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Finally got a chance to see this today. I have to agree with the overall sentiment that this was a complete triumph, a brilliant piece of blockbuster entertainment. The only issue I would have with it is the running time, the relatively inconsequential ending and the over use of CGI but apart from that a film worthy of all the hype and build up, Thor is still the best character and hopefully will make an awesome sequel.

4/5

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ORIGINAL: adambatman82

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Thought it was alright. Nowhere near as good as everyone is making out, but still enjoyable.

Yeah - I mostly agree. It was good but had a few noticeable flaws. The review was right - Loki's army were disappointing and I reckon that using Frost Giants instead might have been a better step because they could piggyback off the attachment made in Thor. Instead, these were just throwaway and forgettable.

They weren't "throwaway" though, the reviewer was wrong about that - they are the Chitauri, who are the Ultimate Marvel Universe Skrulls*. They're pretty much the Marvel Universe's biggest Alien race, and hugely important within Avengers-lore. Their appearance will come in to its own with time.


*The name Skrulls is owned by Fox as part of their Fantastic 4 agreement.

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ORIGINAL: attakdog

Huge fan of comics and comic book movies, but must confess to not being hugely bowled over by this, might change on a second viewing though.

Some minor gripes:

- Felt it was a little too long and dragged badly in places
- Few too many belly laughs for my liking, which people felt the need to loudly guffaw at for ages afterwards
- Sam Jackson dialled his performance in
- The throwaway army were utterly hopeless. I consider myself somewhat of a walking marvel encyclopedia and I've never heard of these "chikaree"(sp?). Possibly they're fairly new? Either way I never felt like they were any threat whatsoever to the avengers, just riding round on their flying mopeds. If I was made aware who was actually behind their attack (instead of saving it for a post credits scene) I might have felt a bit more danger.
- The giant mechanical dragons were a waste of time. Seeing them on the trailer, thought they would be a mechanical Fin Fan Foom wrecking machine, but no. Instead they were a glorified troop carrier who spent all their screen time meandering round the city brushing against buildings, offering no threat whatsoever (one suplex from the hulk and they're out for the count!) They didn't even breathe fire FFS!
- Would have loved to have seen more of the Hulk, he ws the real standout in this. I'd already seen 90% of his scenes in the trailer. Hope Marvel try the Hulk on his own again with Ruffallo in the role as he was excellent.

Sounds like I really disliked it, which I didn't, just for me a solid three star film and not quite as good as some people are making it out to be.

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ORIGINAL: attakdog

Huge fan of comics and comic book movies, but must confess to not being hugely bowled over by this, might change on a second viewing though.

Some minor gripes:

- Felt it was a little too long and dragged badly in places
- Few too many belly laughs for my liking, which people felt the need to loudly guffaw at for ages afterwards
- Sam Jackson dialled his performance in
- The throwaway army were utterly hopeless. I consider myself somewhat of a walking marvel encyclopedia and I've never heard of these "chikaree"(sp?). Possibly they're fairly new? Either way I never felt like they were any threat whatsoever to the avengers, just riding round on their flying mopeds. If I was made aware who was actually behind their attack (instead of saving it for a post credits scene) I might have felt a bit more danger.
- The giant mechanical dragons were a waste of time. Seeing them on the trailer, thought they would be a mechanical Fin Fan Foom wrecking machine, but no. Instead they were a glorified troop carrier who spent all their screen time meandering round the city brushing against buildings, offering no threat whatsoever (one suplex from the hulk and they're out for the count!) They didn't even breathe fire FFS!
- Would have loved to have seen more of the Hulk, he ws the real standout in this. I'd already seen 90% of his scenes in the trailer. Hope Marvel try the Hulk on his own again with Ruffallo in the role as he was excellent.

Sounds like I really disliked it, which I didn't, just for me a solid three star film and not quite as good as some people are making it out to be.

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ORIGINAL: Harley Quinn

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ORIGINAL: attakdog

Huge fan of comics and comic book movies, but must confess to not being hugely bowled over by this, might change on a second viewing though.

Some minor gripes:

- Felt it was a little too long and dragged badly in places
- Few too many belly laughs for my liking, which people felt the need to loudly guffaw at for ages afterwards
- Sam Jackson dialled his performance in
- The throwaway army were utterly hopeless. I consider myself somewhat of a walking marvel encyclopedia and I've never heard of these "chikaree"(sp?). Possibly they're fairly new? Either way I never felt like they were any threat whatsoever to the avengers, just riding round on their flying mopeds. If I was made aware who was actually behind their attack (instead of saving it for a post credits scene) I might have felt a bit more danger.
- The giant mechanical dragons were a waste of time. Seeing them on the trailer, thought they would be a mechanical Fin Fan Foom wrecking machine, but no. Instead they were a glorified troop carrier who spent all their screen time meandering round the city brushing against buildings, offering no threat whatsoever (one suplex from the hulk and they're out for the count!) They didn't even breathe fire FFS!
- Would have loved to have seen more of the Hulk, he ws the real standout in this. I'd already seen 90% of his scenes in the trailer. Hope Marvel try the Hulk on his own again with Ruffallo in the role as he was excellent.

