Should I use spoiler tags or not? Might as well!

As I wrote elsewhere:

I would still rank Ang Lee's Hulk a head of this movie.

I like The Avengers, it's a REALLY FUN movie! But I also think a lot of people are going overboard with their praise for it.

It's a 3 star movie for me.

My apologies. In fact, it was Louis Leterrier who directed Incredible Hulk.

I think what's done it for me is that it lived 100% up to my virtually unreasonable expectations. Expectations relative to the movies that led up to it that is. I'm not talking about the Star Wars fanboys who wanted... fuck knows what from Phantom

Just wanted to add my own two cent praise for the movie. It's everything a fanboy could dream of. I walked out of the theater with a big smile on my face last Saturday, and I felt like this is how it must have been to have watched Star Wars for the first time back in 1977. Joss Whedon just confirmed every bit of praise I had for him when he did his TV shows. May he do 12 more Avengers movies. Yee Haw!

Here's a question:

I had a teeny problem with it for about half a second, but really

I can give you a simple answer. This movie was fun and entertaining to watch and I never checked my watch once while it was on.I walked out of the theatre with a jaunt and spring in my step.I would even go watch it again if asked to. The Phantom Menace was unwatchable and well below average just for any kind of movie.I needed a new watch battery after using the backlight so much. Joss Whedon is a the top of his game and is much better storyteller and entertainer than Lucas.He gets it and gives the fans something they enjoy.Here is his open letter thanking fans

http://collider.com/joss-whedon-thanks-fans-avengers/165058/?_r=true




I actually saw Star Wars the first week it came out in 1977 in an empty theatre believe it or not.The Avengers does have that feel but the buzz of that first Star Wars was so much stronger and the film was so different from than anything you had seen before at that time.That's the part that I have not experienced at the movies since then.

I had one hell of a time at this movie as well. But I'm surprised no one has mentioned (with spoiler warnings of course) the content of a mid-credit scene.....

Don't think spoiler tags are really necessary for this but unless Sony and Disney/Marvel come to some sort of magical deal then no. Doubt the suits would ever agree on that and personally I'm fine with that, I really hope they don't go overboard and add more and more people to the Avengers.

At the risk of sounding mean spirited, I'm looking forward to Amazing Spider-man tripping over it's own sense of clichéd mystique.

Have I already made a big deal out of how when I saw Avengers for the second time (the Saturday after it came out in UK), I had to attend a 3D screening, as the 2D one had sold out...

Let me just make sure I'm being 100% clear on this point:

"The 2D showing, as in the primitive method of watching movies so opposed by High Lord of dangling string James Cameron, had out sold the newer, BETTER way to see movies at it's prime first weekend screening (this is about 9pm on a Saturday night)."

So just to make no mistake... 2D > 3D.

Okay so JB and others have said with confidence that the 3D conversion for this movie was pretty good. Fair enough, but bear in mind the boy cried wolf because wolf attacks are pretty savage...

Edit: Don't be that guy who doesn't get that I'm going OTT with my point. Please?

It is just a way to make people pay higher ticket prices not about light and sound.The real ticket price should be $18.00 a pop if Hollywood had it's Christmas wishes.Good to see people are savvying up to the idea that you can see the same movie for less.When Hollywood get wise we are avoiding the inflated prices they will just drop the pretense and raise the general rates anyways.

Marvel would love to be able to bring in Spider-Man for the next film, but they would have to reach a deal. It's not unreasonable that it could happen. Sony would probably be willing to license back Spider-Man to Marvel for a single film if it didn't interfere with their planned storyline and if they got something in return. Like being able to use Iron-Man, Hulk, or some wholly owned Marvel property in the next Spider-Man film, or a similar quid pro quo.

The overall problem being faced by Marvel is they sold off the rights to a lot of their A-list heroes (X-Men, Fantastic Four/Silver Surfer to Fox; Spider-Man to Sony) and villains to other studios. Outside of the Avengers, the cupboard is pretty bare. They might be able to work deals with the other studios for mutual cameos, but Marvel will not be able to make their own Spider-Man or Fantastic Four movie until the rights revert, and I think those are long-term deals. That's why there will be more solo Iron Man/Hulk/Thor/Captain America movies - because those are pretty much the only high profile superheroes Marvel has full control over.

In the villain category, I believe they have relinquished The Green Goblin, Dock Ock, Doctor Doom, Magneto, Galactus, and a bunch of others.

The "Marvel Universe" might be one big happy place in the comic book world, but it's fractured in the movies. There's the Sony Marvel Universe, the Fox Marvel Universe, and the Marvel Marvel Universe.

Actually, once FF gets rebooted, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that we'll see an X-Men/FF crossover, because Fox owns the rights to both. Now that they've seen how *big* a multi-superhero movie can be, expect this sort of thing to happen. And expect Justice League to get fast-tracked in one form or another.

I think one thing we can be certain of is that Christopher Nolan is highly unlikely to be involved in the Justice League film in any real capacity, given his stated intention of being finished with the Batman series. This is of course assuming that DC Comics manages to enter into a deal with the other studios to greenlight the film itself.

JUSTICE LEAGUE, if it happens, will not use the Nolan/Bale BATMAN. BATMAN is going to undergo a reboot after THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, and that version of BATMAN (and that actor) would be the one used in JUSTICE LEAGUE, although it's unclear which film would come first. Insiders indicate that the new BATMAN probably won't make his debut until 2015 and I suspect there will be a strong push to get JUSTICE LEAGUE out before that.