Lessons and Avengers. Mostly Avengers
May. 7th, 2012 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayThings 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"?
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"?