Sounds like I really disliked it, which I didn't, just for me a solid three star film and not quite as good as some people are making it out to be.

Sorry that's a complaint?

I saw it yesterday and loved it. The screening I was in had people cheering and clapping which I haven't seen in a long time at the cinema.

I don't think I've got a single gripe about the film.

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Thought it was alright. Nowhere near as good as everyone is making out, but still enjoyable.

Yeah - I mostly agree. It was good but had a few noticeable flaws. The review was right - Loki's army were disappointing and I reckon that using Frost Giants instead might have been a better step because they could piggyback off the attachment made in Thor. Instead, these were just throwaway and forgettable.

They weren't "throwaway" though, the reviewer was wrong about that - they are the Chitauri, who are the Ultimate Marvel Universe Skrulls*. They're pretty much the Marvel Universe's biggest Alien race, and hugely important within Avengers-lore. Their appearance will come in to its own with time.


*The name Skrulls is owned by Fox as part of their Fantastic 4 agreement.

Be that as it may, I think that the characters in any film (and I very much enjoyed the Avengers), should stand up on their own without a thorough grounding in the source material.

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The Avengers
Let me just drop it right away: what is all the fuss about?? For me this was a let-down of the highest order.
I found, especially in the first part, the story to be a mess. Can`t really put my finger on what it really was but it just didn`t feel structured and well written.
The new characters (or those who had a bigger role in this one then in earlier films) were completely uninteresting (Black Widow and Hawkeye) and with the others it just feel like they all did it on auto-pilot and they couldn`t really care about it all. The only one that was cool was Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk.
A superhero film of course needs to have a good bad guy. And if The Avengers is lacking one thing, it`s a decent bad guy. Loki was redicoulous and not bad guy-bad, or you need to be talking about Tom Hiddleston acting performance: with this he undoubtly wins the Overacting Award 2012. He doesn`t give us a bad guy but a charicature of a bad guy...
Another thing that got me on my nerves were the tilted camera angles and, again especially in the first part, messy editing.
The film was also way too long with a 141 minutes running time.
I`m a fan of the superhero genre but this was a real failure in my book...

5,5/10

That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne.


TREK WARS

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The Avengers
Let me just drop it right away: what is all the fuss about?? For me this was a let-down of the highest order.
I found, especially in the first part, the story to be a mess. Can`t really put my finger on what it really was but it just didn`t feel structured and well written.
The new characters (or those who had a bigger role in this one then in earlier films) were completely uninteresting (Black Widow and Hawkeye) and with the others it just feel like they all did it on auto-pilot and they couldn`t really care about it all. The only one that was cool was Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk.
A superhero film of course needs to have a good bad guy. And if The Avengers is lacking one thing, it`s a decent bad guy. Loki was redicoulous and not bad guy-bad, or you need to be talking about Tom Hiddleston acting performance: with this he undoubtly wins the Overacting Award 2012. He doesn`t give us a bad guy but a charicature of a bad guy...
Another thing that got me on my nerves were the tilted camera angles and, again especially in the first part, messy editing.
The film was also way too long with a 141 minutes running time.
I`m a fan of the superhero genre but this was a real failure in my book...

5,5/10

While I don't think I'd go this low in my damning of the film, I had similar issues with it. I'd disagree with your condemnation of Black Widow and Hawkeye - I'd actually like to see a film exploring their past, tbh. But otherwise, your complaints are the same as mine: I'd just say that the positives were there as well.

One thing that bugged me about Hulk was:

First Hulk-out: UNCONTROLLABLE RAGE. HULK V BLACK WIDOW. AAAAAARGH THE CRAZY MASSIVE STAR DESTROYER-A-LIKE SHIP WILL CRASH BECAUSE OF THE HULK.

A short time later...

"Oh yeah, I can totes control my anger cos I'm always angry. Let's go and be awesome and smash shit up." (Including a side-punch to Thor, in the funniest moment of the film.)

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One thing that bugged me about Hulk was:

First Hulk-out: UNCONTROLLABLE RAGE. HULK V BLACK WIDOW. AAAAAARGH THE CRAZY MASSIVE STAR DESTROYER-A-LIKE SHIP WILL CRASH BECAUSE OF THE HULK.

A short time later...

"Oh yeah, I can totes control my anger cos I'm always angry. Let's go and be awesome and smash shit up." (Including a side-punch to Thor, in the funniest moment of the film.)

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ORIGINAL: Cool Breeze
Oh and .... SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SEEN IT YET.....was that Thanos in the post credits scene?

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I also found it odd that they took the time to show what happened to Thors love Jane Foster, but not even show Cap asking what happened to Peggy Carter and if she was even still around? surely it would have been the one of the first questions he had on waking up in the present day?