As far as Iron Man is concerned, I would like to give Jon Favreau the credit. From what I know about him, he has a small level of geekdom to him and I believe he wanted to deliver a fanboy movie. The same for Avengers. I give Joss Whedon the credit because he is a geek. He knows the Marvel universe being that he has written for them in the past. I know he is a fanboy and wanted a fanboy movie that would also appeal to the non-fanboys out there and he hit a homerun.
---------------------------------------- Have a Better One, Edward Crosby http://about.me/edwardcrosby On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Jason Service <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm with you here Luke. The thing i most love about the first Iron Man > film was the fact that i expected so little, but was rewarded with so much! > Until Iron Man came out, the Marvel pantheon of heroes had been represented > ok, maybe even well, in a fun kind of way for that time. We had seen the > Tobey Spider-Man, and Fox's X-Men and these were...good, for that time. But > Iron Man showed that there was a lot left and that it could be done VERY > WELL. Now, in retrospect the Tobey Spider-Man and Fox X-Men stuff looks > pale and thin and most all of us fan boys are hoping Marvel can get the > rights to these franchises back to see what they could do with them. > > > > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Luke Jaconetti <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I will agree that it raises the bar. Of that there is no doubt. I have >> no faith in The Dark Knight Rises, but Man Of Steel (for instance) is going >> to have to raise it's game several notches if it wants to compete. >> >> To me Iron Man had more heart (no pun intended), but Avengers was the >> bigger spectacle. So I love them both for different reasons. >> >> Avengers was like an old Giant-Size Avengers come to life in front of my >> eyes. That's the best way I can describe it. >> >> On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:38:53 AM UTC-4, Van wrote: >> >>> >>> I love the first Iron Man movie, yeah. But it had, what-- maybe 10-12 >>> cool moments overall? >>> >>> This movie had 10-12 cool moments every five minutes! >>> >>> I think this just blows everything that came before it out of the >>> water. It raises the bar exponentially for those to come. >>> >>> I'm going to have a hard time re-watching the individual set-up movies >>> now. They'll seem so... small... In comparison... >>> >>> --Van >>> >>> >>> On May 14, 11:52 am, Luke Jaconetti <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > I finally got to see it on this past Friday. Absolutely loved it! >>> The >>> > sign of a great movie is that the running time just flies by, and this >>> one >>> > definitely hits that mark. Pretty much everything I could want from >>> an >>> > Avengers movie. >>> > >>> > Shellhead was awesome. I really liked his little aside "...Thank you" >>> to >>> > Hawkeye during the battle in New York. I thought that was subtle and >>> > awesome. I liked how the Widow was handled. Cap and Thor were great. >>> And >>> > Hulk was damn amazing! I loved him going all HULK SMASH on >>> everything. >>> > >>> > My wife is no comics fan, but she likes the Marvel movies, and she too >>> > really dug the movie. >>> > >>> > My only complaint (and its very minor) is that it is a hair too jokey >>> in >>> > parts. But the gravitas in other parts easily outweigh that. >>> > >>> > Right up there with Iron Man as my favorite superhero movie ever. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 8:50:47 AM UTC-4, Race wrote: >>> > > Without going into too much detail, I rather enjoyed the movie. It >>> easily >>> > > passed the "was it worth seeing in the theater" test. I kinda >>> dragged >>> > > Andrea to it, and she ended up enjoying it much more than she >>> thought she >>> > > would. Bonus! >>> > >>> > > I also have a small request. While we stuck around for the >>> mid-credits >>> > > scene, we did not stay for the one that was shown at the very end. >>> Can >>> > > someone post a brief description of what occurred with some Spoiler >>> Alert >>> > > padding and warning? (yes I suppose I could look this up on the >>> interwebs, >>> > > but what more definitive source than this forum?) >>> > >>> > > Much obliged. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Unique Geek" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/theuniquegeek/-/H5dVyOOWFMQJ. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
