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All right, I've watched the avengers!
I liked it :D
It's one of those films that you feel like it's gonna be crap but everyone says it's so good you just have to see it. I watched it with my friends (some of whom were seeing it a second time), and I actually hoped it'd never end. :P
It's really nicely done, the visuals are stunning (all those blurs and glares) and I really like the characters, even though I hadn't seen the earlier Marvel films. Thor and Loki still aren't anything like their mythological selves, but as original characters they're really good.
The dialogue was good too. While the comic relief was really predictable they managed to get some really clever gags in there, and conversations felt smooth. The sense of detail was also amazing.
Now, some things felt a bit off, like how the Hulk actually felt legitimately scary during the first part of the picture but turned out to not be a problem at all in the second half, where he just jumped around and did pretty what the other characters told him too. A bit of a let-down when it was such a big deal how he was uncontrollable.
I also couldn't get around why they were calling Thor a demigod. Hey, you're either a god or not. You're not a demigod, because you're not ****ing Hercules ("****ing" used as an intensifier, not a verb :P ).
But all the things somehow made sense. The heroes functioned with each other setting-wise, we got to see lots of VS battles, and in the second half we got some good, brainless alien bashing. I really enjoyed it!