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[rotty]

I will say it was a good movie but i would never agree it's the best one.

[Haflinger]

No, that's The Shawshank Redemption.

man some people's kids...

[ᗅᗺᗷᗅ]

Raising Arizona is an amazing movie, one of my all-time favorites. Ditto Shawshank Redemption. But best movie ever? Ehh... That's a bit of hyperbole in both cases. I'm not sure what I would consider the "best" movie ever. Star Wars? That's tempting. Jaws? Another contender. But I'm not feeling it in my gut. See, you have to make a distinction between movies you LIKE and movies that are objectively good. The former is easy, the latter much harder to quantify. By what yardstick are we measuring? How do you compare a drama to a thriller or a science fiction film? I don't know.

Wow, that was a lot of mental meandering. And I'm not even high (yet). Speaking of movies, I just saw Avengers. More on this later tonight, but I am happy to say my fears were unfounded. It as very good.

[Imperial Sparta]

I'm a huge movie fanatic. I have a lot of favorite movies, most of which are either war/action and some dramas like Forrest Gump, American History X, Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Patton, Crash, Training Day, Iron Man, The Rock, Phone Booth, Heat, Last Samurai, Collateral, The Kingdom, Bourne Ultimatum, Shutter Island and both Bad Boys movies. Needless to say, I could never pick out which ones I like best because I have way too many to even begin to narrow them down without mentioning others.


Imperial Sparta

[Thrash]

I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got in the register.

[Vvardenfell]

Yeah it's pretty hard question to answer since it's so subjective, I was shocked by the rating a movie I thought was good(but by no means great) on Rotten Tomatoes (The Postman) gets 9%! http://www.rottentom...com/m/postman/. However the same site rates awful movies well like Captain America, (79%) phantom menace (57%) Terminator 3 (71%).

Having said that, I am a little worried that I am becoming too lenient with films, the last 5 I saw I have all liked. Sherlock holmes 2, Chronicle, Hunger games, cabin in woods, and avengers....

[Bambi]

Well, Avengers was awesome... only two minor things I thought could have been done better, so at least you're safe there

[Vvardenfell]

Well, Avengers was awesome... only two minor things I thought could have been done better, so at least you're safe there

Is one of them to do with

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Iron Man pointless self sacrifice following the warhead when it was on course to go through the portal without his assistance?

Can't really fault the movie other than that!

[Bambi]

Yes, actually


The other one was that I think they

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undersold/underused/didn't establish Maria/Hawk Eye quite as well as the other characters. Hawk Eye just a little, they used him to enable Loki's eeeeeeevilness 'n push the plot forward and so I didn't mind that... but they did more than I was expecting with Black Widow so I kind of wish they'd spent more time on him too. Similar with Maria - by no means bad (and I didn't even think of How I Met Your Mother when I saw her!), but probably the weakest character 'n she'll definitely improve in the next 27 Marvel movies she's contracted to be in

and still nothing that detracted from the film while I was watching it.


It worked very, very, very well and I feel like going to see it at least one more time

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My quibbles with Avengers were few.

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Loki's army was nothing more than a ripoff of DC's parademons, minions of Darkseid. I mean, I guess that's appropriate since Thanos, revealed in the post-credit teaser as the real villain, was just Marvel's answer to Darkseid himself. But they were a little generic. And I didn't like that Bruce Banner's "secret" is that he's "always angry," so he can effectively turn into the Hulk at will. That scene would have been better if someone had had to hit him to make him change.

But that's really it. Otherwise I thought it was outstanding, which was a very pleasant surprise, as I was not expecting much. I'll be posting a full review soon, maybe tomorrow.