I'm sure the heroes will beat the shit out of each other in one briefly curtailed misunderstanding, and then more extensively in training.
Yeah, it's hard to tell from the trailer whether any of those fights are training exercises or something.
Um...
Wow.
This is the first trailer that made me confident there's, like, a movie about characters with a story in there in addition to all the cool shit blowing up. Excitement!
So, does it look like this is it for Joss? The moment where he makes it from a repeated cult success into mainstream viability? How do you think this will affect his future projects--both his choices and his funding?
He's got some other movie in the works,
In Your Eyes,
that I don't know much about, but it looks like he's able to do things that he wants. I wonder if he'll come back to TV, at this point.
There's been a pretty huge buzz for
The Avengers
outside of the usual Whedon fan-base, right?
I kind of don't want to get my hopes up regarding potential increased awesomeness of Joss's career, but things look promising.
This is the first trailer that made me confident there's, like, a movie about characters
I can see the average man in the street wondering that, but did you not figure, with experience of Whedon, that this was really very likely?
Oh, of course I
figured,
but it was nice to get confirmation.
I wonder if he'll come back to TV, at this point.
I'm thinking that for network TV he'd still be perceived as a cult director. Although that shouldn't prevent him from getting a premium cable show, right?
I'm thinking that for network TV he'd still be perceived as a cult director
Shouldn't a cult director with a profitable franchise (fingers crossed) in his pocket not be so culty anymore? Genre, sure, but not cult.
So, does it look like this is it for Joss?
I think so.
How do you think this will affect his future projects--both his choices and his funding?
He should be able to alternate Big Bucks Tentpole Movies with smaller fare, tossing in Shakespeare-In-My-Backyard movies with periodic forays into Dr. Horrible webseries.
Ultimately, HBO gives him a deal and does TV again. I hope.
One thing that Joss has shown first with Serenity (which he got funded by showing how cheaply he could make it and guarantee a profit for the backers), then with Dr. Horrible then with his backyard Shakespeare is that he can get top talent to work for cheap, produce something cool and still get excellent production values.
I think he's been really smart about creating alternative production approaches that are not as dependent on big Hollywood funding.
And now that he's going to have a movie that will probably gross $800 million, he'll show that he can do it in the traditional ways too.
Mostly though I want him to create an HBO series starring Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof with Alan Tudyk and Christina Hendricks. That's all.
