The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers were two of the best Super Hero/Big action movies in a long time. Just compare them to the competition and you'll realize how good they are. If you compare any big action movie to your imagination it will always be a bad movie.

there is one scene that particularly bothers me most about The Dark Knight Rises.

When the Policemen go into the sewers you can clearly see many of then wear riot gear, helmets, body armor, and assault rifles.

but after they are being freed, they obviously go home, change into their sunday uniform, pick up their handguns and walk in a straight line towards a armed enemy army behind covers,

i know what the scene tried to do visually and atmospherically, but in context it was just unbelievable silly.

The Dark Knight is considerably better than either TDKR or Avengers.

Man, I hope not.  An Infinity Gauntlet story would be impossible to film.  I hope they do some sort of Dark Avengers story with Red Hulk, Iron Patriot, Bullseye, etc.  I would mention the Skrulls but I don't want another heroes vs. aliens battle in the middle of the city.

Still, we know Thanos is in the second film and the closing line in the first film refers to Mistress Death almost certainly.  The cosmic cube is in Asgard and so is the Infinity Gauntlet (and Loki).  Even if it doesn't reach the Infinity Gauntlet storyline, it's almost certainly going to be about Thanos going after the cosmic cube.

Skrulls, from what I undersand, are owned by another production company.  Even though the first aliens were filler, I doubt they'll do another alien invasion.

 With Thanos being there, I can't help but wonder if they're going to cut out all the characters that came with his storylines.  Captain Marvel, Drax, Moondragon, Adam Warlock, Starfox and the Eternals--you're right, it does seem kind of impossible.

I trust Whedon enough to pull it off.  I mean, I don't think anyone but him would have been able to pull off this Avengers movie.

I went to watch The Avengers with 5 friends, all of us came out of the cinema disappointed. Especially me because I'm not a fan of comic book style films, even if I was I still wouldn't have enjoyed it.

pokoko i noticed you were not talking about loki, I'm saying that this film failed to produce any kind of thrilling sensation, dramatic build up or anything at all. a bunch of supermen kicked the bad guy's ass without breaking a sweet... what on earth did they avenge ?

Robert Downey Jr's beard.

This one is building up for the next ones. If the Avengers were physically out matched in this movie, what would there be to look forward to in the next one? LoKi was mentally trying to manipulate the Avengers, and at some point they were fighting eachother and not on the same page which means Loki almost won. However they over came that and defeated the invaders. Now that they know they can work together they will most likely face a much stronger foe. That's why at the end they teased a more powerful foe.

But this movie was also more about the build up of finally getting to see all these guys together and kicking ass. If you were a fan of super hero movies, then you would have sat through Iron Man, Hulk, Iron Man 2, Captain America and Thor. That's 5 movies of anticipation and build up to watch these guys kick some ass. People love watching their favorite characters kick ass, and that's what a big part of this movie was. 

This isn't a one-off movie, it's going to be a franchise of atleast 3 movies, and has to be viewed as such to really grade it. The story arch needs to stretch beyond one film.