What a day! First I picked Matthew Fanning up and we went to the theater, arriving at 9:30am. Already there was quite a line, but as bad as we thought it would be.
At about 11am they started letting people in to the theater. We checked in and got a free pair of Superhero Character 3D glasses. I got Captain America and Matt got Iron Man. The other choices were Hulk and Thor. We were also given a schedule of the start times for each movie in the marathon, a lanyard and badge that said we were part of the midnight showing, and a free Avengers comic book.
We went into the screening room and got our first surprise, the screen was an IMAX sized screen. Apparently they couldn't advertise that it was IMAX because IMAX is a company and this screen wasn't supplied by them. So, though it was called a STX screen, we all knew that it was an IMAX sized screen. So we stare up at the 60x80 ft screen and realize we paid $40 for 6 movies...in IMAX! And we got just the right seats! The room filled pretty quickly and as the time for the first movie, Iron Man, approached we all started counting down. The lights dimmed and our second surprise of the day came on screen.
AMC Theaters had got Clark Gregg (aka SHIELD Agent Phil Coulson) to do an introduction for each movie! Agent Coulson welcomed us to the 16 hour Avengers members debriefing and started us on Iron Man.
I've seen these movies all before but to see it again on the big screen...excuse me, the BIG screen, was great! A room full of dedicated fans, some dressed the part others not so much, all cheering and laughing at the right times...I can't possibly describe how great these "geek-fests" are to me.
A quick break and Matt went to go get some popcorn. He came back with a Large cause after all we are going to need a LOT of popcorn!
Then Agent Coulson came back on to introduce the Incredible Hulk movie. More cheering. It was good to see this movie again as the big screen helps you see and hear things you may have missed the first couple of times around.
Whew! It's time for a stretch!
This time it was my turn to head out for a soda. Got the large. You know why.
Just to throw this in there I will tell you that if you ever do a movie marathon like this make sure you follow my example and take a bathroom break between each movie whether you need to or not. It garaunteed that I wouldn't miss any of the movies.
To cut things short I will skip to just after Iron Man 2 when we were given a 45 minute break. They said it was our dinner break but it was also so they had time to switch to 3D format for Thor, Captain America, and finally, The Avengers.
Matt left to take a walk outside and get some air. While out there he found that Chipotle was open so he got us both burritos. Funny thing is, he snuck the burritos back into the theater but it turns out they weren't checking any of us. Apparently they knew we would be doing this but as we have been spending the whole day there they just didn't care.
A delicious dinner and then back into the movies.
After Thor and Captain America I left to get a refill on popcorn and soda. This is when I got our next surprise. Turns out that as long as I had the badge on that said I was here for the marathon than I got free UNLIMITED popcorn and soda refills! Sweet!
But the time has come to talk about the Avengers movie!
There are SPOILERS in here so if you haven't seen the movie yet, stop reading!!
What I'm going to do is talk about the "easter eggs" in the movie and also try to help explain some of the questions that people have had about the movie.
First off, this movie was awesome!! There is action, a little romance at the beginning, drama, and comedy, and to top it all off it'srated PG-13.
There were nods to all kinds of comic book references and instances and I thought the overall storyline to be spellbindingly good!
My two favorite lines came from Captain America. The first was when Thor arrived and took Loki off the quinjet and Iron Man got mad and went after them. Just as Captain America started putting on a parachute to go after them as well, Black Widow tells him to not get involved as those two (referrring to Thor and Loki) were basically "gods." To this Captain America responds, "There is only one God, ma'am, and I'm sure He doesn't dress like that." Brilliant!
The next great line was just two words. The Avengers are down on the street and surrounded by bad guys. Iron Man tells Captain America to "call it." Captain America then proceeds to tell each member what their individual plan of action should be. At the end he gets down to the Hulk who is obviously itching for a fight. He gets the Hulks attention and the Hulk looks irritated that he is being held back, when Captain America says, "Hulk...(points towards bad guys)...smash." The Hulk grins and launches himself into the air and proceeds to rip bad guys to shreds! So cool!
