I saw it again on Friday, and this time I sat all the way through to the end. I loved the last scene. Did anyone else think it was a tribute to ‘Big Night’?
Asgardians, even run-of-the-mill ones, are super tough. Dr Doom recently cut the heart out of one in a bit of evil unnecessary surgery, and remarked to Loki that he was surprised how long the guy lived without his heart.
As a guy who’s spent some time in armor in the SCA, fighting all day at wars… I’ve been there, and that is exactly what the after-action feed looks like.
Ask and ye shall recieve.
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YES!!!
Thank you kindly!
As payback, and a new contribution to the thread, an interview with Clark Gregg (Agent Coulson) about his “motivating” the Avengers.
There’s also shock value. I mean, Loki is pretty cock of the walk here, after fighting dramatically and classically with his brother (and stabbing him), after swatting away anoying flying attacks from all sides, and he’s getting all monologue-y and dramatic. This is his big moment where he smites the last unbeliever!
But instead this … monster with no respect for his person or his evil godlike abilities just snatches him up by the ankles and swings him around like a ragdoll.
Regardless of actual physical damage, there’s got to be a few moments of mental readjustment of the nature of reality and your own place in it after an experience like that. Hell, look at poor Black Widow after Hulk chases her down - despite her truly amazing mental fortitude, she’s shaking like a leaf and he never even touched her! Loki doesn’t have nearly that kind of composure.
Explains why he was smiling all the time.
When Loki warps into the Tesseract facility at the beginning of the film, he’s shot dozens of times by the guards. You can see little sparks where the bullets are just bouncing off him.
In the comics a typical Asguardian is immune to normal gunfire as I recall.
Well in archery that just means he’s left eye dominant, not necessarily left-handed.
Nice! Hadn’t thought of that.
Wow really?
I didn’t know it worked like that. That’s kinda cool, only kinda cuz it takes away from the novelty of left handed archers in general.
But fun to know nonetheless
I love how The Hulk gives him a couple of poundings, then holds him up to check him out.
->POUND<-
->POUND<-
How’s he doing? Nope, not done yet.
->POUND<-
->POUND<-
->POUND<-
Yeah, he went all Bamm-Bamm on Loki…
And technically Loki’s a tiny Frost Giant, and for what it’s worth they seemed just as tough as Asgardians except for Odin and Thor.
I was a little disappointed that we didn;t get to see Hiddleston in his Frost Giant makeup, but there was no real reason for it, and it would have confused people who skipped Thor.
My SO and I tremendously enjoyed the film.
We took the youngsters the first time we went, and they loved it.
This was the first movie in many a year that I’ve seen where the audience cheered, and clapped at the end.
Best -audience related- part of the show was when Iron Man just barely makes it through the closing portal, the theater was dead quiet. and then the Hulk jumps up to catch him, some dude yells “FUCKIN’ RIGHT!” and the whole place erupted.
The only nitpick for us was the dialogue exchanges between Fury and Hill were pretty hackneyed, cliche.
Neither of us were impressed with Nick Fury, or Sam Jackson’s performance of him.
Thanos! My favourite comics character! I love that purple guy!
Now that you mention it, this was the single weak point of the movie for me. Every time Nick Fury was on screen, it was like, “Oh, Sam Jackson.” Like, let’s have Sam Jackson say “stupid-ass” because people will love that, etc. He just didn’t sell the role for me.
What would happen if, instead of simply pounding him into the floor, Hulk had tried to pull Loki’s arms off?
That’s what I often find myself thinking when superheroes/villains fight. “Stop punching him! Grab him in two places and pull in different directions!”
That or “stop punching him in the shin! He obviously has no ability to stop you from making contact so go for his eyes!”
Then the movie would have been rated R.
And, whoever has the trademark for Stretch Armstrong would’ve sued.
While I love that movie tons, no.
Of all the things a Whedon/Marvel movie would reference, why a minor art house movie about food?