About Two Seconds of Avengers Footage
I admit, two seconds is not a lot. And really, although I call it ” footage” the shots pass by so quickly they might as well be still images (hell, they might be actual still images). Also, if you look at the stills of the “footage” over at The Mary Sue, they’re just a bunch of pics of the heroes standing by themselves. Really, none of it is even close to essential.
So why am I showing this preview for the Captain America DVD? Because I’m so goddamn excited about the Avengers movie I’m genuinely interested in two shitty seconds of non-revealing footage (it’s at 1:51); but it also shows a bit more of that Agent Coulson short I mentioned the other day, including Coulson taking care of business (beginning at 1:33). Plus, the Captain America behind-the-scenes stuff is pretty neat, and reminds me how much I liked the movie. So I ran this video for plenty of reasons. Good reasons, too. Don’t judge me.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.