Lessons and Avengers. Mostly Avengers

[selenay]

Things I have learned today:

1) If I get everything measured and ready the night before, there is actually time to make porridge in the mornings some work days.

2) Although I love chocolate a great deal, I do not actually like chocolate chips on my porridge. No, not even the 65% cocoa really good chocolate chips. Apparently my preference will always be dark brown sugar (with cinnamon, raisins and pumpkin seeds mixed in, I'm not completely without love of tasty things). Ah, well, these things must be tested.

3) My mornings are highly unsuccessful if I am insufficiently caffienated.

4) If I read Game of Thrones in church (while waiting for the service to start, not during the sermon or anything) Tyrion will have wild sex even though that is probably the only sex scene for most of the first twenty chapters and why did those pages have to be right there at that particular moment OMG so embarassing and wrong I hope nobody was reading over my shoulder.

*deep breath*

Here endeth the lessons.

And now...Avengers!


Firstly, so that everyone grasps how much I loved this, I may actually have to see it a second time. To put this in context, there are two movies that I have seen at the theatre more than once:

1) Return of the King (I clocked up four visits, oops).
2) Star Trek (only the two showings)

So, yes, I loved it thiiiiiiiiiiiis much.

I think this is in large part because it managed that thing where it was filled with action and yet also filled with character stuff and, unusually for a superhero movie, contained fabulous dialogue that frequently had the entire theatre laughing out loud.

There were a few places where I missed dialogue because I was laughing too much. So, legit revist reason?

Also, there was some fun visual humour as well. Mainly that lovely bit with Hulk whalloping Loki during his "I am a god! Bow to me, inferior beings!" speech. Because that? Pure genius. Particularly the looked of dazed amazement on Loki's face afterwards. That was when the entire theatre cracked up laughing for quite a while and even applauded.

In fact, Hulk got several of the laught out loud moments, which shows that Joss is god because I've never actually thought of Hulk as funny. Hulk side-punching Thor? Cap's instructions for Hulk? Yup, pure LOL genius.

The Tony-Bruce mutual genius sideshow discussing how fucked up both they are with Tony being supportive helpful counselling guy was brilliant.

Steve's "I got that reference!" was adorable. As was Thor’s “He’s adopted”.

Heck, all the character interaction was great.

Black Widow. OMG, yay. Joss writes great women.

Also, I have a bit of a crush on Agent Maria Hill.

I did wince a few times at some of Hawkeye's archery (dude, your bow arm must be bruised to hell from some of that) but there were a few times when he wasn't obviously going to string himself so I wasn't 100% ow for him. It was a mixture, but the archery wasn't as noticably bad as I'd expected. Well done.

Please, if he gets his own spin-off movie (I wouldn't say no), could someone sort out his wandering elbow?

Nick Fury was bad ass and awesome. As befits a character played by Samuel L. Jackson. Did anyone sometimes get the weary father figure vibe from him when Tony and Thor were being particularly silly? Just me?

The only sad that I have is that they killed Agent Coulson. I need fix-it fics now. Many fix-its. ETA: And now I have read speculation that as the death was off-screen and Fury is a manipulative bastard (and the actor has possibly been “in talks”) there’s a good possibility that he is not really dead. This makes me happy and will be my head-canon until proven otherwise, OK? Still need the fics for that.

Why yes, I have spent some quality time with AO3 and the "The Avengers (2012)" tag.

To sum up, wooo! Great movie :-D


And now, my fannish heart overfloweth and I am spending the day at work not seeing anything bad or infuriating. Thus no news sites, no blogs about anything serious, and if I can manage it there will be minimal interaction with Oracle Report Builder for it is the spawn of Satan. I shall mostly be doing boring data import stuff, poking the fun side of the Internet and letting my joy be complete.

Bugger. Someone sent me a meeting invite for this afternoon. Can't you see that I'm being merry and fannish and do not want to discuss project risks that are mainly "Oracle is a bastard, it should be killed with fire"?

