Reviews of The Avengers 2012
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Loki: I have an army.
Tony Stark: We have a Hulk.This was the film I'd been waiting for. The film I'd been wanting to cross off my list for ages. Tonight, at about 12.40am I can say that finally I've watched the Avengers.
The reason I'd put off watching the Marvel Cinematic Universe was due to the Iron Man films. I liked them but I didn't love them. But I loved Thor and engaged well with Captain America. As…
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*With RiffTrax. Still not a big fan of The Avengers, it's entertaining but there is also a lot of stupidity throughout. I actually liked it less than the last time I watched it. Well I enjoyed it more with RiffTrax but I liked the movie less. The banter didn't seem as witty, the action is still a bit uneven and the ending battle sequence is exciting yet unwieldy. If I could just turn my brain off it would be a…
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Best week of biology class, EVER.
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I just can't bring myself to like this movie, which is both pleasant and frustrating at the same time. Pleasant because, from my point of view, it's a pretty mediocre movie; a self-indulgent mess of someone who thinks he's doing an important movie when it's everything but. So the delusions of grandeur are even more notorious and annoying. Meh action, childish humor. Just boring.
Frustrating because it has been called the "greatest superhero movie of all time". And I don't… -
Probably the most entertaining movie I've seen in a cinema since...ever.
Funny and action-packed. For me it's probably the ultimate summer blockbuster movie.
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Αγαπημένε Hulk.
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#6 Marvel Phase One Film marathon: 01:30am
Finally, we have made it all the way to the film that the past five built up to for over four years and managed to contain it into a 14 hour film marathon. There were times when I thought some of us would throw in the towel - beds were calling, lives were calling louder. I would argue that this is the life.
Words cannot contain how much I love this film. And…
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A year later, I still have trouble completely embracing this film. I love the character moments and the final action scene is so much fun that you leave the movie feeling great. But I find the story very weak, and there's just a lot of silly stuff that I don't get. As much fun as the last fight is, the aliens they are fighting are some of the lamest opponents since the Star Wars prequels. I also just feel like not much happens in the movie. There's a lot of fun to be had, but it barely holds together as a whole.
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Re-watched this to prepare for Iron Man 3.
One of the finest Comic Book films ever made. This will always be a film that impresses considering how clunky this could have turned out with so many characters to deal with. I felt they balanced everyone as well as they could have.
The effects are so wonderful to watch in this. The performances are great. Script is cool. Whedon is excellent behind the camera. Really looking forward to seeing where they…
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I don’t think it’s insignificant that none of these heroes has a secret identity. That means that their lives can’t be all that complicated — certainly not compared to Superman, Batman or Spider-Man. Maybe I’m being too hard on Captain America, but his waking-up-in-a-different-time-period predicament isn’t nearly as thematically powerful as the predicaments of those three. Or at least it isn’t the way it’s conveyed here. Anyway, this doesn’t mean these characters are bad, just that I can’t rate this…
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Maybe it's the fact that the oversaturation of superhero films has really dimmed my enthusiasm, but I merely enjoyed The Avengers. I wasn't blown away by it. It didn't redefine the genre of action films for years to come. If anything, what most impressed me was that it didn't end up an absolute trainwreck that I was sure it would be.
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I knew from the moment Joss Whedon was announced as writer/director of Marvel's supergroup franchise, The Avengers, that the right decision had been made. While it seemed like a gamble to industry observers -- Whedon had previously only made one feature film, a sequel to his short-lived television series, FIrefly -- genre fans were immediately frenzied with excitement. Whedon's track record at crafting stories with large ensemble casts (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) made him a great fit for The…