misadventurous
Joined: 29 Nov 2012
Location: witch city
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 Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:59 pm |
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| CubaLibre wrote: |
The Avengers is a fun movie and I liked watching it. You can bitch about Joss Whedon and power fantasies or whatever, but it's a well-written and acted ensemble franchise-crossover movie where each character gets just a tiny bit of decent motivation and witty dialogue and the action scenes are well-paced and followable and expansive without being obscene. It's like, congratulations guys, you did it! This is what The Superhero Movie was going for. Within this tiny niche of a niche of a niche of genre formula (one that happens to make bazillions of dollars) you have succeeded at perfecting your own formula. It's Coca-Cola, it's a Quarter Pounder With Cheese. Flavor scientists have decreed it maximally consumable.
But it's a dead end. There are a million other ways for movies to be made and The Avengers explores 0.00001% of them. It's fun to watch, but it's not inspiring. It's simultaneously a celebration of completion and a death knell. |
good post & incidentally, thanks for articulating why i'm not at all hyped up for an avengers sequel |
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