The Avengers!

So I saw the Avengers and it was beyond awesome!  I highly recommend that you go see it.  Not only was it awesome but it was pretty funny too.  Probably the most well done comic book movie I have ever seen.  We also walked away with free movie tickets because they started playing the wrong movie at first and then we couldn't read any of the subtitles because the picture was too big for the screen.  I didn't mind though because now I get to see a free movie!  Anyways, I was noticing after the movie, which was very high action, that a lot of people were saying how pumped they were and how they wanted to go fight bad guys and what not.  It reminded me of what we talked about in my media class about how people previously believed that watching violence was cathartic but now research shows that it actually has the exact opposite effect.  I saw this demonstrated as I watched people leaving the theater.  I don't believe in that particular situation that there were any negative consequences that came from people watching the movie, but it was interesting to see how media in the form of a movie has the potential to affect our mood.