Oh. Hell. Yes.
May. 7th, 2012 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyGuess what I did tonight? If you said stayed home and watched Bones, you'd be totally wrong.
For once. So you're forgiven.
I saw a movie. *dances* Yes. I believe I saw my movie for the year, although Mums wants to see one for her birthday or Mother's Day or hell, maybe both, and I promised Widget we'd see the penguins blow stuff up in June so, hey. I'm going to see three movies this year. Le gasp!
Anyway.
I... don't think I actually need a spoiler cut, but hey. I guess this way I can blather on and not worry about ruining the fun stuff?
So. Full disclosure: Saw Iron Man. That's it. Wanted to see Thor, was told Captain America was fantabulous, and avoided the Hulk movies because no one I trusted said there was anything all that good about either, and I still remember the day before the first Hulk opened everyone was talking sequel and series and the day it opened all talks of that persuasion stopped. Do you know how bad a movie has to be for that to happen? How bad a comic book movie has to be for that to happen? The entire point of the CB movie is to create at least a sequel. At LEAST. Haven't seen Iron Man 2 either because again, told it's not that good. It's on my to watch list, one day though.
Know what? Didn't make a damn bit of difference. I'm sure I missed some things but y'know, I missed them and it didn't hurt the movie at all. I still left the theater feeling like I was six and super heroes are totally real and awesome and why am I not a super gymnast and capable of such awesomeness and can we go again, please thank you? Which is the mark of a good summer flick. It's been moved to the head of my "want now" list.
When it was over, Ari asked who my favorite was. And I had to think about it because I'm fickle and things change from scene to scene. She asked who my favorite Avenger was, so Loki couldn't be my answer (why yes, sir, you did waltz away with the movie. Well played.) which left me pondering. Black Widow was cool, but ultimately on her own wasn't quite as much fun as the others.
This Hulk was awesome and you could hear the sound of various 'ships being launched throughout the movie. (We include Bruce in this because again, awesome and the 'ships man. Why won't someone think of the 'ships?!) But... not my favorite.
Cap was all adorably old school and not up to snarkiness which was a lovely contrast, and him taking charge worked quite nicely. But not my favorite.
Thor got the most Loki face time and he's awfully pretty... BUT: I look at him and my brain helpfully points out his brother is attached to Miley Cyrus. So she's all I see when I look at him too long. And that's just not right, brain. Not right at all!
Iron Man got the most laughs and let's be honest; RDJ is pretty awesome as Tony Stark. I might argue he's the single best thing to happen to Marvel's movie division ever. But I might just say that and let it sit out there for funsies. And he is almost my favorite.
But yeah. The 15 minutes or so when Hawkeye isn't possessed and I can thus count him as part of the team? HELL. YES. We have ourselves a winner! Dude who brings a bow and arrow (essentially) to a power fight? Wins. Technically it's the Black Widow/Hawkeye connection that I gave as my answer because I am a sucker for that.
Is good times. Good, good times. Y'know, til Coulson dies and the audience is all "...!"
But then later Hulk will smash Loki around in the most randomly awesome scene ever and... well, Coulson is still dead, but every team creation movie needs that moment to solidify the team, and usually that moment is solidified in blood. Double this necessity when Whedon is at the helm.
In conclusion, I recommend it. Highly. And I don't blow my money (and it wasn't cheap. IMAX 3D, people.) on movies lightly, so you've really got to be awesome for me not to resent the admission fee even a little. Not even a little!
I will say this: the movie 'ends' and a quarter of the people in the over-crowded theater leave. I'm sitting there, pissed because I'm at the end of the aisle (theater was packed!) and I want to kick these idiots in their shins or something because it's a Marvel movie. Do you people know what that means? That means there's AT LEAST one extra scene thrown in somewhere!
And there was. And it was over and half the theater that was left decided to leave. And again I'm like, "THE. HELL. Are the credits over? No? Then sit your asses back down and wait for the damn movie to be over!"
Now. Let's discuss the events surrounding the movie: We get in line behind the only two people on the planet who seem to think you should smoke in line for a movie. Assholes. And Ari gets to the ticket booth first and is ready to go to the non-IMAX version because IMAX gives her a headache or something. I don't really care one way or the other, to be honest. Then she asks how crowded the IIMAX Max showing is (it was sooner) and the ticket girl says it's pretty empty, so Ari picks that one because we're both not big on crowds. We get into the theater (narrowly avoiding being knocked over by one of the smokers) and... it's full. Like, the first two rows are empty and the occasional seat here and there are free, but mostly it's the end of the aisles and single seats. FULL.
The hell? How is this "mostly empty"?! So... my first IMAX movie was spent sitting at the end of one of the rows in the back, swiveled slightly oddly because you've got to compensate for the railings in your way. And then people kept getting up and making me move.
All throughout the movie. And then! Then two really drunk guys come in and refuse to sit up front (by now these are the only seats that aren't singles in the whole theater) and instead sit on the steps behind me. But everytime I think they've gone and swiped someone else's seat while they're on a popcorn run or something, they'd move or say something and I'd smell them all over again.
