quote:Originally posted by Power Boy: I know I'm late to the party but how cool were Hawkeye and Black Widow!
I liked both of these characters, although I felt there were too many shots of Hawkeye activating his bow to make him seem powerful.
Hawkeye was totally unlike the comic book version (or at least how I imagined him), but it worked. He's a brooding loner type, it seems, who spends more time observing than talking. I loved how they played up the HawkEYE aspect, making his visual acuteness an asset in non-archery ways.
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quote:Originally posted by Legion Tracker: Wasn't the dialogue in that second ending scene brilliant?
And the action topped anything in the rest of the movie.
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quote:Originally posted by He Who Wanders: Hawkeye was totally unlike the comic book version (or at least how I imagined him), but it worked. He's a brooding loner type, it seems, who spends more time observing than talking.
Now that you mention it, this was a different sort of Hawkeye, and I'm not sure it would have been to my taste even with a different actor. The peevish motormouth of the Silver Age might be a bit much by modern standards, but I think there could have been a middle ground, maybe something closer to his characterization of the early mid-80s, around the time he co-founded the West Coast Avengers...
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What impressed me about Hawkeye and the Black Widow is that both stood their ground and came off as credible SHIELD agents and heroes -- a tough thing to do in movie populated by Downey, Evans, Hemsworth, and Ruffalo, actors whose characters had starred in their own feature films, not to mention Samuel L. Jackson, whose distinct personality dominates every scene he's in.
It would have been easy for Hawkeye and Natasha to fade into the background, but they didn't. They came off as heroes equal to the rest, each having something unique to contribute.
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Its also a nod to the actors, writers and director that the relationship *between* the two felt very strong and layered. It was definitely a hook for each one to humanize them (and Hawkeye quickly after being 'bad' for so long).
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Saw it again last night in 3D... added very little to the experience... crazy amount of previews, including Amazing Spider-Man and Dark Knight Rises... not looking forward to DKR as much as I thought would be...
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I was thinking of watching it in 3D, Sharky, but you've just saved me the effort. (Though I may see the film again in regular format.)
I had to sit through 20 minutes of previews before the film started. This is why I go to movies so rarely these days.
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I love previews... not to get this thread off-topic, but Prometheus looks bad ass... and Brave looks like a lot of fun...
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(I hope no one minds if I sneak in one last off-topic comment, since it relates to those posted above . . . I don't mind previews, but twenty minutes strikes me as excessive. But then I hate commercials: I won't sit through a 15-second Youtube commercial to watch a music video.)
ON-TOPIC: I don't mind what's-her-name as She-Hulk, but I hope Shulkie isn't a priority for the next movie. I'd rather see Wanda and the Vision before later comics members are introduced. (Though Kelsey Grammer as The Beast would be a nice crossover.)
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Much as I love She-Hulk (at least when she was written by Roger Stern), I doubt that the enthusiasm of one C-List actress would be enough to make the character a priority for the filmmakers.
I don't think it would be unrealistic to assume that we probably won't see She-Hulk in an Avengers movie until about 2025.
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I think the only way we'll see Shulkie is in the last 20 minutes of a Hulk movie 'everything including the kitchen sink' type sequence.
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