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elspethdixon) wrote2012-05-11 10:35 pm
elspethdixon) wrote2012-05-11 10:35 pm
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Avengers!
Is awesome. More squee behind spoiler cut.
Seanchai and I went out to see it with grey_bard and franzeska (who turned out to be AO3 franzeska) and mosellegreen and, ah, someone else who's name I don't remember, and after forging our way through the insane lines in the theater last Saturday, finally got to see it.
The Helicarrier! OMG they had the Helicarrier! I think I actually shrieked in glee when it lifted off (and Steve quietly handing the ten dollars to Fury afterward was adorable).
Other things I loved:
- Clint/Natasha! Especially their sexy fight scene where it's obvious that they're both very, very good at what they do, but she's just that little bit better (since he was presumably trying his level best to kill her unhampered by guilt, while she was aware he was brainwashed and didn't really want to kill him, and still won).
- Loki's repeated use of his illusion/duplicate trick from the comics, and his smug "Are you ever going to stop falling for that?" to Thor when Thor falls for it yet again.
- Loki playing Thor in that final scene on the roof and being all "Oh, Thor, I will display faint traces of regret over what I've done!" - and then stabbing Thor as soon as he's distracted.
- Loki's brainwashing stick not working on Tony because it just clinks against the arc reactor instead of touching him over the heart.
- Steve and Tony's immediate and seamless teamwork in the restarting the engine scene, and the way they segue into it directly from bickering like bratty adolescents.
- The Hulk randomly punching Thor in the middle of the final battle, because he's run out of other things to hit, and damn it, he's just not done punching things yet.
- Fanboy!Coulson babbling to Steve about his mint condition Captain America trading cards.
- Steve's open glee about understanding Fury's flying monkey reference.
- Tony pointing out that that one guy on the Helicarrier's bridge is playing a computer game on his monitor that's followed up by a shot of the guy resuming playing it when Fury & co. leave the bridge.
- Thanos! I was all irritated that we had second-rate aliens from Ult-verse instead of real Marvel-verse aliens like the Skrull or the Kree or the Brood (though this version of the Chitauri seemed possibly Brood-influenced to me), and then we got a shot of an actual Cosmic!Marvel character at the end ^_^.
Things I didn't like:
- The absence of Hank and Jan.
- The actress who played Maria Hill and how blue-eyed Anglo/WASP she was. The extent to which Maria just didn't look like comics-and-EMH!Maria was really distracting whenever she was onscreen, which sucked because I otherwise liked the way her character was written (well, what we got to see of her).
- No Hank and Jan.
- The absence of any Jane Foster/Thor stuff, beyond a couple of lines about her. In a perfect world, we'd have gotten a cute reunion scene between Jane and Thor at the end instead of that final Tony/Pepper scene. (I'm really not a Tony/Pepper fan - thanks for ruining that ship forever, Fraction - so I was not exactly cheering during the Tony/Pepper bits. more wincing and trying to pretend they were platonic friends again in the aftermath of an amicable break-up. Whereas Thor/Jane, I actually ship)
- No Hank and Jan.
- A cameo by Jimmy Woo, Agent Quartermain, or the Contessa de la Fontaine during any of the Helicarrier scenes would have been really awesome. I'm not actually annoyed that it didn't happened, but I would have really liked it.
- No Jan.
- I really thought that guy in a suit walking onto the bridge of the Helicarrier at the end was going to be Coulson, revealed to still be alive with his death faked (first you see him mortally wounded, then you basically cut to Fury using his death to manipulate everyone, so I really thought he'd actually just passed out and then been rushed to medical attention and saved but that Fury pretended he'd died to manipulate the Avengers into doing what he wanted). I'm not actually all that sad if he really is dead-for-reals, since at least he got a really bad-ass death, but damn, I really expected it to turn out to be faked.
- No Jan.
Seanchai and I went out to see it with grey_bard and franzeska (who turned out to be AO3 franzeska) and mosellegreen and, ah, someone else who's name I don't remember, and after forging our way through the insane lines in the theater last Saturday, finally got to see it.
The Helicarrier! OMG they had the Helicarrier! I think I actually shrieked in glee when it lifted off (and Steve quietly handing the ten dollars to Fury afterward was adorable).
Other things I loved:
- Clint/Natasha! Especially their sexy fight scene where it's obvious that they're both very, very good at what they do, but she's just that little bit better (since he was presumably trying his level best to kill her unhampered by guilt, while she was aware he was brainwashed and didn't really want to kill him, and still won).
- Loki's repeated use of his illusion/duplicate trick from the comics, and his smug "Are you ever going to stop falling for that?" to Thor when Thor falls for it yet again.
- Loki playing Thor in that final scene on the roof and being all "Oh, Thor, I will display faint traces of regret over what I've done!" - and then stabbing Thor as soon as he's distracted.
- Loki's brainwashing stick not working on Tony because it just clinks against the arc reactor instead of touching him over the heart.
- Steve and Tony's immediate and seamless teamwork in the restarting the engine scene, and the way they segue into it directly from bickering like bratty adolescents.
- The Hulk randomly punching Thor in the middle of the final battle, because he's run out of other things to hit, and damn it, he's just not done punching things yet.
- Fanboy!Coulson babbling to Steve about his mint condition Captain America trading cards.
- Steve's open glee about understanding Fury's flying monkey reference.
- Tony pointing out that that one guy on the Helicarrier's bridge is playing a computer game on his monitor that's followed up by a shot of the guy resuming playing it when Fury & co. leave the bridge.
- Thanos! I was all irritated that we had second-rate aliens from Ult-verse instead of real Marvel-verse aliens like the Skrull or the Kree or the Brood (though this version of the Chitauri seemed possibly Brood-influenced to me), and then we got a shot of an actual Cosmic!Marvel character at the end ^_^.
Things I didn't like:
- The absence of Hank and Jan.
- The actress who played Maria Hill and how blue-eyed Anglo/WASP she was. The extent to which Maria just didn't look like comics-and-EMH!Maria was really distracting whenever she was onscreen, which sucked because I otherwise liked the way her character was written (well, what we got to see of her).
- No Hank and Jan.
- The absence of any Jane Foster/Thor stuff, beyond a couple of lines about her. In a perfect world, we'd have gotten a cute reunion scene between Jane and Thor at the end instead of that final Tony/Pepper scene. (I'm really not a Tony/Pepper fan - thanks for ruining that ship forever, Fraction - so I was not exactly cheering during the Tony/Pepper bits. more wincing and trying to pretend they were platonic friends again in the aftermath of an amicable break-up. Whereas Thor/Jane, I actually ship)
- No Hank and Jan.
- A cameo by Jimmy Woo, Agent Quartermain, or the Contessa de la Fontaine during any of the Helicarrier scenes would have been really awesome. I'm not actually annoyed that it didn't happened, but I would have really liked it.
- No Jan.
- I really thought that guy in a suit walking onto the bridge of the Helicarrier at the end was going to be Coulson, revealed to still be alive with his death faked (first you see him mortally wounded, then you basically cut to Fury using his death to manipulate everyone, so I really thought he'd actually just passed out and then been rushed to medical attention and saved but that Fury pretended he'd died to manipulate the Avengers into doing what he wanted). I'm not actually all that sad if he really is dead-for-reals, since at least he got a really bad-ass death, but damn, I really expected it to turn out to be faked.
- No Jan.
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