Avengers movies

[fabrisse]

So. Thor and Captain America are streaming on Netflix now and I finally saw them.

I have to say that I liked moments of The Avengers movie, and the whole thing makes more sense having seen Thor. However, I really didn't like Mark Ruffalo as Banner/Hulk. So, my personal ranking of the movies is:

The Incredible Hulk (Norton is wonderful. He's believably smart.)
Captain America: The First Avenger (This surprised me. I hadn't expected to like it so much.)
Thor (I'm a sucker for art deco and Patrick Doyle's music. Plus, Hemsworth is surprisingly charming.)
The Avengers (Lots of plot holes, but the human pieces feel right.)
Iron Man
Iron Man 2

Other opinions?

Comments

[kuriadalmatia.livejournal.com]

Having never seen Norton's Hulk (I generally avoid Hulk movies for some reason), I can't include it in my rankings. I've only seen the Avengers once and I had a huge problem hearing the dialogue in the theater.

So ...

Captain America (an origins story done right even if Hugo Weaving ate the scenery. The look of the movie was exceptional and I much prefer this version of Cap's uniform than what shows up in the Avengers).

The Avengers (perhaps the best hero ensemble movie out there. Stark's and Banner's geek exchange plus Cap's order, "Hulk, smash" still make me smile)

Thor (a movie which could have been a Wisconsin cheesefest but was saved by its Shakespearean overtones, a charming Helmsworth and layered performance by Hiddleson. Yeah, Anthony Hopkins ate scenery, too, but hey. He's the Allfather.)

Iron Man
Iron Man 2

Cheers!

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

Anthony Hopkins as Odin was a master stroke of casting!

The final fight in The Incredible Hulk doesn't do much for me, but everything up to that moment is just wonderful. Still, I understand about taste. Somethings aren't to mine either. *G*

[eanja]

Huh. From the previews, Thor looked amazingly stupid, and not like something that would have art-deco anything in it. I was assuming it was giggle girls oogling large pecs, from the trailers. But you're at least the second person to recommend it, so I'm going to have to assume it was just a really bad trailer and see about watching it. I enjoyed Captain America, and the Avengers. missed Hulk, and was meh enough about Iron Man that I skipped the second one. (The SO is so, so not the right person with whom to see any movie that involves doing advanced electronic work in a cave. Plus, no matter how cool the suit is, I can't quite get past Stark basically just being an asshole.)

(I liked Avengers much better than the recent Batman. It's much easier for me to suspend my disbelief when there gods and magic hammers and gamma ray monsters than when you have police officers and nukes and middle aged men apparently regrowing cartilage through prison chiropractics. Though I did rather love Selina Kyle.)

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, most of my Iron Man issues revolve around Stark being a jerk.

Thor wasn't the most intelligent of the films, but there's lots of pretty -- and the physicists aren't too horrible. Plus there's some nice set-up for The Avengers.

See The Incredible Hulk. I'd love to know your take on it.

[wadjet-theperv.livejournal.com]

I didn't see the Norton Banner/Hulk either, so I didn't have any real opinions on Mark Ruffalo. He was ok *shrug*. I do want to slap Tony Stark, a lot, but I did like the first Iron Man a lot more than the second. I'm not sure why I didn't really engage with Captain America. I'll watch it again and give another chance.

I'd probably say:

Thor (triple pretty, Hemsworth, Hopkins and Skarsgard)
The Avengers
Iron Man
Captain America
Iron Man 2

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

Line forms behind me for Stark slapping (and I'm behind Pepper *G*).

I will reiterate that I think Incredible Hulk is the most intelligent of the movies until it gets to the final fight sequence.

I think Captain America really is a very American film which builds on US war films tropes -- they can be very different from say "Dam Busters" or other British films covering the same era.

[disbelief11.livejournal.com]

I'm agree with some of your list but would switch the slots for Iron Man (only the first one; the second one was awful) and Norton's Hulk. Why? It comes down to casting. I adore RDJ and detest Liv Tyler. My appreciation of Ed Norton couldn't get past the giant suckhole of having to watch her at all.

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

I'm meh on RDJ and dislike Gwyneth Paltrow, so I get what you're saying.

I wish, for your sake, that I could say Tyler's not in it much, but I would be lying. However, she's not in the first hour all that much... *G*

Norton really does a stellar job as the Hulk.