Joss and the Avengers

Thursday, June 21, 2012 9:00 PM

This has probably been said several times on this site by now, but I've been avoiding the Avengers threads until I saw the movie, which I finally did last night. In 3D. (BTW - once I got over the first preview, which had horrible blurry hard-to-look-at 3D, I really did like it. I'm old enough to remember the bad red/blue 3D of the 80s, where the only point of it was to make the audience duck when things flew at them and it basically looked like shit. These days, 3D looks pretty damned good. Fantastic even. I'm a fan.)

Anyhow, I did really enjoy the movie. But what I want to share is this bizarre sense of pride in Our Little Joss. I feel like he's the neighborhood kid who we've all watched growing up, taking his first tentative steps, and now he's gone off and won the Olympics. Which is silly, because there's nothing little about the man and he certainly doesn't "belong" to us, but still. So proud!

I think a part of it is that many things from Buffy and Angel and Firefly were right there in the movie (hello raspy voiced monsters in a "hell dimension"!) but he finally was able to do it up right. Made me laugh. Big budget, pretty special effects, same Joss. Love it.

May he have many more chances to do things his way!

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