The Avengers

[emmram]

So I finally watched The Avengers last night. I avoided it for weeks--which, probably a bad idea, because when I asked around last night if anybody wanted to come to see it with me, practically all the people I'd asked (which, admittedly was not very many) said they'd seen it too many times already. Finally I asked my brother because I knew he hadn

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[ienablu]

not in an appropriate state of mind to really comment, but yeah, can I just apologize for that whole Americentrism thing? Because yeah, while I will admit I am not the most worldly person, I knew the points you pointed out where more than a bit problematic. :/

As you may have noticed, I have a Thing for brothers with disturbed relationships.
o rly?

And I agree about the Coulson dying thing -- I spent the next twenty minutes after they killed him off fuming, to the point where I didn't enjoy the movie all that much.

[amberdreams]

Coulson! Yes - I was gobsmacked they killed him off. I knew nothing about his character before this movie but he was so cute!

[ienablu]

I was a bit in love in Coulson when I saw him in the first Iron Man movie, and gobsmacked is a good way to describe my reaction.

[emmram]

You don't need to apologise--I mean, it's Hollywood, and it happens and I usually just roll with it, but this time, they actually made a conscious decision to have Dr. Banner help heal people in an Indian slum. This could have been fine if they bothered to include even a single other Indian character, even as a two-second extra, maybe working for Shield, or maybe just happened to be in New York and got caught in the crossfire. But no. The sole representation they got was "slum dwellers living in squalor being helped by this Westerner". That bothers me a 1000 times more than if there were no Indian representation at all.

... uh. Sorry. Ranting again. :/

o rly?

Yeah, well, you know *shrugs* the theme does come up from time to time on this journal...

Dude, Coulson was easily my favourite person there. I was cheering when he faced down Loki, and then--"oh come on! You can't kill him, movie! Goddammit."

[ienablu]

No need to apologize for ranting, it's your journal, and I don't mind it in the slightest. And you're right, there were no Indian extras, other than the "poor, impoverished and being aided by a Western" bit. And even if you say I don't need to apologize, I still do wish "America America America" didn't translate into "let's not care about accuracy in regards to places that aren't America."

...vaguely related, but I'm pretty sure there's a fic out there where Thor and Loki are hunters a la Sam and Dean. I never read it, because pre-Avengers Thor and Loki didn't really interest me, but I'll see if I can find it, if you'd like.

Coulson totally stole the screen whenever he was on, whether it was just his expression while being put on hold by Natasha, or him describing his Captain America card collection... thankfully I operate under "no body, no death" policy, so I can pretend it was all just a ruse, and they didn't actually kill him. :D

Nothing to fire the imaginationIn of itself, I agree; the movie was nice, and a fun watch, but it