Can We Talk About How Many Great Moments Are in The Avengers?
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Yeah Avenger was a great movie and me and my brother had fun watching it and the later MCU movies, but for me I got the most excited when this scene in Civil War popped up;
As a die hard Spider-Man fan, I knew what those six letters word meant.
Yup, loved this too. I knew he was gonna be in the movie but seeing my borough on the big screen like that got me hyyyypppppeeeeddddd
It was such a "clean" movie. It didn't have the issues of having just too much stuff like AoU. Every scene and part never went on too long. Tons of memes, but unlike Revenge of the sith, it was also a really good movie. Tony flying in blasting loki with shoot to thrill is classic.
I hated that scene and the Cap v. Loki fight that followed.
Thought I was watching a Raimi movie for a second there.
That's why it worked. It was supposed to feel out of place, and then tony all of the sudden comes in blasting acdc and taking care of loki.
Because they think it's cool? Because they've been reading comics for years and seeing characters interact in neat ways on the big screen was a dream come true?
Shit ain't hard.
Huh.. so a purposely hokey introduction to the man out of place from another time? Never thought of it that way... that's actually kind of perfect then.
That was my interpretation as well. An old versus new kinda thing.
Yeah, it was really cool, loved that shot.
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I also love the small touch of Bruce touching a baby cradle when he talks to Natasha about "not always getting what he wants."
It also makes their conversation in Ultron (where he's frustrated at not being able to offer a family to anyone, and she reveals they're both incapable of having children) seem less out of nowhere.
I always love when I open an MCU thread and there's a link at the bottom to
"Show ignored content". Those fools just can't resist.
Also nothing beat seeing this in a theater on opening night. The crowd went crazy. Clapping, cheering, backflips down the aisle, swinging from the chandeliers, crawling out of the vents-everything.
"Show ignored content". Those fools just can't resist.
Also nothing beat seeing this in a theater on opening night. The crowd went crazy. Clapping, cheering, backflips down the aisle, swinging from the chandeliers, crawling out of the vents-everything.
I always liked the part where Captain America is about to jump out of the plane and Widow tells him not too, because Thor is a practically a God and Captain America says " There is only one God mam, and I am pretty sure he doesn't dress like that."
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Such a great movie! My god...
Not to hijack, but Civil War is comic movie perfection, and it took everything that was great about The Avengers and gave it real emotional stakes. Avengers 2 was not great to me, and I'm praying that the new Avengers is closer to Civil War in tone, pacing, character work, and overall feel than either of the Avengers movies.
But the Avengers... still love it and could watch it almost any time, all these years later. And it's the movie that really gave us the best Phil Coulson!
Not to hijack, but Civil War is comic movie perfection, and it took everything that was great about The Avengers and gave it real emotional stakes. Avengers 2 was not great to me, and I'm praying that the new Avengers is closer to Civil War in tone, pacing, character work, and overall feel than either of the Avengers movies.
But the Avengers... still love it and could watch it almost any time, all these years later. And it's the movie that really gave us the best Phil Coulson!
I actually watched this movie for the first time yesterday (I'm a bit behind on the MCU, you could say), and the moment the action moves to New York it just becomes one badass sequence after the other.
While The Avengers isn't my favorite MCU film, every year my love and admiration for what it accomplished grows.
I just rewatched it this week and even though most of the film is talking and the first substantial fight scene doesn't come in until like 45 minutes into the movie, it's a fun ride all the way through.
One aspect I find that doesn't get enough recognition is the Chitauri invasion in the 3rd act. The inexperience and desperation of a team dealing with pure overwhelming numbers makes it just such an awesome alien invasion. I don't even care that they are able to win by blowing up the main ship and it kills all the connected horde, they are good enough to be able to hold them off but with a war of attrition, you know they will lose. I only wish that Age of Ultron could have captured that same feeling with a little less of the Avengers just being able to confidently kick and as a little more moments where it shows that their super powers can only give them the advantage to a certain degree.
Admittedly, I sort of raised my expectations for AoU to have more scenes like that based on the Comic Con poster
as well as the trailers teasing that the threat may be more like swarms of Ultron bots and less like giant meteors.
I think Infinity War will nail that same feeling of desperation though, especially since it's starting after the team has been splintered in Civil War.
Yes. It felt weirdly dated as an early 2000's superhero film even when it released and feels even worse now. I got hyped at the time, but I'm surprised that the trailer really sold anyone on the film that isn't already into superhero movies. Okay, maybe I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's awful, but with how great the trailers have been for the MCU in Phase 3, this feels oddly off-brand and archaic by comparison.
I just rewatched it this week and even though most of the film is talking and the first substantial fight scene doesn't come in until like 45 minutes into the movie, it's a fun ride all the way through.
