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I see you and raise you:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm701664000/tt0091225The Avengers: Fantastic movie. Did a very good job of giving everyone screen time and making them interesting. The action was wonderful. All of the characters were badass, including Fury and Hill. Fun little stinger at the end.
MINOR SPOILERSThe Loki v Hulk fight was indeed the single greatest part of this, or perhaps, any other movie. I was happy that no one
important got the ol' Joss Whedon treatment. On the whole, this was a very well done piece by Joss. In fact, he was so true to the previously established movie versions of the characters, it doesn't even feel like something he wrote, aside from being generally high quality. Hawkeye and Black Widow were both done really well. Widow's scene with Loki was amazing. Hawkeye's scene on the top of the building, with how.... mechanical and confident he was was just perfect. I spent the scene watching his feet/legs, and they only moved when they HAD to. Some giant dick-swinging shit right there. Only thing I didn't like was he was "The Hawk" and not "Hawkeye". C'mon, Son. Best part of the movie was BY FAR the Hulk. Second best?
COBIE SMULDERS. Damn girl, where you been keeping that ass? I'd watch your show more if I'd known.
The only other thing I have to add was early on there was a rumor that this movie would have Ms. Marvel and that she would be played by Yvonne Strahovski. While I'm disappointed that I didn't get to see Yvonne in that outfit, this is overrall a good thing, because unlike Hawkeye and Widow, who can be explained relatively quickly, Ms. Marvel is pretty much her own thing, and giving her an origin would have eaten up too much time and fucked the pacing of the movie tremendously.
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As for ranking the actual Marvel Movies? I'll put it at maybe third overall in Marvel's library? Maybe Fourth. My tier list looks something like this:
Thor ~ This was majestic. Extremely well written, very human, very ridiculously pretty. I actually teared up when I saw Asgard for the first time, and I hope somewhere out there, Jack Kirby did too. This movie was especially interesting to me as a film major, because it's basically the only film I've seen that.... sexualizes and beautifies the male form like another film would a woman. It was primarily a picture about a beautiful man (god, whatever), and it reserved camera angles and lighting tricks almost exclusively used for sexification of ladies.
Spider-Man 2 ~ This also came close to making me cry at one point. Forget where, exactly, but it was very emotional at times, without getting into the emo of movie 3, and it was overall better paced and thought out than movie 1. The fight scene from the clock tower to the train is one of the best superhero fights ever, if not the best. (Not counting Loki v Hulk)
Avengers, Captain America ~ Both movies that set out to do what they did in very fine form. Very nicely done all around. Captain America dealt with a lot of sensitive subjects that could have blown up in your face and made them seem effortless. Avengers, well, I already talked about.
Iron Man, X-Men 2, Spider-Man ~ Very good movies all around, I'm probably inflating the latter two, Iron Man really is either a tier of its own or up there with the previous two, but I don't want to break this up too much. Downey Jr. is an absolutely fantastic Iron Man, and, let's face it, AC/DC makes every single goddamn thing better. (Also props to wearing a Black Sabbath shirt for most of this movie, too.) X-men 2 had some great character moments and the Nightcrawler Scene, which is probably just after Spidey v Ock (or Loki v Hulk) in the "Greatest superhero fights" library. Spider-Man was done very well, but missed some key stuff that made the story they ran with important. Such as, I dunno, GWEN FUCKING STACY. I wrote a college paper on this.
Daredevil ~ The forgotten son of the Marvel Films, this was actually very well done. The director's cut would be placed in the level above, but that's not what they released to audiences, which is a goddamn crying shame, because it, I dunno, patched up the big plot hole the theater release had, and it ALSO had a fucking scene with DAREDEVIL DRIVING A CAR. At any rate, people shat on Affleck way too much when he made this a pretty decent film, Colin Ferrel was fantastic and made a very threatening Bullseye. Michael Clark Duncan as Kingpin is not offensive, what is offensive is Hugh fucking Jackman as Wolverine.
X-men, X-men First Class ~ First Class, I suspected, would be horrible, but once I decided that the entire mythos was made up and it was even then only loosely connected to the previous films, and was just gonna do it's own thing, I loosened up and decided to like it. I think the exact moment was the first time Professor Xavier said "Groovy". X-men was a decent film, but it didn't have much of anything I'd call "amazing" going for it, so there's that.
Iron Man 2 ~ Not a bad movie. Very average. Very much felt like it was done explicitly to be a setup for the Avengers more than to be an Iron Man movie, and I think that's a tad unfair, because Downey and Paltrow are fantastic, have amazing chemistry, and deserved better. They pretty much willed this movie to be better than it was.
Spider-Man 3 ~ 3 is a bad number so far for Marvel. See also:
X-men 3 ~ Not the worst modern Marvel movie.
Elektra ~ Getting closer.....
Hulk ~ The worst modern marvel movie. Ang Lee's direction made me physically ill, and this is not an exaggeration. It's like if someone saw the excellent
Conversations With Other Women and took ALL THE WRONG messages from it, and then made it a movie about a giant green guy who smashes things. Bad bad bad bad bad.
I have not seen the other Hulk movie, either Fantastic Four movie (I hear bad things. It's a shame, I fucking LOVE the Fantastic Four), any Punisher movie, or Ghost Rider's movies.
NEEDS A MOVIE YESTERDAY:
Dr. Strange
Luke Cage
Iron Fist
Spider-man v Mysterio
