In news unrelated to puppies, I keep meaning to do a big round-up post with my thoughts on TV lately (GOT, Community, The Office, P&R...) and being too lazy to do so. I may never get to it, so if you want to know my thoughts on any of those for whatever reason go ahead and ask.
I did see The Avengers last night in an attempt to stay hip and with it, so
I saw almost all of the lead-up movies (except Captain America) though I have fuzzy-at-best memories of most of them, since in most cases it was years ago, when they first came out. So I had my friend give me the run-down on him while we waited in line. TBH I don't feel I lost anything for not having seen his movie so lol w/e.
I thought the first ...half hour? 45 minutes? not sure... was pretty slow. I was sitting there kind of waiting for things to get started and grumpily thinking THIS ISN'T SO GREAT WHAT IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT UGH DID EVERYONE RUIN IT WITH THEIR RIDICULOUSLY POSITIVE REVIEWS? But eventually things got more interesting, I guess once the team had ~assembled on the Valiant and started picking fights with each other. And then ofc there was the patented Hollywood 2-hour climax.
In the end I did really like the film, or at least the second half of it, which let me leave the theatre thinking GOSH THAT WAS GREAT. I'm a bit of a Joss Whedon hipster in that the less I hear people sing his praises from the mountaintops the better for everyone, but to his credit I guess I did enjoy most of this film. The lines were funny without, for the most part, feeling over-stylized (which is one of my main beefs with Whedon).
I thought the plot was kind of dumb, and having never (to my knowledge) seen/interacted with/etc the Tesseract before it was like "...okay..." but it's a superhero movie so dumb plots go without saying. I am also unclear as to where Loki made all his crazy alien friends, but LBR no one really cares, do they? THEY JUST WANT SUPERPOWERS AND SHIT EXPLODING.
I don't have a stand-out favourite of the movies I saw leading up to this, but in this movie at least Tony Stark was definitely the stand-out favourite, followed probably by Thor because Thor is hilarious.
Black Widow... I feel obligated to like Black Widow because she fulfills the Smurfette Principle and is the only major woman in the damn movie, but I was sort of lukewarm on her. I don't dislike her really, I'm just lukewarm on ScarJo like ... 90% of the time... so that didn't help. I wish she had a talent that made her more distinctive as well, it feels like all the guys do (if you count IS PATRIOTIC I GUESS? as Captain America's, anyway). The other woman is Robin Scherbatsky, and I am unclear what her character's name was but the fact that it was Cobie Smulders imbued her with some sympathy and interest from me.
Hawkeye lol I literally could not care less. Katniss w/e
The Hulk, I spent the entire movie thinking "I wish you were Edward Norton" because I really like Edward Norton and I would've been at least five times more interested in Hulk's Hulking if it was actually him. I'm out of the comic world loop though so at least this movie answered my question of "how is the Hulk even a superhero I mean really". Mark Ruffalo did fine I guess but I would've much rather had Edward Norton. (Or David Tennant?? LOLLLLLLL. Citation needed badly but LOLLLLLLLL.) Either way Hulk did get one of the best scenes, which is where Loki starts to dramatic speech about how he is a DEMIGOD!! and then Hulk just grabs him and flails him around like a rag doll. My audience applauded.
I think Tay would kill me if I went a whole post without mentioning Pepper Potts so I will add that it was nice to see Tony/Pepper being fun and snarky. The scene where he tries to call her before his probable death reminded me of like 3 different fics I've written, lol.
THIS POST IS NOT VERY INTERESTING OR WELL THOUGHT OUT. Cut me some slack okay I woke up at 5 this morning after 3 hours of sleep and spent like nine hours in a car today. I am writing this post largely to keep myself occupied before it becomes a semi-respectable time to go to bed.
I did see The Avengers last night in an attempt to stay hip and with it, so
I saw almost all of the lead-up movies (except Captain America) though I have fuzzy-at-best memories of most of them, since in most cases it was years ago, when they first came out. So I had my friend give me the run-down on him while we waited in line. TBH I don't feel I lost anything for not having seen his movie so lol w/e.
I thought the first ...half hour? 45 minutes? not sure... was pretty slow. I was sitting there kind of waiting for things to get started and grumpily thinking THIS ISN'T SO GREAT WHAT IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT UGH DID EVERYONE RUIN IT WITH THEIR RIDICULOUSLY POSITIVE REVIEWS? But eventually things got more interesting, I guess once the team had ~assembled on the Valiant and started picking fights with each other. And then ofc there was the patented Hollywood 2-hour climax.
In the end I did really like the film, or at least the second half of it, which let me leave the theatre thinking GOSH THAT WAS GREAT. I'm a bit of a Joss Whedon hipster in that the less I hear people sing his praises from the mountaintops the better for everyone, but to his credit I guess I did enjoy most of this film. The lines were funny without, for the most part, feeling over-stylized (which is one of my main beefs with Whedon).
I thought the plot was kind of dumb, and having never (to my knowledge) seen/interacted with/etc the Tesseract before it was like "...okay..." but it's a superhero movie so dumb plots go without saying. I am also unclear as to where Loki made all his crazy alien friends, but LBR no one really cares, do they? THEY JUST WANT SUPERPOWERS AND SHIT EXPLODING.
I don't have a stand-out favourite of the movies I saw leading up to this, but in this movie at least Tony Stark was definitely the stand-out favourite, followed probably by Thor because Thor is hilarious.
Black Widow... I feel obligated to like Black Widow because she fulfills the Smurfette Principle and is the only major woman in the damn movie, but I was sort of lukewarm on her. I don't dislike her really, I'm just lukewarm on ScarJo like ... 90% of the time... so that didn't help. I wish she had a talent that made her more distinctive as well, it feels like all the guys do (if you count IS PATRIOTIC I GUESS? as Captain America's, anyway). The other woman is Robin Scherbatsky, and I am unclear what her character's name was but the fact that it was Cobie Smulders imbued her with some sympathy and interest from me.
Hawkeye lol I literally could not care less. Katniss w/e
The Hulk, I spent the entire movie thinking "I wish you were Edward Norton" because I really like Edward Norton and I would've been at least five times more interested in Hulk's Hulking if it was actually him. I'm out of the comic world loop though so at least this movie answered my question of "how is the Hulk even a superhero I mean really". Mark Ruffalo did fine I guess but I would've much rather had Edward Norton. (Or David Tennant?? LOLLLLLLL. Citation needed badly but LOLLLLLLLL.) Either way Hulk did get one of the best scenes, which is where Loki starts to dramatic speech about how he is a DEMIGOD!! and then Hulk just grabs him and flails him around like a rag doll. My audience applauded.
I think Tay would kill me if I went a whole post without mentioning Pepper Potts so I will add that it was nice to see Tony/Pepper being fun and snarky. The scene where he tries to call her before his probable death reminded me of like 3 different fics I've written, lol.
THIS POST IS NOT VERY INTERESTING OR WELL THOUGHT OUT. Cut me some slack okay I woke up at 5 this morning after 3 hours of sleep and spent like nine hours in a car today. I am writing this post largely to keep myself occupied before it becomes a semi-respectable time to go to bed.
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