However, I have to say that the two best scenes showed the genius of the writing of this movie. Keep in mind that Joss Whedon, who is a genius in my opinion, helped write the script and is a major fanboy himself. So throughout the movie you are constantly struck with how close and accurate the characters are to their comic book counterparts. Everything they do in the movie is exactly how us fanboys envisioned them doing and acting had our comic book heroes come to life.
The being said, there is a scene where Loki is in Stark Tower and suddenly the Hulk comes smashing through the windows to pummel Loki. Loki gets up and berates Hulk for touching him and claiming that he (Loki) is a god and how DARE you touch...at which point Hulk grabs Loki by his foor and proceeds to turn him into a rag-doll by whipping him back and forth against the concrete and steel floor. At one point he holds him up to see if he is still alive and finding him so, continues to pummel Loki into the ground. Loki is left on his back, imbedded into the floor, with a look of pure shock and horror for having recieved the beating of several lifetimes. Hulk simply walks away with the appropriate words, "Puny god." growling from him. Classic!! Hulk doesn't care about social status or claims of deity. He exists to smash and that's what he does!
The last scene comes at the very end of the credits. Now to be exact there are two scenes in the credits. The first is a preview of the villain for the next Avengers movie and that scene comes at the end of the Main Character credits. I will explain that villain later.
But at the end of the List Credits is another scene that caused all of us to lauch for nearly a full minute. During the movie, after surviving a near death experience, Iron Man tells the others of a Schawarma place that he wants to try. But told they had unfinished business to attend, he then says that afterwards he definitely wants them to have schawarma. So at the end of the List Credits it shows them all, fresh from the fight, tired and bedraggled, sitting around a table in a little diner that advertises schawarma, eating. I love this scene because not one word is spoken but the looks on their faces says so much. You can see that Captain America is wiped out, Thor looks like he is tired as well, Bruce Banner gives a little smile at one point probably amazed that he was able to semi-control the Hulk. Just the whole scene makes the group seem even more real and at the same time, it made you think you could just pull up a chair and join them.
All in all this movie will go down as one of my favorites for a long time!
Now for some answers and reveals.
-In the beginning of the movie you find Nick Fury with someone he calls "Hill". This is Maria Hill his Assistant Director of SHIELD.
-I loved the subtle hint of Captain Americas strength when he casually picks up a punching bag with one hand and hoists it up to hang.
-Tony Stark tries to pretend to be a Life Model Decoy when answering a call from Agent Coulson. A Life --Model Decoy is a reference to life-like androids that were used by SHIELD agents when going into suicide missions. They looked and acted exactly like the real person they were imitating but were not, in fact, alive.
-Oh and incase you didn't know this from before, but Jarvis, the artificial intelligence that helps Stark run everything, is actually based on the live person who was a butler for Tony Stark in the comic books and later became the caretaker of the Avengers Compound.
-The bad guy at the end? The one who sent the Ch'Tari to try and subjugate humans? That ugly face belongs to Thanos. According to the Marvel Encyclopedia: Thanos is a 6'7", 985 pound, red eyed, purpleish skinned conqueror. He can synthesis ambient cosmic energy for use in a variety of ways, from increasing strength to firing energy blasts. Oh and he is obsessed with Death. He envisions Death to be a beautiful woman that he wishes to love and he is devoted to her. So...telling him that to confront humans is to court Death...well that basically garauntees that he will attack humans again.
So what is next? No idea. I do know that Iron Man 3 is going to start filming in the next couple of months as will Thor 2. No word on any other movies regarding the other Avengers members.
As for who will be in the next Avengers..that's a good question as there are plenty of characters to choose from. However there are a few hints at the end of Iron Man 2. When Tony Stark is in a room full of monitors waiting for Nick Fury to arrive, one of the monitors is a world map. On the map are points of interest. One is Malibu, California (Iron Man). New Mexico (Thor), Arctic (Captain America), Norway or Sweden (possibly Scarlet Witch or Quicksilver), New York (possibly one of several characters including: Ant-Man, Wasp, Hawkeye, Black Widow, or even the Fantastic Four), Africa (possibly Black Panther), and in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (possibly Namor the Sub-Mariner).
