"The Avengers" alternate opening

Marvel has released this alternate opening to their mega-blockbuster and I have to say I'm glad someone was paying attention and decided to cut it. Having agent Hill hitting leadoff with a scathing critique of Nick Fury would have tainted just about everything else in the film. There's also the fact that New York, as depicted in this sequence, looks more likes it's just survived a really bad gas main explosion instead of an epic battle for the future of the planet.