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Seems that I´ve had too much free time this last week, coughing up my lungs (which are a bit battered since my intense flirt with asthma when I was a teen) and mentally sending my son packing who´d had passed that virus of hell to me. Nevertheless I was able to skim various journals of acquaintances of old. It´s funny how many former steadfast Tolkien addicts have turned their back on him. It´s the Tolkien-has-become-boring-I-need-something-new-thing that must have hit them hard, just like it has hit me then, five years ago, and I banned all those precious books into cardboard boxes and stored them in the cellar. Good thing is: the books are back in the shelf next to my bed (which spared them a trip into the dustbin, since the big rain ruined what else had been stored in the boxes). Bad thing is: having read so many fabulous things about Avengers(???) makes me wonder if I might have missed something important. I dimly remember that I once must have seen some film about Avengers but did not like it (it´s always the books which make a lasting impression on me, never films, sorry, Peter Jackson). Now please, oh please, enlighten an old woman: there has to be more than one film to watch, right? Any chronology necessary? My Amazon gift account is currently bursting at the seams, so I better spend some of the money, even if it´s possibly rubbish I´ll be ordering!

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I started with The Avengers movie, and sort of worked backwards. But I think the movie makes more sense if you watch Captain America, Thor,Ironman 1 and 2 before hand. There were a couple of Hulk movies too, but they were made a bit earlier and do not have the same actor.

I did enjoy the movies, but did not find them interesting enough to get really into the fandom. There just isn't enough substance to them to obsess over for a long time like the Tolkien books. The eye candy, however, is outstanding. XD

Saw Thor and Ironman ( and did not like the films), will watch the Avengers on TV in five minutes...maybe an aha-moment is at hand! Ah yes, saw the Winter Soldier! This one was good!

Ach, that virus... it caught me last week, so I feel with you. It seems to do the rounds, the bloody thing. Hope you'll feel better soon!

Tolkien has never left my bookshelf, but "muses" are fickle things, they come and go. Mine took almost ten years to return! :)

I grew up with the Avengers, their comics were among the first written items I've read as a wee girl, so for me, seeing all my childhood heroes coming alive on the screen is a great thing. It's like remembering birthday cakes or cotton candy. (I don't think that counts for a decent movie critic, does it! :-D )

I remember my older cousin owning lots of comics, sometimes I "lent" one, means I smuggled it to our house and back the next weekend, because my mother would have a fit when catching me reading one. I vaguely remember Superman and Batman, but Avengers? I´ll go and watch them on TV today, maybe another aha-moment is at hand!