Who Won Summer 2012 In Terms of Movies?

Yeah Ill see them at the oscars…hahaha. More like the nickelodeon awards.

No some theaters show really good sellers for much longer periods of time, I don’t think there really is a time limit to how long someone can show a movie in theaters.

I liked Spiderman the best. Had way more emotion and heart than Avengers. I know us fanboys are supposed to be loyal to Whedon but there was way too much bad humor in Avengers for me to take it seriously. It was a great achievement but lacked any real power or emotional longevity. 

Hollywood summer is more related to when kids are out of school and holidays markers (memorial day, labor day) than what is a calendar based defenition of summer.

Adam, DKR had an extremely convoluted and weak story to it. It tried to hide it with mood and being “dark”. If you aren’t a comic fan, the movie never once told you why bane had the face mask, as well and contradicting itself throughout about him and the league. One last thing, at the end of DK, Batman had set himself up to being an outlaw hero of gotham, in DKR it was the exact opposite. He had disappeared from the world. A friend of mine said that it felt like a movie was missing between DK and DKR and he was right. All 3 Batman movies have bad editing and very weak stories. Avengers was a straight forward Super Hero movie, that was proud to be a Super hero movie.

it’s only because this is a site by and for fanboys, so fanboy bait will always “win” in the end.

There was a huge subplot about Peter’s parents that was cut from the movie.  It was all over the trailers but missing in the movie.  That is why it felt a bit … scattershot (?) at times.  I’d love to see a cut with all of that included (just as I would with Avengers), but I don’t think it’d happen.  And I personally probably wouldn’t like it if it was about his parent’s experimenting on their own son.

http://www.slashfilm.com/the-amazing-spiderman-missing-film-credits/

Fanboy bait attracts different fanboys depending on the site, though.  IGN had a similar poll and TDKR won in a somewhat landslide.

http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/08/03/the-dark-knight-rises-vs-the-avengers-the-results-ign-versus

At least this site reflects comic book tastes better, which most of us likely are.

What LightningBug said a million times over. While I enjoyed TDKR immensely, I had absolutely no interest in seeing it a second time like I did when I was tempted to see The Avengers a third. While Nolan’s Batman trilogy are a group of great crime films (one of my favorite genres of film, in fact), it’s no where near the comic book superhero film that The Avengers was, which is the entire reason I go to see movies that feature comic book superheroes.

The fact that children can enjoy it is another reason that it is a great movie. With Batman hellbent on scaring parents away from superheros, thank God somebody has the sense to make well made superhero films that can appeal to entire families (another reason the movie sells so well). I mean, we do want children to like superheroes don’t we? I want to be able to introduce my kids to superheros with something a bit more sophisticated than “Superhero-Squad” and the Avengers will allow me to do that. DKR is awesome for older audiences, but many parents won’t consider letting their kids watch it until they are older. Without the Avengers to get them while they are young there is little hope for “dark and gritty” superheros to have an audience when they are older. I fail to see how that makes the Avengers an inferior movie.

If you think Avengers 2 will tank you are nuts. Kids won’t be tired of it, their parents won’t be tired of it, twentysomethings won’t be tired of it, women won’t be tired of it, fanboys/girls won’t be tired of it. That move appealed to every important demographic, and so will the sequel. Why? Because Marvel really knows what it’s doing. They took a bunch of superheros that most people hadn’t ever heard of, made them household names, and then made the biggest superhero movie of all time. Their reward was near universal critical praise and unprecedented box office success. If that isn’t a recipe for a successful sequel, I have no idea what is.

Either that, or Avengers managed to juggle multiple characters and plots much more elegantly that Dark Knight Rises bobbling it (see: Matthew Modine and/or those two evil-ish business guys in the first half of the movie entire superfluous plotline).  That ain’t fanboy bait, that’s better filmmaking.

What’s good with all these grown men pissing themselves for avengers? Avengers was a family movie, a little kid movie. DKR was an epic finale to an amazing trilogy of films. Of course Avengers is gonna make more money cause it had a wider demographic, and all the little kids buy into that stupid 3D shit. Dark Knight Rises was obviously the better film, it’s performances, plot, and music were all on-point. Avengers is a kid-friendly movie with a weak plot, unfunny jokes, and cliche action sequences. The movie is pretty much carried by Robert Downey Jr. I don’t get how all of these 20-something year olds are out here screaming that some kids movie is the movie of the year cause it got more money?? If Avengers is better than TDKR because it earned more money, than Transformers 3 must be better than The Godfather right?

