If anybody needs me, I won't be on the internet

[trinityvixen]

Everywhere I turn, people are trying to spoil The Avengers for me by telling me what to think of it. I don't want to know! So I'm going radio silent until this evening. I hope I make it to 8:30.

Most of the time, I like knowing what people thought going into a movie. I like to have a general feel about the thing and what to expect so I can modulate

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[trinityvixen]

Part of my excitement, of course, has nothing to do with the movie itself. There was a large part of my childhood where superheroes were awesome. Not even necessarily the Avengers, just superheroes. And I had cartoons, which were awesome, and comic books, which, ditto. But they're marginal, and in some way you always understand that they're not what "real" people read/participate in. Making a movie where superheroes are played by flesh and blood actors is a big deal. Seeing animated Avengers is pretty fun, but there's something about making the fantasy that much more real--that much more a part of the "real" world--that is enough to make one insane.

I mean, there's a part in the trailer where the Avengers are all standing around together and I diiiiiiiiied. Funnily enough, I didn't get that way about the X-Men movies as much because they were always a team property. The idea that you can bring together heroes who are all pretty goddamned awesome in their own movies (except possibly the Hulk, poor brute) and make a movie of all them!?!?! Makes my inner ten-year-old veeeery happy.