So we watched the first Avengers last night. I think I'm checking out. I don't get it. Maybe because I never was into the comics, but I find the movie to be fairly boring and completely uninteresting from a plot and character development standpoint. Oh well, I tried.
I can’t comprehend this.
I was going to say something similar.
To be honest, I skipped the early Marvel films just because I was always only lukewarm on comic book movies in general. But I loved Joss Whedon’s work in Firefly and knew that he had a way of giving all characters an equal emotional impact in an ensemble situation, and he didn’t disappoint.
In fact, The Avengers was such a well told story, and such a well made action film, that it single handedly changed the way I view a comic book films. It wasn’t until I saw Avengers that I went back to give the other MCU films a chance. It’s such a complete game changer that it’s hard to imagine it not being accepted as just a fantastic action film in its own right. It’s basically the action and SFX equivalent of Jurassic Park, but with much better story telling, dialogue, and acting.