HighwayJoe
Posts: 96
Joined: 3/2/2009 From: Largo, MD
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No surprise, of course. In a way, these movies have pretty much become live-action comic books, haven't they? You have all of these over-arching storylines spread throughout the end-credits and even actual plots of the movies preceding 'The Avengers' [and I gotta tell you, I prefer 'Avengers Assemble' to what we've got in the States, the needles 'Marvel's The Avengers']--it's a massive story-arc, similar to "Civil War" in Marvel or "Days of Future Past" in the X-titles. I think this is one of the few times were the line, "Nah, you don't really need to watch the others" does not apply. It's a whole new trend, and a whole new way to make and interact with movies. it really -is- an experience, and an event. So, one figures, "sequel" will be the word until the whole sprawling, multi-part, multi-franchise epic reaches some sort of logical end--whether it be an end to the story... or the box office death of the franchise. And that will take years.
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