Avenger's Assemble (as they call it in the UK)

[windemere]

I have been trying to assemble words into a coherent thought process for the last few hours and failing utterly. I think there may not actually be words in the English language to describe how amazing this movie was. I love Marvel movies, but this definitely topped them all, and not just because everyone was in it.

And damn did it surprise the heck out of me. 

I cried. I won't pretend otherwise. I had a momentary fleeting glimpse of hope and then that was promptly squashed. I can't even think about this world without Coulson. I mean the very thought just doesn't bear thinking about. But I suppose I will have to, one day. It's more of a loss than I think any other death could have been. But, of course, no one else was ever going to die. The expendable one. The red shirt. I MISS PHIL ALREADY.

I should have known at the beginning when Pepper calls him 'Phil' and they have that whole interchange. It was entirely a set up for an emotional death scene later. But he died a hero. And more than that, he was the linchpin that started the final fight. He was the reason Tony stepped up to the plate. Which means, he accomplished more by dying than living. I still prefer him alive.

It's going to be hard to top this movie ever again. Not to mention how hard it will be for anyone to top it this year. I give the Hobbit and Snow White the only chance, and only the former for monetary numbers.

They are going to make another, right? That wasn't just some really cruel teaser at the end was it?

Comments

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Honey, barring some huge pitfall and/or mistake in accounting, the Batman movie will CRUSH it, come mid-June.

However! It will not hold the record for being Biggest Movie to Lose the Top Spot the Fastest! That honour is held by BOTH the first Spiderman, unseated by the first Matrix seven days later, and the first Matix, unsteated by Episode One seven days after that. :)

The Hobbit might also have a shot, but I'm not sure. I don't think Snow White will have that kind of pull.

When Pepper called him Phil and started making jokes about the cellist, I was all "NO, PEPPER! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? HAVEN'T YOU EVER SEEN ONE OF THESE MOVIES BEFORE?" and then I was all "They can't kill COULSON! He's the only one of them that functions as a real person! And one time he stopped a robbery WITH DOUGHNUTS."

And then they killed him. And I cried too.

Seriously, though. This movie!

[eldanna.livejournal.com]

Right, I'd put Batman out of my head. Because it's the only series I've never had any interest in. Seen all the movies: don't care. I realise most people don't think like that.

Ah, I remember that year. That was a good year. [Except that Spiderman sucked and Episode One was a huge disappointment for me.]

I'm still crying.