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Jun. 18th, 2012 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretI watched Avengers Assemble, the fancut melannen wrote about where they put all of the Avengerverse movies together in chronological order, yesterday with my little brother. That was an experience. 9 hours is a lot of movie.
Final tallies:
Stan Lee Cameo Count: 5
Eyepatch Count: 2
Rhodey Count: 2
Howard Stark Count: 2
Super Soldier Serumed Character Count: 4 (5 if we count the Leader, 6 if we count Stan Lee's cameo)
Hammer Count: 2 (Mjolnir and Justin)
Observations, more generally:
There were some interesting match cuts, some interesting visual symmetries and some interesting thematic linkages. I liked Tony and Bruce struggling with their blood problems in parallel in IM2/Hulk. I liked the Thor rampage/Hulk rampage parallels in Hulk/Thor. I liked the jump between Tony's I Am Iron Man at the end of IM1 to Vanko watching Tony's announcement at the start of IM2.
There were also discontinuities, as my tallies start to hint at. It made me wish these movies actually could have worked as a single movie. It made me wish there had been a plan from the start instead of a plan that evolved over time to try to shoehorn this all together. I still think there was too much Asgard nonsense in Thor, and though I was glad the flashback sequence at the start of Thor was restored to a logical chronological order, it still didn't fix the problems of the jumpiness of that movie.
I'd read someone who argued that splitting Hulk up between IM2 and Thor improved it because it gave the timeline of that movie, over two months of slow build, more time to breathe. In some moments I agreed with that, particular when high action moments in IM2 were broken up with quiet scenes of Bruce and Betsy or just Bruce meditating. In other ways, I disagreed. The Hulk's slow build had a flow to it that the constant jumping to other stories interrupted. Especially in the overly long Thor scenes, there were times when I felt a faster cut back to Hulk was warranted.
melannen wrote about where they put all of the Avengerverse movies together in chronological order, yesterday with my little brother. That was an experience. 9 hours is a lot of movie.Final tallies:
Stan Lee Cameo Count: 5
Eyepatch Count: 2
Rhodey Count: 2
Howard Stark Count: 2
Super Soldier Serumed Character Count: 4 (5 if we count the Leader, 6 if we count Stan Lee's cameo)
Hammer Count: 2 (Mjolnir and Justin)
Observations, more generally:
There were some interesting match cuts, some interesting visual symmetries and some interesting thematic linkages. I liked Tony and Bruce struggling with their blood problems in parallel in IM2/Hulk. I liked the Thor rampage/Hulk rampage parallels in Hulk/Thor. I liked the jump between Tony's I Am Iron Man at the end of IM1 to Vanko watching Tony's announcement at the start of IM2.
There were also discontinuities, as my tallies start to hint at. It made me wish these movies actually could have worked as a single movie. It made me wish there had been a plan from the start instead of a plan that evolved over time to try to shoehorn this all together. I still think there was too much Asgard nonsense in Thor, and though I was glad the flashback sequence at the start of Thor was restored to a logical chronological order, it still didn't fix the problems of the jumpiness of that movie.
I'd read someone who argued that splitting Hulk up between IM2 and Thor improved it because it gave the timeline of that movie, over two months of slow build, more time to breathe. In some moments I agreed with that, particular when high action moments in IM2 were broken up with quiet scenes of Bruce and Betsy or just Bruce meditating. In other ways, I disagreed. The Hulk's slow build had a flow to it that the constant jumping to other stories interrupted. Especially in the overly long Thor scenes, there were times when I felt a faster cut back to Hulk was warranted.