Re: Re: The Avengers

I will respond to each quote in the order which they were presented and then provide one more:

Yeah, and if Titanic was released in the 1700s everyone would be amazed that there are luxury cruise lines and moving images that you can watch on a screen. What a dumb quote! I also think the idea of someone's senses being raped sounds rather hellish and not a good selling point for a film. I honestly think this may have been a quote saying how the movie is obnoxiously loud and nauseating.

Whedon may be a good director. I can not judge this quote, nor do I think it contradicts the idea that all superhero movies are the same.

Christians are getting really really relaxed in their vocabulary and sentiments toward homosexuality. Kudos to them!

Saying that if you like the movie then you should look at its source material hardly means it is a good movie. This guy was just like, hey, if you like, you may like comic books.

The future is a scary place!

Excerpt from the New York Times Avengers  review:

While “The Avengers” is hardly worth raging about, its failures are significant and dispiriting. The light, amusing bits cannot overcome the grinding, hectic emptiness, the bloated cynicism that is less a shortcoming of this particular film than a feature of the genre. Mr. Whedon’s playful, democratic pop sensibility is no match for the glowering authoritarianism that now defines Hollywood’s comic-book universe. Some of the rebel spirit of Mr. Whedon’s early projects “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Firefly” and “Serenity” creeps in around the edges but as detail and decoration rather than as the animating ethos.

“I aim to misbehave,” Malcolm Reynolds famously said in “Serenity.” But for all their maverick swagger, the Avengers are dutiful corporate citizens, serving a conveniently vague set of principles. Are they serving private interests, big government, their own vanity, or what? It hardly matters, because the true guiding spirit of their movie is Loki, who promises to set the human race free from freedom and who can be counted on for a big show wherever he goes. In Germany he compels a crowd to kneel before him in mute, terrified awe, and “The Avengers,” which recently opened there to huge box office returns, expects a similarly submissive audience here at home. The price of entertainment is obedience.