Finally!

[seren_ccd]

Well, I finally saw the Avengers last night! It was pretty damn awesome. I have a few reactions which I will put beneath a cut.

NEVER TELL JOSS WHEDON WHO YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER IS BECAUSE HE IS A BAD, BAD MAN AND WILL KILL THEM. That being said, I SO do not think Phil Coulson is dead. Fury faked that out to manipulate the others.

In regards to that, I was NOT expecting Fury to be quite so manipulative. I was...pleasantly surprised by that? It just gives him a few more dimensions (and is totally why Val has to leave him in my story).

Everyone is ridiculously pretty. I mean...damn.

MORE BLACK WIDOW.

MORE BRUCE BANNER.

MORE HAWKEYE. I was not expecting him to go all brainwashed, but that was pretty awesome.

Loki. Well, clearly Tom Hiddleston was having a blast. You could just tell, which made me enjoy his performance. And I'm sympathetic towards his character, but he needs to be held very accountable.

PEPPER! Oh, Pepper I've missed you. I loved how they kept her in flats and she calls Coulson 'Phil' and oh. That was lovely. I liked that a lot.

I went to see it with a bunch of physics students and there was much groaning and snickering around the science speak.

I was also told that I was the best person to go see a movie with. I looked over at my husband and said, "What? Why?" And he said, "Well, you were smiling and reacting a lot." I said, "No! I thought I was being good and cool?" He shook his head. Apparently not. Hee! It was my idea to go see it in the first place, so I am completely unrepentant. :D


All in all, a very fun movie. Even if you're not into comic book characters, it's terribly good, the action is amazing to watch and the dialogue is fabulous.

Eeeee! I wanna see it again!

Comments

[jal80.livejournal.com]

Saw it this week, too, and LOVED it! Just super well-done, and DEAR GOD EVERYONE WAS SO GORGEOUS and I want ALL THE FIC for it. ALL OF IT! I have such a soft spot for Loki (despite, you know, all the killing of people and stuff), and I think that's totally due to the Awesome that is Tom Hiddleston. You're right, you could just TELL he was loving every second of it.

Oh, and I would watch an entire movie that was nothing but Hawkeye and the Black Widow running around, being awesome and referencing past missions.

[seren-ccd.livejournal.com]

ALL THE FIC! :D

And oh, Natasha. I want more Natasha and Bruce. MORE.

[lizbet0.livejournal.com]

My hubby & I loved it too! I wasn't spoiler-free, though, so I knew who was going to get Jossed. (He's notorious for this, the magnificent b^$*(^d.) I'm really, really hoping the studio & other higher-ups have enough control that they can make Joss retconn it as a head-fake by Fury!

I have to give Joss credit, though, he knows how to have lots of people in an ensemble and give them all very good coverage. The only person I felt was slightly short-changed was Hawkeye, and that was because he only had a score or so of lines for the first half of the movie, thanks to Loki's spell.

I know I missed at least a third of the wonderful Joss dialogue, too. (A couple of jewels: "Was I the only one who did the homework?" & "I got that reference!") I really want to go see it again so I hear it all again & can cackle at the Hulk pounding Loki into the ground! The whole theater cracked up at that!

I have to admit, though, that I have less sympathy for Loki (as portrayed in the movie) than many fic writers. I thought his rant at Natasha about having Hawkeye destroy her was incredibly malicious. I'm so proud of her for pwning him in the same scene, though! I like the fanfic Loki a bit better, but movie-Loki deserves some nastiness. (Now if Odin could just get spanked, too, for his being an arse. {grump})

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

lksdjflkasjdflkasj yay you have finally seen it so I can flail at you!!!

Seriously freaking so much love for that film! And yeah, totally riding a boat down Da Nile with Coulson hanging out. You are welcome to join me, of course lol.

And just... gah there really are not enough words for me to properly express my incoherancy towards all the things and the feels and the epic amount of arm porn. *swoons*

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you had a nice night out, and I'm going to probably be at least next to alone in enjoying that you had (grumpy) scientists along for the ride. My KR works at a Natural History Museum so I'm accustomed to the *that's funny because it's actually completely wrong* pause of the dvr, and subsequent explanation. Luckily, he is equally willing to watch crap telly as he is to sit down to Nova.

[reasdream.livejournal.com]

I just saw it! SQUEE!

Like you, I refuse to believe that Phil is dead. I mean, he might be, but it's kinda like Gail Simon and DC going "okay, people, seriously: if Bruce can keep coming back from the dead, then Babs is getting her legs back."

Also, I would like to point out my monumental disappointment that Kat Denning was not in the movie - and I blame you for that expectation. :)

[seren-ccd.livejournal.com]

It really felt like a Joss Whedon creation precisely because of what you said: how everyone got nearly equal coverage and the fact that the ladies kicked major butt! I would LOVE more of that, please. :D

Oh, Loki. Any sympathy I had for Loki in Thor is pretty much gone. I enjoyed his character and the actor playing him is delightful, but seriously. Lock that dude up.

[seren-ccd.livejournal.com]

FLAIL AWAY!!!!

Ugh. SO GOOD. So much FUN! Clint. *sighs* More of him pleasethankyou. I love that he likes to hang out up high. That's going to have to be a thing in my story, I think. Hmmmm....

COULSON IS ALIVE. *NODS*

[seren-ccd.livejournal.com]

Well, the physics people couldn't stop the film to explain their grumblings, that was something. And afterwards I reminded them that the Hulk still managing to keep his trousers on when he transformed was as much a mystery as the rest of it, so let's not take it all too seriously. ;D

[seren-ccd.livejournal.com]

Phil is alive. Fury faked everyone out, the mofo. Of course, he's the original mofo, so...

Ahahaha! I'm almost glad Darcy wasn't in it, if only because I have this idea of her and I don't want it to be ruined? I think she's in Thor 2, however.

[reasdream.livejournal.com]

That makes perfect sense, actually. :) There just needs to be more Darcy /somewhere/

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

Black Widow and Banner were great!

second time I watched Avengers, I started to wonder if Loki was under the same influence that Hawkeye was.

go see it again! and again!

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

I'm a little puzzled...in Thor, Loki's been fighting alongside Thor since they were boys.

but in Avengers, Loki's been bringing armies to fight Thor on Earth for untold number of years?

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

only during the fight scene...appearantly, when he jumped on the plane, there were no trousers.
(remember what the janitor said...that and "you've got a condition") :)

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

tiny question - if Fury faked everyone out...how angry will they be when they find out Coulson's alive?