I saw the midnight showing last night and it is amazing. My favorite superhero movie of all time. Great humor, great action, great dialogue, and everybody gets time to shine. Mark Ruffalo/the Hulk stole the show. Absolute best moments in the movie.

All that being said do not watch this movie in 3d. I saw Avatar 4 times in 3d and Thor twice in 3d. All fine. I still have a migraine from watching the action scenes. It's an awesome movie. Just not an awesome 3d movie.

Now for the trailers shown:

MIB 3 - Looks much better than the second one and raises a question. Have Tommy Lee Jones or Will Smith aged a day since the first one?

Brave - Pixar animated Celtic style fantasy. Looked spectacular animation wise but it's Pixar so I can't give them bonus points for that.

Paranorman - Quirky, kind of cute looking animated Sixth Sense. Looks fun. Probably not going to break any box office records.

Tim Burton's Frankenweenie - It's a black and white Tim Burton film about a kid who raises his dog from the dead. I'm going to see it. Burton is one of my faves.

GI Joe 2 - As much as I detested the first one the trailer looked fun. I mean it starts with Channing Tatum getting killed. That's hard to pass up and it's the Rock in an action movie. Probably mindless fun.

The Amazing Spider-Man - Wow... it looked absolutely awful. It was emo Spider-Man riding skateboards as they completely retcon his backstory into him being genetically engineered to become Spider-Man because his parents were genticists. Oh and the Lizard looked awful. Worse than the Hulk from Ang Lee's Hulk. And the first person scenes looked Doom level in terms of quality.

The Dark Knight Rises - Another trailer that just looked awful. The dialogue was painful. Especially anything Catwoman said. Bane isn't Bane. He is a Christopher Nolan creation with the name slapped on him and he spends the entire trailer looking like a gigolo. And a transforming Batmobile to Batwing? Really? Hey Christopher didn't you say you wanted to stay away from anything too unrealistic?

Oh and approximately 50% of the trailer is Jeffrey Gordon Levitt talking to himself. Batman thy name is Nolan.

Prometheus - Ridley Scott sci-fi horror with consultation from James Cameron and it shows. The visuals were breathtaking and the concept almost a throwback to the days of Asimov and Bradbury. I'm looking forward to it.

Anybody else see it?

Wait, is it a remake of Frankenweeie  or is it a re-release?

It's a full length movie remake.

Wow, that's an incredible list of trailers!  Here in Hong Kong, we're lucky if we get two.

Yeah, here in Argentina we got a *lot* of commercial ads then the trailer for a Richard Gere movie from like 6 months ago (the trailer gives away the most important plot twist in the movie.... yay.. ¬¬) and that's about it.

Bright side: We got Avengers a week earlier xD.
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The 3D did little to enhance The Avengers, but didn't really distract from it, either.

It was still AMAZING!!!!

By the way, stay until the VERY END.
There was a little scene after the credits in all the previous movies, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Captain America, as well as the Hulk.
There's one just after the main credits, but there's ANOTHER ONE after the long credits, where they list key grips and hair stylists and whatnot.

STAY UNTIL THE END, UNTIL THE LIGHTS COME BACK ON.
It's nothing you need to see for the sequels, rest assured, but funny, nonethe less.

I have to agree that the Hulk moments stole the show. I was laughing way too hard at most of his moments though I do admit the first time he goes green is freakin terrifying. I would not want that chasing me.

That being said, I thought it was a great movie and combined all of the best parts from the individual movies into one nerd-gasm of a super hero movie. I was quite surprised with the amount of humor they brought to the movie and how well placed it was.

Also what Nuric said. The end-end sequence may not be important but it's awesome lol

Joss Whedon was involved.  So I assumed there would be some wonderful lines, humor, and dialogue.  I was not disappointed.  :)

Puny god.

:D

In reply to pdboddy (msg #9):

This made the movie epic. Just saying.

I was honestly expecting it to be another "well, we didn't have time to showcase everyone", kind of like in X-Men, but I was very surprised.
If you like ANY of the characters, you won't be disappointed.

Whedon needs to be involved in all the Marvel movies.

Loved it!  Fav scene was Loki v. Hulk.  I really hope the sequel has a few more Avengers in it, even if they are only there for brief apperances.

I'm just looking forward to the villain from the second one.

Oh yah!  Even though someone spolied it for me I was still excited.  I would have been out of my chair excited had I not known what was coming=:)

I live in Cleveland Ohio, where they shot some of the scenes, and one of my buddies was an extra in the movie.  So it was fun pointing out Cleveland locales in the film...like the "biergarten" in Germany is Tower City Center and parts of Public Square.  My buddy was in that scene, and you can see the back of his head as Loki forces everyone to kneel to him.  He said Tom Hiddleston (the actor who plays Loki) was actually really nice, and was a riot on set.  He kept fiddling with the horned helmet and turned to look at everyone and said "Next movie I'm doing, it's just jeans and t-shirts!"

It was a really amazing movie, even the local interest aside.  I was really amazed at how well they managed to balance all the characters.  I know many people were worried it would essentially become "Iron Man 3."  But I think they did an excellent job of giving everyone their moments to shine and developing all the characters.  And it was a surpsingly funny movie.  I'm actually probably one of the few nerds who generally doesn't like Whedon's work (I find it to be highly derivative, with Firefly being for me the only watchable piece) but I really liked this movie.  I'd seen a 30 second clip of the Ironman vs. Thor fight and was really looking forward to it.  But the Thor vs. Hulk fight?  Oh.  My.  God.

"Dost mother know thou art wearing the drapes?"

And yeah..."The Amazing Spider-Man" looks horrible.  I'm not sure why they decided to go with such a dark, gritty design.  Are they trying to distance themselves from the original movies?  Are they trying to go along the Nolan line of grim and gritty reboot?  It just looks all-around mashed up.

As far as "The Dark Knight Rises" goes, I have a feeling it's setting itself up to be a disappointment.  Not that it looks bad (not as bad as "The Amazing Spider-Man" at least), but I think with all the hype it has the potential to set itself up for a fall.  Plus it has the financial and critical successes of the previous two films to live up to.  I'm not really enough of a Batman fan to know much about Bane beyond his appearances in the animated series from the 90s, so I can't comment on that.  But I'm still seriously doubting Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, and the Batmobile-turned-hovercraft does seem to contradict the more realistic style that Nolan's been going for.

So... I just saw this.

Hmmmm. It was okay, but not as awesome I wanted it to be. Great moments, great humour, but the overall plot was by-the-numbers. The trailers spoiled all of it, in fact :(

BTW. What's the big deal with the hidden scenes? The one after the main credits didn't reveal anything new. And there was no second hidden scene after the complete credits... Could anyone describe it to me?

The hidden scence showed a major Marvel villian as being behind the invasion and Loki's plot. Yes, Loki was being manipulated by something else.

I don't know who the bad guy is but someone more familiar with Marvel can tell you. IIRC it was Marvel's countermarket to DC's Apocolapyse (sp?).

Ah, so it was Thanos? Well, this *is* interesting, then.

I initially assumed that this guy was a Skrull. Which would not be in any way interesting, as the Chitauri are Ultimate Marvel's version of Skrulls...