Gavin, ask yourself this question. What are you more afraid of, a giant murderous demon or me?
Lilah ,'Destiny'
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DavidS - May 06, 2012 9:45:01 am PDT #19948 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Liese S. - May 06, 2012 9:51:02 am PDT #19949 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Wow.
I'm waiting for the SO to get done playing bass and come home so we can go see it. He won't have seen any of the precursors at all, although of course he has a vague idea of who the characters are from existing in the world for the past several decades.
Is there anything specific I should tell him as backstory before he goes in, or will he be good with the given text?
le nubian - May 06, 2012 9:52:29 am PDT #19950 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Liese,
as someone who had very limited exposure to the back stories, just roll with it. The one that was the most difficult was Thor, but sometimes you just have to go with the story as told.
DavidS - May 06, 2012 9:54:12 am PDT #19951 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is there anything specific I should tell him as backstory before he goes in, or will he be good with the given text?
I think he'll be fine. You could mention that the previous movies wove together bits and pieces like the Tesseract, and Tony Stark's dad involved with Capt. America, Tony Stark building Cap's shield, Agent Coulson and Nick Fury being in the earlier movies, or Loki's story in Thor, but the movie doesn't require that.
tommyrot - May 06, 2012 10:20:51 am PDT #19952 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, in the theater again. This time I'm at a 3-D showing. (This theater is showing The Avengers on two 3-D screens and one 2-D and I didn't want to wait for the next 2-D show.)
Liese S. - May 06, 2012 10:41:18 am PDT #19953 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Okay, thanks.
beekaytee - May 06, 2012 10:46:48 am PDT #19954 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Buffyverse-inspired moments
When our heroes were escaping the post implosion sink hole I turned to my companion and chirped Hellmouth !
Steph L. - May 06, 2012 11:23:29 am PDT #19955 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oh, bonny! That one, too! I forgot about that one since it happens so early in the movie, but that was my exact reaction!
SailAweigh - May 06, 2012 11:52:40 am PDT #19956 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Yep. I kept expecting to see a yellow bus come flying out of the dust cloud.
Went and saw it again today with the daughter. She wanted the 3-D, so I've seen it both ways now. And, for me, I really do prefer the 2-D viewings. I just don't seem to get enough out of the 3-D and there were only a couple of moments where it really made me say "wow".
Still totally engrossing, even knowing what comes next in every scene. And I still don't really believe that Coulson is dead. It's kind of like, if I don't see the funeral, it's not real.
And I was surprised to find out my daughter didn't know it was a Joss flick! She's the one who got me into Buffy, and she was real eager to see this movie. I couldn't figure out how she didn't know! But, I guess the franchise is such that a lot of people don't have a clue who Joss Whedon is and could care less; they just want their superhero fix and that's what was driving her to go.
dcp - May 06, 2012 1:04:58 pm PDT #19957 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Saw Avengers earlier today. No lines, but the theater was 95% filled by the time the previews rolled.
Enjoyed it, definitely worth seeing again, will probably buy the Blu-ray.
About half-way through, I noticed a girl (early teens) about three rows down from me had her cellphone out. If she had just been texting I probably would have ignored it, but the movie screen was visible on her phone screen. I yelled at her, and she put it away.
The really odd thing was that neither the two adults she was with, the other people around her, the people between us, nor the people around me reacted at all when I bellowed.