MOVIES

[individualzero]

Avengers was indeed incredible! I loved it.

P.S. if you haven't seen it yet, stay for the credits as per usual.

[TPD]

mid-credits... and end credits.

two added scenes in there.


and yes. holy fuck. every comicbook fan boi's wet dream. whedon owns. he did it. he made the unmakeable. i was in constant awe.
every character had time devoted to them. every character experienced some growth.

this wasn't an iron-man sequel, or a thor sequel, or a cap sequel, or a hulk sequel. this was an avengers movie. it tied everything together. everything.

utter and complete awe. he managed to tie in stuff that adapted the basic beats of the comics without isolating non-comicbook fans.
he adapted it proper.

this made up for the anticapointment of watchmen, and shitfests of the fantastic four movies, x3, and spidey 3.

give whedon the keys to the castle because he fucking knows what he's doing.

holy fucking shit. gotta see it again and again and again.

[TPD]

and boy did it have some lolz.

amazing action. genuine thrilling edge of your seat moments. lots of omg wtf.

oh god. i fucking love this movie and can't stop talking about it.

[doom]

seeing it for the third time next week.
i can't get enough of it.

yeah, i really like how every character was balanced, and no one was really favored over the other,
and it had its "comic book dialogue" in there with the amazing action.

i LITERALLY had a big smile on my face in parts it was so good.

i think we may have to be grateful that this was the first one under Disney,
im sure the budget was unlimited.


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found this relevant to make:

[TPD]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111

and yea. even the little stuff that was just like the comics like.

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loki being the reason they assemble.
loki using hulk against them.
black widow's backstory mentioning that hawkeye helped her reform.
motherfuckin thanos!
so much attention to detail
omg


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[TPD]

MEWLING QUIM

[individualzero]

I gotta admit, I wasn't expecting Banner's actor to be quite so spot-on. Ruffalo was AWESOME as Bruce Banner, as were all the respective actors as each of the Avengers.

[Static]

I still prefer Norton

[TPD]

Norton was great... but he can't play nice with others. Ruffalo did a fine job though.

[Static]

Norton was great... but he can't play nice with others. Ruffalo did a fine job though.

It was my understanding that was a slur from the studio upon Norton after the financial negotiations fell through and they decided to about-turn on his invitation to join the ensemble cast.   He's well known for being strongly opinionated, but he would never have been extended the invitation in the first place if he truly couldn't play well with others.

[Static]

The Raid: Redemption is quite possibly the best Asian action movie I have seen in a very, very long time, so far I've been to see it 4 times and I'm still in awe at just how well executed it was, it's not very often a movie of this calibur just falls out of nowhere, not to mention how I've never heard of Iko Uwais or Yuyan Ruhian before considering not only their excellence in martial arts, but also their skill in coreography - those fights in the hallway had a lot of weight and gravity.

[luna]

saw Prometheus last night (B wanted to go)...it was good but not great

I was going to write a bunch of other stuff but I can't figure out how to do spoiler tags...if anyone wants to hear it tell me how 

[doom]

I thought Prometheus was awesome, personally

[luna]

here's my condensed hopefully non spoilerish commentary:

it was good but I just felt like Ridley Scott spent the entire time like "hey did you see this other series of movies I made? remember that scene? well here's one reminiscent of it"...and that scene right at the end was pretty

the 3D was very well done, like instead of making me feel like I was going to puke I didn't really even notice it

[luna]

oh and I was going to complain about how expensive it is to go to a 3D movie now ($35 for two tickets) but awesome thing is I got double charged somehow and ended up paying $70...now I need to dispute one of the charges