The Avengers Movie sans spoilers

[Flightpath07]

Watched it tonigth with my daughter. She saw it once already, but this one was different for her because it was in 3D. She admitted after that 2D was better, and I have to say that I found the 3D imaging a bit distracting during fight sequences.

As for the movie:

It was a good movie. I won't go so far as to say great. It was definitely better than both the Thor and Cap (shudder) movies. I enjoyd it, and as a bonus it even made me laugh a few times. Mind you, coming from Joss Whedon, i shouldn't be surprised.

Was it the best movie I have ever seen? Hardly! But, for what it was, it was entertaining. I thought the Hawkeye character really blew, that was a major disappointment. There were also a few slip-ups, like Hawkeye running out of arrows and then next time you see him his quiver is full again, that sort of thing. There was also a line delivered to Dr Banner about him being the only good authority on gamma radiation that i found annoying, as off the top of my head don't both Dr Langkowski and Doc Samson know quite a bit about that subject as well?

Anyhoo. It was better than i expected it to be. Still wouldn't call i great, just 'pretty solid.' After seeing X-Men First Class, everything superhero-y will be judged according to that great movie, and Avengers was definitely a step or two below that.

[Jason Eberly]

There was also a line delivered to Dr Banner about him being the only good authority on gamma radiation that i found annoying, as off the top of my head don't both Dr Langkowski and Doc Samson know quite a bit about that subject as well?

Going off of memory, in The Incredible Hulk movie, Leonard Samson was only a psychiatrist and didn't have any knowledge of Gamma radiation (and truth be told, even in the comics he's not that brilliant about Gamma Radiation) and at this point Walt doesn't exist in the Marvel Movieverse.

[Le Messor]

Going off of memory, in The Incredible Hulk movie, Leonard Samson was only a psychiatrist and didn't have any knowledge of Gamma radiation (and truth be told, even in the comics he's not that brilliant about Gamma Radiation) and at this point Walt doesn't exist in the Marvel Movieverse.

In the Edward Norton movie, he was a name on a bit of paper in the opening credits. The psychiatrist you refer to was never named in the movie proper (though I think he was credited that way in the closing credits?)... and him being Samson kind of contradicts those opening credits (which lists Leonard Samson under 'known associates' (of Bruce Banner), which the psychiatrist clearly isn't).

So, it's even more confusing than it looks.

The Avengers movie never seemed to acknowledge the larger Marvel Universe, which was one disappointment I had with it.

- Le Messor
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