The Avengers

Saw The Avengers movie yesterday with my sister. After the trailers I wished I went alone so I could used the free tickets I got from my work at Swedbank on the movies I saw. Especially Prometheus looked really interesting and then it was another Spider-Man movie. Nothing wrong, but it's the second origin movie about him and the last one was just something like 10 years ago. At least it had the Lizard as the main villain or it seemed to be him with Dr. Connors making an appearance (hard to miss a man with just one arm). There's also a new Tim Burton movie with the usual cast of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Christopher Lee.  And lets not forget the music by the usual suspect, Danny Elfman. Dark Shadow is the movie based on some TV-series I don't know about, but this one got Alice Cooper in it so that could be interesting. The last trailer (technically the one first shown, but lets not get into that) was nothing interesting. Snow White and the Huntsman didn't seem to impress me with all the special effects. If I want to see a Snow White story I would honestly prefer the Disney version.

What did I think of the movie itself then? Awesome! It was fun, action packed and I felt correct emotional response the film wanted to give me at the different times. The story worked and the actors did a great job and the music fitted the mode. No problem knowing who the heroes were even though I haven't watched all the movies building up to this one. In fact I have only seen Iron Man missing out on Thor, Captain America, The  Incredible Hulk (I don't know if I had this going on the TV while I did other stuff on the computer)  and Iron Man 2. Of course, it didn't hurt that I saw the animated cartoons of Spider-Man and Iron Man from the 90's when I was a kid and have a fairly good idea on what the different heroes and organizations are as well as the 2003 Hulk movie. So I'm not completely lost to the mythos around the characters. I don't know how you would react if you haven't seen anything about these characters, but at least they are all wearing bright colored costumes that all look different (with some minor exceptions).

Last thing to note is that it is important to sit still in the cinema until the lights go back on again so you don't miss the stingers at the end as many did when I watched the movie. I think it was just me, my sister, half the row in front of me as well as a few more people in the back that saw the end of an almost full cinema when it started. Patience people.