I agree that Iron Man 2 is worse than part 3. I just don't think Avengers 2 is quite as bad as Iron Man 2, but as bad as part 3.
HorrorTriviaMaster wrote:
While The Avengers movies seem like a television show to some, I think what people need to take into account is that the movie business is, well, a business, and like a business, the movie business aims to please its customers. In this case, its audience. While not everyone will understand why or even like the idea of The Avengers and especially multiple Avengers movies, I on the other hand completely surrender myself to rock 'em, sock 'em action by Marvel Studios all the way through and am loving every minute of it. I'm thrilled to have seen four of the toughest, coolest, most bad ass heroes in fiction on screen all at once. To me, it would be like if Blade teamed up with Buffy the vampire slayer and Van Helsing, or of Sonic The Hedgehog ran in a race alongside The Flash and Quicksilver. The Avengers movies (like the comics) are a collection of superheroes doing what they do best, together. What's wrong with teamwork? I say "the more, the merrier". The Avengers doesn't take away from any individual superhero's greatness. Rather, it only adds to it.
I don't think anyone on this board doesn't get that the film business is a business. I work in that very business as does LA Connection (I believe). But I don't think you get that a business is not there to "please its customers"-the main purpose of a business is to make as much money as humanly possible. In fact for publicly traded corporations like the parent company of every major studio, they are required by law to maximize profits for the shareholders. Making an actually good movie is incidental to many of the powers that be. So you liked Avengers 2, but a lot of people didn't. Does Marvel care? Nope because it's made billions of dollars around the world. Other than some half-hearted attempts to defend the Transformers movies as "stupid fun" I don't know a single person above 18 who thinks those are actually good movies-but they made billions of dollars.
And no one said anything about Avengers taking anything away from anything. If nothing else, the Marvel films have many examples of great super hero movies like the original Iron Man, and the first Avengers movie. I really like Thor and both Captain America films. But that doesn't mean I'm going to blindly like every movie Marvel makes just because super heroes are cool. And the idea that more is better (which it sounds like you're saying, but maybe I'm wrong), is just something we'll have to disagree on. The first Avengers did a good job of balancing what seemed like too many characters at first, and they made a fun movie. Then Avengers 2 decided to triple the amount of "characters" and suddenly no one and nothing mattered. It is the perfect example that more is less.