And effective.
I was actually expecting Agent Hill to add “And it was my blood!”
I’m sure I was wrong, but watching it I didn’t notice any backwards movement. He tuns into the Hulk in the process of jumping into the punch and pow.
Regardless, he hit something that must have weighed hundreds of times more than him (I know it is comic book physics but he is able to walk without buckling the pavement below him (or the decks of a flying airgraft carrier), that was moving at a pretty good clip and brought it to a stop either with no backwards movement or very little.
Again, I’m not bothered by the cartoon physics, just curious about them if they were real.
The Hulk has been portrayed as having varying levels of strength, immovability and invulnerability. How strong, inert and indestructible he is in any given situation is, usually, exactly as much as he needs to be. If you must think of it in terms of math, think of him as an infinitely-powerful positive feedback situation.
Remember his original origin story: He was struck with the just-outside-ground-zero radiation wave, thermal flash and impact wave of a gamma ray (atom) bomb, in Banner form, and didn’t die. To me, that is why, when he ate a bullet, the Hulk spit it out, and why he’s able to inhale one breath as Banner and exhale as the Hulk, then stop a multi-ton flying alien cockroach with one punch.
I suppose anything is possible in a comic book movie, but I don’t think this is likely.
It would be one hell of a manipulative move to pull on a group of people you may want to work with in the future. If any of them finds out he wasn’t actually dead, you’re not going to be high on their list of “People I can Trust in the Sequel”.
Also, it’d be a hell of a thing to do to a guy’s collection of vintage cards if you knew he was still alive.
And given his mass, his terminal velocity would be WAY higher than your typical skydiver, which gives him less time to execute horizontal movement.
Hulk did move backwards. He punched the face of the thing down into the ground and then slid about twenty feet backwards, feet digging in, the entire surface area of the lower half of the beast’s face digging in as well. This didn’t stop the creature, it just flipped end-over-end as it’s front end got caught and the momentum carried the rest of the creature up and over the Hulk and its own half-buried face. Once that happened enough of a curve was put into its battle armor that Iron Man could put a missile into the soft inner bits and blow it up before it squashed the rest of the team.
Enjoy,
Steven
I think they were more like a depiction of the relationship between Joss Whedon and any set of TV/Film executives…
Dang, I never really cared much about Thanos.
Not in the version I saw 
I went to see it last night, and I had heard about the second after credits piece so stayed around, but it wasn’t there.
As to the actual movie itself, I’m a comic geek from way back, and I absolutely adored this movie. So much that I happily ignored the few minor ‘that doesn’t make sense bits’
The dialogue was just quintessential Whedon, and I loved some of the nods to otherwise minor canon bits that many other directors would have ignored or not known about.
Re: Iron Man’s Legolas line
Both times I saw the movie that line didn’t get much of a laugh from anyone but me. Posters here are saying they didn’t hear it.
I think that has a lot to do with the fact that Robert Downey Jr. did not pronounce it the same way it is pronounced in the recent Lord of the Rings movies. He pronounces it “LEE-go-las”. I think because of the alternate pronunciation people are missing it.
Ummm…am I being whooshed? Didn’t Galileo disprove that notion?
The audience I saw it with laughed. My audience was largely Latino and Asian families (that’s my neighborhood).
Nope. In the presence of air resistance, a heavier object will have a greater terminal velocity than a lighter object of similar size and shape. Terminal velocity is reached when air resistance equals weight. The heavier object has to reach a greater speed in order for the air resistance to equal its weight.
Why did Tony Stark call Thor “Point Break”? Is it a reference to the Keanau Reeves movie?
As far as the Hulk, remember tht deep down, he IS Banner. Yes, he’s Banner’s rage personified. But he does have the same basic motivations as Banner: the same likes, loves, and enemies. Banner was angry at SHIELD, so the Hulk viewed it as his enemy, possibly including Black Widow (or she was just there).
Yup. Though he was referring to Patrick Swayze’s character.
It was added just before the US release, so if you’re not in the US, you didn’t get to see it. I have no idea why they did it that way, though.
First rule of science: What you actually observe is true, no matter who tells you it isn’t. Ever see a feather fall? It really does fall very slowly. If you’ve got a notion of physics that says that isn’t so, then you’re misapplying it.
A feather has more air resistance. But we aren’t talking about a feather here…more the difference between a man and tank. Both would have the same terminal velocity, would they not?
Well, now I feel a little better. I saw the Thanos scene but in our Montreal theater, the lights came up immediately afterward, suggesting that was it.