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'The Avengers': 7 reasons why it will be a hit


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By Michael Cavna NICK'S FURY: Samuel L. Jackson — Nick Fury in “Marvel's the Avengers" — has taken aim in a Twitter flame war with New York Times critic AO Scott, who called the film disspiriting and demanding of our obedience. (Zade Rosenthal – AP) .

“The Avengers” is a movie that, in its calculated overload of sensation and symbol, exists in a realm beyond good and bad. The movie's laughably literal and mechanistic exposition (complete with dialogue spoken in the all-caps comic-book typeface)

“It's more of an earthy fragrance,” said Andrew Levine, chief executive officer of Jads International LLC, the Hunt Valley, Maryland-based marketer that signed on to produce a line of “Avengers” scents, including Smash, a cologne based on the green

A bunch of us comic-book fans got together the other night at the premiere of The Avengers, an awesome movie that pretty well persuaded me that, whatever awesome means, I'm against it. A lot of us were dressed in Spandex and tights to mark the moment.

By Michael Cavna NICK'S FURY: Samuel L. Jackson — Nick Fury in “Marvel's the Avengers" — has taken aim in a Twitter flame war with New York Times critic AO Scott, who called the film disspiriting and demanding of our obedience. (Zade Rosenthal – AP) .