The Avengers (2012) follows the well-worn trope of
a prison transport movie where the transport gone horribly, awfully wrong. Hollywood has a proud
tradition of Prison-Transport-Movies-Gone-Horribly-Wrong genre. This time with
superheroes!
There's a civil war between a Viking God from another dimension
and a government agency which sub contracts out its work to people in tights.
They use a scientific staff with anger problems
aboard a ship in close quarters as if to say nothing could possibly go wrong.
But you know it will. You wouldn't pay money to see it if the situation was going to be alright, right? In the Prison-Transport-Goes-Horribly-Wrong genre, we pay to see failure, not success. Why would we
want to see success?
Of course there has to be a battle in New York City which
puts Ghostbusters to shame. And the battle has to take a long time.
I mean with Game of Thrones it's all in a nice
neat package. And the prison transport is easily dispensed with.
Game of Thrones, that is so much better.
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