One aspect I find that doesn't get enough recognition is the Chitauri invasion in the 3rd act. The inexperience and desperation of a team dealing with pure overwhelming numbers makes it just such an awesome alien invasion. I don't even care that they are able to win by blowing up the main ship and it kills all the connected horde, they are good enough to be able to hold them off but with a war of attrition, you know they will lose. I only wish that Age of Ultron could have captured that same feeling with a little less of the Avengers just being able to confidently kick and as a little more moments where it shows that their super powers can only give them the advantage to a certain degree.
Admittedly, I sort of raised my expectations for AoU to have more scenes like that based on the Comic Con poster
as well as the trailers teasing that the threat may be more like swarms of Ultron bots and less like giant meteors.
I think Infinity War will nail that same feeling of desperation though, especially since it's starting after the team has been splintered in Civil War.
Yes. It felt weirdly dated as an early 2000's superhero film even when it released and feels even worse now. I got hyped at the time, but I'm surprised that the trailer really sold anyone on the film that isn't already into superhero movies. Okay, maybe I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's awful, but with how great the trailers have been for the MCU in Phase 3, this feels oddly off-brand and archaic by comparison.
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Definitely not. Because it's fantastic and built so much hype for the film.
Was about to quote his post and say the same thing. It's one of my favorite scenes in the film. The way Ruffalo delivers the line and Whedon's wide shot on Ruffalo lightly pushing the cradle is just so good.
Three of the biggest crowd reactions I've ever had the pleasure of being apart of were in this movie: the payoff to Tony's Galaga line, Hulk punching Thor off screen and Hulk smashing Loki on the ground.
Yeah it really doesn't hold up for me at all. I really enjoyed it the first time I saw it, but I just can't go back to it now. The dialogue is just terrible for most of the movie.
I think the moment that MCU trailers started turning around was when the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer first hit with Hooked on a Feeling and just exploded: Marvel realized the importance of a good first trailer.
That movie is the reason the MCU is dominating today. It's in my top 3, below Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (which is criminally underrated)
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I really wish I could remember my initial reaction to that trailer but I just can't. But I know that even then that genre of rock was super dated, and the editing just feels weird now. Like Cuburger said, it's hard to imagine that trailer selling anyone on the movie that wasn't already on board.
Trailer 2 on the other hand
This was hype.
GOTG trailer 1 and Ragnorok trailer 1 are probably two of the best trailers ever.
A personal favorite moment of mine. Opening night at the theater, the crowd was into everything the movie threw at them. They ate up every laugh and every surprise. During this part, there had already been about a dozen amazing moments just during the Helicarrier scene alone, and this is an example of how Avengers made good things even better. People had just laughed at the look on the pilot's face when Hulk came jumping at him and this scene was pretty intense. When he ejects and Hulk grabs him? People fucking lost it. This scene make me chuckle every time. It was so unexpected. Every scene was an opportunity to one up itself in surprising and awesome ways.
Marvel totally fucking nailed this movie.
That shot of Cap tanking the grenade blast and getting blasted out of the window, splashing down on top of the car was brutal.
This movie was pure comicbook fun. Thanks Joss!. Most of the best scenes have been mentioned already (the circle pan, Hulk punching Thor offscreen, Hulk ragdolling Loki etc.) but i would also like to special mention the mid-credit Thanos reveal. There was a collective fuck 'Yeah!' in my theater when that reveal happened.
Tony Stark's growth as a character is dependent on whether you think he can ever actually make up for what a fucking idiot he was in Age of Ultron.
I think one of my favourite moments was when Cap' saw Stark and Thor fly off and, as he was attaching a fucking parachute gets told to sit it out because they're 'basically Gods' and Cap' replies 'there's only one God, mam, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that.'
It's so cheesy and dumb but I absolutely love it.
It's so cheesy and dumb but I absolutely love it.
LOVE The Avengers. There's so much to adore, I get stupidly excited for almost every scene, like the goosebumps you get before the Jurassic Park water glass bit, but for the whole movie.
RDJ is so flawless in this. I mean, he's always great, but he hasn't had quite the same spark playing Tony since. The character is much less 'fun' now than in the early MCU days and that's really where RDJ's light shone brightest. You can tell he's having a blast.
If I have any bone to pick, it's that I do kinda feel this movie did Cap dirty. That costume....WTF?! And in a lot of scenes he comes across as just one notch above competent. I can excuse some of that to being a fish out of water (time) but it went on for too long.
RDJ is so flawless in this. I mean, he's always great, but he hasn't had quite the same spark playing Tony since. The character is much less 'fun' now than in the early MCU days and that's really where RDJ's light shone brightest. You can tell he's having a blast.
If I have any bone to pick, it's that I do kinda feel this movie did Cap dirty. That costume....WTF?! And in a lot of scenes he comes across as just one notch above competent. I can excuse some of that to being a fish out of water (time) but it went on for too long.
You could be right. That Hooked on a Feeling trailer really seemed to not just change things for how Marvel marketed their films but how other studios would market their films.