The Avengers/Marvel movies

Agreed. Norton was phenomenal

It's really a shame that money or whatever prevented him from being in these movies. Every time I see Mark Ruffalo rub his hands together and clench his teeth to emote I just wonder how much better it would be with Ed Norton.
 
Sticking favorite 5 only, I'd probably go:

1. Winter Soldier
2. Thor
3. First Avenger
4. Dark World
5. Guardians of the Galaxy

Won't see Ultron until Saturday, though (and then again on Sunday).

Of the Marvel trio last year, Winter Soldier was the best.

As for The First Avenger, I think it's very close to perfect. The absolute best thing, Hayley Atwell aside, is how firmly Steve Rogers is established; and that sets the tone not only for the rest of The First Avenger but also for Winter Soldier and Avengers. For my money, however, what kept it from being absolutely perfect are two clumsy montages: first to divide Cap's early action from his climactic battle with the Red Skull; and second, not so much a montage, but the connecting scene that takes us to current day. Somewhere in the first one, Bucky gets unceremoniously lost, and the second was just awkward. To be fair, I haven't re-watched it since its theatrical release, but I recall those being my impressions at the time.

And as for Hulk, while I thought neither Hulk nor Incredible Hulk were very good, I like Bana Banner better than either of the subsequent Banners. And, nobody, nobody is Hulk better than Ang Lee himself. I say that half-jokingly, because of how Ang Lee, explaining why he personally acted as Hulk for motion capture, proclaimed something akin to,"Nobody knows how Hulk moves but me." However, watching that Hulk in action is really the Hulk that I enjoy best, so, at least in my case, Ang Lee was right.
 
Whedon On Why Loki was Cut from "Avengers: Age of Ultron"

"We did shoot something, but it didn't play," he explained. "The movie has so much. It’s so filled. We didn't want it to feel overstuffed. I really wanted to have Loki in it, but I understood the decision that there were now too many voices in the chorus."

"At some point the embarrassment of riches is actually embarrassing," he shared a laugh.

Oh, man, the wife is gonna be PISSED.
 
Saw AoU at 9:30 am today in IMAX 3D. It was great. Not sure where to rank it yet. 3D was weird in that I didn't notice it so either that's really good or a waste of money, right?
 
As someone who, several days ago, watched EVERY Marvel movie at the El Cap...I'd just like to say that The Incredible Hulk is HIGHLY underrated as a movie and Ed Norton is infinitely better as Bruce Banner than Mark Ruffalo.

Also, the first Captain America movie was very underwhelming to me. I say this having seen it like four times just trying to like it more than I did. It's not bad, it's just there. Existing. Setting things up.

Agreed. Norton was phenomenal


Man, if they had gone Grey Hulk with Tim Blake Nelson as the Leader...woulda been awesome. Norton IS better, and I love love love Tim Roth...but what they did to the Abomination...well, that was an abomination.

Guardians is the best MARVEL flick, but we were talking Avengers. And yeah, sorry Adge, but Avengers is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO predictable and just kinda by the numbers that once was more than enough. IN MY OPINION. See, Cap 1 must've been good. mmmcammy, who is a Cap fan, LOVED it. And Me, not the biggest Cap fan...LOVED it. mmmcammy for the block...
 
Saw AoU at 9:30 am today in IMAX 3D. It was great. Not sure where to rank it yet. 3D was weird in that I didn't notice it so either that's really good or a waste of money, right?

I didn't notice the 3D either. I don't know that people to see it that way.
 
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Sticking favorite 5 only, I'd probably go:

1. Winter Soldier
2. Thor
3. First Avenger
4. Dark World
5. Guardians of the Galaxy

Won't see Ultron until Saturday, though (and then again on Sunday).

Of the Marvel trio last year, Winter Soldier was the best.

As for The First Avenger, I think it's very close to perfect. The absolute best thing, Hayley Atwell aside, is how firmly Steve Rogers is established; and that sets the tone not only for the rest of The First Avenger but also for Winter Soldier and Avengers. For my money, however, what kept it from being absolutely perfect are two clumsy montages: first to divide Cap's early action from his climactic battle with the Red Skull; and second, not so much a montage, but the connecting scene that takes us to current day. Somewhere in the first one, Bucky gets unceremoniously lost, and the second was just awkward. To be fair, I haven't re-watched it since its theatrical release, but I recall those being my impressions at the time.

And as for Hulk, while I thought neither Hulk nor Incredible Hulk were very good, I like Bana Banner better than either of the subsequent Banners. And, nobody, nobody is Hulk better than Ang Lee himself. I say that half-jokingly, because of how Ang Lee, explaining why he personally acted as Hulk for motion capture, proclaimed something akin to,"Nobody knows how Hulk moves but me." However, watching that Hulk in action is really the Hulk that I enjoy best, so, at least in my case, Ang Lee was right.

I kinda dug the Ang Lee flick too. The Nolte Absorbing man stuff got way too MANITOU but, up till then it was pretty deep. And Sam Elliot/Thunderbolt Ross > John Hurt.
 
I kinda dug the Ang Lee flick too. The Nolte Absorbing man stuff got way too MANITOU but, up till then it was pretty deep. And Sam Elliot/Thunderbolt Ross > John Hurt.

A giant cloud is usually a poor supervillain. I'm looking at you, Galactus.
 
Saw it last night. It was good, but not great. I don't think I'm spoiling anything when I say that I never really felt the team was in danger nor the earth or civilians. I'm kind of tired of seeing the iron bots. Though, it was limited this time around. Didn't buy the twins accents either.

For those that had a problem with MOS regarding the amount of collateral damage, should be happy that there was no collateral damage other than buildings falling down with no civilian casualties. F'ing lame.
 
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Saw it last night. It was good, but not great. I don't think I'm spoiling anything when I say that I never really felt the team was in danger nor the earth or civilians. I'm kind of tired of seeing the iron bots. Though, it was limited this time around. Didn't buy the twins accents either.

For those that had a problem with MOS regarding the amount of collateral damage, should be happy that there was no collateral damage other than buildings falling down with no civilian casualties. F'ing lame.

I think we all realized the team would never be in danger when they released Marvel's movie schedule for the next 5 years!!
 
Just got back from Age of Ultron and loved it. Wrangling this thing was a Herculean feat by Joss Whedon. Most of our party preferred the previous movie. I actually liked this one much, much more.
 
I totally wasn't expecting to, but I ****ing loved AoU. It's not a perfect movie by any means, but damn, it was fun. I'm seeing it again today, but I'm pretty positive I liked it more than the first Avengers movie.
 
I totally wasn't expecting to, but I ****ing loved AoU. It's not a perfect movie by any means, but damn, it was fun. I'm seeing it again today, but I'm pretty positive I liked it more than the first Avengers movie.

Gonna try to see it today...despite not really wanting to. This review actually helps me to think it may not be a couple wasted hours. Thanks.
 
Saw it yesterday. It totally french fried when it shoulda french fried and pizzad when it shoulda pizzad.
 
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