Now the question is...have you seen the movie yet?
At about 11am they started letting people in to the theater. We checked in and got a free pair of Superhero Character 3D glasses. I got Captain America and Matt got Iron Man. The other choices were Hulk and Thor. We were also given a schedule of the start times for each movie in the marathon, a lanyard and badge that said we were part of the midnight showing, and a free Avengers comic book.
We went into the screening room and got our first surprise, the screen was an IMAX sized screen. Apparently they couldn't advertise that it was IMAX because IMAX is a company and this screen wasn't supplied by them. So, though it was called a STX screen, we all knew that it was an IMAX sized screen. So we stare up at the 60x80 ft screen and realize we paid $40 for 6 movies...in IMAX! And we got just the right seats! The room filled pretty quickly and as the time for the first movie, Iron Man, approached we all started counting down. The lights dimmed and our second surprise of the day came on screen.
AMC Theaters had got Clark Gregg (aka SHIELD Agent Phil Coulson) to do an introduction for each movie! Agent Coulson welcomed us to the 16 hour Avengers members debriefing and started us on Iron Man.
I've seen these movies all before but to see it again on the big screen...excuse me, the BIG screen, was great! A room full of dedicated fans, some dressed the part others not so much, all cheering and laughing at the right times...I can't possibly describe how great these "geek-fests" are to me.
A quick break and Matt went to go get some popcorn. He came back with a Large cause after all we are going to need a LOT of popcorn!
Then Agent Coulson came back on to introduce the Incredible Hulk movie. More cheering. It was good to see this movie again as the big screen helps you see and hear things you may have missed the first couple of times around.
Whew! It's time for a stretch!
This time it was my turn to head out for a soda. Got the large. You know why.
Just to throw this in there I will tell you that if you ever do a movie marathon like this make sure you follow my example and take a bathroom break between each movie whether you need to or not. It garaunteed that I wouldn't miss any of the movies.
To cut things short I will skip to just after Iron Man 2 when we were given a 45 minute break. They said it was our dinner break but it was also so they had time to switch to 3D format for Thor, Captain America, and finally, The Avengers.
Matt left to take a walk outside and get some air. While out there he found that Chipotle was open so he got us both burritos. Funny thing is, he snuck the burritos back into the theater but it turns out they weren't checking any of us. Apparently they knew we would be doing this but as we have been spending the whole day there they just didn't care.
A delicious dinner and then back into the movies.
After Thor and Captain America I left to get a refill on popcorn and soda. This is when I got our next surprise. Turns out that as long as I had the badge on that said I was here for the marathon than I got free UNLIMITED popcorn and soda refills! Sweet!
But the time has come to talk about the Avengers movie!
There are SPOILERS in here so if you haven't seen the movie yet, stop reading!!
What I'm going to do is talk about the "easter eggs" in the movie and also try to help explain some of the questions that people have had about the movie.
First off, this movie was awesome!! There is action, a little romance at the beginning, drama, and comedy, and to top it all off it'srated PG-13.
There were nods to all kinds of comic book references and instances and I thought the overall storyline to be spellbindingly good!
My two favorite lines came from Captain America. The first was when Thor arrived and took Loki off the quinjet and Iron Man got mad and went after them. Just as Captain America started putting on a parachute to go after them as well, Black Widow tells him to not get involved as those two (referrring to Thor and Loki) were basically "gods." To this Captain America responds, "There is only one God, ma'am, and I'm sure He doesn't dress like that." Brilliant!
The next great line was just two words. The Avengers are down on the street and surrounded by bad guys. Iron Man tells Captain America to "call it." Captain America then proceeds to tell each member what their individual plan of action should be. At the end he gets down to the Hulk who is obviously itching for a fight. He gets the Hulks attention and the Hulk looks irritated that he is being held back, when Captain America says, "Hulk...(points towards bad guys)...smash." The Hulk grins and launches himself into the air and proceeds to rip bad guys to shreds! So cool!