Comments

[executrix]

I haven't done it myself, but I've read that if by "porridge" you mean steel-cut oats, you can put the oats and some boiling water into a thermos jug the night before. If you use plain oatmeal, though, it might be overcooked.

Some people also make LOTS of porridge in a slow-cooker and then heat up portions in the morning.

[selenay]

I cook quick oats on the stove, so the actual cooking is pretty fast (2 minutes). I just tend to take a while to measure the oats and the mix-ins and that extra five minutes prep is pretty disastrous in the morning! Hence the discovery about prepping the night before :-)

[elfinessy.livejournal.com]

Hulk punching Thor in the head got a standing ovation first time we saw it :-)

I'm completely in love with this movie. And with Tony and Bruce being "BFFs"

[selenay]

It deserved an ovation! That was an awesome moment!

I'm rapidly approaching in love. And needing BFFs forever Tony and Bruce fic :-)

[elfinessy.livejournal.com]

It's definitely getting written, more and more each day!

[wadjet-theperv.livejournal.com]

That was hilarious and very Joss :) I wuv him.

[fahrenheit-f430.livejournal.com]

Told ya you'd need more than 24hrs to return to full coherency. :D

I selflessly volunteer to sort out Hawkeye's wandering elbow. *warms up hands*

YES! Re: Nick's father-figure vibe. He really was, at times, like a parent on a school trip who's lumbered with more than his own kids to watch for the day. XD

BLACK WIDOW IS SO GREAT! *clings n' hugs n' squee*

[selenay]

I selflessly volunteer to sort out Hawkeye's wandering elbow. *warms up hands*

Pfft! As the resident archer in these here places, I feel much more qualified :-D

like a parent on a school trip who's lumbered with more than his own kids to watch for the day. XD

Exactly!

BLACK WIDOW IS SO GREAT!

*glomps*

[wadjet-theperv.livejournal.com]

Now, see, that's God's judgement on you for reading unsuitable material in church LOL

[selenay]

But it shouldn't have been that bad! It's not usually sex on every page (OK, many pages but not every page). In fact, I've now read another five chapters and it's the only sex in the entire damn book so far! So you see, not totally unsuitable.

[wadjet-theperv.livejournal.com]

Not unsuitable. Disappointing perhaps, but not unsuitable!

[fyrdrakken]

I went to the midnight showing, and my local multiplex seems to have really overestimated the demand for the midnight audience by having ten screens (six regular, the others 3D or IMAX) because I was seeing it in a nearly-empty theater. Slightly disappointing in terms of missing out on the geek-crowd experience, though at least it meant the audience didn't drown out any lines with laughter and applause.

I saw RotK twice in the theater on opening weekend -- once at a midnight premiere and again the next day at 7pm with friends (despite having had to go to work that day because I didn't have the vacation days to take yet and being seriously short on sleep). Can't recall if I went again while it was in the theater. I know I saw FotR at least twice because I clearly remember taking Dad to see it in the dollar theater a few months later, by which point they'd added teaser scenes from TTT. The first X-Men I fell in love with and wound up seeing at least six or seven times in the theater -- possibly eight -- I can remember catching it a time or two in the dollar theater before it went away. (It kind of turned into a routine -- get out of work on Friday afternoon and go see X-Men again.) Those are the memorable exceptions, though -- I'm generally pretty good with just seeing it once and then waiting for it to hit DVD. (Or looking for a torrented copy to tide me over till it hits DVD, oops.)

[selenay]

My cinema apparently got it just right because I was at a packed out 2D matinee :-D I really do love getting the full geek experience, even if I have to go back to pick up all the stuff that gets drowned out by the reaction.

I think the only reason that I only saw FotR and TTT once each is because it never occurred to me that I could go more than once. I have no idea why it took so many years to realise that nobody is going to stand at the door yelling "You've already seen it! No! Go away!"