yes it did.
Actually not needing validation right now, but thank you.
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le nubian - May 29, 2012 11:17:57 am PDT #20786 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
sumi - May 29, 2012 11:24:47 am PDT #20787 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Andre 300 as Jimi Hendrix in All is By My side.
Typo Boy - May 29, 2012 11:30:15 am PDT #20788 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Actually Sinbad kind of looks like it might be dumb fun.
askye - May 29, 2012 1:30:44 pm PDT #20789 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
On the way to work today I was listening to the morning show and the male dj said he saw Avengers and HATED IT. He fell asleep twice (but said he'd been up since 4 am and went to the 9 pm showing) and thought it was WAY TOO LONG. And the action scenes were boring. But he admitted that he hadn't seen the other movies and wasn't really a fan of super hero movies. (He went with a friend who had seen it twice already)
The female DJ said she didn't even know what it was about or who was in it.
Which is the closest thing to a bad review I've heard about The Avengers.
sumi - May 29, 2012 1:48:35 pm PDT #20790 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
I was watching HRTV yesterday and one of the co-hosts thought it was the worst movie ever.
Consuela - May 29, 2012 1:59:45 pm PDT #20791 of 30000
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Which is the closest thing to a bad review I've heard about The Avengers.
My sister didn't like it much: she was bored by the fight scenes and didn't find the characters engaging. But she's not into genre much, and doesn't read comics (and isn't comics-adjacent like me), and hadn't even seen Iron Man. So, not exactly the target audience.
§ ita § - May 29, 2012 2:04:59 pm PDT #20792 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I do think it was too long. The fight scenes were great, but I don't think they needed that length. And, as noted, some of that could have been spent showing more Loki-brain to me, but I guess I'll accept (ho hum) that it's crazy pouty man with no clear endgame in mind.
A little kid tried to run out as soon as the last fight scene started, and the adult nearest him grabbed him back and covered his face. But the fidgeting really distracted me.
eta: My sister was left cold by everything not Coulson, and went as far as not remembering Hawkeye existed.
Jesse - May 29, 2012 2:14:57 pm PDT #20793 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The folks on the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast were all, "Big loud superhero movie, meh." I sort of feel like you shouldn't be allowed to review something if you aren't even generally open to the genre.
Polter-Cow - May 29, 2012 2:17:53 pm PDT #20794 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
A couple of my friends I expected to love it were underwhelmed. On the other hand, a friend who really hates Joss Whedon loved it.
Tom Scola - May 29, 2012 2:18:28 pm PDT #20795 of 30000
hwæt
"Big loud superhero movie, meh."
I’ve read several reviews like that. Some people just can’t see past the superhero thing. Including professional film critics.