However, I have to say that the two best scenes showed the genius of the writing of this movie. Keep in mind that Joss Whedon, who is a genius in my opinion, helped write the script and is a major fanboy himself. So throughout the movie you are constantly struck with how close and accurate the characters are to their comic book counterparts. Everything they do in the movie is exactly how us fanboys envisioned them doing and acting had our comic book heroes come to life.
The being said, there is a scene where Loki is in Stark Tower and suddenly the Hulk comes smashing through the windows to pummel Loki. Loki gets up and berates Hulk for touching him and claiming that he (Loki) is a god and how DARE you touch...at which point Hulk grabs Loki by his foor and proceeds to turn him into a rag-doll by whipping him back and forth against the concrete and steel floor. At one point he holds him up to see if he is still alive and finding him so, continues to pummel Loki into the ground. Loki is left on his back, imbedded into the floor, with a look of pure shock and horror for having recieved the beating of several lifetimes. Hulk simply walks away with the appropriate words, "Puny god." growling from him. Classic!! Hulk doesn't care about social status or claims of deity. He exists to smash and that's what he does!
The last scene comes at the very end of the credits. Now to be exact there are two scenes in the credits. The first is a preview of the villain for the next Avengers movie and that scene comes at the end of the Main Character credits. I will explain that villain later.
But at the end of the List Credits is another scene that caused all of us to lauch for nearly a full minute. During the movie, after surviving a near death experience, Iron Man tells the others of a Schawarma place that he wants to try. But told they had unfinished business to attend, he then says that afterwards he definitely wants them to have schawarma. So at the end of the List Credits it shows them all, fresh from the fight, tired and bedraggled, sitting around a table in a little diner that advertises schawarma, eating. I love this scene because not one word is spoken but the looks on their faces says so much. You can see that Captain America is wiped out, Thor looks like he is tired as well, Bruce Banner gives a little smile at one point probably amazed that he was able to semi-control the Hulk. Just the whole scene makes the group seem even more real and at the same time, it made you think you could just pull up a chair and join them.
All in all this movie will go down as one of my favorites for a long time!
Now for some answers and reveals.
-In the beginning of the movie you find Nick Fury with someone he calls "Hill". This is Maria Hill his Assistant Director of SHIELD.
-I loved the subtle hint of Captain Americas strength when he casually picks up a punching bag with one hand and hoists it up to hang.
-Tony Stark tries to pretend to be a Life Model Decoy when answering a call from Agent Coulson. A Life --Model Decoy is a reference to life-like androids that were used by SHIELD agents when going into suicide missions. They looked and acted exactly like the real person they were imitating but were not, in fact, alive.
-Oh and incase you didn't know this from before, but Jarvis, the artificial intelligence that helps Stark run everything, is actually based on the live person who was a butler for Tony Stark in the comic books and later became the caretaker of the Avengers Compound.
-The bad guy at the end? The one who sent the Ch'Tari to try and subjugate humans? That ugly face belongs to Thanos. According to the Marvel Encyclopedia: Thanos is a 6'7", 985 pound, red eyed, purpleish skinned conqueror. He can synthesis ambient cosmic energy for use in a variety of ways, from increasing strength to firing energy blasts. Oh and he is obsessed with Death. He envisions Death to be a beautiful woman that he wishes to love and he is devoted to her. So...telling him that to confront humans is to court Death...well that basically garauntees that he will attack humans again.
So what is next? No idea. I do know that Iron Man 3 is going to start filming in the next couple of months as will Thor 2. No word on any other movies regarding the other Avengers members.
As for who will be in the next Avengers..that's a good question as there are plenty of characters to choose from. However there are a few hints at the end of Iron Man 2. When Tony Stark is in a room full of monitors waiting for Nick Fury to arrive, one of the monitors is a world map. On the map are points of interest. One is Malibu, California (Iron Man). New Mexico (Thor), Arctic (Captain America), Norway or Sweden (possibly Scarlet Witch or Quicksilver), New York (possibly one of several characters including: Ant-Man, Wasp, Hawkeye, Black Widow, or even the Fantastic Four), Africa (possibly Black Panther), and in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (possibly Namor the Sub-Mariner).
Now the question is...have you seen the movie yet?
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