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Why The Avengers is over-hyped
Spoilers!!! Don’t read if you do not want to know anything about the Avengers movie
First and foremost before anyone assumes I’m saying the Avengers is over-hyped due to the fact I’m obsessed with Batman, shut that argument up now. I was never impressed by Batman Begins, I think Batman and Robin is the worst movie ever made, and I love the X-Men movies as well as Spiderman. I love Ironman and Tony Stark, I love the movies and look forward to the third movie. So arguing with me about just not liking The Avengers hero’s comics can also be squashed now. I will say this about The Avengers, and really Marvel as a whole, their Hero’s are phenomenal, however their villains have always lacked a certain intangible that I can not describe really. Not of them have the drama of a Joker. None of them are as real as a Catwoman or The Riddler. Perhaps that is what draws me to Batman is the character of the villains matched with the dark vigilante hero. Batman has a more real aspect than most comics, while remembering it is a comic book hero and exaggerating at appropriate points.
Yes I could divulge into how inaccurate this movie was from the comics but that would be petty and boring and every movie from a book or comic has been “Hollywood-ed” for marketing and advertising reasons which I’ve come to accept. I will however point out to those of you who just liked the movie and really have no idea what The Avengers truly are, that Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) is supposed to be a white guy with a blond flat top in a military uniform, not some dude who could be an older version of Blade with an eye patch, but since I like Samuel L. it didn’t make me cringe to much. At the end of the movie and credits the villain assisting Loki was reveled to be Thanos, (which for anyone who doesn’t know Thanos is a Marvel villain but is mostly known as a villain for The Fantastic 4) which is again a disadvantage Marvel really has for their movies but I digress.
So those two things bothered me minimally and wouldn’t even have been an issue had the rest of the movie not irked the hell out of me. Allow me to give The Avengers some credit before I rip it apart. The action was awesome. Great fight scenes, great CGI. The Hulk graphically was done well, as was the S.H.I.E.L.D. air base. So now the issues..
First of all, Loki. Loki could have been great and did well at first and was impressive until the end, which really was not his fault. Here is a guy who is taking on the “greatest hero’s” in the world, he has destroyed New York City (what movie hasn’t, another issue I have, no originality) and had the Hero’s fighting against each other which was his plan (predictably) and in the end after doing all these things the villain who is trying to destroy the world is beaten in a comical way. He is thrown around like a rag doll by The Hulk and everyone laughed. When the villain is defeated your supposed to be excited, pump a fist, want to leave the theater and fight crime yourself, not laugh. They down played the villain in order to up the appearance of Hulk. They beat the main villain, who is supposed to be a “God” mind you as if he was nothing but a henchmen, a second tier bad guy.
The Hulk was graphically done well, as was his action scenes, however there were a couple of things I wasn’t sure made sense with the story. On the S.H.I.E.L.D. base, the talk his he can not control his anger, he is waiting to explode, he has no control of Hulk, even refers to him as “the other guy” as if it was a completely different person he has no control of. Even makes comments while speaking to Capt. America about the base that their crazy for bringing him there. As we wanted Bruce Banner became Hulk, as expected he chases Black Widow around the SHIELD base which is falling apart. We expected this because of all the hints of him not being able to control it. All of that makes sense until the end when he is needed. All of a sudden Banner can control when he turns, as well as being aware of what he is doing, saving a falling Ironman, and comically defeating Loki and following along with the rest of team. Maybe I’m picking and prodding but its just another issue I’ve found and they all built up on me. When did Banner discover this? Why was it not shared?
Thor. Thor was treated like a second-class citizen. I mean this hero had his own movie with Natalie Portman last year and now he is getting comically punched by The Hulk? That would have made sense if Hulk could not control himself, which in the movie Hulk reveals he can because he is “always angry”. Thor came in late, had no lasting exit like the others, and did not even get to take down his brother Loki who was causing all this anyway, which in my opinion would have made more sense, and been a better more dramatic ending than the comical thumping Loki received.
Capt. America plays a huge role in the comics. He is the quintessential “leader” of the Avengers and they do make an attempt to play on that. While I feel there was a lot of cliches in this movie, it felt more so came with Capt. America and yes I understand this guy just woke up after 70 years but come on, saving a bus full of kids? Were they orphans too? Than issuing a plan of action to NYC cops and of course there’s the New York cop who doesn’t take orders from anyone until Capt. America beats up a bunch of aliens and then the cop issues the orders Capt. America just came up with. Entirely to many cliches.
Ironman is my favorite in this movie. All of his individual movies are great, perhaps its Tony Stark, maybe its just Robert Downey JR I don’t know. Yes he was cliched out like all the others with ACDC playing when he came into fight, yes wearing a Black Sabbath shirt as Tony Stark is cliche, and having a Ironman colored Audi did not help either but none of these really bothered individually, it was just cliche on top of cliche on top of cliche.
Black Widow and Hawkeye did not present any individual problems with me. I wish Hawkeye had a better introduction. At first some people may have thought he was a double agent working with Loki because as soon as he was introduced he was EASILY taken under Loki’s control. The movie never explained the full severity of Loki’s scepter and was a little misleading in the beginning. I did love what they did with Hawkeye’s equipment and bow and gadgets for his bow. Very creative.
No doubt Joss Whedon is talented and creative. Buffy and Firefly have a huge fandom and following, Toy Story is legendary. I feel like he plugged in alot of cliches, made it a little campy, depended on his graphics to carry the movie and didn’t give his villain a good enough fall. Maybe the next movie will improve, will we see Wolverine or Spiderman like in the comics?
No doubt this movie has made bank! I expected it too. It has all the possibilities of greatness. I won’t argue the ticket sales. It has benefited being the first “summer” movie. It does benefit having nothing to go against it at the box office. Ultimatley….GO DARK KNIGHT RISES!!!
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