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I'm surprised The Hulk got so much love in this movie, honestly, after his last couple attempts into the theaters was kind of a complete failure.

Surprised does not by any means mean disappointed, mind you.

I picked up some tickets today after work. I have tomorrow off and figured I'd go at the local 1pm showing, figuring it will be less of a crowd if I go during the day on a weekday.

First time I've gone to the movies in a long time. The last one I went to see being the Half Blood Prince with my mother and family (she really wanted to go, and asked us to come with her).

SpoilerThanos: Essentially a god who fell in love with Death (who just so happens to both exist and has a rockin' body. Also in love with Deadpool in a weird love triangle), who not only killed all of his race, but also wants to show his love by killing all existence. At one point obtained the Infinity Gauntlet, which is pretty much the big Super Item of the universe and killed half of existence. Defeated by Squirrel Girl once. As far as Big Bads go, there's few higher on the food chain. Not really featured in the movies so unless you actually read the books you wouldn't be lead to believe or know anything about him.

Nah, picture that showed up on my Twitter feed. It amused me.

Thanos is one of the "odd" characters in the Marvel universe. Usually, when they toss in someone cosmic of power, they use them as background for something, or they appear as some kind of avatar of their true self, whatever. And usually they aren't themselves the direct bad guy, but are more of an obstacle of some kind. So folks like Galactus, the Celestials, Death, the Living Tribunal, are generally out of the scope of most characters. Even lesser powers like the Watchers rarely interact directly. Thanos is sometimes presented as just this really tough but within the power range of superheros type guy, then other times as some multi-dimensional being of power. Dunno, it's like every writer who tossed him in had a different idea of what to do with him and how he fit into the universe.

With the whole infinity gauntlet thing he gained super dumper powers, I guess. Honestly, it was a pretty dumb storyline even at the time, so I suppose I've always had a bit of a dislike of Thanos because of it. There are good ways of writing stories involving nearly absolute power, and many of them had been done by Marvel writers. That storyline really wasn't it though. Again, just like Thanos, it was like the writers couldn't decide if this was supposed to be something dealt with at some cosmic existential kind of level, with the characters just sorta seeing a piece of it and being in awe, or whether they'd play it like some direct conflict to deal with. That inconsistency made for a really silly story.


As a evil guy at the high superhero level, but low "God" level, he works as a character. Toss him against folks like Silver Surfer, Thor, etc, and you've got a good fight. IMO, he works best in that context. Trying to make more out of him just ends out being silly.

With over 30k posts, I'd imagine lolgaxe's arm to look more like this. Call it "keyboard calisthenics".

Iron Man 3 is scheduled for 2013, so my guess is that they'll try to introduce him then. Whether or not he'll be the main antagonist, I don't know, but he'll probably be in there one way or another.

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No real reason to think that the old guy was one of Stark's people. The first half of the movie, every time that Stark and Banner were together, Stark was giving him a pep talk. Stark just believed that Banner could control the Hulk and would do the right thing.

Also, Coulson...what the hell?

Quote:

They really have a choice between bringing back the Red Skull somehow

Someone didn't stay to see the extra scene.



As a side note, this movie contains the single greatest use of the line, "Hulk, smash" ever.

...and finally, I was so glad when I got the theater and saw it was playing in both 2D and 3D. I hate those damn glasses. I apparently wasn't alone in that opinion, the place was pretty crowded.

Edited, May 5th 2012 7:33pm by Turin

Yeah this went far beyond what I was expecting. Some great lines and Hulk and Thor in the station after taking down that one priceless.

I stayed for both. The next sentence after the one you quoted from me confirms that. I was speaking about other options besides the big T. As a side note, Loki's wand/spear might have just had the Spoilermind gem in it...Makes me think Thor 2 will involve someone else sneaking into Odin's treasure room....

Iron Man 3 will at least be partly filmed in China, Ben Kingsly will be the villain (Mandarin? Perhaps SpoilerThanos will give him his rings?), & Guy Pearce is also in it as the dude whom creates Extremis. I'm not going to tell you what that is, but it's pretty cool & one of the better Iron Man story lines to come out of modern marvel comics recently.

@ IDF

Movie Cap is a Super Soldier who is also adept at leading folks. Hence why he tells everyone what to do in the final act. As a fanboy, the only thing missing from Cap was the line, "Avengers Assemble!". Other than that, I thought he was a better character in Avengers than in his own flick. Also, up close, his costume looks fine but wide shots made it look silly. I do not know why this is.

As for the 3D, honestly, I thought the 3D in the Spidey preview before Avengers was much better than anything in the actual Avengers movie. That and because of the format it seemed the frames were off a bit (parts of people's heads cut off while they spoke, etc.)

Someone mentioned the old guy that finds Banner after his first episode: SpoilerHe was in Alien and asked if Banner was an Alien. I call that an Easter Egg.

Edited, May 6th 2012 3:33am by Omegavegeta

Edited, May 6th 2012 3:35am by Omegavegeta

There's a great line in one of the books about Cap. The scene is some disaster, and there's a massive fire going. I'm going to have to paraphrase, because I don't remember exactly which book, but it's along the lines of "And then the Soldier appeared with a voice able to command the gods. And then he did," and all you see is Cap pointing and Thor creating a rainstorm to take care of the fire. That's pretty much where Cap lies. He's not a power player, but he's a quick tactician and a great speaker and can take charge of pretty much any situation almost instantly.

The movie only really hinted at that, which is kind of a shame. It's one of those things that you can't really convey in a movie or two.

I knew he looked familiar, but I just couldn't place him. Considering Hulk's voice is SpoilerLou Ferrigno, I was trying to think of everything Hulk related, from the movies to tv shows and such and didn't even consider that angle.

As far as Thanos, he has an interesting story but the only thing involving him that I liked was a Deadpool storyline where Thanos Spoilercurses Wade to basic immortality as a punishment for stealing Death's affection from him. Beyond that, I won't deny there is potential there, but it'll take a lot to flesh it out. And a few Hulk scenes. God those scenes are still making me laugh.

I'd watch any movie with Groot and his intellectually stimulating situational observations.