The Avengers (SPOILERS)
I know, I know, long time no entry. But I have to post this, need to get it off my chest in a place where I can control spoilage.
So, without further ado, beneath the cut there are serious spoilers for The Avengers movie.
FUCK YOU, JOSS WHEDON!
OMG how could I have forgotten? HOW? HOW? I'm even reading Mark Watches Monday through Friday, seeing the Buffy and Angel universe through the eyes of an ever-unprepared noob to the Jossverse (he's only seen Firefly/Serenity). So, it's not like I don't know that Joss likes to take everything we love and kill it, just to fuck with us. Just to bring us pain (see icon).
The minute, the very second, Loki stabbed Agent Coulson, my brain shouted FUCK YOU, JOSS WHEDON. I should have known, I should have seen. OF COURSE he'd do this, IT'S WHAT HE DOES. I wanted to shout it in the theater, but I kept myself calm and didn't speak it out loud, especially as there was like a 9-year-old boy in the seat next to me. Agent Phil Coulson is <3, and I am so unutterably depressed that he died. I didn't shed a tear in the movie, though. Coulson got Loki in the end with the gun, and that deserved no tears, just triumph.
Of course, this being the Marvel Universe, we didn't actually confirm his death. We HEARD Fury confirm it over the comms. So YES, he could still be alive. The group needed "the push" to get them something, someone, to rally behind, and the Son of Coul's death was the best way to do that. And if it were any director OTHER than Joss Whedon, I'd hold out hope that he could come back. It's likely that Marvel will be stupid and not bring Joss back to direct another film, so I could get another shot at Coulson. There also was apparently some internet rumors that he'd show up as The Vision.
Other than that, the movie actually was really good. Very Joss; there were a lot of Jossisms in the lines and delivery. I really liked Mark Ruffalo's Banner/Hulk, and considering how much I adored Norton's Banner, this was surprising.
The first thing they did wrong tho, was letting Loki speak. YOU NEVER EVER DO THAT. I do like how Natasha turned the tables on him to figure out why he was there. Thor at least got it right at the end, by putting a muzzle on Loki before they went back to Asgard.
We saw it in non-3D, non-IMAX, because I don't really notice much 3D in movies anyway, and I don't want to pay the extra cost for wearing uncomfortable glasses over my glasses that only show me vague things in 3D, ever (like in Avatar, the only thing I saw truly in 3D (and we saw it in IMAX) was the little embers of the tree floating about after it had been destroyed).
I think it's definitely on the list to see again, but I think I want to rewatch all the other films before we go back. Then again, we still need to see Cabin in the Woods. And other movies too.
So, without further ado, beneath the cut there are serious spoilers for The Avengers movie.
FUCK YOU, JOSS WHEDON!
OMG how could I have forgotten? HOW? HOW? I'm even reading Mark Watches Monday through Friday, seeing the Buffy and Angel universe through the eyes of an ever-unprepared noob to the Jossverse (he's only seen Firefly/Serenity). So, it's not like I don't know that Joss likes to take everything we love and kill it, just to fuck with us. Just to bring us pain (see icon).
The minute, the very second, Loki stabbed Agent Coulson, my brain shouted FUCK YOU, JOSS WHEDON. I should have known, I should have seen. OF COURSE he'd do this, IT'S WHAT HE DOES. I wanted to shout it in the theater, but I kept myself calm and didn't speak it out loud, especially as there was like a 9-year-old boy in the seat next to me. Agent Phil Coulson is <3, and I am so unutterably depressed that he died. I didn't shed a tear in the movie, though. Coulson got Loki in the end with the gun, and that deserved no tears, just triumph.
Of course, this being the Marvel Universe, we didn't actually confirm his death. We HEARD Fury confirm it over the comms. So YES, he could still be alive. The group needed "the push" to get them something, someone, to rally behind, and the Son of Coul's death was the best way to do that. And if it were any director OTHER than Joss Whedon, I'd hold out hope that he could come back. It's likely that Marvel will be stupid and not bring Joss back to direct another film, so I could get another shot at Coulson. There also was apparently some internet rumors that he'd show up as The Vision.
Other than that, the movie actually was really good. Very Joss; there were a lot of Jossisms in the lines and delivery. I really liked Mark Ruffalo's Banner/Hulk, and considering how much I adored Norton's Banner, this was surprising.
The first thing they did wrong tho, was letting Loki speak. YOU NEVER EVER DO THAT. I do like how Natasha turned the tables on him to figure out why he was there. Thor at least got it right at the end, by putting a muzzle on Loki before they went back to Asgard.
We saw it in non-3D, non-IMAX, because I don't really notice much 3D in movies anyway, and I don't want to pay the extra cost for wearing uncomfortable glasses over my glasses that only show me vague things in 3D, ever (like in Avatar, the only thing I saw truly in 3D (and we saw it in IMAX) was the little embers of the tree floating about after it had been destroyed).
I think it's definitely on the list to see again, but I think I want to rewatch all the other films before we go back. Then again, we still need to see Cabin in the Woods. And other movies too.