{"id":3282,"date":"2012-05-07T20:27:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T01:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2012-05-07T20:27:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T01:27:51","slug":"critic-at-large-marvels-the-avengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"Critic At Large: Marvel&#8217;s The Avengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, <em>The Avengers<\/em> can be a dizzying, frenetic maelstrom of quick cuts and superhero-y one-upmanship, but the movie never stops being fun. The elaborate action set-pieces that the comic book nerds will be deconstructing all summer long don&#8217;t seem bloated or disconnected from the rest of the film. And the characters are interesting, troubled people who bicker and argue like a dysfunctional team of co-workers. Perhaps<em> The Avengers<\/em> is best viewed as a modern workplace dramedy, except that the office drones have been replaced with demi-gods, mutants, and assassins. But it&#8217;s the subversively funny moments that give <em>The Avengers<\/em> its broad appeal. I&#8217;m still chuckling over a certain scene containing a perfectly timed sucker punch.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Joss Whedon&#8217;s name is now associated with astronomical box office numbers can only be a good thing for the future of pop culture. It&#8217;s probably unreasonable to expect Disney to bankroll a <em>Serenity<\/em> sequel, but a geek can dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, The Avengers can be a dizzying, frenetic maelstrom of quick cuts and superhero-y one-upmanship, but the movie never stops being fun. The elaborate action set-pieces that the comic book nerds will be deconstructing all summer long don&#8217;t seem bloated or disconnected from the rest of the film. And the characters are interesting, troubled people <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3282' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-23-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-QW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}