Doctor Who, the Avengers etc
Sep. 3rd, 2012 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightBeen away for the weekend, still really tired, home alone for a bit. So I've caught up with Saturday's Doctor Who premier and finally watched The Avengers.
Very shallow thoughts behind cut. Spoilers, obviously.
DW first.
Thinks: ooh, I like this. The Daleks have been watching Star Trek and have started Borg-ifying people, and well done whoever it was in the episode who pointed out the difference between a hive mind and whatever the other thing was (not that the Borg were a hive mind to start with, but don't get me started on that). So Amy and Rory are on the outs? What a shame. Oh, now they're all better. S'pose that bit was meant to make me all tearful. Didn't work. And are they cured now, or are both of them Dalek sleeper agents? Speaking of which, Thingy Wotsit is going to be the new companion? Oka-ay. Actually, I like that the new companion is someone with her foot in the enemy camp (as it were), but Thingy Wotsit is actually a bit annoying. I wish the new companion was the red-haired woman, whose name on the cast list is...Darla? Really? Well, okay. I guess that makes sense. Darla the dalek. Heh!
Anyway, I liked it. I thought it was well written and amusing with a witty script and you could always go and make yourself a cup of tea while the soppy bit was on.
As for The Avengers: the first part of the film wasn't too bad. Yay! Loki! Even more yay! Loki/Thor scene with a bit of feeling in it. Also, Robert Downey Jnr is always good fun, and I like the Bruce Banner character. Couldn't stand the Black Widow or Hawkeye, though. Basically, if the evil space aliens (the chifliks, or whatever they were called) could be so easily beaten by a bloke with a bow and arrows and a skinny little girly in a catsuit, they really can't be that tough, can they? Also, I may well be the only one, but I found the scene set in Germany borderline offensive (those Germans, they'll kneel to any old person, won't they?), and didn't think the way everyone was so cut up over the death of Agent Wossisface felt earned.
There were a few flashes of Joss-style wit. On the whole, though, it was just a big CGI slugfest. The fight at the end went on forever, and even when we were looking at the actors we weren't really looking at them but at CGI versions of them. Basically, it felt like a good film strangled to death by special effects. Also, the whole plot seemed to revolve around the Hulk (out of nowhere) suddenly being able to control himself. Lame. Roll on Thor 2 is all I can say.
So, one out of two anyway.
Very shallow thoughts behind cut. Spoilers, obviously.
DW first.
Thinks: ooh, I like this. The Daleks have been watching Star Trek and have started Borg-ifying people, and well done whoever it was in the episode who pointed out the difference between a hive mind and whatever the other thing was (not that the Borg were a hive mind to start with, but don't get me started on that). So Amy and Rory are on the outs? What a shame. Oh, now they're all better. S'pose that bit was meant to make me all tearful. Didn't work. And are they cured now, or are both of them Dalek sleeper agents? Speaking of which, Thingy Wotsit is going to be the new companion? Oka-ay. Actually, I like that the new companion is someone with her foot in the enemy camp (as it were), but Thingy Wotsit is actually a bit annoying. I wish the new companion was the red-haired woman, whose name on the cast list is...Darla? Really? Well, okay. I guess that makes sense. Darla the dalek. Heh!
Anyway, I liked it. I thought it was well written and amusing with a witty script and you could always go and make yourself a cup of tea while the soppy bit was on.
As for The Avengers: the first part of the film wasn't too bad. Yay! Loki! Even more yay! Loki/Thor scene with a bit of feeling in it. Also, Robert Downey Jnr is always good fun, and I like the Bruce Banner character. Couldn't stand the Black Widow or Hawkeye, though. Basically, if the evil space aliens (the chifliks, or whatever they were called) could be so easily beaten by a bloke with a bow and arrows and a skinny little girly in a catsuit, they really can't be that tough, can they? Also, I may well be the only one, but I found the scene set in Germany borderline offensive (those Germans, they'll kneel to any old person, won't they?), and didn't think the way everyone was so cut up over the death of Agent Wossisface felt earned.
There were a few flashes of Joss-style wit. On the whole, though, it was just a big CGI slugfest. The fight at the end went on forever, and even when we were looking at the actors we weren't really looking at them but at CGI versions of them. Basically, it felt like a good film strangled to death by special effects. Also, the whole plot seemed to revolve around the Hulk (out of nowhere) suddenly being able to control himself. Lame. Roll on Thor 2 is all I can say.
So, one out of two anyway.