My question of the moment: Will boxofficmojo be correct in their prediction that The Dark Knight Rises will be the biggest box office success of the summer, or will The Avengers walk away with it?
I think it will be tight, but honestly, I think The Avengers might win. People like Batman, but my feeling is that fun will win over darkness this summer. And I'm not sure that The Dark Knight has maintained its reputation since it came out. I bought the blu-ray and re-watched it recently, and as I think I mentioned before, I was oddly bored and bummed out. I haven't seen The Avengers yet (I have to wait until we go to the beach with my parents to get the free babysitting) but I don't think it will have that effect on me in four years.
Will and I saw Avengers today in 3D. It was AWESOME ! of course and we had dinner afterwards and I ALMOST went to see it again.
But I didn't, I want to though.
The biggest laughs were:
Hulk thwapping Loki all over the place and when the guy on the bridge switched back to playing asteroids (is that right?) when Fury left. I think it was just so unexpected and relatable.
There was so much in the movie and yet it didn't feel like there were too many plotlines, subplots or characters. The movie did have the benefit of the previous movies to establish characters, but there was still info for people who hadn't seen the movie.
Like Redtails had multiple subplots and a ton of characters and it felt like too much for one movie. Avengers was more balanced and it felt like layers on top of layers. And there are so many little things like
when Stark and Caulson step out of the elevator and Stark's offering his personal jet to fly to Portland and, um, I'm blanking on other ones but there were moments and they were nice.
Black Widow was awesome! Natasha was seriously awesome
I knew about the interrogation in the beginning but didn't realize she pulled the same thing on Loki.
Also
I wasn't sure who Alexis Denisof was exactly, is The Other the one who Loki kept talking to? I need to watch it again. Enver was easy to recognize - young cop!
Was it Jilli who said she felt like Dru "Do it again!" because that was me.
Disaster assessment firm says the damage to Manhattan in Avengers would cost $160 billion.
Heh.
Living in NYC in the Marvel Universe would kind of suck, but on the other hand, property values would be pretty reasonable.
Matt okay, I was completely blanking and I associate Dru with Jilli which is how I came up with that line of reasoning.
Oh also I thought
the flying creatures were really really cool. They were one of my favorite bits and if anyone makes a toy or model of those I want one.
Dark Shadows report! Color me pleasantly shocked, because itis far, FAR better than I had feared. Every "zany!" moment in the trailer was apparently picked to give people the completely wrong idea about the movie. It's almost every paranormal Gothic Romance Novel cliche rolled into one, and covered with brooding atmosphere. The "zany!" moments from the trailer are just that, moments. The rest of the movie is far closer in tone to Sleepy Hollow.
It wasn't perfect, but it wasn't the train wreck I dreaded. In fact, I want to go see it again, and I'm definitely going to be buying it. The parts that made me cringe were the scenes where 70s music was being used to lighten the brooding, tone. For instance, I would have been much happier if the
hate!sex scene between Barnabas and Angelique had been played for unease and horror, instead of having a 70s funk-hit soundtrack.
So, I'm not just relieved, I'm happy!
Yay, Jilli! Now I can go see it.
I felt a little bad for the people in the theatre who were expecting the movie the trailers promised, because it really wasn't that. But I kept making flaily-hands of glee at it.
It's like Tim Burton decided to make a movie out of every Victoria Holt novel ever.
Jilli, TCG wanted you to know that the Jilli stamp of approval is good enough for him. He was on the fence about seeing it based on the trailers.
