Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[innerSpaceman]

I think your criticisms of Star Trek were accurate, btw. All I could come up with to counter those Spock-logical points was that the film somehow captured the nearly indefinable spirit and feeling of Star Trek. Well, earlier in this thread, you said The Avengers movie captured what you felt was the spirit of The Avengers.

Perhaps that's just it. I have no idea what the spirit of The Avengers is. I never read any of the comics, and I hated the Saturday morning TV show as a kid. So I guess I'm just not getting it. Even so, of course I expected the multi-character, giant machine alien invasion major city destruction battle at the end. It's de rigour and it was telegraphed in all the trailers. It's just I was not engaged with anything leading up to that, so I just rolled my eyes for fourteen minutes while the battle unfolded.

I'm sincerely glad if fans of The Avengers got what they were looking forward to from this movie. Really I am. I know I'm not a fan of The Avengers, per se, but I did enjoy 3 of the 4 films leading up to this, so I hoped I'd really dig The Avengers movie. Though I did not, it truly pleases me that true fans apparently did.