Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Avengers Movie



This weekend at Comic-Con a star studded cast made an appearance to announce The Avengers movie!Robert Downey Jr.(Tony Stark/Iron man) Chris Evans(Steve Rogers/Captain America) Chris Hemsworth(Donald Blake?/Thor) Samuel L. Jackson(Nick Fury) Scarlett Johansen(Black Widow) Clark Gregg(Agent Phil Caulson) and the newly cast Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk and Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye all came out in full force. The crowds screamed and roared at easily the most infamous cast. It was a proud day for comic fans like me yet some still complained. No I'm not kidding. Some "fans" are saying they wont see it or that it will suck because there is no Ant-Man and Wasp. First off that's not 100% guaranteed. For those who don't know Ant-man/Hank Pym and Wasp/Janet Van Dyne are founding members of the original Avengers in the comics. They are interesting characters but by far are not the most essential to the movie. I'll be honest I'd love to see the whole group of Avengers on screen but as far as the movie goes not casting them makes sense. Their powers in the comic are basically to shrink really tiny or grow very large. Now for them to play out in a movie with the rest of those titanic mythic characters would first off mean they have to have an enemy that can actually be affected the their size changing abilities. So someone very large or small or needs to be disabled by small people so that would suck trying to find a fitting villain. Also another reason is with shrinking we'd have to draw away from the epic characters to show Honey I Shrunk The Kids graphics of small characters. Would you really look at that with awe alongside Iron Man. Also to grow large then we have this massive character that eclipses the others by comparison. Imagine a scene where the Avengers are fighting then suddenly a massive giant appears on screen saying "I'll lend a hand" do the other Avengers seem that tough now? However it can work if they say, have to infiltrate an enemy's base, or in the case of Skrulls, a ship, then their size changing would be great and cool and work really well together but otherwise it's not very fitting for the movie.

There are also people saying they won't see it cause of Mark Ruffalo as Banner or Chris Evans as Captain America. What is the deal?! Yeah it sucks Norton is gone and maybe they could have cast a better Captain I agree, but really people? You haven't even seen them try their hand at these roles yet(this is also happening with the Spider-man recast) and you're jumping the gun saying they'll suck! Mark Ruffalo is a good actor and Chris Evans in the movie Sunshine shows he's a great actor and leader. So just wait before you slam. Like i said in a previous post "Ill give Ruffalo a chance" and most importantly, the poeple saying they won't see Avengers for these reasons, you're really turning down a movie with this cast, mythos, and characters cause one is not who you like or one is missing? Wow that is ridiculous and I doubt that's real fandom. I mean look at this!

I personally couldn't be more excited for this movie as well as Captain America and Thor and will be on pins and needles till then.

As always thanks for reading

1 comment:

  1. I really hope Avengers rocks... Thor is gonna be awesome great Article Odd.

    -Fox

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