In their most recent outing, the Avengers protect Manhattan from complete devastation. But disaster experts claim that the damage would still set the city back more than Hurricane Katrina or even last year’s Japanese tsunami.
The Pentagon halted its cooperation with Marvel Studios’ blockbuster movie The Avengers because the US Defense Department didn’t think a movie about superheroes, Norse gods and intergalactic invasions was sufficiently realistic in its treatment of military bureaucracy.
It’s a little-known fact that’s rarely mentioned in the comic books, but in addition to battling the forces of evil with a cybernetic supersuit, Tony Stark also has a passion for stylish Art Nouveau lighting.
And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth’s mightiest heroes and heroines found themselves united against a common threat. On that day, The Avengers were… deleted? Yes. The copy of the film being used for a screening last week was accidentally wiped from the server and delayed a room full of angry nerds (and film critics) from seeing The Avengers assembled.
Joss Whedon was handed a huge task in both writing and directing Marvel’s The Avengers, given that it’s the culmination of a sequence of half-a-dozen other movies. How well did he assemble his Avengers?
Check out these slick ads from Target featuring weapons, costumes and symbols from the upcoming Avengers movie made entirely from things you can buy in its stores. When even the movie tie-in ads for a big box chain store are jaw-droppingly amazing, you know you’ve got a blockbuster hit on your hands.
Iron man vs Thor. Fancy new technology versus old hammering man. In this new Avengers clip, we see Robert Downey Jr and Chris Hemsworth duke it out in an epic fight scene that includes explosions, flying and knockout punches. Who you got?
