How many people are going to see the Avengers again this weekend? Its the only good film out this weekend.

At 5/11/12 01:17 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: How many people are going to see the Avengers again this weekend? Its the only good film out this weekend.

I haven't actually seen it once yet. But I will be next week on my lonesome and frankly I couldn't be more excited about that.

At 5/11/12 01:17 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: How many people are going to see the Avengers again this weekend? Its the only good film out this weekend.

I'm going to see it again on Saturday.

At 5/11/12 01:17 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: How many people are going to see the Avengers again this weekend? Its the only good film out this weekend.

Haven't checked what else was out this weekend. But I do really wanna see it again.

At 5/11/12 01:17 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: How many people are going to see the Avengers again this weekend? Its the only good film out this weekend.

I'm going tomorrow with a few friends. It'll be my third viewing and their second.

Avengers all the way. It gets better the more you watch it.

At 5/11/12 04:57 PM, TurkeyBased wrote: Torrented a few hours ago. Finished watching.

Boring. Cliche. Nothing special.

finally somebody with some sense

this isn't even close to being the best film of the year either, it's already been blown out of the water by at least 2

At 5/11/12 06:18 PM, JaY11 wrote: finally somebody with some sense

this isn't even close to being the best film of the year either, it's already been blown out of the water by at least 2

What are these two films you speak of? I don't think this will be the best film of the year, but I definitely think it's the best so far.

At 5/11/12 07:32 PM, Oolaph wrote:

At 5/11/12 06:18 PM, JaY11 wrote: finally somebody with some sense

this isn't even close to being the best film of the year either, it's already been blown out of the water by at least 2

What are these two films you speak of? I don't think this will be the best film of the year, but I definitely think it's the best so far.

21 Jump Street and The Cabin in The Woods

coincidentally these movies both parody the extremely formulaic films that are in their genres, films like The Avengers for example

At 5/11/12 08:14 PM, JaY11 wrote:

21 Jump Street and The Cabin in The Woods

coincidentally these movies both parody the extremely formulaic films that are in their genres, films like The Avengers for example

Making a parody is not a new thing. It's easy to say something exists and it's bad. For example see the last few years of family guy, or my joke back there about the last few years of family guy.
As for the formulas in The Avengers. I don't know what you wanted other than a tem of super heroes killing an afternoon doing their laundry. They're gonna fight a bad guy, they're super heroes. And of course they're going to clash. Show me one movie about an ensemble cast that all get along the whole time. There is still such a thing as doing these well, and The Avengers did all of that very well.

"Thats it! I will not stand for this! I am a god and I will not be bullied by....!"

At 5/11/12 08:38 PM, stafffighter wrote:

At 5/11/12 08:14 PM, JaY11 wrote:

21 Jump Street and The Cabin in The Woods

coincidentally these movies both parody the extremely formulaic films that are in their genres, films like The Avengers for example

Making a parody is not a new thing. It's easy to say something exists and it's bad. For example see the last few years of family guy, or my joke back there about the last few years of family guy.

These films were still highly original, they aren't at all to be compared with shitty parody films like Scary Movie for example, or Family Guy, in other words they didn't rely totally on blatantly poking fun at specific movies, they were more subtle and aimed at the genres as a whole.

The Avengers wasn't terrible, but it wasn't fantastic. It was somewhere between mediocre and good. Pointing out that all other super hero movies use the same formula doesn't make it not a flaw, it's probably why most super hero movies aren't completely spectacular.. Personally i'd say The Dark Knight was an exception, and that was because it did actually try something a bit new.

At 5/11/12 09:53 PM, RacistBassist wrote:

"I liked these movies of the genre so don't compare it to other movies in the genre"

"I only read the first half of posts"

I suppose it would be fair to compare Scary Movie to Jacob's Ladder then, as they both share horror genre elements, and if I don't think they should be compared then it's because I like one and not the other.

At 5/11/12 09:46 PM, JaY11 wrote:

These films were still highly original, they aren't at all to be compared with shitty parody films like Scary Movie for example, or Family Guy, in other words they didn't rely totally on blatantly poking fun at specific movies, they were more subtle and aimed at the genres as a whole.

21 jump street is a parody, of 21 jump street. Before my time too, never saw it. People say it was good. But it's a comedy so it's allowed to be a comedy. I don't take that away from it.
And cabin in the woods, reality tv is bad, mmkay? Even Stone Cold Steve Austin has a movie about that.
I'm not saying that to shit on either film. My whole argument is that predictable story structure can still be done well.

