Avengers

This movie was amazing. I wanted to see it again right after we finished watching it. I love humor in all movies, and this one had a lot of it. The action was good. The story line was good. The actors were good. I didn't get confused during it. It was a great movie.

This was my review from when it came out the first time. I think I disagree with myself again. Lets see, this story is Loki making a deal with these bad guys to come to Earth and takeover so that he can rule over everyone. Shield gets all the Avengers together to stop him from doing so. Oh, Loki also comes and takes the tesseract from Shields protection and turns Hawk Eye against them. Then Ironman, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow and the Hulk come together to make a plan of what they are going to do. They capture Loki and put him on the aircraft with them. Loki's plan is just to get the Avengers to argue and fall apart and have Banner become the Hulk and destroy everything. Hulk and Ironman find out that Shield was using the tesseract to build nuclear weapons and feels like they are not being told everything. Anyways, they end up falling apart, but then getting back together to beat the aliens that are coming from a hole in the sky and destroying the city... with a 45 min fight scene. 

Things that don't make sense during this movie: 

How did the Hulk go after Black Widow when he turned into the Hulk the first time on the aircraft, but then when he turned into the Hulk the second time, he was like fully aware that he was on the Avengers side?

How did Thor come back to Earth when last we saw he destroyed the bridge that lets them travel to different realms?

I mean, I'm not going to lie, it's still a fun movie and I still enjoyed it, but it was definitely not as fun as the first time I watched it apparently. 

Captain America

Story: Steve (before he becomes Captain America) is this scrawny little guy who has health problems and wants to join the military but can't. An exception ends up being made for him, he then goes through training, struggles a lot, but the doctor who made the exception still chooses him because of his good heart for others to do an experiment. The experiment ends up making him super buff and with extra strength powers. Well, the doctor had been experimenting with this before and it got into the hands of a bad guy. His power wasn't as strong, but he was developing other powerful weapons and things. Anyway, Captain America goes through the whole war destroying all that this bad guy has built and continues to go after him. Ends up getting the bad guy, but has to fly a plane full of bombs into the ocean and die to protect everyone else. He doesn't end up dying, but stays asleep for like 70 years and wakes up present day.

I liked this movie, but it felt like a really long movie. So like, after he becomes CA, they still don't let him fight in the war, he becomes like this TV guy for America to love. He ends up not wanting to do that anymore and he actually wants to fight, then finds out that his childhood friend Buckey is lost at war. So CA goes to find him without authority, brings all the troops back who were caught AND THEN goes after the bad guy, so it was like two movie endings in one movie. I got kind of bored after a while, it just dragged a little bit. But definitely my favorite part is when Steve is scrawny and he's just doing the best he can, and the sergeant or whatever throws a grenade into the group of troops, everyone else runs away and this scrawny little guys jumps on the grenade to protect everyone else.. so sad. Of course it's a fake grenade but I just love that scene. 

Thor

I've been wanting to see this movie for awhile because Thor will be in "The Avengers" this year, and if I want to fully understand that movie, I need to know the stories behind the characters. So my husband and I finally got around to watching it, and at first, I thought it was just a really weird movie. I know superhero movies aren't real, but I like them more when they "can" be real. Like in Superman, Spiderman, and Batman, these superheros are on earth hiding from people, not giving away their identities, which makes it seem more real, and it is more enjoyable for me. So when Thor started out in this other world, I just didn't really like it. I think that's why I don't like Star Wars and other things like that. But Thor did get better... once he got to earth. It was funnier, more interesting, and more "realistic" I guess. So about the movie, my husband made a good point. How did Natalie Portman "fall" for Thor so fast? Was it just because she saw him with his shirt off? Because he was a huge stuck-up butt when he got to earth. I thought that was a push for a love story. And my husband also didn't know when Thor's personality actually changed. When did he go from this stuck-up butt to a noble person? I think it was when he realized he couldn't grab the hammer thingy. But it's not really clear. The movie was alright. I don't think I'd watch it again though. 


That was my post from the first time I saw this movie. My opinion has changed quite a bit. I love Thor. The story is Thor is about to become king, and his brother Loki is jealous. Loki secretly lets in the frost giants during Thor's crowning ceremony, Thor gets upset and goes to their realm and tries to kill them all. Loki knew Thor would react this way, and then Thor ends up being cast out to earth. While on earth he has to figure out where he is, and how to get back to Asgard. So from my previous post, while on earth he learns to be a true hero because he can't pick up his hammer, Loki comes to visit and tells him his father died because of Thor's behavior, then Loki sends a monster to destroy Thor and I guess Thor's sacrifice and fighting allows him to get his hammer back. He returns to Asgard to find that his father is not dead and him and Loki fight. The thing that doesn't make sense for me this time is: 

Thor goes to the frost giants home to destroy them and because of this he is exiled.

