another reason she feels good

Sep 06, 2008 15:13

On the phone with my roommate of six years ago and current dear friend:

"So I just got out of a movie," I said.
"Oh, cool. What'd you see?"
"Ask me who I am."
"How are you?"
"No, who am I."
"Okay, who are you?" He humors me.
"Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D. I'm here to talk to you about the Avenger Initiative.""Oh lord ( Read more... )

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totallypinkrock September 6 2008, 19:47:13 UTC
The only thing I disliked about it was the oh-so Silver Era(?) origin story trope of "fight some bad guy who's JUST LIKE YOU!" (Hulk, anyone?)
Aside from that, seriously really amazing. Loved it!

The fact that it was an origin story was no big deal, especially because it got us this little Nick Fury sequence (p.s. in Ultimates, you may recall, Nick Fury said he hoped a movie about himself would feature Samuel L. Jackson ^_^)

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akodo_rokku September 6 2008, 22:06:30 UTC
Iron Man's rogues gallery kinda sucks, in general. Stane was about the best we were gonna get since this was *also* an origin story movie -- there wasn't enough time to establish, like, The Mandarin while also establishing Tony.

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akodo_rokku September 6 2008, 22:05:10 UTC
What the heck took you so long? That thing came out in like, May.

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