The Avengers wasn't terrible, but it wasn't fantastic. It was somewhere between mediocre and good. Pointing out that all other super hero movies use the same formula doesn't make it not a flaw, it's probably why most super hero movies aren't completely spectacular.. Personally i'd say The Dark Knight was an exception, and that was because it did actually try something a bit new.

The hero faces heightened stakes and goes through a loss. The internal struggle is is personified on both large and small scale. Epiphany and redemption. It's Return of the Jedi.
Now ask me if it's Return of the Jedi while holding your attention and making you care about the characters.

At 5/11/12 10:24 PM, stafffighter wrote:

21 jump street is a parody, of 21 jump street. Before my time too, never saw it. People say it was good. But it's a comedy so it's allowed to be a comedy. I don't take that away from it.
And cabin in the woods, reality tv is bad, mmkay? Even Stone Cold Steve Austin has a movie about that.

Cabin in the woods is more of a parody of horror films in general, the 'reality TV show' side of it was just another theme the film had going on at the same time.

I'm not saying that to shit on either film. My whole argument is that predictable story structure can still be done well.

I don't think that a predictable story structure automatically makes a film bad, it's just that it works against a film like The Avengers, because it doesn't really have much else going for it.

The hero faces heightened stakes and goes through a loss. The internal struggle is is personified on both large and small scale. Epiphany and redemption. It's Return of the Jedi.
Now ask me if it's Return of the Jedi while holding your attention and making you care about the characters.

it might just be me being tired but i'm not sure what point you're trying to make here

At 5/11/12 10:47 PM, JaY11 wrote:

The hero faces heightened stakes and goes through a loss. The internal struggle is is personified on both large and small scale. Epiphany and redemption. It's Return of the Jedi.
Now ask me if it's Return of the Jedi while holding your attention and making you care about the characters.

it might just be me being tired but i'm not sure what point you're trying to make here

The point I'm making is that Dark Knight Returns, a movie I love for its performances, setting, nuiance and everything, can be reduced story wise to the same bones as Return of the Jedi.

I think The Avengers will be number one at the box office again.

At 5/13/12 01:06 AM, Austerity wrote: $832.4 million total gross so far and counting

Keep going Avengers. Your worth all that money and more.

At 5/13/12 01:06 AM, Austerity wrote: $832.4 million total gross so far and counting

It's not even the end of the weekend yet lol.

The Avengers will break all the records for earning money.

I saw the movie today. It has got to be one of the best superhero movies I've seen in a long time. Plus the IMAX 3D was the icing on the cake.

At 5/2/12 03:52 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: The Avengers movie comes out this Friday on 5/4/2012.
I'm going to see it. Anybody else?

Seen it twice. I thought they put it together pretty nicely.

It's a okay movie... couldn't really sit still through after 60 minutes ...was expecting some more action.

The Avengers is the best Super hero movie ever made.

At 5/13/12 02:51 PM, RacistBassist wrote:

At 5/11/12 10:20 PM, JaY11 wrote: I suppose it would be fair to compare Scary Movie to Jacob's Ladder then, as they both share horror genre elements, and if I don't think they should be compared then it's because I like one and not the other.

Jacob's Ladder was a satirical film parodying a genre overtly?

i'm saying the films are incomparable, despite sharing vague genre similarities, for more reasons than that I like one more than the other

i'd really like somebody to point out what made this film anything more than average

The Avengers was number one at the Box office for the second week in a row.

As of today, Avengers made over a billion dollars world-wide.

It keeps going man.

At 5/13/12 09:32 PM, JaY11 wrote:

i'd really like somebody to point out what made this film anything more than average

The story (predictible as it may be) had a good flow. They managed to balance several strong chracters without any feeling handicapped. The effects (affects?) were top notch and not once was shakey cam resorted to for the action scenes. In the final fight the army felt real. It's easy to make cg cannon fodder but this was done well enough that you felt they were really part of that world and needing to be hit with things.
The realationships felt believable. They clashed where they should have and came together in the clutch as people with different personalities who are ultimatly on the same side would do. Then there's my favorite moment, the token kill which I totally should have seen coming was pulled off in a way that still gave the character dignity
Overall, a well done popcorn movie. That's something a lot of critics trip over. But it serves as proof of concept that with the effort and talent behind it you can make a remarkable pop corn movie that people will sit through 2 and a half hours of.

At 5/13/12 06:29 PM, argile wrote: It's a okay movie... couldn't really sit still through after 60 minutes ...was expecting some more action.

There was plenty of action. Don't know what movie you were watching.

At 5/14/12 12:42 AM, Davidson13 wrote: As of today, Avengers made over a billion dollars world-wide.

It keeps going man.

This film is going to be one of the biggest ever.