The Avengers, or Slouching Towards A Theater Near You

At last it comes to this. The terrible beast that tore a path of destruction across the cultural landscape and remade the rubble in it's own image, the ground zero for an era of industrially produced perfectly smooth franchise IP gangbangs. A decade after it's release, what do Stu and Nicole make of Marvel's The Avengers Assemble (not to be confused with 1998's The Avengers)?¹ What can we say about writer/director Joss Whedon, male-feminist nerd icon turned pariah?² What, in the end, does all this superhero stuff actually mean?³

Find out all this and more as we take a look at the movie that made the modern blockbuster, and cross the dark threshold into the world that Marvel made.

 

1-It's a perfectly adequate adventure movie

2-He's a pretentious dork

3-Tune in to find out!

 

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