... For the culimination of Marvel Picture's most ambitious project to date. If any of the component movies tanked at the box office, there were good odds that this film would have been shelved but not only did they manage to fly past that hurdle, X-Men Origins showed that there was still strong interest in "superteam" movies after the previous X-Men and the Fantastic Four films did some damage to their credibility.
For comic nerds:
Got to admit that I am loving Robert Downey Jr's version of Iron Man. This Tony Stark is (somewhat) less of an asshole than his canon 616 counterpart while being more sarcastic and funny.
At least they got Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow to break up the boys' club. The Wasp was the only founding female member of the Avengers and if they had to put in one of the female Avengers, I am glad that they decided to use Black Widow. Ms Marvel would (visually) have too similar powers to Iron Man and Thor while Scarlet Witch's ability to screw probablity might not make for good cinema. Although granted Natasha is pretty much a mirror version of Steve Rogers; a female Soviet spy versus an all-American soldier boy.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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Now I regret not watching Iron Man 2 and Captain America.
ReplyDeleteHa ha with fileserve, there is no need for regrets yet. Only if you dun abuse... I mean use it.
ReplyDeletePenguin: You haven't????? I thought I saw you when we watched CA at Lido?
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