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In response to
"I am fairly certain that colin saw a different movie than the rest of us."
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Iron Spawn
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i know i came off kind of critical, but i felt really disappointed with what could/should have been an incredible movie.
Posted by
colin (aka colinski)
May 9 '12, 06:32
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when i got done, i just felt like i had watched stuff happen, not been drawn in to the depths of the story. the world of this film was tiny - a few blocks in NYC, nothing but baddies and the avengers? not to bring up the TV thing, but it had a TV scope. Not a single fighter jet was scrambled to meet a violent force attacking the USs biggest city? The only time they show up is to nuke the city? Really? I'd have found it far more interesting to see the military fail and the avengers overcome, but that wasn't event on the table.
go watch Iron Man 2, then immediately go see The Avengers... you'll see a massive difference, i promise.
i know the argument could be made that all the characters were fleshed out in other movies, this was just the time to play, but still...
i didn't get in to my issues with "violence is the answer"... not since the last transformers have i seen such a pure dismissal of peace as an idea, even between the avengers themselves... what does the conflict resolution of the avengers show? that beating the shit out of each other is the proper response? that reason and rational can't win over brute force? Iron Man's entire shtick is a dismissal that he's "military property" or a weapon, but he has no issues with any of that during this film and even seems to relish the violence.
it's an entertaining movie, but i don't think anything more than that.
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