Ok, ok, I just have to say it. It makes no damned sense at all, but it’s been floating in my mind all week.
By Grabthar’s Hammer, you shall be Avenge…er’ed.
I just saw it again today, and I was watching carefully…if that wasn’t Ian McKellen in the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene with Stan Lee near the end, then it was his double.
I’m gonna go ahead and say it wasn’t cuz he wasn’t in the credits, however there was another “as himself” name that I didn’t recognize, figured it was him
If he was in it, he’d be uncredited. And the “as himself” was Stan Lee, I thought.
I looked up the other “As Himself” guys and I think they were local NY news broadcasters, featured in the news montage.
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Pretty cool. I’m impressed.
But what in the world is a “panel beater”?
Favorite lines:
“Hulk? Smash.”
Stan Lee’s cameo: “Superheroes in New York? Give me a break!”
As to the mid-credits scene:
“To attack Earth is to court Death!” And then Thanos turns around with his little smile…for those who aren’t comics geeks, Thanos LITERALLY courts Death…the Marvel Universe personification of Death. It’s what the whole Infinity Gauntlet thing people are talking about as a likely sequel was about. Which is why, knowing Joss Whedon, I had to wonder whether it IS a sequel set-up, or whether Whedon made the whole movie just as an excuse to throw in that line and the reaction to it… 
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It’s probably an arcane and wholly unGoogleable term for someone who beats panels.
And now The Avengers has smashed all second-weekend records as well.
Go, Joss!
Woohoo! I’m loving it. A great movie, and recognized as such by moviegoers just about everywhere.
The FamilyT is going today because, according to Box Office Mojo, this is the day The Avengers will break Titanic’s first-run grosses of $600,000,000, making it the second-highest grossing movie in the US (non-inflation adjusted). I’ll tell my daughter that it was her ticket that “beat Titanic”, which will make her all happy until she learns that Dad doesn’t really have the slightest idea as to who’s ticket broke the record.
Hell I might see it again today just to ensure it.
Screw you Titanic!
We like Titanic, it’s one of my favorite movies. I’m just thrilled that Whedon was able to pull this film off as spectacularly as he did.
Finally saw the movie last weekend, I thought it was great. It’s funny though, the overall bad guy scheme wasn’t very good and there were long stretches with not very much action, but Joss Whedon just manages to make character interactions so good. I especially liked Iron Man and Banner/Hulk. It’s really too bad good guys don’t kill the bad guys because that would make things so much simpler.
I’m not sure what you mean. In the Marvel movies, the good guys have been killing the hell out of the bad guys. In fact, the only member of the Avengers who hasn’t murdered at least a dozen people… is the Hulk.
And he’s the one they’re all scared of. 
Miller:
How so, other than cannon-fodder soldiers? Captain America didn’t kill the Red Skull or Arnim Zola, Thor didn’t kill Loki (in two movies) or Laufey and Iron Man wasn’t responsible for Obadiah Stane’s death. I didn’t see Iron Man II, is that where said killing happens?
What, cannon-fodder soldiers don’t have grieving families? And I’m not referring to the generic alien cannon fodder, but all the Germans Cap killed in WW2 (when he was using actual guns and not just flinging his patriotic frisbee around) and the numerous vaguely-Asian thugs smoked by Iron Man in his own movie, i.e. the hostage takers he took out with targeted munitions, plus the guys in the tank he blew up with a missile the size of a fountain pen, not to mention all the guys that got killed when he escaped from captivity in the first place.
These guys are killers, let’s not dance around it.
Heroes generally are.
In wartime, when it’s army vs army, it’s kill or be killed. When it’s personal and one-on-one, these heroes defeat without killing. It means that when they have killed, it was done as a last, regretful resort. That’s not the attitude of someone I’d think of as a “killer.”