Wednesday April 28th 2010
Here are the facts as they stand:
Marvel are so excited about The Avengers that they’ve decided to make a 2-hour advert for it, pass it off as a film and charge admission.
Movie Blogs are happy to grant free advertising to them by posting stories about each and every fucking ‘Marvel Universe’ character they insert into the movie where ‘plot’ and ‘development’ should be.
Movie Magazines are willing to give them the benefit of the doubt because there’s so much invested in their success.
Comic Book Fans appreciate the films because they are faithful to their source material and feature lots of familiar characters.
Everyone Else has no clue who the fuck ‘Nick Fury’ is or why we should be excited when half an hour of an already-dull movie is suddenly and inexplicably dedicated to him and his bizarre ‘SHIELD’.