It was long. Ran three hours what with the usual heavy load of commercials. The camera man turned on the lights of the set BEFORE filming. Give him points for that. None of those black on black scenes that Game of Thrones likes so much, and I find totally annoying. Give them credit for doing a good job rather than being arty. The sound man was barely adequate, I had to turn up the volume, and boost the treble before I could catch all the dialog. I had no trouble hearing all the dialog in the commercials, which means the sound man could do a lot better.
The movie has Captain Steve (America) Rodgers, Iron Man/ Tony Stark, a new young actor playing Peter Parker/Spiderman. The Spiderman costume totally covers the face, and so even as Spiderman gets a good share of screentime, it's hard to relate to a superhero with out a face. And a lot of Marvel Comics characters that are new to me. I stopped reading comic books a long long time ago so I am not up to date on Marvel Comics Universe. Since nobody ever addresses anybody by name on screen, it is tough to figure out who is who.
There was a lot of hand to hand combat, jumping out of tenth story windows and bouncing when hitting the ground, and fantastic but fun to watch moves with that shield. There wasn't much of a plot, or at least I never did catch on to what Captain America was trying to do to save the world this time. They split the Avengers into two warring factions which resulted in a lot of hand to hand fist fighting between Steve Rogers and Ironman. Somehow, no matter how hard Steve Rogers hit, Ironman's iron suit soaked up the blows. Funny about that
It was fun to watch, I stayed awake to the bitter end at 11PM. Far past my usual bedtime.
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