Last week, I appeared on the BBC's "Talking Movies" for a review of "Captain America: The First Avenger" with Tom Brook. As our conversation wound down, Brook looked forward to next summer's "The Avengers," the superhero movie to end all superhero movies (and if it's is a flop, it very well could). He voiced an opinion I'm hearing with increasing frequency: that all of Marvel Studios' recent movies -- from "Iron Man 2" to "Thor" and now "Captain America" -- feel like "one gigantic promotional trailer, a big tease for that film."
There are moments in all those movies that make it hard not to think he's right. "Iron Man 2"'s story essentially pauses at the end of Act 2 so that Samuel L. Jackson can pop in and deliver the cameo equivalent of a commercial for "The Avengers." Over what could literally and figuratively be described as a narrative coffee break,...
There are moments in all those movies that make it hard not to think he's right. "Iron Man 2"'s story essentially pauses at the end of Act 2 so that Samuel L. Jackson can pop in and deliver the cameo equivalent of a commercial for "The Avengers." Over what could literally and figuratively be described as a narrative coffee break,...
- 8/2/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
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