Warning: this post contains spoilers for the Avengers movie. As does pretty much any superhero movie you've seen in the past few years.
OK, so I actually liked Avengers, and I'm not all that into comic-based movies (Viggie has to explain who the characters are, and I always feel bad for all the innocent civilians being killed, although I felt a bit better during Avengers knowing that the soon-to-be-deceased were the morons who decided to stay in Manhattan despite all they'd been through in Hulk and the Spider Man movies). It was fun to watch.
But when are these movies going to get themselves a new ending already? Civilians are threatened by a thing, Hero brings it way way up in the sky, then falls back to earth OH NO WILL HE MAKE IT???
The suspense is killing me ----->
Yes, of course he'll make it. He made it in Iron Man, in that terrible Superman Returns movie, in Hulk (OK technically he fell before the big fight but still), in Green Lantern (it saddens me that I remember that, I'll have to work harder on completely suppressing my memories of that one), and probably in other movies that I was lucky enough to either forget or never see in the first place.
This is why the new Batman movies are still the best comic book movies. Even though they're gory and I hate that, there's a lot to be said for genuinely not knowing if the main character is going to live.
I understand that not every series can go in that direction, but couldn't they at least threaten their sure-to-survive heroes with a different form of death? Drowning, poisoning, rabid mossad sharks... the possibilities are endless, really.
"although I felt a bit better during Avengers knowing that the soon-to-be-deceased were the morons who decided to stay in Manhattan despite all they'd been through in Hulk and the Spider Man movies"
ReplyDeleteMy inner nerd (okay, not that inner, mostly just me) has to point out that spider man is not a part of the Marvel universe. Other than that, I agree with everything. Joss whedon said if he gets to direct the Avengers #2 he'll make it darker and more main-character-dying.
I thought Spiderman was by Marvel? Or is that not the same as "part of the Marvel universe"?
DeleteI was going to laugh at the thought of you having an inner nerd, but then I realized that I know way more about superheroes than I previously thought, and should probably just keep quiet.
My fully externalized nerd is perplexed that Coren would say such a thing. Spiderman is most definitely part of the Marvel universe. Perhaps the movie rights aren't owned by the same company as the movie rights to the Avengers, etc., are, but I take umbrage at the implication that such Hollywood politics and commercialism should be enough to delegitimize Spiderman and his rightful Marvel role. Business and Spiderman don't mix.
DeleteBut my original comment was going to be a story. When I was a teenager and Batman Forever came out (remember that?), there was that scene at the beginning where he's dangling over a vat of acid. I was watching with my sibs, and my sister asked fearfully, "Is he going to die?" To which my brother replied, "No, if he was going to die, it would have been called Batman for an Hour."