The Avengers (2012) *spoilers from post 1181*

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

In fairness, with a $220 million budget (who knows how much more on marketing), five or six hype-building predecessors (one or two of which are arguably little more than feature-length advertisements for the main event), a hugely recognisable brand and a number of big name stars, it would want to be the best opening weekend ever. A fanbase who, as the thread proves, will go to see it several times also helps. I'd prefer to see it up there over Avatar, but it's some distance from being the li'l film that could.

My main thought, though, is that hopefully Joss Whedon will fund a Serenity sequel with his lavish bonus.

Nathan Fillion tried to get everyone together again to produce more Firefly to be aired online but the writers said they wanted nothing to do with it

you can't stop the signal though....

/off topic...Avengers was Unreal. Can see Whedon's direction in every scene, nice to see a comic book film which is a good Film not just an excuse to milk fanboys and churn out 3D drivel

don ramo wrote: »

they said 3D was in massive demand and Imax sold out in America, i wonder if that was by choice or due to lack of 2D, that would be my only problem with this film the 3D showings are on 3 if not 4 time a day in my local cinema and 2D is only available twice,

3D isnt sucessfull its just being shoved down your throat,

This. I work near a big Dublin cinema but I had to travel all the way into town to cineworld to see it in 2D because nearly every other cinema is only showing in 3D. And there isn't a lot of 2D showings either.

I don't like 3D, and the person I was going with can't physically see 3D effects & give them headaches so it wasn't an option. But I'm getting pretty sick of the way the 3D domination of films is going. IMO it's a cheap (actually 3D adds a huge amount of unnecessary production costs that are probably contributing to why the film industry is forcing it down people's throats so much...wish the money was being spent on better writers etc) party trick that most films don't benefit from, and use simply to mask poor writing/acting/cinematography etc.

Now I haven't seen Avengers in 3D but it was an excellent film in its own right without 3D, so I'm not saying it uses 3D to make up for flaws, but I wouldn't expect it to enhance the film much either.