The Avengers Review
May. 7th, 2012 01:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaI loved it. It was so much fun. I want to watch it again right now.
• Black Widow was awesome. She was so competent and badass. Her kicking ass while tied to a chair, and taking out possessed Clint and the final battle with her jumping on one of the ships and controlling it through the alien - all amazing. OH, and loved her using truth and what it appears her real vulnerabilities to trick Loki. ha, she tricked the trickster god because she is awesome like that!
• I really want a SHIELD movie now about Natasha and Clint with Fury, Maria and Coulson as supporting characters.
• Mark Ruffalo was excellent as the Hulk. The most unexpected thing about the movie was how much I enjoyed Bruce and the Hulk because I was mostly left feeling meh about the previous two Hulk things - in that I think I enjoyed them but honestly I remember nothing about them. I really liked this version of Bruce and I liked the way Hulk was integrated into the group.
• Tony - just LOVE. Snarky and an ass and still growing up and self-sacrificing and I love him so much.
• Thor was wonderful. He still reminds me of a puppy and I just want to cuddle him. I really liked his interactions with the team and all the Thor/Loki stuff was excellent - sad and painful - but really well done. I love how important their relationship was shown to be. Also loved Loki of course.
• Steve and Clint didn't make as much of an impression though I loved both of them. I also liked all we got of the SHIELD agents - Maria Hill, Coulson and Fury.
• Of all possible pairings among these characters I think Natasha/Clint got the most support. You really saw how important they are to each other and I loved Natasha's non-answer about whether she loved him.
• Unexpectedly I could also see Tony/Bruce. Their new BFFness was delightful. I adored Tony trying to get Bruce to hulk out and Bruce's wry amusement over it. Oh and their bonding over science. They just clicked and it was great. OH - and Hulk saving Iron Man at the end. That was an awesome moment.
Now I want Bruce to be in Iron Man 3. I want Tony to adopt Bruce and offer him a job at Stark Industries and then they can hang out all day doing awesome sciencey things together and being friends.
• The Tony/Pepper scenes were great. I loved the bantering between them. And her casual look was so different from how we usually see her but I loved it because it showed in a subtle way how things have changed between them and it just worked. I'm so glad that they added Pepper in and I can't wait for Iron Man 3.
• I loved the fight scene between Thor, Iron Man and Captain America.
• This was a very funny movie. The entire theatre laughed at:
- Thor's "He's adopted?"
- Hulk's casual side-punching Thor after they kill one of the dragons/worms (whatever they were).
- Hulk taking out Loki.
- Loki's expression and "That usually works" after he tries to take control of Tony and fails. (I want that AU where he succeeds now.)
• Did Tony call Clint 'Legolas' when he gave him a lift up to a roof? Because that's what I thought and it made me laugh but the people I was with didn't hear that.
• So is Coulson dead or not dead? I think it could go either way. They certainly left it open for him to survive and I can completely see Fury playing up Coulson's death to motivate the Avengers even if he didn't die. In fact that's what I'm choosing to believe.
• If Coulson's not dead he's going to be pretty pissed at Fury over his now blood stained mint cards.
• The opening scene with Loki stealing the Tesseract was great.
• I loved the Pepper/Coulson friendship.
• So was Loki's staff affecting everyone in the room during the group fight, making them more temperamental, or was he using it to spy on them or something else? I figured it was the former.
• Really the only negative, the main one, was Hulk going from attacking Natasha and trying to kill her to being under control and working as part of the team in one day. Really? It didn't bother me when I was watching but thinking about it afterward it did. Bruce has a great line when he joins the final battle - "I'm always angry." is what he tells the rest of the Avengers. But - why then did he attack Natasha?
• The mind control being broken simply by hitting someone on the head hard enough was a bit dumb.
• The bad guys were pretty dumb - why wouldn't they have guards protecting the Tesseract?
• The alien bad guys weren't really a huge part of the film were they?
• Where exactly was War Machine? My fanwank is that he was in another part of the world on some government mission when it all went down because otherwise him not being there was weird.
