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Apr 26^th, 2012 at 9:24pm

ed symkus Offline
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Saw it. DUG IT!!! More later.

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Reply #1 - Apr 28^th, 2012 at 10:22am

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"The Avengers"... What's it about?

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Jack Lipnick: It's supposed to be about big men! In tights! Both physically and mentally! -"Barton Fink"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101410/quotes?qt=qt0983366

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Reply #2 - Apr 29^th, 2012 at 10:37pm

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Review to be posted in a few days. Tight-lipped till then (except that it was so freakin' cool!).

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Reply #3 - Apr 30^th, 2012 at 10:58am

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ed symkus wrote on Apr 29^th, 2012 at 10:37pm:

Review to be posted in a few days. Tight-lipped till then (except that it was so freakin' cool!).

Rut, ro. That's what I was afraid of. I'm sure it tries achingly hard to be "freakin' cool!" - but, it is any GOOD?

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Reply #4 - Apr 30^th, 2012 at 3:23pm

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ed symkus wrote on Apr 29^th, 2012 at 10:37pm:

Review to be posted in a few days. Tight-lipped till then (except that it was so freakin' cool!).

was there a teaser after the credits. will spider man and the avengers merge? there was a spiderman issue wherin spidey tried to join the avengers. it was a classic.

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Reply #5 - May 7^th, 2012 at 11:58pm

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i missed the beginning but did like it alot. it pissed me off that they only used cnn and msnbc for cuts to news broadcasts. what about fox??

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Reply #6 - May 9^th, 2012 at 7:18am

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kirok wrote on May 7^th, 2012 at 11:58pm:

i missed the beginning but did like it alot. it pissed me off that they only used cnn and msnbc for cuts to news broadcasts. what about fox??

Glad you liked it.......... It is my understanding that the studio did use Fox in the original cut but it tested poorly with the audience. It appears that the inclusion of Fox as a credible news source was the tipping point in the audience's willing suspension of disbelief.

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Reply #7 - May 9^th, 2012 at 10:11am

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the real wtf moment of the avengers was..

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iron man takes a nuke intended for nyc and flys it through a stargate to destroy the alien mothership. why on earth would the u.s. military not see and perhaps try that option. a squadron of our jets could do the same thing. especially before deciding to exercise the option of DESTROYING NEW YORK CITY???
i know the knee jerk reaction of some of you will be "jets don't fly in outer space" my responce is "neither do the jets on ironman's suit!! nor the nuclear cruise missile!!"

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Reply #8 - May 9^th, 2012 at 11:13pm

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kirok wrote on May 7^th, 2012 at 11:58pm:

i missed the beginning but did like it alot. it pissed me off that they only used cnn and msnbc for cuts to news broadcasts. what about fox??

You're right, Fox News certainly belongs in a comic book fantasy. Good catch.

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Reply #9 - May 11^th, 2012 at 3:45pm

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Saw it the other night, really well done. Hats off to Josh Whedon! Great insights into the characters, lots of action, humor and great cinematography. A must see for the Marvel fan!

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Reply #10 - May 28^th, 2012 at 7:22pm

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Sorry folks, I did not like this movie. Admittedly it was a good movie since it delivered plenty of action for a summer movie, but the story was lacking a hero's perspective and it was way too long (based on the lack of a solid story). I find it odd that plenty of friends have called this a "great" movie, but have acknowledged the same problems with the story as I have. Quite frankly the story was quite dispassionate (except for Captain America's role) and was lacking a real hero you could root for which made the fight sequences meaningless to the audience.

If you could tell me who the main character/hero of THE AVENGERS was, maybe I would like it a bit better.

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Reply #11 - May 29^th, 2012 at 10:46am

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Well, I think that one of the things that makes THE AVENGERS fairly remarkable is that it's an action-adventure ensemble piece, with most of the main characters learning how to function as a team - Stark and Thor must learn to trust other people, Rogers and Banner themselves. None take the lion's share of the plot, and the closest thing to a speech that sums a character's journey up is "I'm always angry", but that's skill; the audience feels all of this happening amidst the action even if it's not totally laid out.

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Reply #12 - Jun 1^st, 2012 at 5:32am

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Reply #13 - Jun 1^st, 2012 at 4:59pm

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did you not see my spoiler alert?

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Reply #14 - Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 8:39am

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Kirok:
did you not see my spoiler alert?

No, you're cool and so is Ridley Scott. It's the rest of the internet that's really sucking at not giving away details. I was crushed reading about his upcoming "Prometheus". A pre-review article commented that Ridley Scott was being mum on the story, but before I could shield my eyes, they went on to give a MAJOR end of story detail away! Shocked

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