More good movies we've seen.

[maiforpeace]

[quote="Animavore"]The Descendants of who?

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Some Hawaiian royalty or some such.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Just saw "The Cabin In The Woods". I fucking love Joss Whedon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tattuchu]

Just saw "The Cabin In The Woods". I fucking love Joss Whedon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was fixin to see that this weekend

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Just saw "The Cabin In The Woods". I fucking love Joss Whedon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was fixin to see that this weekend

We had fun. There's an extremely moment near the end.

[Animavore]

I was disheartened to hear someone quip this morning that the new Avengers Assemble was The Avengers gets the Michael Bay/Transformers treatment because it has big, windy robots wrecking New York. Well the difference is Joss Whedon is clever and witty where as Michael Bay is a puerile jerk.
There's nothing wrong with massive automatons wreaking havoc in and of itself and indeed the scenes of robots where quite watchable. Bay's problem was that he managed to make something which should be cool by definition lame due to a complete lack of tack and taste and pathetic attempts at trying to be funny in the scenes between robot tussling that would leave John Walters embarrassed. It was as if he knocked down The Fonz in a Skoda and put him in a wheelchair.
If anything Avengers Assemble is [/i]The Avengers [/i] gets the Serenity treatment. It has that same style of wise-cracks and unexpected yet hilarious happenings. He well managed the hard task of having multiple protagonists without losing the grip of itself by simply keeping them within range of each other, sort of forced to live together like Big Brother contestants, without letting anyone wander off or get sidetracked. It helps they all had their own movie previous. Though you don't need to see any of them to get the gist as enough background is given without getting bogged down in details to let you know what's happening.
The action in the film never lets up from the beginning and it's amazing Whedon manages to never let it get tired as The Avengers go from one damn thing after another. It helps that it has a great cast and character interactions to break it all up. Just about every Avenger combo is used and the way they play off each other is great.
Like in Thor Loki steals the show. Poor guy tries his best to be menacing, imperious and megalomaniacal only to have the piss taken out of him by a bunch of people who truly live on a different planet. One scene is worth the price of the admission alone. I'll spoiler it below and you can come back after you see it and tell me I'm right.

5/5

Don't click if you haven't seen (see above)

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Hulk smashes Loki.

[Rum]

Going to see it tomorrow! You can take the old guy out of comics but you can't take the comics out of the old guy..or summat..

I had issue #1 of the Avengers (as well as FF4 and Spiderman!).

[rachelbean]

We're gonna go see it this weekend

[Rum]

BTW Anim - which version did you see? The 3D is retro-fitted and I'm not a huge fan of 3D for its own sake.

[Animavore]

I saw it in 2D. I don't see how 3D will enhance it.

[Evabot]

Goon....The best movie I've seen all year:

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's a Johnny Depp Movie Day!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Mirror, Mirror". good fun. Take the kids.

[Pappa]

The Avengers.

This was a little slow to start and I was beginning to think it was going to be a disappointment. But it picked up well, had some of the best one-liners and other humour I'm seen in all of the Marvel films. It progressed to "fucking awesome" and I think it may be my favourite off all the Marvel films..... um.... maybe.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Mirror, Mirror". good fun. Take the kids.

I would have given up early on with this one if I had been alone, but it did get my interest after a certain point. An updated version of the legend, brimming with current sensibilities, but also good fun. Nathan Lane was, as usual, brilliant. Even when being molested by a grasshopper.

[Rum]

Went to see Avengers (in 3D which I had not intended to but the timings worked that way..and it didn't spoil it). I agree with Pappa - the best Marvel film so far!

I started reading Marvel comics when I was 10 or 11 and I can remember fantasizing about films made from them and thinking they would never be able to. And here it is - a fucking flying aircraft carrier clear as the nose on your face and you believe it!

Fantastic!