Joss Whedon directing the avengers movie

[Kyrith_Ranger_Pso]

so yah, this is old news, but this is FKL, and i can say im pretty HUGELY excited! anybody else happy or even care?

[Outrider]

I think regardless of who was going to direct it, this has a hell of a good chance that it's going to wind up as a bloated mess. So many characters (from so many wildly different settings) portrayed by so many stars that need screen time, mixed with the fact that this has to link up not just the characters but also their specific films. There's a lot that could go wrong.

Also, Jon Favreau had wanted to direct this, but Marvel screwed him over by meddling with Iron Man 2, so that kind of sucks. Rumors are that he's also going to be gone from Iron Man 3 as well.

Now, as for Joss Whedon, I see both the bad and the good.

The bad part is that Whedon loves to rely on gimmicky dialogue and shock value scenes for many of his stories. (Name one Whedon finale where there isn't a random or completely out-of-character death of a main character.)

The good part is that he can also write incredibly heartfelt, clever stories when he's on his game.

My hope is that the Avengers will be great, but the more I think about the massive ordeal it's development will be, the more I begin to worry.

[Kyrith_Ranger_Pso]

(not in hostility) why would you say his dialouge is "gimmicky"? do you mean when he uses words he makes up for his characters like shiny?

and about a lot of characters, i think that will be able to be used pretty well, but having some of them be somewhat "big" actors, greed might hurt this movie a bit. but yah Joss can really work a story.

[joefro]

I have no desire to see this anymore.

Spoiler!

No Ed Norton = FFFFUUUU-

[Nitro Vordex]

Iron Man + Michael Bay=

[Kyrith_Ranger_Pso]

wait, michael bay didnt make iron man did he?

[Sord]

No, that was some dude named Jon Fraveau or something.

On that note, someone please shoot Michael Bay already.

[Kyrith_Ranger_Pso]

transformers 2 was really stupid, but it was still quite entertaining i thot, and transformers 1 was really good, i havent seen his other stuff

[AC9breaker]

I have no desire to see this anymore.

Spoiler!

No Ed Norton = FFFFUUUU-

This.

[Sord]

transformers 2 was really stupid, but it was still quite entertaining i thot, and transformers 1 was really good, i havent seen his other stuff

I felt all the entertaining parts: action, cool CGI, a couple tie-in quotes, etc. all could have been handled equally well by some other director, even one of possibly less repute. The unentertaining parts: lame story (robot fucking heaven, are you shitting me?,) dialogue, shitty jokes, substituting sexy for an actually likeable character (couldn't even go for both) could have been avoided all together with another director (or alternatively made much worse or equal, but there is still good chance of betterment.)