Marvel Avengers First Review

I'm going off some old memories here so bear with me:

When John Byrne took the West Coast Avengers book, he began with the story about how the Vision was taken by the governments of the world, his program erased, all backups deleted from Avengers computers and his body dismantled. He was retrieved, and Pym reassembled him, but not after they showed the still living but frail Phineas Horton looking at the Vision's pieces and declaring that Vision was not nor ever was the Torch. This went against what the Vision saw when Immortus showed him his past of being rebuilt by Horton via Ultron's influence from the Torch.

Vision is back online but now emotionless, and Wonder Man won't let his brainwaves be copied again so we had a new Vision so to speak. But since it was declared he wasn't a reformatted Torch, then came the question: WHERE IS THE TORCH? He was found in an old cemetary where he was buried as part of a funeral setup by the Mad Thinker to capture TORO, Torch's old partner. (this led to Toro's death in Sub Mariner 14). Scarlet Witch reactivates him and he joins the team. Pym then deduces that Vision was built from spare parts of the Torch. Immortus was viewing all this and seemed pleased that all went to plan.

Years later, in Avengers Forever by Kurt Busiek, many dangling plots and inconsistencies were tackled, including Torch and the Vision. After the Torch was beaten when he appeared in the Fantastic Four annual, he was left in the Thinker's lab. Immortus used a device called the Forever Crystal to temporally split time and divided the Torch into two Torches. One get used in the plot to capture Toro and is buried in the cemetary, and the other is used by Ultron to form the Vision. So the Vision IS a rebuilt Torch after all.

In Avengers Disassembled, a controlled She Hulk tore Vision in half and he was in storage in Stark's labs. Only recently has he returned in time for the Avengers vs Xmen. Apparently Tony Stark was working on the Vision and managed to piece enough of him back together for Vision's own internal repair systems to reactivate. Now the Vision is back and adjusting to all that has changed since he was destroyed.

Recently in Secret Avengers, Android Torch was badly damaged and placed in storage to await repairs.

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Agreed.

I used to fiddle with my back feet music for a black onyx. My entire room absorbed every echo. The music was . . . thud like. The music was . . . thud like. I usually played such things as rough-neck and thug. Opaque melodies that would bug most people. Music from the other side of the fence.

To set things up, and get the heroes together.

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Setup. Need setup for movies. People may have found the setup to be the dullest part of the movie (I didnt find it dull myself) but without it, the movie wouldn't do nearly as good.

I loved it. It was right up there with Cap and Iron Man for me. One of the BEST of the recent super hero movies.

That being said, absolutely agreed on Whedon. Not a huge fan of his work. He is talented, but has a bad habit of relying on shark-jumping to try and tug on heart strings or do what other directors or what have you don't. I think I enjoyed the film so much because he didn't rely on that.

He seems better suited to working with higher quality material belonging to other people rather than doing his own stuff, as there's more of a framework in place to avoid it becoming a vanity project.

I've seen it. Twice. And I don't know what you're talking about.

The first half was the movie. The last half was just a CGI slogfest. Which, will all kinds of neat-looking, wouldn't be particular interesting without any kind of setting to anchor it to.

Probably because he isn't seen as "one-note." He has a particular vision, but that's not the same thing. His dedication to it, at the potential expense of commercial success, gives him additional respect beyond the fact that what he finds cool a lot of geekdom finds at least pretty cool as well.

He's also not overrated, at least by most of his fans. He's well loved, but the majority of his fanbase with half a brain or more don't think he's the world greatest writer/director. They think he's a skilled director that produces content you don't get from very many other places. That's worth a lot of respect.

It also helps that he engages his fanbase directly, and a lot.

He's also not universally loved, which means he doesn't suffer from the "everyone loves him so something must be wrong with him" attitude.

Some assembly required.

This operates under the assumption that Michael Bay can or even WANTS TO grow up.

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Also went to a midnight showing and this was probably my favorite scene in the movie. One sec Loki is on screen calling Hulk (of all the people to say this to....) a bug, and then he just isn't standing there anymore o.O Of course the theater broke out in laughter as soon as we saw where Loki went

One question though.... due to all the laughter I didn't catch what Hulk said after he was done introducing Loki to the floor. Anyone able to tell me what he said?

"Puny god."

Hehe, thanks. All I was able to catch was the god part. As soon as this hits DVD/BR I'm going to have to get it.