…that Joss Whedon is going to be able to green light absolutely anything he wants to. I can’t wait to see what it is!
I saw it at the midnight showing last night.
Speaking as someone who doesn’t read comic books and hasn’t liked a super hero movie in a really long time I liked The Avengers. It’s light on back story (they assume you’ve seen Captain America and Thor) and light on the preachy ‘hero’s inner turmoil’ that tends to drags down other super hero flicks.
The 9/11 Ground Zero homage was trite but the action kept the 2 1/2 hour moving rolling along.
Worth paying extra to see it in 3D, a solid B+ from me.
Excelsior!
Powerful enough to get Firefly back on the air?
He needs to exploit Hollywood while it is pliable. He should make a Dollhouse movie for no good reason.
As a tv series? I doubt it. 
First, Fox still owns the rights to the TV property, and they don’t seem to be interested in revisiting it at this point. Also, Joss said in his reddit interview that he doesn’t want to make Firefly Season 2 happen:
I’m not sure if the latter would also apply to making a ‘Serenity 2’ movie.
At this point i don’t care about him reviving old shows because anything new he comes up with is likely to be just as good or better.
TV shows have production haituses that leave room for filming movies. Working everyone’s schedule to fit 1 actor might or might not work, but it’s not a complete obstacle to a Serenity 2 movie.
I thoroughly enjoyed the movie; I’d give it an A-, but
due to the significant use of shakeycam in act 3, I was very glad to be viewing the 2D version.
Joss Whedon wrote Alien Resurrection. This floored me, since everyone seems to hate it. I liked it at least more than Alien 3.
I think that was before he was Joss Whedon though.
No, he got the job because he was already Joss Whedon. But he claims the director did horrible things to his script. How true that is I don’t know, but it was a good enough script to get Sigourney Weaver to sign up after she was initially against doing so.
He needs to have a word with that Nathan Fillion then, cos he seems pretty keen to get the band back together! 
I, myself, do not want any more episodes of Firefly, I think it is a perfect mini-series. I didn’t even care for the movie. Leave it be.
I think Wheedon ought to get with Felicia Day and do something insanely great.
He’d probably end up killing her character again.
Look, now that Joss has a blockbuster under his belt, he won’t be going back to his old stuff, and he certainly won’t be writing for TV. He’s moved on to bigger things.
Depends on your definition of “old stuff.” It sounds like he might do another Dr. Horrible story.
I agree, though, that it’s highly unlikely we’ll see any more Buffy, Angel, Firefly, or Dollhouse.
And Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and The Incredible Hulk, I presume.
Bow-chicka-bow-wow.
I’m thinking of a writing team up, not her as an actor. She’s a great writer, merely a good actor.
OTOH, this could work.
Ok, gotcha.