The tropes of the Avengers (2012)

I'll say a lot of stuff about Avengers:
It's overrated, unoriginal, has a horribly written and forgotten protagonist, etc..

But it does have one thing: tropes.
Unoriginal tropes that were done 60 years ago or whatever by Stan Lee, but tropes nonetheless.

Captain America: the human soldier who trusts in the good guys. In Captain America: The First Avenger, he suffered from asthma when he was younger, prior to becoming a super athlete
Iron Man: The man with bootleg Joker's brain. In Iron Man, he's egotistic. Don't quite know what he is in this film.
Also, Martyr ii, looks and flies like Superman, star of the show, saves the world by nuking another.
Thor: The European muscle and the brother of the bootleg Joker
Agent Coulson: the human, the victim, the martyr.
Agent Maria Hill: The romantic comedy beauty turned action hero rookie
Black Widow: the spy, who isn't Russian for whatever reason.
Hawkeye: the mind controlled assassin
and we have a HULK, you don't like it when he's angry.

Loki: the bootleg Joker that both Kenneth Branagh, Joss Whedon and whoever Dark Elves Loki didn't create a consistent character for.
Chitari warship, the only good part of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, good CGI muscle with tons of animation. The Star Destroyer. The Super Star Destroyer. Etc..

DareDevil Netflix Episode 2 Review

Something I forgot to mention about the first episode is that the Kingpin's people use children to persuade parents to control them, which is interesting since it parallels DareDevil's origin. And realistically others should stand up for the Kingpin.

In this episode, the kid really explains Braille in a believable manner as if he was taught. Dad Murdock sounds like a legit tough boxer guy. What I really wanted in this series that episode 1 was missing.

However in present day, we don't know how much power the Kingpin has over the police, or why these families who don't really seem to be of poor origin :cough cough: a nurse and a white collar adult with gambling problems.

There's also a torture scene in this episode, which really makes no sense, because this nurse should have some sort of conscience before telling a blind person to commit illegal Nazi surgery to find out where a little kid is.
Also, DareDevil is alone, whereas there's all these parents that need someone to take care of their kids. Maybe he can team up with the parents to take over as a neighborhood watch for their kids, opposed to just letting their children play in the middle of a public playground where every gangster, who looks very clean and ungrimy, can see, video tape them and put it on live stream to put shit in the parents' pants.

Flash "The Nuclear Man" is actually about the Nuclear Family, while "Fallout" is about an aftermath

I wasn't a big fan of the pop directing this episode, but the writing was very interesting. Andrew Kreisberg & Katherine Walczak. I'm hoping it wasn't Andrew Kreisberg's fault that the episode failed. Not knowing much about Flash, the comic, I'm unsure of what Katherine Walczak's contribution to the character was, albeit, it's good to see a writer from that industry make it big.

In the episode, it is about the Steins and the Allens.
Dr. Stein is part of the FIRESTORM project done in a more kid friendly manner than in the Avengers. (I'm not hear to debate that result, because it's debatable, not right and wrong!) Stein wants to see his wife. In "Fallout," we would see kid friendly conspiracy soldiers: it is not done as well as Steven Spielberg's E.T. or even J.J. Abrams' Super 8, but I'll get to that later.
Ronnie wants to see Caitlin Snow, but is being controlled by a cowardly Dr. Stein who no sells his sadness and insanity.
And last of all, the episode is about Barry Allen, who is trying to find love with perhaps Iris and another woman, trying to balance saving lives with keeping his.

Insert Caitlin fanfiction jokes.

Marvel's Avengers Assemble Season 2 Episode 13, "Thanos Triumphant" is a great prelude to the Marvel Cinematic Universe's introduction of Thanos

I sorta hated Avenger's Mightiest Heroes, since the animation was too low budget, with really bad fight scenes.

But this has really bad fight scenes too and the humor doesn't work, although it follows a logic. It tries to be blockbustery, and accomplishes a bit more than Joss Whedon does, despite no RDJ.

I find the acting in this to be very good. Some of the episodes seem rushed, but at least they state their expositionary goals correctly. Stop Thanos from gaining all the Infinity stones and conquering Earth, join together to fight him, 

The Guardians save the day.

Star Lord and Hawkeye are portrayed much younger than their film counterparts.

Ultron memories and child-like tone. 

It really failed cuz of the supposedly have to be cartoon cartoony action and Marvel humor, but really pulls it off in the serious dramatic parts of the episode.
It got me a sense of what Thanos can do.

I don't get how Captain America and Iron Man can survive most of those blows.

But it results in a challenge that makes the episode even more well crafted IMO.

Stephen King's The Dark Tower: Fall of Gilead

I'm not really a fan of Stephen King, but my gosh am I a fan of these Illustrators. All these creative ideas for beings, creatures and stories I never see normally from Stephen King novel.
I doubt this is actually a good example of a Western, even a Sci Fi Western, but my gosh it was pretty for the eyes, fun to watch and entertaining!

Interstellar Screenplay book

It's a very neat memorabilia to add to your film collection.

There's a lot of storyboard there.

The screenplay itself there is lacking. The Nolans write such quick screenplays that aren't very descriptive or imaginative, very minimalistic, probably because they weren't sure how the wormhole and blackhole were going to look. Thus, the screenplay really couldn't get nominated for an Academy Award. Can't really blame people for that.

There is so much that is missing of current day Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

In the movies, we don't really get a sense of the character, other than that he's played by the dude from the Town, Bourne Legacy himself, Jeremy Renner. Sure he wears a brownish purple, and looks like a soldier, but that's not what contemporary Hawkeye's about.
Personality: he wears stylish clothing, is portrayed in comic book panels as if he was in a modernist painting of the 1950s, selling Mad Men superhero comic books. He's a James Bond of superheroes. An Gary Stu that is the best.
He's a womanizer. He has emotions. He's human. He's relatable. He's a character, despite always constantly saving the day.


Heck, if you even want to debate it even more, he lacks a lot of what made him interesting when he was introduced.
He was originally a reluctant villain who teased what side he was going to work for prior to becoming a hero, in masterful fashion.


Thanks for oversimplifying again, Joss! Thanks again!