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Can I just love this movie without going to war about it please?!


OK, I confess. I'm a Browncoat. I live for the little "Whedonesque" moments in his shows and his movies that YOU JUST KNOW... came directly from him.

The Avengers is just loaded with those moments and for me one example is that the movie really "opens" with The Black Widow putting Coulson on "hold" while she kicks the crap out of the Russians. Meanwhile, he's just sitting on the other end of the phone, listening to the battle, with an expression on his face that says: "this is just typical phone-hold musak"! Then tells her he's got Stark and she's going after "The Big Guy".

I can't help it. The movie makes me smile. Every single time I watch it. I love when Tasha & Clint are shooting up downtown NYC and she says "you know, this reminds me of Budapest." To which he replies: "You & I remember Budapest VERY DIFFERENTLY!" It's just those little moments of smiley-faced interludes that are only part of the reason I love this man.

Yes. I did the TV show Buffy... consider the name... how could you not?

Yes. I did Angel. Until it moved too far into the Twilight Zone for even me to follow. But I still love it.

So don't even get me started on Firefly and the movie Serenity. It should be obvious where I'll come down on those.

Heck, I'm nutty enough about the guy that I even liked his Cabin in the Woods remake! I think it says a lot about him that he got the cast he wanted to make that movie and that those people are all pretty highly regarded and to my knowledge, feel the same way about him.

But The Avengers is my "go to" movie. It makes me smile, it makes me cheer, it makes me happy about the good guys and it REALLY got my eye focused on Tom Hiddleston who I really hadn't seen much of until then.... "PUNY GOD!" 


I know any number of people don't like him or his work and that's OK. To each his own. I'm not here to go to war and I'm not here to argue the validity of anyone else's opinion because this is just mine and it's just an opinion. But we live in a world that is becoming increasingly scary for any variety of reasons and if I fall back on "this just makes me feel good" Sci-Fi-Fi, Superhero, or any other movie that is "out there" but just good fun for me for whatever reason, then can I have that in peace please?

I'm sorry it's not holding up for many of you, I really am. Because each time I watch it, it makes me smile. These days I'll take that from any source I can and be grateful for it. Just like I'm grateful for Joss... K?

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"You told me I had nothing. But you were wrong. I have love, I have hope and I have faith."

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I hear you brother. I am also a big fan of Marvel films!
I wrote something awhile back that has received very few replies. I guess most people reading it could not reply to it angrily, because I stated, as you have that it is my own opinion and nothing anyone would say will change that.

Here is what I wrote:

My Humble Opinion

Being a fan of comic book movies (ALL comic book movies - DC, Marvel, etc.), I have, for the most part, been happy with the movies made since 1978's glorious Christopher Reeve Superman, because when I was younger, superheroes were not treated with the respect they deserved. Most movies and TV shows (i.e. 1960's Batman) never treated them as anything other than campy exercises.
2000's X-Men changed all that, so I like them most of them (even the ones with questionable ideas behind them).
There have been a few I didn't care for (Howard The Duck, TMNT (never was a big fan of the comics), Transformers, but for the most part, I have liked (and in some cases, LOVED) all the superhero films from 2000 on.
My point is...I am not a nitpicker when it comes to continuity in superhero films, after all, I have always considered superhero films to be a subgenre of science fiction and you can do anything in scifi.
Knowing that film makers have to adapt stories to the screen, I have been okay with almost everything that they have put on the screen, and will continue to do so. After all, film makers could still be treating superheroes as campy, unsophisticated kiddie fare, but they haven't. In some instances, they have given us intelligent, thought provoking cinema.

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If only one could love any movie/product without feeling like they need to explain themselves, or worse, wage war with others. 😄 But I hear you, this film is cinematic gold. In a redundant but accurate statement, it's Marvel and superhero perfection!

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Wait, what? Cabin in The Woods a remake? Are you sure you're not confusing it with the Evil Dead remake?

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