rocketpig said:
d21lewis said:
Huge comics fan, here. I liked the movie a lot, mostly because I like any story where a bunch of Superheroes with different personalities come together. That's why I used to love team books so much. Just the character dynamics alone would wow me. This movie had that. I liked how it was pretty faithful to the comics when it came to who got along with who and who was respected.
Probably my favorite part was when Cap faced off with Loki early in the movie. I was thinking to myself, "That's just what Captain America would do." Yeah, he always has a plan and a way to win, but whenever a despot is ranting and trying to subjugate people, Cap can't help but walk up to them and punch them in the face!
It was a fun movie with some great moments and a cool culmination of a good experiment but, in the end, it was pretty forgettable. Aside from a lot of great characters in one place, the story was pretty weak. If I watch it again (and I will), I'll likely tear the movie a new ass by asking "Why did he do this? Why didn't he just do that?" As a comic come to life, I gotta say that it almost did everything that I wanted it to--especially the super-hero face offs like Hulk vs. Thor or Iron Man vs. Thor. The story just needed more time in the oven. Just seeing all of the heroes in one place will make it my favorite Marvel movie but X-Men First Class is easily a better package.
Good comic brought to life. Great fun for a summer blockbuster. Kind of weak as a movie. Again, coming from a HUGE comic geek. |
I somewhat agree that the story was thin but Whedon was juggling ten characters in the movie and had to give every one their time to shine. I really don't know how he could have done a better job in ~150 minutes. He decided to make it a character piece and just kinda let the story roll along with their actions. Given all he had to do in the film while also making it a fun summer blockbuster, I can't fault him for making the choices he did.
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What Whedon did that really impressed me was give fans of Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, and Captain America--and to a lesser degree, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Nick Fury a reason to feel like this was their movie. I'm a Cap fan and I felt like Cap kicked the most ass. My sis likes Iron Man. She thought he was the star of the movie. A lot of people I talked to felt like this was Hulk's movie. People on this very thread said it seemed like Thor 2. The fact that everybody feels like they got what they wanted is a feat in and of itself.
I know the meat of the story was the heroes coming together to overcome a threat. It didn't matter what the threat was as long as it was huge. It happens all of the time in these origin stories. I can respect that. I know that if I made the movie and it had touched on everything I would have touched on (Cap adapting to life in our time and being discouraged with what America had become, Iron Man drinking too much, etc) it would have been a much darker movie and it would have been six hours long. It would have been the wrong way to go.
The movie did what it was supposed to do. It gave us The Avengers. Not as tragic or tightly woven as something like X-Men but the closest representation of what we think of when we think of comic book super-heroes--larger than life characters, bright colors, unbelievable action, and cool set pieces. As a superhero movie, it's second to none. I just remember the heroes and their action more than anything the villains did or exactly what their motivation to do certain things was.
But then I was never a huge fan, so maybe Im a bit biased 
