AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!

[filkertom]

Long time since we had a DVD Day here, so let's get to it.

Marvel's Avengers is released today on DVD and Blu-Ray, including the neato spiffy keen Target version with Blu-Ray 3D and the soundtrack, and an extra making-of disk. Who's getting what version, and who (gasp) hasn't seen it yet!? (Be sure to see Iron Man, the Edward Norton Incredible

Comments

[palenoue]

The Pirates! Band of Misfits. A silly pirate movie by Aardman Animations.

[alverant]

I liked that movie and will probably get it. It's too bad they had to change the name but since the original name included the word "Darwin" it would have generated contraversy and kept a few people from seeing it.

[r_caton]

£14 DVD at the moment in supermarkets.

It will get cheaper.

I'd like to see MiB3 as well.....

Marvel comix? nah, not really. Thor was OK but I have no desire to angst alonga Spiderman.

[hms42]

I have not seen it. I stopped going to movies years ago when the price became just too high. (I do purchase the DVDs, though and get around to watching them, eventually...) Too many audio projects to work on.

[marsdejahthoris]

I disagree, Tom. Of the movies you mentioned, I've only seen Iron Man and Captain America. I WILL NOT watch Thor or IM2 (nothing against those movies, but I know enough to know that they'll hammer on my very idiosyncratic triggers.) And I loved Avengers. My mother, who only saw Iron Man, loved Avengers. These other movies may enhance the experience, but it is perfectly possible to go in without any of them and still be blown away.

Avengers...

[elvnsword]

I just wish, given the close release date to Talk Like a Pirate Day... That they had included a pirate track, all the lines delivered by the cast and crew done in Arr...

Especially Nick Cage... The eye patch pulls it together brilliantly..

[starcat_jewel]

FWIW, I did not bother with any of the lead-up movies, and I still thought The Avengers was great. So it's really not necessary to have watched all that other stuff first.

(Why didn't I bother? I've never been much of a fan of any of them in the comics; I saw about 15 minutes of the first Iron Man movie and spent all of them wanting to smack Tony Stark upside the head, which does not fill me with confidence about enjoying the rest of it or the second one; the Thor trailers gave me the impression that they were playing him for laughs, which is SO not my thing; Captain America is about a period of American history that makes me twitchy, especially in juxtaposition with the past decade.)

The Avengers stands on its own perfectly well; we'll be picking up the DVD version and hoping for some fun deleted scenes, and a blooper reel if we're lucky.

[90scartoonman]

Valid reasons for avoiding those movies (and after Avengers, you're either going to want more Tony Stark or you won't), but Thor isn't a joke. There are lots of laughs, but they give respect to the character and his world.