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AVENGERS: Grade, Reviews, Discuss, DVD & Sequel **SPOILERS**

How do you grade The Avengers?

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Captain Craig

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It's finally here, the big moment that Marvel Studios has been building towards since the founding and implementation of their film slate in 2006. It began with Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk in 2008. Iron Man is the studios highest grosser to date.
Followed by Iron Man 2 in 2010 which opened huge and is the current highest opener for the studio at $133m.
In 2012 the studio added more pieces to the puzzle with Thor and Captain America.

Now, this May(earlier in some places) Marvel Studios in conjunction with Disney bring you Earth's Mightiest Heroes: The Avengers!!

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The film opens next week in a number of European markets and the embargo for reviews is lifted as of 4/20 leading up to opening night in France, UK and other select markets on 4/26. The film has had it's global premiere and debuts in North America on May 4. I'll try to post as many as I can find.

Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow answer the call to action when Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., initiates a daring, globe-spanning recruitment effort to assemble The Avengers team to defeat an unexpected enemy threatening global safety and security. Despite pulling together the ultimate dream team, Nick Fury and longtime confidant Agent Coulson must find a way to convince the Super Heroes to work with, not against each other, when the powerful and dangerous Loki gains access to the Cosmic Cube and its unlimited power.
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THE AVENGERS
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FYI-The poll is public.

The Avengers is tracking to open in the upwards realm of $150 million but $125m is the lowest I've seen. Should open big. The year 2012 has been good and 3 weeks out from it's North American release The Hunger Games was only tracking in the 120 realm and that blew up so a repeat could happen here as well!!
 
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Turtletrekker said:
sojourner said:
Jesus, do we really need 5 Avengers threads?
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Actually, this now makes six.;):lol:

This thread, the movie build-up thread, cast Avengers 2, Avengers :Earth's Mightiest Heroes season 2, Heroic Age/Avengers and Avengers vs X-Men.

However, with the grading thread up, the build-up thread can probably be closed soon.

Also, the "Heroic Age" thread is more of a general Marvel thread than specifically Avengers and could use a name change.
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considering one of those is about a cartoon and two are about the comics, that's only 3 about the movie and one's about the sequel so it's not that bad.
 
No offense, but isn't two weeks kind of still early for the official thread?

Cinemablend gives it four and a half out of five stars. That's about as high a rating that I've ever seen from them.

http://www.cinemablend.com/reviews/The-Avengers-5829.html

Also Bleeding Cool was overwhelming positive but it addresses specific things, no major spoilers but I kind of wish I didn't read it for one particular thing.
 
it opens on the 27th in many overseas territories including the UK and Australia, so a week before that isn't that far in advance. i'm seeing it on the 9th with my sister when she's home. i was going to go twice and see it on the 27th, but decided to save the money since my sister's paying for us to see it.
 
Empire gave it 4 stars, IGN said it's awesome.

I'm going to see it next Thursday, might even go see it more than once.
 
IGN's right. It's awesome. Gripping action, fleshed-out characters, genuine laugh-out-loud humour, and it just looks fantastic.

Joss Whedon could've failed in so many ways. But - true to his wunderkind reputation - he's surpassed my expectations.

I'll be watching it again, soon.
 
captcalhoun said:
Admiral_Young said:
offense, but isn't two weeks kind of still early for the official thread?
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It opens on the 27th in many overseas territories including the UK and Australia, so a week before that isn't that far in advance.
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I noted what captcalhoun has in the OP for this thread. We are a global BBS and the buildup thread was for just that, buildup. It's a week out from it's first initial wide international release and reviews will be hitting from those markets now that the embargo is lifted. So for reviews and any who might attend a sneak show in those areas the proper place is a review/grade thread, not the build up cause for them it's now here.
 
