The Avengers

I didn't have to ask Sweetie twice if he wanted to go to the movies today.  Total testosterone movie.  Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, The Hulk, The Black Widow, and Hawkeye team up to stop Loki.  You guys know who all these people are.  And Samuel L. Jackson as their fearless leader, Fury.

We went to the first non-3D showing at 1:15, and the theater was packed.  Hardly an empty seat in the place when we arrived at 1:15.  We managed to squeezed into the two seats at the top in the corner, which were better than the few seats down front, too close to the screen to watch without getting a pain in the neck.

The plot?  Does there have to be a plot when you have special effects and flying, crashing things?  It was a bit dark at the beginning, and too much talking, shouting orders, so I got a snooze.  They did break up the action with some frequent comic relief.  These are Marvel comic book characters, ya-know?  At the end of the movie, the audience applauded.

But I gotta love Samuel L. Jackson.  He has so many movies in the works, I can't see them all.  There was a time when I tried to keep up with his different hairdos.  He's had afros, and dreadlocs and jerri-curls, and most anything that a black man can have.  My favorite on him  is bald.  He has had so many hair variations that he started adding skin variations...scars, burns, wrinkles.  In this movie he has an eye-patch with a dreadful looking starburst of scars radiating from under it.  It's almost as mean as his face in The Dark Knight in 2008.

Anyway, I had to dig up my old chart.  It became impossible to keep it up, even with help from friends.

I give the Avengers three stars.

Samuel L Jackson Hairdo Rating Chart
Movie Title	Year Released	Character	Hair style	Sarah’s hairdo rating
Resurrecting the Champ	2007	Champ	locs	1
Snakes on a Plane	2006	Neville Flynn	bald	9
Freedomland	2006	Lorenzo Council	hat	3
The Man	2005	Derrick Vann	short locs	2
Star Wars:Episode III	2005	Mace Windu	bald	9
XXX2	2004	Agent Augustus Gibbons	short afro	5
Kill Bill	2003	The Organ Player
Blackout	2003	Mills
S.W.A.T.	2003	Lt. Dan “Hondo” Harrelson
Basic	2003	Drill Instructor West
XXX	2002	Agent Augustus Gibbons	short afro	5
House on Turk Street	2002	Jack Friar
Star Wars:  Episode II – Attack of the Clones	2002	Mace Windu	bald	9
Changing Lanes	2002	Doyle Gipson	short afro	5
Formula 51	2002	Elmo McElroy	long braids	4
The Caveman’s Valentine	2001	Romulus Ledbetter	dreadlocks	2
Unbreakable	2000	Elijah Price	“bed head” afro	1
Shaft	2000	John Shaft	bald	10
Rules of Engagement	2000	Colonel Terry L. Childers
Any Given Wednesday	2000	Willie Nutter
Deep Blue Sea	1999	Russell Franklin	black toupee	0
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	1999	Mace Windu	bald	9
The Red Violin	1998	Charles Morritz	bald & thinning	3
The Negotiator	1998	Lt. Danny Roman
Jackie Brown	1997	Ordell Robbie	fried & died	1
Eve’s Bayou	1997	Louis Batiste	short afro	6
A Time to Kill	1996	Carl Lee Hailey	receding afro	4
Pulp Fiction	1994	Jules Winnfield	curl	1
Jungle Fever	1991	Gator Purify	Short	2