Keep getting dragged in?? You are the main instigator in most of these petty, childish arguments. You`ve gone out of your way to do it, not been dragged into it at all.

The 3D movie prices doesn’t have as big of an effect as Nolan fanboys are saying it does. If the 3D option wasn’t available then those people would have just seen Avengers in 2D, meaning there still would have been an epic amount of cash flowing in for Avengers and it most likely would have therefore crushed TDKR in 2D ticket sales.

What? The movies that put Wolverine way ahead of all of the other X-Men is somehow a better team movie?

You got me wrong.  In particular, I LOVED X2 as it finally felt like a comic movie done right in so many ways.  It was my favorite comic movie of all time for what seems like forever.  BUT Avengers handled the team dynamic better than the X-Men movies.  We only saw the field general in action one time (end of the first movie) and all of that was ok.  Strangely, Joss Whedon penned a draft of that too …

Calling Avengers as deep as Independence Day, though?  That’s incorrect and insulting, completely uncalled for.

QFT

A “better” movie would not have a conflict resolution directly swiped from another movie (two movies, really), nor a Terran (mortal) having to tell an EXTRADIMENSIONAL character (a certain Norse god) “how” to diminish the endless droves of alien attackers pouring in through an access portal. Thor has fought how many hypothetical battles on how many other worlds? He fought f**king Frost Giants…and those guys can wipe their arses with Chitauri soldiers.

That’s just bad writing. I liked the movie, don’t get me wrong. I just don’t see how it’s superior to any of Nolan’s Batman films.  

And yeah, Black Widow is more realistic than Batman because, well, she’s basically just a chick who can fight. Everyone knows that characters like Widow and Hawkeye would be lucky to last five minutes against airborne marauders with laser weapons. Realistic…LOL.

Those movies suck. That’s like showing Batman Begins to somebody and comparing it to the Schumacher films. LOL!

If TDKR fans are pretentious, then Avengers fans must be simpletons. Or something.

Sounds like more Marvel vs. DC nonsense you’re brewing.

Grown men are pissing themselves for Avengers because it was a cinematic masterstroke: no other franchise to date has taken separate leads from hit films and made them something bigger as a whole — and done it in a way that makes audiences walk out satisfied with all the portrayals. You don’t have to be a superhero fan to love Avengers, you have to be a superhero movie fan… and the film was still understandable if you didn’t see the others.

Dark Knight Rises was not completely on point. There has been plenty of criticism of the love interest not getting enough lines; one can argue as well that Batman doesn’t act as Batman would in that situation — if anything, Bruce CAN’T let the Bat go because crime never stops.

But even if you disagree with all of that, you MUST concede that the summer movie season is about making films to reach the largest audience and entertain them. Avengers did that. It’s a popcorn movie in the tradition of the greats: people don’t return to Star Wars or Star Trek for their plot and characterization but their enjoyment and open situations for future films.

Battleship is the only one close to it — and even then, it didn’t offer the strength of characters.

Amazing Spider-Man reran a lot of what we know (with some better twists this time around). Total Recall tries the same thing. Men In Black reran everything and was weaker. Prometheus has an ending we already know — Aliens.

And TDKR didn’t up the ante in terms of villainous performances. More to the point, enjoyable as it is, there’s always the niggling thought in the back of some minds that Batman’s getting relaunched anyway a few years from now for Justice League. TDKR would have had to expand the scope of the hero and, instead, it failed by focusing on something that doesn’t have that lifespan.

Thankfully, though, we already know which sequel makes the best blockbuster. It’s simply logical, captain.

A guy who can hit a moving target with an arrow with a random draw and release.

You were saying something about silly? LOL!

i’m a comic book fan first and all avengers was to me was fanboy bait. nothing more.

chirp chirp chirp. 

i can’t believe anybody could watch avengers without laughing at the obnoxious CGI and laughable dialogue. no thanks.