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If you hadn’t guessed it, I LOVED The Avengers, it was everything I had hoped it would be and so much more. I don’t do star ratings, but if I did this would be an easy 5 out of 5. I was blown away by it, as was the rest of the screening audience. I’ve been to a few screenings but never have I seen and heard so much enthusiasm as at The Avengers, clapping & cheering throughout isn’t commonplace from a bunch of journalists and film critics.
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uk.screengeeks.com - 4/5 stars
So it happened, Avengers Assemble actually exists and the strangest factor in the film is that it’s actually excellent. Whedon and his team have assembled to bring us one of the finest action/adventure films of the past few years. Like any movie in this genre, it has its flaws but when a film is this fun, do we care? The superhero genre just got kicked up a notch.
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digitalspy.com - 4/5 stars
Bringing superheroes together might have been a bad idea. All that chest puffing and portentous bluster could suck the oxygen out of the Earth's atmosphere. Thankfully writer-director Joss Whedon keeps things wonderfully bright and breezy, making a long film whizz by faster than a speeding bullet.
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UK Daily Fail gave it a thumbs up, and usually doesn't know arse from elbow. Not sure whether that's a good sign or bad. :vulcan:
 
Movie-Moron.com - A grade
Director Joss Whedon brings us the best Hulk yet in The Avengers, and it starts with his introductory scene. The tension is slowly building towards the first inevitable Hulk-out later in the film, with Black Widow – who we’ve seen deal with some shady underworld types nonchalantly – deathly afraid of having to deal with the angry version of Dr Banner. Banner, meanwhile, is confident and apparently has some degree of control. It’s a fun scene that kicks off a fun portrayal; Hulk is a horrible prospect, a force to be reckoned with and, eventually, really exciting to watch.
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viewaucklund.co.nz - 5o5 stars
The Avengers is an awesome, action-packed extravaganza. The best of its kind thanks to the enviable skill of its writer/director Joss Whedon. It has been a long time since I've seen a film that I would happily walk straight back into the cinema after viewing, and watch all over again.
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thepopcornjunkie.com - 4.5 of 5 stars
Be prepared for a LOT of gushing over Marvel Studio’s ‘The Avengers’. I’m going to give it to you straight; the film is phenomenally awesome. No review for the film really matters anyway because you’d be mental to miss the biggest superhero film event since we were pooped out from the big bang. Therefore, the burning question – is it the greatest superhero movie ever made? Our yardstick for the perfect superhero film is Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight’ and Richard Donner’s ‘Superman’. ‘The Avengers’ gets the bronze medal behind these films but serves as one of the best blockbusters ever made and is a fantastic accomplishment of Marvel Studios and writer/director Joss Whedon.
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BleedingCool.com their 3-D review - stars/grade unknown but he liked it.
The lights came down, the glasses went on. I have a slight stigmatism in my eye which, apparently, makes 3D films an issue for me, especially with fast paced action. Guess what there was a lot of in this film. But my eyes adjusted eventually.

There was lots of good. There was some bad. Some people are calling this the best superhero film of all… but I still feel like keeping First Class above it. And, naturally, it’s not a patch on Misfits. But it is a stunning piece of work.
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The reviews are intriguing, but I'm still waiting for something that says anything deeper than "I liked it, the characters did cool things." I have yet to see a single review that says anything about the cinematography, the visual effects, the direction, the actual filmmaking. I keep going back to that clip of Thor and Captain America fighting in the street, which breaks the 180 rule so hard that it makes my head spin. It all feels like a bunch of inconsequential, weightless action which exists for the sole purpose of arranging the titular characters in poses that make for good posters. All that it has going for it, so far, is, "Damn, wow, if you would have told me you'd see professional actors cosplaying and doing Jim Lee poses 10 or 15 years ago, I wouldn't have believed you! What strange times we live in!"

Maybe that's what people want, I don't know. But, again, all of the reviews that have come out since the embargo was lifted feel horribly superficial, much like how all the released footage of the film feels.
 
I'll be seeing it on May 5th together with friends after we've spent a day at a roleplaying/board games/nerd convention (and we'll go Sunday too).. perfect framing for it! And now that the reviews pour in and many of them are good to ecstatic i'm hopeful.. i really like Joss and knows he's a nerd and pop culture insider so if given control it could turn out good but major blockbusters are not produced without studio meddling which often leads to a train wreck of a movie.

So it's only two weeks before i hear Cap yell his legendary command to the Avengers! :techman::techman:
 
Just a note -- I know that this is the review and discussion thread, and there are people here who have already seen the film, but keep in mind the spoiler rules, especially because the film doesn't officially open anywhere until a week from now. Don't go blabbing stuff.

Thanks.

FPAlpha said:
So it's only two weeks before i hear Cap yell his legendary command to the Avengers! :techman::techman:
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If what I've read is accurate, it isn't actually said at any point in the film.
 
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