Topic: Movies
I've never seen a movie that lived up to its own hype the way the "Avengers" has. There were so many pitfalls Joss Whedon could have fallen into: getting too wrapped up in a convoluted story with all those characters, or not giving certain characters their due, or being derailed by all the different egos involved, or not flowing organically from the other movies that lead up to this. Not only did it not get screwed up, Joss Whedon knocked it out of the park. In a way, the story was very simple and straight forward: bad guy gets a hold of power cube. Good guys team up to stop his evil plans. A simple story was the right way to go so you focus on the important stuff: Making sure each Avenger gets their moment to shine, and filling the movie chock-full of wouldn't-it-be-cool-if moments. Seriously, they must have sat down and just brainstormed every cool thing that could possibly happen, and then worked it into the story. I couldn'y think of anthing I wished I had seen that wasn't in the movie. I was worried that Black Widow and Hawkeye would just be in the back ground. Didn't happen. I was worried Cap America wouldn't end up the leader. No worries there. Some movies like this become just about the special effects and action. In this case, even the dialogue was spot on. By the end I realized I had been laughing and gasping through the whole thing, and so was the rest of the audience. The reason this movie turned out so well was because, a true fan made the creative decisions instead of someone with a buisiness degree. Other movie studios need to learn that from Marvel. Get out of the way of the creative people and let them make their art. They know what they're doing. This movie was pure fun. Not dark and brooding like a lot of comic book movies try to be. It doesn't apologize for it. It feels like a comic book with a lot of larger then life moments. Unless you just hate cool things, you can't possibly be disappointed with this movie. And, stay for the post-credits teaser at the end. Both of them.
