FUN FRIDAY: Joss Whedon Borrows a Chair Flip for Avengers Stunt

Are you wearing your Avengers underoos yet?  Cause I am.  I’m pumped that it’s less than a week away til this epic destroys the box office.  At least for a couple weeks before Batman destroys Avengers.  And then Spidey destroys Batman.  This summer is AWESOME!

Meanwhile, film clips and scenes are rolling out fastly and furiously.  In fact, I’m pretty sure that by watching all the released clips and trailers and extra footage from the international trailers…I’ve seen the entire film and the dvd bonus features by now.

But that is okay.

Now I’m not an uber UBER super dooper Avengers fan.  Those people are going to this:

The Regal Movie Marvel Marathon.  6 Movies, 14 hours, $40.00, 21k kernels of popcorn, 6 gallons of cherry coke, 187 twizzlers, culminating in the 12:01 Avengers screening.  My butt fell asleep just reading the poster.  And my teeth just rotted out.  And my intestines burst.

So, no.  I’ll pass this time but still maintain my rabid fan status at a midnight screening.  You can tell I’m a rabid fan cause my date will be wearing the Black Widow outfit.  His name is Jim and we tried to talk him into something else, but he’s pretty adamant.

Speaking of Black Widow, I fell in love with her during her 8.4 seconds of fame in Iron Man.  So I’ve probably watched this Avengers clip about 237 times.

So good.  I don’t actually know what Black Widow’s real super power is, but it appears to be hotness and the ability to strike awesome crouchy poses.  And how about that chair flip, huh? Does Joss Whedon know how to write a strong female lead or does Joss Whedon know how to write a…the ANSWER’S YES!

But that chair flip caught my attention because if memory serves correctly – and it rarely does – I’ve seen that move before from one Mister J.J. Abrams and one Miss Sydney Bristow.  And does J.J. Abrams know how to write a strong female lead or does J.J. Abrams know…the ANSWER’S YES!!  So, I did some digging around and found that other flippin sweet chair move.

Did you see what I did there?  Flippin sweet?  This stuff just writes itself, people.

Now, I haven’t seen Steven Soderbergh’s “Haywire” yet with real-life butt kicker Gina Carano, but when I do, if she doesn’t flip a chair and people’s rock bottom some other character, I’m gonna be a little disappointed.  A little put out.  A little bit let down.  Because, let’s be honest…one chair flip smasharoo is awesome and random, but two?  Well, now it’s a thing.

So, good luck DC Comics competing with that.  Good luck Justice League getting Wonder Woman to chair flip smasharoo WWE style.  Cause she might break a nail.

As for the rest of you rabid fans?  Will I be seeing you at the Avengers screening on May 4th at 12:01am – the ANSWER’S YES!!

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