Opinions: The Avengers: Avenging Phil

His Name is Agent

          Ok I want to talk about the The Avengers, (I refuse to call it Avengers Assemble (Take that poorly produced 90's film based on a sucessful 60's British tv show)) a bit late I know but anyway.

          Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) didn't die in the movie, in my opinion he lived. So it doesnt suprise me in the slightest that Marvel announced him for the cast of the S.H.I.E.L.D. live action tv show their producing.

          Here's my hypothesis to back up my argument: Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) realized that the cards  Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) pulled out in the speech/debrief after Loki (Tom Hiddleston) was rescued/freed by his minions weren't in  Agent Coulsons pocket at the time when he was attacked (they had been in his locker), to which Nick Fury says "They needed the push".
So in my opinion what happened was Loki's spear missed Agent Coulson's important organs, he was still injured and probably thought he was going to die so due to this and his bloodloss he passed out (or fainted which is common in people who have serious injurys, especially once the adrenaline is gone), and then Nick Fury made up this story as an oppurtunity to unite the team, going so far as to retrieve the cards from Agent Coulson's locker and smear them with blood (pretty manipulative eh?).

         My next point is the golden rule in action films and horror films for that matter, if you dont see the body they aren't dead. Now I know Joss Whedon has a habit of killing characters to create tension (I mean look at Buffy by my count she's died and been raised/reborn at least 3 times (which isn't alot compared to Sam & Dean in Supernatural but i digress)), however I doubt Marvel would allow their most popular and competely orginal character to be killed off. But that's just my opinion.

          And incase you cant tell I love what Marvel have done in creating their own Marvel Cinematic Universe, it was a big risk and I honestly thought it couldn't be done, but it has been done and it's exceeded my wildest expectations.

Review: The Avengers (2012) - Joss Whedon

          I wrote this review the 1st of May for a page on Facebook hence the lack of relevance ha, I kept the review spoiler free, let me know what you think.

          Ok I went to see The Avengers last Thursday the 26th of April with my housemate and two guy from work. And it was amazing; if you know me you’ll know I said that words failed me when I tried to describe this film. Well know that I’ve had time to let it all sink in I feel I can more fully explain how mind-blowing the film was. Firstly I will not include spoilers in this review, and I would like to stress that you do not need to have seen all the Marvel films leading up to this movie or be a massive Marvel fan as the story is self contained and everything is explained with in the movie.Ok on to the meat and bones: This movie is great I saw it in 3D and while it was good I didn’t feel it was like Avatar when seeing it in 3D was essential, sure it adds to it but I don’t think id of missed it. The movie starts off with a big action scene and then unfolds the story afterwards (knowing the other films helps but its explained afterwards), the main plot point for the 1st half of the movie is recruiting all the super heroes and showing what they’ve been up to since their respective franchises and this helps add depth and character development and introduce 1st timers to the world and heroes. My favourite thing about this movie is that you can tell Joss Whedon was involved in the story and script as well as directing this beast of a movie, and as a fan of the man I just loved the dialogue (The man is a genius with dialogue he advances the plot at the rate it needs too and still makes the characters feel believable and fitting it in with the respective characters, enough gushing though back to the review). This was also one of the funniest movies I’ve been to in awhile there were a lot of genuine laugh out loud moments and in my opinion the Hulk steals the show, Dr. Banner is very relatable and the Hulk is the character you’re cheering on the most.This then brings me on to the second part of the film, and with most of the story out of the way the onslaught of fighting and special effects can begin and boy does it deliver on this front, it doesn’t feel like the next solo Avengers films budget has been used here it’s more like they added up the previous films budgets and doubled it the effects are jaw droppingly good. Just because you know a scene or character is CGI doesn’t mean you can tell that it is.In conclusion The Avengers (I refuse to call it Avengers Assemble) is an easy 10/10 for me and while I’ll admit I am slightly biased in this review, I still think non-fans will love this film equally, so go check it out while you can and see if you agree with me. This is my opinion please feel free to agree/disagree with me in the comments below and make sure to like this post and subscribe to our page for more film reviews and news as well as all your PS3 reviews and news. – Davey’s Reviews :)