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Originally Posted by KevinTH
Funny you should bring this up.
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Originally Posted by fridge112887
Superman and Zod demolish Metropolis in MoS: absolute travesty
Avengers bend NY over and completely fuck it: meh, that's just fine
I don't find this to be fair
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This horseshit again. The Avengers is basically a cartoon, MOS was a serious fantasy film. The amount of violence you can get away with in a movie is
absolutely a function of the tone and genre of the film. When Bugs Bunny hits Porky Pig, you aren't concerned Porky is going to end up hospitalized and his children will starve.
It's OK to have a giant fight in NYC in Avengers because that film can just say "don't worry, nobody got hurt!" and get away with it, because you're not supposed to take anything about Avengers seriously anyway. The Avengers is a comedy, it's only meant to be "fun," you're not meant to think about anything.
But when you have a movie like MOS that asks to be taken seriously, that asks you to think about what's happening, that plays for stakes and asks you to interact with events as you would with real life events, then you can't just blow up a city and but then ask us to ignore the carnage.
Those are the facts. On the
opinion side, the battle of New York is a pretty well done sequence in Avengers, while the end fight in MOS is one of the most godawful special effects sequences to ever happen in a major motion picture. It is just so brutally fucking boring it's unreal, and it just goes on and on and on and on. The last hour of MOS is as close to walking out of a movie as I've ever gotten.