http://collider.com/joss-whedon-thanks-fans-avengers

He seems like a reasonable guy, though I don't think anything he's ever done has interested me, and he uses retarded "hip-hop" terms (yes that term deserves scare scaredy scarer quotes these days).

I haven't seen the movie yet, and I guess it is an action movie that'd be better in theatres, but... I have reservations. I'll probably just go watch it tomorrow and then resent resent resent. 

I get the same feel from Joss Whedon as I do from Tarantino.
I find their writing smug and all their characters feel interchangable. A lot of style over substance without the weirdness of early Luc Besson.

I generally think comic book movies are terrible but actually, I kind of sort of didn't completely hate Thor. I actually enjoyed it, because it felt like it knew exactly what it was more than the others. It had a simple cliche brat to hero story, and the effects get entertainingly trippy by the end.

'We drank, we fought, he made his ancestors proud.' 

I always prefix nitin's reviews with I am a hardcore film buff and my highly over-qualified review of this film is:

;) 

I don't see any "hip-hop" language, whatever that means. If you are interested in his body of work, I suggest you check out Firefly. It's exceptional. And if you do, you'll realize that he's nothing like Tarantino at all. 

Yeah, Firefly is fun! Has some seriously bangable ladies in it too :)))) 

i was put off watching firefly initially because i wanted to watch serenity first (as per a friend's suggestion), but will likely never get round to that now; i assume it works as a story in its own right too? 

Pretty sure it's meant to be the other way around, at least that's what I remember others saying in this thread. 

yeah... i wouldn't watch the film before the show. i mean, you can; the characters are introduced quickly but fairly well, but the story is much better if you watch it in order. 

yeah, i totally got the names the wrong way round in that post ;/

i meant i was put off from the film due to not having seen the series. only reading back do i realise sleepy & daz never mentioned the film. serious sleep deprivation 

and not Firefly yet. It works as a standalone film, but not more than an above average one. 

Don't really see what all the fuss is about with Firefly, it's an ok series but it's super clich�, and often quite cheesy. Definitely watchable (mostly because it doesn't take itself too seriously) but I'm always surprised by the hardcore fan following it has?

I wish there were some really good sci-fi series around. :(
Prometheus better be good. 

I think it might be related to its history. Also, it's almost 10 years old by now, so I guess it's not aging very well. But the fact that it has such hardcore fans that identify so much with it is definitely related to its super quick cancellation and bad treatment by the Fox network. 

Firefly has some of the best character writing that I've ever had the pleasure of watching. 

Firefly has some of the best character writing that I've ever had the pleasure of watching.

So you don't watch much then?

Just getting it in before anyone else. 

Hey, opinions differ but I would suspect that anyone arguing that the writing on that show isn't great (or at least, good) isn't arguing in good faith. 

The dialog was usually pretty good, some funny bits, but the actual story didn't really interest me, found it kind of boring and not very original.
But yeah the shows fine, guess it's just overly popular cause of the lack of any other good sci-fi stuff around.

I hope you will all agree that the ship is ugly as hell, but I guess maybe that was voluntary. :D 

firebird would have made more sense, seeing as it looks like a giant chicken. 

I used to enjoy Lexx. Up until like the second or third season before they returned to earth - I didn't see any more eps from that point on, but I dl'd them so i'll watch eventually.

Who else really enjoyed it? 

The Shawshank Redemption
Flawless. 

 

Therapy 

Therapy

Both masterpieces 

well Necros' post seems to be the winner of this last while lol.
I'll check out Firefly. I just get the impression that the critical acclaim Whedon has is due to nerd culture being happy to see itself recognized on a large scale; whereas 10 years ago that might have been great these days things are totally different. Nevertheless I'll definitely check Firefly out eventually.

Finally, I have NEVER, EVER seen the appeal of Tarantino. Kind of like if Michael Bay constantly tried to be Tim Burton, or the other way around: all style, no substance. In a movie industry that is constantly trying to sell me the idea that some pretty white actor is a badass, I'm the furthest thing possible from buying it from Tarantino. 

I can think of at least three really badass black characters out of QTs main films. 

He tried to make it seem as though the script is not a script, and the characters are not characters. Like the characters own the script.