Loki wants to become king and as acting king he starts to destroy the frost giants home.

If Loki was trying to do something that Thor would hate, why would he do the same thing Thor wanted to do in the beginning?

because when Thor and Loki were fighting (Thor was trying to stop it from being destroyed) Loki says something like "she has made you soft" talking about the girl on earth. 


Anyway, so then Thor destroys the portal for the Asgard's to travel anywhere, so he can't go back to earth to his girl until it is rebuilt or whatever. I love and hate Loki. You just want him to be good because his feelings are just hurt. I don't know. But I love Thor. Maybe not like this movie in particular but I love his character. 

Iron Man 2

So I was thinking of Iron Man 3 when I watched this movie. I kept waiting for a certain scene to happen and it never came. This story is about some guy who was removed from Stark's company years ago, and I guess when he saw that Stark became Iron Man, he decided to retaliate because the blue stuff that Iron Man uses was this guys invention. Let's call this bad guy Johnny. So Johnny starts to invent new weapons to come at Iron Man. They fight at a car race and Iron Man wins, so Johnny is sent to jail. Well, this other business/inventor guy (let's call him Joe), is like Stark's competition. Joe sees Johnny on this race track fight and decides to get him out of jail to start working for him. Joe wants Johnny to build more Iron Man type suits for him and his business, but Johnny decides he wants to build drones instead. Anyway, Joe ends up bringing the drones to Stark's big showcase thing, and Johnny ends up controlling the drones and they go after Iron Man, but of course Iron Man wins.

I don't have much of an opinion on this movie. I'm surprised I remembered the story at all. The bad guy is so ugly and he looks like he smells. I like that Pepper Potts got CEO of the company from Iron Man and that she hired Black Widow as her assistant, but she doesn't know that she is Black Widow. It's not one of my favorite movies.

The Hulk

You know this is an old movie when Liv Tyler is a main character in it. I love her though. So, this one is where Banner goes off and tries to seclude himself in a different country so that he can learn what to do to try and get rid of the hulk from his blood, because back home they are after him since he is now some kind of military weapon. They keep trying to catch him and get his blood so that they can make more of him. He ends up going back home because there's a doctor guy there who is trying to help him. He sees his old love again (Liv Tyler) and she starts helping him. They go to see this doctor to fix him, but it turns out that he has a whole bunch of the hulks blood in samples all over his office. He ends up turning into a monster and then the hulk has to fight him, and then the military people end up being on the hulks side and let him be I guess. Oh, because Liv Tyler is like the military guy in charge daughter and the hulk only calms down and listens to Liv Tyler when he's the hulk.

This movie is alright. I don't really like the hulk as a superhero. There is one part in the movie though where my husband made a joke and now we always laugh about it. It's when Banner is trying to find a pair of stretchy pants to buy so that when he turns into the hulk the pants will stretch with him, and he picks up this pair and looks around, he sees a lady bending over and puts the pair of pants next to her butt comparing the sizes, and my husband goes "she has hulk butt." It was funny when he said it. Anyway.. it was alright, a fun movie, easy to follow, but not one of my favs.

Iron Man

My husband and I are getting ready for the last Avengers movie to come out this summer, so we are watching all the Marvel movies leading up to it. So.. the first Iron Man. If you haven't seen it by now, too bad about the spoilers that will be coming.

So Tony Stark, the rich kid who takes over his dad's company, is selling weapons and things to the military, crazy new inventions and stuff. Well, turns out that this guy who works with Tony is also selling it to the bad people the military is fighting behind Tony's back so he makes more money. This guy (lets call him Fred because I don't remember his name) wants the bad guys to kill Tony so that Fred can take over the Stark company. The bad guys capture Tony while he is in their land showing off new weapons, and keep him as a hostage so that he can build this new weapon for them, which I don't really understand since Fred sells the bad guys those weapons anyways, but I guess the bad guys wanted it for free? Who knows, so anyways, while Tony is pretending to build this weapon for them he is actually building his first Iron Man suit. He escapes because of the suit, goes back to his home to start building a better suit, finds out about what Fred is doing behind his back with the company, Fred takes the idea of his suit and builds one for himself, Fred and Tony fight each other in their suits and Tony wins, then announces that he is Iron Man.

Honestly, I'm surprised I remembered most of the plot. I watched this one like last week sometime. It was a good movie, definitely not one of my favorites, but I enjoyed re-watching it. Gotta watch it with subtitles because Tony Stark just talks so fast. I love his relationship with Pepper. How she takes care of him and his business. Fun movie.