Marvel's Avengers - early reviews seem positive [edited title]

So, moving away from the nuke: the speed of the Hulks movements was fantastic. Beyond just the raw strength, the quickness was frightening. It shows that he is not just a dumb brute wall of muscle, but a terrifyingly quick and agile force to be reckoned with.

The scene where Hulk sucker-punched Thor was better in 48 Hours.

As was the USB arrow.

I’m assuming that was a ‘bro-punch’ to the shoulder - not any sort of hostility, just an excess of high spirits.
Various thoughts:
Re: Iron Man and the nuke. I would say that he just happened to run out of power shortly after releasing the missile in the otherverse; and that it was the explosion that pushed him out - or possibly just pushing away from the missile in the right direction. He’d been deliberately draining his power to get the missile where he wanted it, and that’s when and where he ran out.
Overall, an excellent movie; I’ve seen it three times, and each time I picked up something new.
*On the second go-round, when Banner first Hulks out - he lands on the floor, right where it’s stenciled “Warning: Contents Under Pressure”. I doubt that’s a coincidence. :smiley:
*Third time, towards the end where Tony and Pepper are looking at the wire frame of the tower. There’s a quick flash of an area with Cap’s shield beside it; then they pull back and you can see a Quinjet in the tower - preview of the Avenger’s HQ, I’d guess.
Loved Loki - he’d make a great psychologist, if he weren’t batshit crazy.

There’s a floor for each Avenger with a little symbol. Hulk’s is the radioactive one.

Here ya go: OK, I've seen The Avengers - open spoilers! - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board

Question:
When the Hulk/Banner hit the ground, who was the actor that played the janitor/caretaker that gave him the clothes?
he looks very familiar, but IMDB had no credit for anyone in that role.

Harry Dean Stanton. Harry Dean Stanton - IMDb

Harry Dean Stanton

I thought it was him, but I wasn’t sure. Thanks.

Well, here in Sweden it was subtitled as “fitta” which is the literal translation of cunt. As in the baddest of the bad words. There was an audible gasp from the audience. Surprised me and Swedish isn’t even my native language.

Oh and it may have been British slang once, but it is rarely (if ever) used these days.

It’s rarely used, but still common enough for everyone to know the word. (unless all my friends have an unusually extended swearing vocabulary)

Somewhat reinforced by his interactions with NYPD during the battle.

I disagree and I’m (also?) British. I don’t think I have ever heard it outside of this film.

Re: quim

Several years ago I was signing up for some online service and the name Quimby was taken so I just wrote Quim and it gave me a message saying the name was indecent. I was like WTF (this was late 90s so pre Google era)? So I e-mailed their tech support and that guy had no idea what was up so he kicked it up and that guy had no idea so finally after a day or two they apparently found someone on their staff who recognized and he e-mails me, “It’s kind of an obscure British curse word. It was in our database of blocked words but no one ever heard of it so we’re just going to let you have it”. Later on I found out what it meant. All I was doing was abbreviating…I had no idea.

And that was the only reason I recognized that line in The Avengers.

Yep, I’m british too.

I’ve heard it before in things like Viz and on the TV show Bottom. Both of these have quite a lot of creative swearing in them, so maybe I was right about me and my friends having good anglo saxon vocabularies

I could be wrong, but I believe Eddie Murphy may have dropped a quim-bomb in one of his stand-up specials.

I am well aware of the term, and I’m a 'Merkin. Of course, I also read a lot of Victorian porn.

So not exactly current then :wink:

No need for spoilers on this, I think, as it’s in a trailer…

Did you miss the line: “You people are so petty, and tiny”