Went to see it last Thursday, and I thought I'd better finish my review entry and post it as all you US-ians are getting your midnight showings in
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I would have wished a little bit more warmth (Cap&Tony, *cough*) but for the beginning, what we got works really well. The odds really weren't in favor for them to pull Avengers off at all.
(And I'm so happy they fixed Black Widow. Sure, ScarJo is too young and really not athletic enough but good writing and cleverly done action bits do wonders. Gosh, I was so *worried* about this you wouldn't believe. :)
I kept waiting Steve to pick up Thor's hammer the whole movie.
(If they don't bring in Carol for Avengers 2, I'll cry.)
Actually, from what I've heard, we may owe a lot to Scarlett Johansson--she has absolutely refused to let the character be sidelined, and made it absolutely clear that if she was going to wear the catsuit, they were going to make damn well sure she did some ass-kick action scenes in it.
Good for her. I wish more actresses did that (assuming they could). Though, I am a little bit concerned that Widow being sidelined was an option.
It's now how much a character like this gets action scenes, it's how those scenes are done. It's not enough that they're asskicky and cool, the audience needs to be able to believe in them. (I'm sure they thought that the Widow scenes of Iron Man 2 were totally great too.) And since she doesn't have the body for them, they really need to do miracles.
But to reassure you that Hollywood has not suddenly gotten a grasp on how to do superhero movies, there's the spoiler about Uncle Ben in the new, darker, edgier Spider-Man movie!
If you have any thoughts about still going to see it, you actually might want to. This was a complete dealbreaker for me--I was planning on maybe doing a $5 matinee at my local special theater just for the Spider-Cam webslinging bits, but jesus no now. There are certain things you just cannot mess with.
Doh! That was Thanos? I totally just saw the chin and thought 'Skrull' and assumed that it was like... 'Okay, so we get the Ultimate version of Skrulls and he's-- the Super Skrull?'
And I have to say that Widow was the standout character for me, too. I think part of what I enjoyed so much about her was that they addressed her femininity? Because it's such a standard trope when writing a 'badass female character' to just neuter her and make her one-note and a walking stunt double. But with Widow, they made her a complete badass and then gave her a 'woman ruled by her emotions underneath it all' moment only to completely subvert it. As though Natasha is aware of the expectations people have of her as a woman and can use them to her advantage. It was brilliant and just goes to show how much difference writing/directing can make, because I was not expecting to love her this much after her round in IM2.
I thought at first he was a Skrull, too, but then I realized his skin was purple. Though he may be streamlined into being a Skrull for the sake of the MCU, who knows.
Yes! That's exactly what I liked about her, too. She's a woman who doesn't fit into preconceived social notions of what women are supposed to be like, and the text actually grappled with that without ever letting her devolve into a different stereotype for women (as too many "subversive" female characters do, sadly).
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I would have wished a little bit more warmth (Cap&Tony, *cough*) but for the beginning, what we got works really well. The odds really weren't in favor for them to pull Avengers off at all.
(And I'm so happy they fixed Black Widow. Sure, ScarJo is too young and really not athletic enough but good writing and cleverly done action bits do wonders. Gosh, I was so *worried* about this you wouldn't believe. :)
I kept waiting Steve to pick up Thor's hammer the whole movie.
(If they don't bring in Carol for Avengers 2, I'll cry.)
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It's now how much a character like this gets action scenes, it's how those scenes are done. It's not enough that they're asskicky and cool, the audience needs to be able to believe in them. (I'm sure they thought that the Widow scenes of Iron Man 2 were totally great too.) And since she doesn't have the body for them, they really need to do miracles.
...and they did and it was great.:)
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Tell you what, I'll think about it and hit you up sometime before July if I decide I need to know!
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And I have to say that Widow was the standout character for me, too. I think part of what I enjoyed so much about her was that they addressed her femininity? Because it's such a standard trope when writing a 'badass female character' to just neuter her and make her one-note and a walking stunt double.
But with Widow, they made her a complete badass and then gave her a 'woman ruled by her emotions underneath it all' moment only to completely subvert it. As though Natasha is aware of the expectations people have of her as a woman and can use them to her advantage. It was brilliant and just goes to show how much difference writing/directing can make, because I was not expecting to love her this much after her round in IM2.
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Yes! That's exactly what I liked about her, too. She's a woman who doesn't fit into preconceived social notions of what women are supposed to be like, and the text actually grappled with that without ever letting her devolve into a different stereotype for women (as too many "subversive" female characters do, sadly).
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