universe. If Iron Man is just a guy in a suit, well, he can't decelerate from terminal velocity to dead stop and still be alive. The suit won't save him. His internal organs will mash up and splat inside his body like milk shake. Captain America may be able to heal up quick, but he has weaknesses. Thor is a wonderful character in the comics I read in the 70s, but in these films he's just a joke, a character who is continual comic relief, the Baby Huey of the Marvel universe, doing at least as much damage as good (up to the very, very end, of course), but looking quite handsome. But the most wretched thing about The Avengers is just how unimaginative it seems to be, and intentionally unimaginative. So glad we haven't seen aliens attack NYC before. So glad we haven't seen the military brains deciding to launch the big one when, if they had just trusted our hero, all would have turned out okay. Every scene had this familiar beat of this Spider-man film or that Superman film or Batman film. Alas.
Some guy wrote this on my facebook status regarding The Avengers (minor spoilers):
The Captain America movie was a few scenes and a couple of VERY LONG montages that made no real story sense. When you are reduced to your strange villain writing the names of cities on the aerial bombs in English, you know this film is aimed at very, very low IQs.
That entire review is absurd, but my favorite is the thought that American cities would be spelled differently in German.
Some guy wrote this on my facebook status regarding The Avengers (minor spoilers):
The Captain America movie was a few scenes and a couple of VERY LONG montages that made no real story sense. When you are reduced to your strange villain writing the names of cities on the aerial bombs in English, you know this film is aimed at very, very low IQs.
That entire review is absurd, but my favorite is the thought that American cities would be spelled differently in German.
Considering we call it "Germany" while the Germans call it "Deutschland" I don't think it's as strange a concept as you'd expect.
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Some guy wrote this on my facebook status regarding The Avengers (minor spoilers):
The Captain America movie was a few scenes and a couple of VERY LONG montages that made no real story sense. When you are reduced to your strange villain writing the names of cities on the aerial bombs in English, you know this film is aimed at very, very low IQs.
That entire review is absurd, but my favorite is the thought that American cities would be spelled differently in German.
Considering we call it "Germany" while the Germans call it "Deutschland" I don't think it's as strange a concept as you'd expect.
Oh I know, I studied German for 3 years in high school.
But "Chicago" still stays "Chicago" in translation.
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Probably still would have been too late, but the Air Force can mobilize pretty damn fast.
Now, as for best moments, well, I'd say it was a tie between every scene....
Okay, as for my really favorite scenes.
Jarvis: "I would not consider him a roll model."
Hulk utterly thrashing Loki was terrific.
Flying the nuke through the portal was great as well.
And one of my favorite funny moments was between Cap, Thor, and Fury.
Fury: I'd like to know what Loki did to turn two of my best agents into his personal flying monkeys!!
Thor: Monkeys? I do not understand--
Cap: I do! ...I got that reference.
Oh Captain. You adorable so and so.
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Well...
That was a good note to go out on..
He's so cute. I watched him while he slept. I mean, I was there while he was unconscious.
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what a f*****************************************t
-After Loki arrives and steals the Cube, he is staggering and needing help to leave.
-Before the R&D room argument, Captain America starts to say that Loki's staff sounds a lot like the Hydra weapons from his movie. Nick Fury ABRUPTLY cuts him off. Later in the movie, Cap finds the Hydra weapons and they were of course created using the Cube.
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That entire review is absurd, but my favorite is the thought that American cities would be spelled differently in German.
Wonder Man. I forgot how much I love that guy.
Additional Real Talk: I don't really consider The Dark Knight a superhero film and thus consider it unfair to compare to superhero films.
Considering we call it "Germany" while the Germans call it "Deutschland" I don't think it's as strange a concept as you'd expect.
Oh I know, I studied German for 3 years in high school.
But "Chicago" still stays "Chicago" in translation.
Well if they were writing on German equipment for other Germans to read then obviously they would write in German
But the point stands that there isn't a German word for like, "Chicago"
it was similarly confusingly long and brutal
Seriously, if I wanted to I could go through the movie and name all the comic beats/tropes it uses. There are tons.
Two new lines I caught tonight that made me sad due to the fate of a certain character
And then as Tony walks onto the bridge of the Helicarrier he's promising Coulson that whenever he wants he'll fly him out to Portland to see his girl
I just think it has a drastically different tone from a film like Iron Man.