British Trailer for The Avengers

[selenak]

...which has a lot of scenes the American one didn't have. Best of all: it's finally a trailer wherein Natasha speaks (repeatedly) and gets as much trailer time as the guys do. Yay!

Comments

[jesuswasbatman]

I think it's funny that it supposedly will be called Avengers Assemble in the UK to avoid confusion with the TV series.

[selenak]

Well, the senior homegrown Avengers have to be respected. (Actually, I have no idea which Avengers came first, do you?) Also there was the dreadful film with Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes, both of whom would have deserved a better script.:)

[scrollgirl]

The Avengers #1 was published in Sept 1963, so I guess the British Avengers TV show came first, having aired in 1961.

[cadenzamuse]

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY! I hope the movie is way more like this trailer than the other one--gives Natasha talking time, has fun quippy interpersonal conflicts, is really team-ful and lovely. Also, less woobie!Loki, I hope?

[selenak]

That didn't look like woobie!Loki to me, but then, the Thor trailer didn't give the woobieness away, either. Still, here's hoping, based on what I've seen.

Anyway, clearly whoever is in charge of cutting the British trailer has a far better sense for what I'm interested in than whoever cut the American trailer. Yes!

[meri]

I'm so in love with the shot of Bruce and Steve shaking hands on the deck of the carrier while Natasha looks on. And Hulk saving Iron Man as he's falling. I've found that I'm actually looking forward to Bruce and Natasha (in the movie) more now that I've seen the new trailer because it looks like they actually have something to do and aren't only in the background while Tony, Thor, and Steve run around.

I'm so glad that Natasha has lines. Many lines. The fandom that's sprung up around this movie has made me fall in love with a character I barely knew and I'm so excited about seeing her in action.

[selenak]

Hulk saving Iron Man was a favourite bit for me, too, because one thing I enjoyed when I did my X-Men movies rewatch last year was how everyone contributed during the big action finale and their various powers got coordinated. If you do a film about a superhero team as opposed to one superpowered person, then something like this should happen and that scene in the trailer was a good indication that it will. Together with a lot of bickering, of course, but I'm all for that as well. It's the mixture of both that makes the Marvelverse.:)

And I am so glad about Natasha and am looking forward to getting to know the movieverse version of her beyond the enigmatic mostly silent presence in Iron Man 2, I can't tell you. Here's hoping she'll have at least one scene with Maria Hill.

[kaffy_r]

I rather think I shall watch this a whole lot. I was disappointed when the first trailer I saw didn't show a lot of Natasha, and you're right, this one goes a long way toward fixing that (although I admit I almost never get tired of seeing (movie) Tony Stark being (movie) Tony Stark. Ahem.

(And I guess I'll have to get all the way through Thor now, to get a full glimpse of how they put Loki together. The actor's face is fascinating to watch, and Loki was always one of my favorite characters, and I do have a weakness for woobification, but I wouldn't want him to be the Stay Puft Marshmallowman of villainous Valhalla. *goes off to track the movie down again*)

[surexit]

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny.