Avengers Assemble!

[Bobby Bear]

Jamie's point about Randy Quaid is a salient one, but I just want to be clear on one thing: I brought up those goofy-fun films because I wanted to show I'm not some art-house snob who's anti-blockbusters, especially not the silly kind. I wasn't putting The Avengers in the same camp as them or suggesting it would be better if it was more like them -- horses for courses and all that.

The movie has been met with a reaction best described as orgasmic. The movie I went to see felt considerably less than that. I would've been disappointed even if I'd been the first person in the world to see it, but the excessive fan-gushing only heightened the feeling of 'anti-climax.'

[Anderson]

You know what's been bothering me about the film since I've seen it?

  Spoiler: This the last week I'll use Spoiler Tags on this movie 

Nick Fury fires a rocket launcher at a heavily fueled plane carrying a nuclear weapon. Let's just stop and think about that one.

[Abraham Smashington]

I blame his infection.

[Captain Russ]

I get where you're coming from about the magnitude of mewling done by the quims and he-quims in the aftermath of this culminations of years (AND YEARS) of build setting you up for such impossible expectations to be met. I sort of felt that for a moment or two during the runtime, but the anti-mewling quim of doubt was stifled by the sweet sweet Barry White voice of Scarlett Johannson.

As an opening salvo for the next wave of superhero team-up movies, this was better than what I expected. Granted, the start was about as bland as the opening to Serenity with Chewy in the Great Television-Scale Hallway of Exposition, but for the most part ol' Fivehead kept the plates spinning the entire time.

I myself ruined several rows ahead of me by allowing my nerdquims to mewl too loudly when Hulk went full tilt in front of Grand Central Station.

Can't wait for the next Marvel movie. Modok's red-headed babby better be ready to up the ante (what a jerk, right guys?).

[Captain Russ]

You know what's been bothering me about the film since I've seen it?

  Spoiler: This the last week I'll use Spoiler Tags on this movie 

Nick Fury fires a rocket launcher at a heavily fueled plane carrying a nuclear weapon. Let's just stop and think about that one.

He fired a special anti-plot rocket at the plot device.

[Martin]

Saw it. LOVED IT.

[Martin]

Quick question: did I miss when they explained how Thor managed to get back on Earth? Since the Rainbow bridge got destroyed in Thor?

And yeah, some plot issues, but overall, the best comic book movie for me.

[Timothy225]

There was a line that Odin used some dark energy or magic to get Thor to Earth to apprehend Loki.

[Martin]

gracias!

[Timothy225]

No problem. There was so much stuff going on in that movie, it's easy to miss lines here and there.

[Martin]

I kinda paid the price for that huge root beer I was drinking....

[BMichaelKrol]

You know what's been bothering me about the film since I've seen it?

  Spoiler: This the last week I'll use Spoiler Tags on this movie 

Nick Fury fires a rocket launcher at a heavily fueled plane carrying a nuclear weapon. Let's just stop and think about that one.

Most nuclear weapons don't actually arm until they're fired and en route to the target.

[Martin]

Indeed, but blowing one makes a dirty bomb. Still ain't a party.

[Timothy225]

Depends. I know some nukes are designed to withstand a plane exploding so they can be recovered intact in case of just such an emergency.

Or, y'know, comic book based movie rules. If you can buy a giant green behemoth, a super-soldier, a demigod, a genius in a suit of high-tech armor, etc., nuclear weapons that can withstand a plane blowing up around them is a given. That, or it was a SHIELD missile no-explodey-nuke doohickey he was firing.

[Captain Russ]

Nitpicking a comic book movie's reality is like playing pick up sticks with your buttcheeks.