The Avengers: The Motion Picture Discussion Thread- Open SPOILERS -enter at own risk!

[ZaCHw117]

I figured stuff like this would happen and I chose my movie showtime accordingly. Late night, Sunday night... no kids because the little ____s need to go school the next day. Mind you, the phone of some _____ sitting in front of me rang when Cap and Tony were discussing the death of Coulson.

Yeah, the midnight showing was miles better just for that fact. No kids. Still though, cell phones pissed me off.

 

[thenammagazine]

fussy, squirmy kids > douchy texters and cellphone calls

 

[Boba Ben]

I agree. At least the kids enjoy super heroes.

 

[ZaCHw117]

fussy, squirmy kids > douchy texters and cellphone calls

There's nothing worse then

eeeeeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

from a little baby during a movie. Get a babysitter or don't go.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Why the Department of Defense refused to support The Avengers

Whenever a movie has anything that remotely looks like military-tech, the producers turn to the actual military for help with gear that'll look the part. But when Marvel came a-calling with The Avengers, the Pentagon decided not to play ball with Joss Whedon and company. And their reasoning is priceless.
The DoD was totally on board with The Avengers until mid-way through production when, according to US Defense Department Hollywood liaison Phil Strub, it became confusing to the powers that be where, exactly, the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division would fall in the current bureaucratic command structure:
"We couldn't reconcile the unreality of this international organization and our place in it. To whom did S.H.I.E.L.D. answer? Did we work for S.H.I.E.L.D.? We hit that roadblock and decided we couldn't do anything [with Avengers]."
According to Wired, Marvel tried to explain—with what must've been a straight face—that given the word "Homeland" in its title, S.H.I.E.L.D. would be part of the Department of Homeland Security, not the Department of Defense. If S.H.I.E.L.D. was a real organization. Which it is not. Because The Avengers is a work of fiction.
Wow.

 

[Voorhees27]

damn.

 

[DarkMagic]

Saw it 2nd time today, since my first time was ruined by noisy kids and people who come in after the movie has started. Only thing that bugged me was the ending when IM threw the nuke at the "mothership" and all the aliens suddenly just die, kinda cheesy.

Yeah, but I don't think this was the first alien invasion movie to use this as a plot device to wrap up the battle quickly and neatly at the end with a victory for the underdog "good guys". Didn't something similar happen in Independence Day when they loaded the virus onto the mothership that made it deactivate the shields for all of their alien ships and fighter crafts? I wouldn't be surprised if Battleship ends this way....nor will I know first-hand, because I won't see it

 

[ZaCHw117]

Why the Department of Defense refused to support The Avengers

Give it up to the ladies and gentlemen who run this glorious country!

 

[ZaCHw117]

Yeah, but I don't think this was the first alien invasion movie to use this as a plot device to wrap up the battle quickly and neatly at the end with a victory for the underdog "good guys". Didn't something similar happen in Independence Day when they loaded the virus onto the mothership that made it deactivate the shields for all of their alien ships and fighter crafts? I wouldn't be surprised if Battleship ends this way....nor will I know first-hand, because I won't see it

The Phantom Menace too.

 

[tomandshell]

My impression of the Hulk situation was that when Banner resists the change and tries to stifle his temper, he has less control over his behavior as Hulk. (Also, you got the impression that Loki was influencing him through the staff.) In the climax, Banner doesn't resist at all but embraces his anger and chooses to become the Hulk instead of being afraid of it, and giving in and intentionally changing allows him to have more control. Although moments like the sucker punch show that he is still dangerous and unpredictable.

 

[thenammagazine]

There's nothing worse then

eeeeeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

from a little baby during a movie. Get a babysitter or don't go.

If you went to the first show of the day, then that's on you. Otherwise, I'll concede.

Why the Department of Defense refused to support The Avengers

i.e. they were ashamed at how the senators were so realistically portrayed.

 

[kanine]

Yeah, but I don't think this was the first alien invasion movie to use this as a plot device to wrap up the battle quickly and neatly at the end with a victory for the underdog "good guys". Didn't something similar happen in Independence Day when they loaded the virus onto the mothership that made it deactivate the shields for all of their alien ships and fighter crafts? I wouldn't be surprised if Battleship ends this way....nor will I know first-hand, because I won't see it

At that point of the movie, they had Loki beat, and they found a way to close the portal and recover the cube.

They could have wrote it as just have IM throw the nuke into space and cause a great blow to the incoming alien forces, close the portal and have the rest of the Avengers finish the remaining aliens on Earth. Then have the Chituris plotting another way to come back to Earth for revenge. I really don't like this "mothership" idea with aliens anymore.

 

[ZaCHw117]

If you went to the first show of the day, then that's on you. Otherwise, I'll concede.

I went to the midnight, then one on saturday at seven then one on sunday at 4. The last two had pretty annoying audiences.

 

[kanine]

Might go a 3rd time for one of the early matinee shows next week. I can't stand people who come in last minute and then stumble around looking for seats and asking everyone "are those seats taken?" Seriously, the movie starts for me when the previews come on, not when the actual movie itself starts.

 

[ZaCHw117]

Might go a 3rd time for one of the early matinee shows next week. I can't stand people who come in last minute and then stumble around looking for seats and asking everyone "are those seats taken?" Seriously, the movie starts for me when the previews come on, not when the actual movie itself starts.

I wish theaters would offer an "13 and up only" showtime sometime during the day for these bigger films. Or maybe enven an "18 and up."

 

[thenammagazine]

I went to the midnight, then one on saturday at seven then one on sunday at 4. The last two had pretty annoying audiences.

Well, then that's on them then, but you're still a whiny little tittybaby.

 

[Boba Ben]

I don't know. At the show I went to, it seemed that the high school aged kids were the most annoying crowd.

 

[ZaCHw117]

Well, then that's on them then, but you're still a whiny little tittybaby.

 

[jye4ever]

So what purpose did it serve for Stark to go see General Ross at the end of TIH?

Also, Loki was already on earth as seen at end of Thor so why the need for a big cube energy entrance in Avengers?

Couldn't he had just teleported into a broom closet somewhere on the base.

See, Nolan didn't leave behind loose strings in his Batman films.

 

[Voorhees27]

So what purpose did it serve for Stark to go see General Ross at the end of TIH?

Also, Loki was already on earth as seen at end of Thor so why the need for a big cube energy entrance in Avengers?

Couldn't he had just teleported into a broom closet somewhere on the base.

See, Nolan didn't leave behind loose strings in his Batman films.