• So is Pepper still CEO or not? I think it could go either way but I hope she is.
• Black Widow was awesome. She was so competent and badass. Her kicking ass while tied to a chair, and taking out possessed Clint and the final battle with her jumping on one of the ships and controlling it through the alien - all amazing. OH, and loved her using truth and what it appears her real vulnerabilities to trick Loki. ha, she tricked the trickster god because she is awesome like that!
• I really want a SHIELD movie now about Natasha and Clint with Fury, Maria and Coulson as supporting characters.
• Mark Ruffalo was excellent as the Hulk. The most unexpected thing about the movie was how much I enjoyed Bruce and the Hulk because I was mostly left feeling meh about the previous two Hulk things - in that I think I enjoyed them but honestly I remember nothing about them. I really liked this version of Bruce and I liked the way Hulk was integrated into the group.
• Tony - just LOVE. Snarky and an ass and still growing up and self-sacrificing and I love him so much.
• Thor was wonderful. He still reminds me of a puppy and I just want to cuddle him. I really liked his interactions with the team and all the Thor/Loki stuff was excellent - sad and painful - but really well done. I love how important their relationship was shown to be. Also loved Loki of course.
• Steve and Clint didn't make as much of an impression though I loved both of them. I also liked all we got of the SHIELD agents - Maria Hill, Coulson and Fury.
• Of all possible pairings among these characters I think Natasha/Clint got the most support. You really saw how important they are to each other and I loved Natasha's non-answer about whether she loved him.
• Unexpectedly I could also see Tony/Bruce. Their new BFFness was delightful. I adored Tony trying to get Bruce to hulk out and Bruce's wry amusement over it. Oh and their bonding over science. They just clicked and it was great. OH - and Hulk saving Iron Man at the end. That was an awesome moment.
Now I want Bruce to be in Iron Man 3. I want Tony to adopt Bruce and offer him a job at Stark Industries and then they can hang out all day doing awesome sciencey things together and being friends.
• The Tony/Pepper scenes were great. I loved the bantering between them. And her casual look was so different from how we usually see her but I loved it because it showed in a subtle way how things have changed between them and it just worked. I'm so glad that they added Pepper in and I can't wait for Iron Man 3.
• I loved the fight scene between Thor, Iron Man and Captain America.
• This was a very funny movie. The entire theatre laughed at:
- Thor's "He's adopted?"
- Hulk's casual side-punching Thor after they kill one of the dragons/worms (whatever they were).
- Hulk taking out Loki.
- Loki's expression and "That usually works" after he tries to take control of Tony and fails. (I want that AU where he succeeds now.)
• Did Tony call Clint 'Legolas' when he gave him a lift up to a roof? Because that's what I thought and it made me laugh but the people I was with didn't hear that.
• So is Coulson dead or not dead? I think it could go either way. They certainly left it open for him to survive and I can completely see Fury playing up Coulson's death to motivate the Avengers even if he didn't die. In fact that's what I'm choosing to believe.
• If Coulson's not dead he's going to be pretty pissed at Fury over his now blood stained mint cards.
• The opening scene with Loki stealing the Tesseract was great.
• I loved the Pepper/Coulson friendship.
• So was Loki's staff affecting everyone in the room during the group fight, making them more temperamental, or was he using it to spy on them or something else? I figured it was the former.
• Really the only negative, the main one, was Hulk going from attacking Natasha and trying to kill her to being under control and working as part of the team in one day. Really? It didn't bother me when I was watching but thinking about it afterward it did. Bruce has a great line when he joins the final battle - "I'm always angry." is what he tells the rest of the Avengers. But - why then did he attack Natasha?
• The mind control being broken simply by hitting someone on the head hard enough was a bit dumb.
• The bad guys were pretty dumb - why wouldn't they have guards protecting the Tesseract?
• The alien bad guys weren't really a huge part of the film were they?
• Where exactly was War Machine? My fanwank is that he was in another part of the world on some government mission when it all went down because otherwise him not being there was weird.
• So is Pepper still CEO or not? I think it could go either way but I hope she is.