Even with these distractions? Awesome movie. Go get your 'ship on.
For once. So you're forgiven.
I saw a movie. *dances* Yes. I believe I saw my movie for the year, although Mums wants to see one for her birthday or Mother's Day or hell, maybe both, and I promised Widget we'd see the penguins blow stuff up in June so, hey. I'm going to see three movies this year. Le gasp!
Anyway.
I... don't think I actually need a spoiler cut, but hey. I guess this way I can blather on and not worry about ruining the fun stuff?
So. Full disclosure: Saw Iron Man. That's it. Wanted to see Thor, was told Captain America was fantabulous, and avoided the Hulk movies because no one I trusted said there was anything all that good about either, and I still remember the day before the first Hulk opened everyone was talking sequel and series and the day it opened all talks of that persuasion stopped. Do you know how bad a movie has to be for that to happen? How bad a comic book movie has to be for that to happen? The entire point of the CB movie is to create at least a sequel. At LEAST. Haven't seen Iron Man 2 either because again, told it's not that good. It's on my to watch list, one day though.
Know what? Didn't make a damn bit of difference. I'm sure I missed some things but y'know, I missed them and it didn't hurt the movie at all. I still left the theater feeling like I was six and super heroes are totally real and awesome and why am I not a super gymnast and capable of such awesomeness and can we go again, please thank you? Which is the mark of a good summer flick. It's been moved to the head of my "want now" list.
When it was over, Ari asked who my favorite was. And I had to think about it because I'm fickle and things change from scene to scene. She asked who my favorite Avenger was, so Loki couldn't be my answer (why yes, sir, you did waltz away with the movie. Well played.) which left me pondering. Black Widow was cool, but ultimately on her own wasn't quite as much fun as the others.
This Hulk was awesome and you could hear the sound of various 'ships being launched throughout the movie. (We include Bruce in this because again, awesome and the 'ships man. Why won't someone think of the 'ships?!) But... not my favorite.
Cap was all adorably old school and not up to snarkiness which was a lovely contrast, and him taking charge worked quite nicely. But not my favorite.
Thor got the most Loki face time and he's awfully pretty... BUT: I look at him and my brain helpfully points out his brother is attached to Miley Cyrus. So she's all I see when I look at him too long. And that's just not right, brain. Not right at all!
Iron Man got the most laughs and let's be honest; RDJ is pretty awesome as Tony Stark. I might argue he's the single best thing to happen to Marvel's movie division ever. But I might just say that and let it sit out there for funsies. And he is almost my favorite.
But yeah. The 15 minutes or so when Hawkeye isn't possessed and I can thus count him as part of the team? HELL. YES. We have ourselves a winner! Dude who brings a bow and arrow (essentially) to a power fight? Wins. Technically it's the Black Widow/Hawkeye connection that I gave as my answer because I am a sucker for that.
Is good times. Good, good times. Y'know, til Coulson dies and the audience is all "...!"
But then later Hulk will smash Loki around in the most randomly awesome scene ever and... well, Coulson is still dead, but every team creation movie needs that moment to solidify the team, and usually that moment is solidified in blood. Double this necessity when Whedon is at the helm.
In conclusion, I recommend it. Highly. And I don't blow my money (and it wasn't cheap. IMAX 3D, people.) on movies lightly, so you've really got to be awesome for me not to resent the admission fee even a little. Not even a little!
I will say this: the movie 'ends' and a quarter of the people in the over-crowded theater leave. I'm sitting there, pissed because I'm at the end of the aisle (theater was packed!) and I want to kick these idiots in their shins or something because it's a Marvel movie. Do you people know what that means? That means there's AT LEAST one extra scene thrown in somewhere!
And there was. And it was over and half the theater that was left decided to leave. And again I'm like, "THE. HELL. Are the credits over? No? Then sit your asses back down and wait for the damn movie to be over!"
Now. Let's discuss the events surrounding the movie: We get in line behind the only two people on the planet who seem to think you should smoke in line for a movie. Assholes. And Ari gets to the ticket booth first and is ready to go to the non-IMAX version because IMAX gives her a headache or something. I don't really care one way or the other, to be honest. Then she asks how crowded the IIMAX Max showing is (it was sooner) and the ticket girl says it's pretty empty, so Ari picks that one because we're both not big on crowds. We get into the theater (narrowly avoiding being knocked over by one of the smokers) and... it's full. Like, the first two rows are empty and the occasional seat here and there are free, but mostly it's the end of the aisles and single seats. FULL.
The hell? How is this "mostly empty"?! So... my first IMAX movie was spent sitting at the end of one of the rows in the back, swiveled slightly oddly because you've got to compensate for the railings in your way. And then people kept getting up and making me move.
All throughout the movie. And then! Then two really drunk guys come in and refuse to sit up front (by now these are the only seats that aren't singles in the whole theater) and instead sit on the steps behind me. But everytime I think they've gone and swiped someone else's seat while they're on a popcorn run or something, they'd move or say something and I'd smell them all over again.
Even with these distractions? Awesome movie. Go get your 'ship on.