Sweet googa mooga! Marvel’s The Avengers just finished its opening weekend in the United States. It did pretty well…you know, only raking in $200.3 million putting it at the top of the charts for “All time opening weekend” revenue! It surpassed the previous number one spot held by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 by more than $30 million. It’s going to be extremely tough to beat an opening like that, but there’s still The Dark Knight Rises in July. Overall The Avengers grossed over $641 million worldwide since it’s release. Amazing!
It’s a great time to be a superhero fan/nerd/geek! More and more good superhero films have come out in the past years and are making their way to the big screen in the near future. Looking at the top five all time opening weekend, three of them are superhero films (The Avengers [#1], The Dark Knight [#3], Spider-Man 3 [#5]) and the other two (Deathly Hallows Pt 2 [#2] and The Hunger Games [#4]) are films very popular amongst the nerd population.
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I loved the Avengers.
But (spoilers here …) –
I had two non-trivial complaints. First, while everything about the heroes was great, the villains were not that interesting from an action point of view. Loki was very well-acted and had some great lines, but he didn’t do enough cool stuff! In fact, the only visibly “super” things he did were glow and appear in multiple places at once. I mean geez, in the Ultimates he turns into a freaking dragon! Let’s see more of that godlike power!
The Chitauri were pretty much generic bad guys. It was nice that they had flying motorbikes, but that was about it. It was nice to see them getting stomped but would have liked them to be more impressive first.
Second – the final battle scene was great to look at but I found it a bit lacking plotwise. This was supposed to be an interstellar invasion, but it just didn’t have that sense of scale. If I were the Chitauri and wanted to invade earth, would I be sending guys on flying motorbikes to take shots at civilians? No, I’d be carpet-bombing the whole city (assuming I’d decided to go along with Loki’s desire for publicity and thus to attack a city instead of going after military outposts, which would make more sense IMHO) and then following up with hundreds of thousands or more of infantry with tanks and air support, or whatever better versions of those things I’d have with my superior technology. My guys would have automatic weapons too instead of single-firing rifles. And I might actually have some kind of missile defense system.
Of course if the Chitauri had done it that way, it’s hard to see how the Avengers would have been relevant. Even if each of them could take out like let’s say 2 guys every second, that’s 12 for the team or 720 per minute, it still would have made little difference to the outcome. So I guess what I’m saying is given the relatively human scale of the characters, fighting off a military invasion may not have been the best choice for a final battle.
I’m so glad The Avengers smashed Harry Potter’s record, it was inevitable 🙂 I’ve seen it twice already and plan on going to see it again soon, seen it in 2D and 3D. Best film of the year! Oh and action flick chick thanks for kicking me in the ass haha