User blog comment:Cheesemaster840/will Avengers be better than Transformers: Dark of the Moon?/@comment-61022-20111024041352

That's kind of like comparing apples to oranges. I haven't seen any of the later Transformer movies after the first one (Is there really much point? And this is coming from a huge Transformers nut like me) I think comparing Transformers to the Avengers is like comparing Schindler's List to How Stella Got Her Grove Back (Other than the fact that one is about an atrocity, and the other is an atrocity).

Special effects wise... You're also comparing two different things. One is a sci-fi epic about giant transforming robots from outer space, and the other is a super-hero story. Both of which have two different settings by how they are being told. The Avengers story by comparison would be less "epic" by means of the cinematic eye candy. Plus it's not a Michael Bay-splosion movie. Sure there will be copious amounts of carnage and destruction, but I highly doubt it would be at the ridiculous extremes that Bay is known for.

That said... What will make the Avengers a good movie is what made Iron Man, Thor, Hulk and Captain America good movies: Good story telling. I say this time and time again: You can have all the flashy effects you want, blood guts, gore, bombs, explosions, naked women etc etc etc... But the only way you're going to have a good movie is if it has a good story.