Thankfully this movie is amazing! I got to see it this weekend with H, my dad, and my stepmom who all enjoyed it as much as I did! Co-written, produced, and directed by Joss Whedon, this is the type of windfall success that geeks sorely needed. The failure of this would have doomed all of us to another decade of Hollywood feeling they could only trust their franchises to skeezy, frat boy Michael Bay clones and his style of low plot, low dialogue, low character development, high explosion, and hyper macho movie making.
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| Actual picture of Mr. Bay. If I have a daughter, she has permission to pepper spray men like this before they even talk to her. Or if they enter the same room as her. |
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| The real hero of the movie! |
Joss Whedon is loved by all geeks but has never really had box office success. Usually his shows and movies are unappreciated in their time, do not reach high numbers of sales, and really only hit their stride as cult classics. Buffy has been the one exception to this. However, there is only so long a person can coast on one hit and numerous unprofitable cult successes before Hollywood stops giving you opportunities. Just ask Terry Gilliam.
Hopefully the massive success of The Avengers will help us see an uptick in Whedonesque style movies!
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