I actually lay awake for half the night on Friday smiling and reliving all the greatness.

My fave line was Stark called Thor "Point Break". If Whedon had been in the theater beside me I think I'd have given him head right then.

The Hulk was the scene stealer for me too. The tension they managed to build up around him by having all the Avengers (except Thor) kind of quietly afraid of him was spectacular.

"I tried. I put a bullet in my mouth and the other guy spit it out" lololol

I actually missed the "Puny God" line because the whole cinema was in uproar at that point. I could see Hulk said something but I couldn't hear it.

The really mind blowing thing for me was how Whedon managed to balance every character out in terms of power and necessity. The whole movie was like the best "who would win in a fight" discussion ever. Hulk not being able to pick up Mjolnir - brilliant, Captain America being weaker but the only one capable of truly leading with military decisions - brilliant. I don't even think you could have extracted Black Widow or Hawkeye from the script without everything crumbling. Every character was a vital tentpole. ****ing Amazing writing. Haven't seen a script that tight since Edgar Wright wrote Hot Fuzz.

And THANOS at the end. omg omg omg omg.

Interesting after story - as I walked out of the the theater, the two kids in front of me were actually bigger nerds than I am. One kid was explaining to the other how the whole Schwarma thing harks back to Nicholas Brendan's casting schtick for the first season of Buffy. How the *hell* does someone get *that* nerdy? I love people. ^_^

I shouted with glee during the movie!

I really liked Samuel Jackson as Nick Fury! He is the man!

I loved this so much I talked about it for like 3 days straight and since there was only my husband to hear about it I'm not sure he appreciated it by the end (although he did think it was cute as I never get that happy with things - I usually am too nitpicky - yeah, I'm THAT nerd) and I was SO PROUD of Joss Whedon for not effing it up at ALL - I was honestly a tiny bit worried he'd get carried away but someone reined him in just right and the things he shines at REALLY sh..shined? shone? Anyway. It was great.

But yeah. I loved it. I spent at least 2 hours talking about what would or wouldn't be an awesome avengers tattoo and decided I couldn't think of anything.

we walked out before the shwarma scene though - Kind of spaced out on it plus we both had to pee.

I think I have exsausted everyone I know by talking about how much I love this movie. I loved everything about it. Unfortinatly my sister almost had to have her mouth duct taped shut because apperantly she cant stand Hawk eye or black widow and according to her they where never that cool in the comic. But whatever. the movie delivered on all its promise and (besides my sister who hates pretty much every comic book movie) I have yet to meet one person who didnt nerd out a little when talking about the movie

dude who complains when they take a character and make it COOLER? Seriously. who?

My fave line was Stark called Thor "Point Break". If Whedon had been in the theater beside me I think I'd have given him head right then.

I loved Stark's names for the others - Reindeer Games, Point Break and Legolas all had me laughing.

We saw the movie on a late Wednesday afternoon, so theater wasn't crowded and we caught Hulk's 'puny god' line - great theater crowd too, lots of laughs, although I do think my family laughed longest and loudest at the Legolas line.

I think I was the only one laughing at the Point Break line, but "puny god" got applause (on a Wednesday night).

I was totally talking about Agent Coulson. Joss's bodycount is legendary. I still haven't forgiven him for killing Joyce Summers. I unashamedly wept like a little girl during that episode of Buffy. Wash? Cordelia? Fred? Buffy? Buffy again? The guy racks up more bodies then the final scene of harry potter.

Anya, Angel, Wes, Gunn, Tara, Jonathan... At least some of them got to come back.

I guess it was just me, but the first time I saw it, I really didn't like it.
When I went back two days later to see it again, I still didn't like it.
Three days later and back again, and I STILL didn't like it.
Maybe I should see it another 2 or 7 times to find out why I don't like it.

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Also to bring it back to MFP. I wondered how many calories is in shwarma.

I went to a Lebanese food festival this weekend, at a ton, and was pleasantly surprised at how few calories I consumed compared to a similar amount of American food.

It depends on the shwarma actually since its just a big pile of meat, and then beyond that how much rice, hummus, etc (pita if you roll that way) you eat will influence how much it ends up being too - but the big pile of meat thing means a lot of fattier cuts of meat will be higher cals.

Either way my general rule of thumb for eating ANYTHING is cut off any obvious chunks of fat and don't eat those, eat all the protein and vegetables, then eat whatever carbs you are hungry for afterwards sparingly. You can't do much damage that way for the most part.

Anyway depending on how much you eat of it and the fat content of the meat I'd say somewhere between 400 and 800 calories for a schwarma plate. 1000 if you eat EVERYTHING on the plate and its a hefty plate. Its no better or worse than anything else really.

(I only eat 2 meals a day so a 1000 calorie meal isn't a big deal for me, I realize its a big deal for other people)

Hey Squid.... I'm worried. My husband thinks that MIB3 will end up grossing more than the Avengers. We can't let this happen guys. Go see it again. get a group. do it. The world needs you.

My husband thinks that MIB3 will end up grossing more than the Avengers.

Stupid apparently, but me, not him. He meant this weekend only, not total gross. Or is that what you thought as well? He thinks MIB will pull about 70 this weekend and Avengers might do 50 again.

Na na na na na na na... na na na na na na..... gettin' jiggy wit it....

I thought you meant total gross... which.... I think is unlikely. But weekend... hmmm... yeah.... maybe.

Stupid apparently, but me, not him. He meant this weekend only, not total gross. Or is that what you thought as well? He thinks MIB will pull about 70 this weekend and Avengers might do 50 again.

Na na na na na na na... na na na na na na..... gettin' jiggy wit it....

I thought you meant total gross... which.... I think is unlikely. But weekend... hmmm... yeah.... maybe.

Memorial day weekend and its the 4th week for the avengers but first week for MIB so its very unlikely that Avengers will gross more, although Avengers will still get a bump from the holiday. Maybe I'll see it again anyhow, my parents haven't seen it yet and I have not much interest in MIB3.

Ha, I just realized you used the nicer version of that macro but I just saw the picture and even though I looked at it TWICE (once on my phone, once to come here and reply) I still read it as "or just very stupid"

Yikes! I wondered why you used the word "stupid".... I'm not *that* much of a jerk... well... I guess that depends on who you ask.... I think I'm slowly making it onto a few lists around here....

Youre fine in my books

Oh...and I dont think MIBIII will beat Avengers... that's my bet!

Ha, I just realized you used the nicer version of that macro but I just saw the picture and even though I looked at it TWICE (once on my phone, once to come here and reply) I still read it as "or just very stupid"

Yikes! I wondered why you used the word "stupid".... I'm not *that* much of a jerk... well... I guess that depends on who you ask.... I think I'm slowly making it onto a few lists around here....

Youre fine in my books

Oh...and I dont think MIBIII will beat Avengers... that's my bet!

I guess we will see. I would be happy if it doesn't, but I think MIB3 is actually slightly broader crowd appeal than Avengers and that matters a lot for first weekends.