Avengers Assemble!
May. 6th, 2012 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
masterofmidgetsMoved into my new apartment this weekend, which is great and all, but more importantly I also saw the Avengers!
1. THAT WAS SO FUCKING AWESOME I CANNOT BELIEVE IT. Seriously, I got into Avengers and Cap/Iron Man right before the Marvel Movieverse started with Iron Man 1, so I have been building my enthusiasm for this movie for the past four years. And it was absolutely worth it because that was completely amazing. Everything I ever wanted in a team-up movie and then some.
2. How so wonderful, Nastasha? I feel like the advertising for this movie was very misleading, because I was not at all expecting this to be the Natasha Romanov Has Lots of Feelings And Then Saves The Day movie, but it totally was. And I am not complaining one bit. Her character arc about joining SHIELD and her feelings about Clint was a lot more subtle and fully-realized then I'd anticipate from an action movie, and I could watch her shoot things and kick people's asses all day long. I kind of want a poly lesbian marriage with her and Maria Hill now.
3. WHY DO I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT THE HULK NOW? HULK FEELINGS EVERYWHERE.
4. I have already mentally erased Coulson's death. Nope, sorry, didn't happen, too completely pointless, too much of a textbook bullshit Whedonism (and I say that as someone who has long been a faithful devotee at the Altar of Joss). Luckily, it's pretty easy to write it out - since we already know that Fury is not above using Coulson's death to further his own ends, it's not thaaaaaat much of a stretch to say that, faced with an unconscious but not fatally injured Coulson, Fury decided it might be a better motivator for his heroes if they thought he had been killed off. I'm sure Natasha and Clint were in on it that, though, because otherwise they would have killed him in the face.
5. I'm not sure that this movie would make me ship Cap/Iron Man if I came into it cold - there's something to be said for hatesex, and that little friendly moment at the end in the park, but it's nowhere near as charged as...well, everything Thor and Loki do, or maybe even Tony and Bruce. But it didn't do anything to make it wildly improbable, either, so I shall continue shipping and reading all the fic with reckless abandon.
6. Loki is still a terrible villain. His speeches are...dramatic, but badly lacking if he's serious about this taking over the world thing. He sounded less like a conquering general and more like a teenager demanding that everyone listen to him and take him seriously or he's going to do something really awful, just you wait!! This is not at all a criticism, mind you. It's consistent with the last movie, and I kind of like that this is so intensely personal for Loki - that he doesn't really want to be king so much as he wants everyone to tell him how wonderful and awesome he is and for Thor to cry. He really needs better evil plans, though, this one was positively incoherent and doomed to failure from the start, which he would have realized if he had had more than the most basic grasp of the personalities he was dealing with. Which is why I have certain theories - not entirely unsupported by canon, I think - about just how much influence that staff had over him, and how it was affecting his mind.
7. This entire movie was made worthwhile just so I could see Steve Rogers in a leather jacket riding a motorcycle. Thank you forever, god of fanservice.
1. THAT WAS SO FUCKING AWESOME I CANNOT BELIEVE IT. Seriously, I got into Avengers and Cap/Iron Man right before the Marvel Movieverse started with Iron Man 1, so I have been building my enthusiasm for this movie for the past four years. And it was absolutely worth it because that was completely amazing. Everything I ever wanted in a team-up movie and then some.
2. How so wonderful, Nastasha? I feel like the advertising for this movie was very misleading, because I was not at all expecting this to be the Natasha Romanov Has Lots of Feelings And Then Saves The Day movie, but it totally was. And I am not complaining one bit. Her character arc about joining SHIELD and her feelings about Clint was a lot more subtle and fully-realized then I'd anticipate from an action movie, and I could watch her shoot things and kick people's asses all day long. I kind of want a poly lesbian marriage with her and Maria Hill now.
3. WHY DO I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT THE HULK NOW? HULK FEELINGS EVERYWHERE.
4. I have already mentally erased Coulson's death. Nope, sorry, didn't happen, too completely pointless, too much of a textbook bullshit Whedonism (and I say that as someone who has long been a faithful devotee at the Altar of Joss). Luckily, it's pretty easy to write it out - since we already know that Fury is not above using Coulson's death to further his own ends, it's not thaaaaaat much of a stretch to say that, faced with an unconscious but not fatally injured Coulson, Fury decided it might be a better motivator for his heroes if they thought he had been killed off. I'm sure Natasha and Clint were in on it that, though, because otherwise they would have killed him in the face.
5. I'm not sure that this movie would make me ship Cap/Iron Man if I came into it cold - there's something to be said for hatesex, and that little friendly moment at the end in the park, but it's nowhere near as charged as...well, everything Thor and Loki do, or maybe even Tony and Bruce. But it didn't do anything to make it wildly improbable, either, so I shall continue shipping and reading all the fic with reckless abandon.
6. Loki is still a terrible villain. His speeches are...dramatic, but badly lacking if he's serious about this taking over the world thing. He sounded less like a conquering general and more like a teenager demanding that everyone listen to him and take him seriously or he's going to do something really awful, just you wait!! This is not at all a criticism, mind you. It's consistent with the last movie, and I kind of like that this is so intensely personal for Loki - that he doesn't really want to be king so much as he wants everyone to tell him how wonderful and awesome he is and for Thor to cry. He really needs better evil plans, though, this one was positively incoherent and doomed to failure from the start, which he would have realized if he had had more than the most basic grasp of the personalities he was dealing with. Which is why I have certain theories - not entirely unsupported by canon, I think - about just how much influence that staff had over him, and how it was affecting his mind.
7. This entire movie was made worthwhile just so I could see Steve Rogers in a leather jacket riding a motorcycle. Thank you forever, god of fanservice.