Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Phil Bagnall, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT.
This time, Jeremiah Chechik’s The Avengers.
When the sinister Sir August de Wynter discovers a way to harness the weather for his own monstrous ends, there is only one way to stop him. Sophisticated secret agent John Steed teams up with meteorologist Emma Peel in order to prevent the villain from bringing his fiendish plot to fruition.
At time of recording, it was ranked 68th on the Internet Movie Database‘s list of the worst movies of all-time.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 24th November 2018.
- Note: At time of recording, Avengers: Endgame did not have a title. As a result, Darren refers to it repeatedly as Avengers: Infinity War, Part II.
- The Avengers at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB Bottom 100 as it appeared at time of recording.
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- Simon Heffer at The Telegraph on how The Avengers transformed sixties television, August 2015.
- Noel Murray at The A.V. Club on the appeal of weird “Britishness” of The Avengers, January 2013.
- Franz Lidz at The New York Times on the origin and appeal of Emma Peel, August 1998.
- Cynthia Robins at The San Francisco Gate on Emma Peel as a style icon, August 1998.
- Amanda Ann Klein and R. Barton Palmer at The Atlantic on the popularity and ubiquity of the reboot, March 2016.
- Jacob Weisbert at Slate on the critical response to The Avengers, August 1998.
- Charles Taylor at Salon offers a brief history of The Avengers and provides some context for the film, August 1998.
- Calum Brown at Yahoo! News on the tie-in mini released to coincide with the film, September 2018.
- John Harris at The New Statesman on “Cool Britannia”, May 2017.
- Tom Campbell and Homa Khaleeli at The Guardian on the legacy of “Cool Britannia”, July 2017.
- Dan Jolin at Empire Australia on the history and development of The Avengers, April 2018.
- Simon Brew at Den of Geek on Warner Brothers‘ disastrous summer of 1997, June 2016.
- B. Alan Orange on the aborted Superman Lives movie, March 2018.
- Padraig Cotter at Den of Geek reflects on the lost potential version of I Am Legend that would have starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, October 2016.
- Michael Kamen talks to Soundtrack.net on his aborted score for The Avengers, May 1998.
- Jeremiah Chechik talks to Den of Geek about what went wrong with The Avengers, February 2011.
- Jennifer Richler at The Atlantic on how spoilers can impact enjoyment of a film, March 2013.
- Mike Plant’s petition at iPetition for a director’s cut of The Avengers, April 2014.
- Cedric Voets at Cracked on why great actors make bad movies, May 2017.
- Frida Garza at Jezebel on how much Robert Pattinson hates Twilight, September 2018.
- Ralph Fiennes talks to GQ about working on the Harry Potter films, April 2019.
- Ralph Fiennes talks about his affection for Voldemort and Harry Potter with Screenrant, March 2019.
- Ralph Fiennes talks to The Guardian about how much he enjoyed working on The Avengers, December 2011.
- The Scotsman covers Sean Connery’s tumultuous relationship with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen director Stephen Norrington, November 2002.
- Erin Blakemore at The Smithsonian Magazine on how the nineties environmentalism movement healed the ozone layer, January 2016.
- Andrew Klekociuk and Paul Krummel at The Conversation on the legacy of the Montreal Protocol, September 2017.
- Mitchell Landsberg at The Los Angeles Times on global warming as the biggest crisis of the nineties, October 1989.
- Darren discusses The Avengers as a strange warped James Bond parody, April 2019.
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Filed under: The Bottom 100 | Tagged: cool britannia, Emma Peel, nineties, Peel, phil bagnall, ralph fiennes, sean connery, Steed, the avengers, uma thurman, Warner Brothers |
the m0vie blog 
Joy, Emotions and finally an ending.
This is the movie for which the whole world waited. We won’t get an another movie like this for sure.
Love, Emotions, Friendship , goosebumps and fight scenes are perfectly scripted.
One main theme is ‘Sacrifice’ yes it’s needed in our real life too but we can’t or won’t bear it.
I’m… not sure we’re talking about the same film here.