'Best End Credits Sequence' for The Avengers Movie (#SPOILER WARNING)
Instead of a straight-up single Movie Review for The Avengers, I'm going to 'nominate' and 'award' a series of scenes for the movie, which in all attempts and purposes, will be **EXTREMELY SPOILERIFFIC** = SO BE WARNED!
We've had a decent run of doling out awards (unfortunately to not much response from readers) and so this is the last award to be given - and what better way to wrap-up the series with the 'BEST END CREDITS SEQUENCE'! *Onwards*
Nominee #1: SHAWARMA SCENE
WHY: The infamous scene which did not make it to folks who had the movie screen a week before the United States (apparently viewable only to folks in North America) - had the Avengers - namely: Thor, Tony Stark, Dr Bruce Banner, Clint Barton (Hawkeye), Natasha Romanoff (The Black Widow) and Steve Rogers (Captain America) - siting around a table in a Shawarma-deli wolfing down eats, in relation to what Tony in the Iron Man suit had mentioned, the moment he awoke after carrying thru the nuclear bomb to the aliens via the travel-vortex, and fell back to Earth, having been rescued by the Hulk.
This was a sans-dialogue scene at the extreme end of the movie credits, where there was just sounds of them munching on food, and the lady cleaning the deli behind them. No dialogue. No flash. No kaboom. Just a Joss-Whedon-styled in-joke-jab that'll keep folks grinning in satisfaction … and what did folks say about "If you cannot eat together with the folks you work with, then you cannot work with them at all"? Or at least that's what I say :)
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Nominee #2: THANOS
WHY: The mad-god of Titan grins back at the screen! THANOS has always been a cosmic-level villain in the comicbooks, and to reveal him at this juncture provides much excitement and anticipation!
Expect this sequence to appear at the film's end, after the key credits have rolled (ie: main actors, director, producers et al) - and not something you would have to wait until the absolute end of credits role for (like the Shawarma-scene).
Not too long ago, Marvel Producer Kevin Feige hinted at / or did not deny the possibility of a possible "Guardians of the Galaxy" movie - and this would be a swell foil to engage Thanos, the Mad God of Titan in a future intergalactic movie! Praying that it would not turn out to be a two-part movie tho (really, how do you fight Thanos in a over-2hours-movie?), and when there's a Cosmic Cube around, there might well be Infinity Gems (there was one embedded in Loki's staff!), and all we need is a Gauntlet, isn't it?
And guess what prop was displayed at the Marvel booth in SDCC 2010 alongside Captain America's shield? It is now FACT and no longer speculation, as to how everything points toward this future!
Part of me relishes the notion, while the other fears the inevitable. So 'soon' the Avengers will go to space? Granted, it may well be within the next 4 to 5 years - after Iron Man 3, Captain America 2 and Thor 2, and other Marvel-films that will grace the silver screen - but what's next after that? Galactus? (Which already appeared as a cloud of smoke in Fantastic Four 2…) The Beyonder? Am hoping nothing goes by way of "Secret Wars" or sum-such comicbook fare … but who is to say there will not be a collation of superheroes (F4, X-Men etc) to battle a cosmic-event? Either there is a limited time-span to the festivities, or we'll be looking at "reboots" or "reimaginatings" to come (no doubt the actors'll have grown much older for their role lol).
But all of that is speculation into a future that might be a few years aways ... instead, let us relish the NOW, with The Avengers movie!
We've had a decent run of doling out awards (unfortunately to not much response from readers) and so this is the last award to be given - and what better way to wrap-up the series with the 'BEST END CREDITS SEQUENCE'! *Onwards*
Nominee #1: SHAWARMA SCENE
WHY: The infamous scene which did not make it to folks who had the movie screen a week before the United States (apparently viewable only to folks in North America) - had the Avengers - namely: Thor, Tony Stark, Dr Bruce Banner, Clint Barton (Hawkeye), Natasha Romanoff (The Black Widow) and Steve Rogers (Captain America) - siting around a table in a Shawarma-deli wolfing down eats, in relation to what Tony in the Iron Man suit had mentioned, the moment he awoke after carrying thru the nuclear bomb to the aliens via the travel-vortex, and fell back to Earth, having been rescued by the Hulk.
This was a sans-dialogue scene at the extreme end of the movie credits, where there was just sounds of them munching on food, and the lady cleaning the deli behind them. No dialogue. No flash. No kaboom. Just a Joss-Whedon-styled in-joke-jab that'll keep folks grinning in satisfaction … and what did folks say about "If you cannot eat together with the folks you work with, then you cannot work with them at all"? Or at least that's what I say :)
Nominee #2: THANOS
WHY: The mad-god of Titan grins back at the screen! THANOS has always been a cosmic-level villain in the comicbooks, and to reveal him at this juncture provides much excitement and anticipation!
Expect this sequence to appear at the film's end, after the key credits have rolled (ie: main actors, director, producers et al) - and not something you would have to wait until the absolute end of credits role for (like the Shawarma-scene).
Not too long ago, Marvel Producer Kevin Feige hinted at / or did not deny the possibility of a possible "Guardians of the Galaxy" movie - and this would be a swell foil to engage Thanos, the Mad God of Titan in a future intergalactic movie! Praying that it would not turn out to be a two-part movie tho (really, how do you fight Thanos in a over-2hours-movie?), and when there's a Cosmic Cube around, there might well be Infinity Gems (there was one embedded in Loki's staff!), and all we need is a Gauntlet, isn't it?
And guess what prop was displayed at the Marvel booth in SDCC 2010 alongside Captain America's shield? It is now FACT and no longer speculation, as to how everything points toward this future!
Part of me relishes the notion, while the other fears the inevitable. So 'soon' the Avengers will go to space? Granted, it may well be within the next 4 to 5 years - after Iron Man 3, Captain America 2 and Thor 2, and other Marvel-films that will grace the silver screen - but what's next after that? Galactus? (Which already appeared as a cloud of smoke in Fantastic Four 2…) The Beyonder? Am hoping nothing goes by way of "Secret Wars" or sum-such comicbook fare … but who is to say there will not be a collation of superheroes (F4, X-Men etc) to battle a cosmic-event? Either there is a limited time-span to the festivities, or we'll be looking at "reboots" or "reimaginatings" to come (no doubt the actors'll have grown much older for their role lol).
But all of that is speculation into a future that might be a few years aways ... instead, let us relish the NOW, with The Avengers movie!
