The Avengers

[Nique]

Originally Posted by Bells

what is left for a nerd to do if not Cat Calls?

Talk about all that other great stuff you just mentioned?

I'm not the moral arbiter of the forums or anything, and like, I'm pretty much fine with sex appeal in media and stuff and even talking about how it was totally hot. I just think it's worth mentioning that I feel like the last few posts were kind of weirdly objectifying and probably pretty sexist.

EDIT: More topical; Scarlett Johansson was probably not the greatest casting decision and did seemed to be used mainly for T&A, but for not being really quite the right fit for the comic-book-super-spy character and being in a role she probably wasn't used to, I thought she did a pretty good job. Way better than in Iron Man 2, in any case. And yes, she was totally hot.

[Xellos]

Originally Posted by Nique

EDIT: More topical; Scarlett Johansson was probably not the greatest casting decision and did seemed to be used mainly for T&A, but for not being really quite the right fit for the comic-book-super-spy character and being in a role she probably wasn't used to, I thought she did a pretty good job. Way better than in Iron Man 2, in any case. And yes, she was totally hot.

For what it's worth, it was probably the best acting I've personally seen from her in a movie. We see a lot of these super cool and sexualized heroines in movies like this, but I didn't find her boring this time which was a relief. The "wiping out the red" thing was a little weird, but only because it wasn't explored. Gotta leave a hook for her to come back I suppose.

I suppose she's also pretty attractive. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jealous of that figure. But when the screen is also full of Hiddleston, Hemsworth, Evans, and RDJ, she get's a little lost in it all for me.

[Magus]

Originally Posted by Japan

I don't care about Wonder Woman, they need to do a Swamp Thing reboot and throw in John Motherfucking Constantine.

This time with less neo and more British.

Throw in an Animal Man movie and you have another crossover special in the works.

[Gregness]

Originally Posted by Nique

Talk about all that other great stuff you just mentioned?

I'm not the moral arbiter of the forums or anything, and like, I'm pretty much fine with sex appeal in media and stuff and even talking about how it was totally hot. I just think it's worth mentioning that I feel like the last few posts were kind of weirdly objectifying and probably pretty sexist.

EDIT: More topical; Scarlett Johansson was probably not the greatest casting decision and did seemed to be used mainly for T&A, but for not being really quite the right fit for the comic-book-super-spy character and being in a role she probably wasn't used to, I thought she did a pretty good job. Way better than in Iron Man 2, in any case. And yes, she was totally hot.

Yeah, part of why I said something is that while I do legitimately appreciate her figure, there were actually a couple times the camera work took me out of the story a bit by trying too hard.

Like, the interrogation scene with Loki has a block of 30 seconds or so where she's doing all this kickass acting but the camera just has a pan on her (damn near perfectly formed) ass.

[Jagos]

Originally Posted by Gregness

Like, the interrogation scene with Loki has a block of 30 seconds or so where she's doing all this kickass acting but the camera just has a pan on her (damn near perfectly formed) ass.

And you wished it was longer.

-E- Gwyneth Paltrow as the main SHIELD agent though and the final walk back to her station though... Seriously, Joss Whedon did that on purpose.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Jagos

-E- Gwyneth Paltrow as the main SHIELD agent though and the final walk back to her station though... Seriously, Joss Whedon did that on purpose.

Do you mean Cobie Smulders?

Paltrow was Pepper Potts.

[Japan]

Ah Cobie Smulders. Somehow I was just thinking of Robin Sparkles everytime she was onscreen.

Heh, beavers eat wood.

[Fifthfiend]

That movie was like watching Star Wars in 1977 except with metanarrative instead of special effects.

[Nique]

Are you referring to Loki's speech about people kneeling n' stuff? Or just Tony Stark's Joss Whedon's thinly veiled commentary on, well, everything?

EDIT: Or just like, how unique Avengers is in terms of being the culmination of a grand multi-film continuity? I'm not really understanding the term 'metanarritve' I guess.

EDIT II: Apparently Wikipedia is unclear on the term as well.

[Locke cole]

Originally Posted by Nique

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here exactly but the reason those scenes in Thor were funny was because Thor had a huge ego and got knocked out like 5 times in a row by someone half his size, albeit with cars and tazers and stuff.

The best bit was the fact that Thor gets knocked out by a tazer. The God of Thunder gets put under by a jolt of electricity.

Twice.