As an afterthought, what’s the deal with Pepper’s bare-footedness? I was almost expecting a moment where she washed Stark’s armor like this.
Would’ve worked for me.
Hey, did Stark have a movie-reference name for everybody? Point Break, Reindeer Games, Legolas…
Whedon has a thing for feet. Nearly every movie he’s done lately has lingering shots of a woman’s bare feet somewhere.
We should be grateful that he didn’t find an excuse to have a superpowered teenage girl beating up monsters somewhere in the movie.
And it ruined some classic, mint condition Captain America cards.
It was only filmed a couple weeks ago (apparently, they had to do some work and pull some camera tricks to hide Chris Evans’ new beard). There wasn’t any time to add it into the earlier cuts.
No, why would they? There would also be a difference in air resistance between a man and a tank, so they’d have different terminal velocities.
Even for a single human being, terminal velocity depends on positioning of limbs. Falling face down and spread eagled will produce a lower terminal velocity than if you pulled all your limbs in and balled up. This part should be apparent from all those free fall stunt teams who manage to adjust their relative altitudes in order to coordinate forms.
I saw the movie last night, knowing absolutely nothing about any Avengers character, (well, I did know Thor has a hammer and Hulk likes to smash things), and I absolutely loved it! Great action scenes, likable characters and awesome one-liners.
Due to a recommendation from a Doper I stayed til the very end (as I usually do), and I also did not get to see the Schawarma scene. What was up with that?
I probably need to see all the other movies now, any recommendations with regards to sequence, or are they all completely seperate? Any movies I can give a miss?
They’re kind of in order, but they’re (aside from the two Iron Man movies) all actually supposed to happen at the same time…
Hulk (Edward Norton version, not Eric Bana)
Iron Man
Iron Man II
Thor
Captain America
You could skip Iron Man 2, but Black Widow has her first appearance there. The Incredible Hulk isn’t terrible, but also not essential.
As someone else said, that scene was filmed and added late on and added to the North American release.
I’m a bit sceptical about Thor and Captain America, here’s why:
I found the Thor and Loki characters to be a bit boring, to tell you the truth, and I can’t quite imagine what the movie would feel like.
Captain America seems like a caricature of himself, starting with his name and uniform, isn’t it quite jarring to see him on a WWII battlefield fighting actual Nazis with guns? (For that matter, I believe superheroes should not use firearms, it seems against the rules somehow.) That movie has got to be all kinds of cheesy without a massive amount of self-deprecation - does it have that?
I really want to find out how Stark invented the Iron Man suit, that seems really cool. The Hulk transformation would also be great to see.
Just saw a really bad pirated version of it on YouTube, seems like a fun scene. Too bad they didn’t put it in the German release (even though I watched the English language version).
‘Thor’ didn’t really do it for me, to be honest. ‘Captain America’ surprised me by not being anywhere near as cheesy as it could have been. Also, IIRC, the baddies are Hydra although they are connected to the Nazis.
‘Iron Man’ is essential. ‘Iron Man 2’ less so, but still watchable.
‘The Incredible Hulk’ pretty much starts off with Banner as the Hulk. It is kind of a sequel to Ang Lee’s ‘Hulk’ but it in a way that they really want to pretend that it didn’t exist. ‘The Incredible Hulk’ refers to the transformation and shows some flashback footage (in a rather jump cut way).
He’s shown using a gun in the movie, and gets a number of action scenes alongside Allied soldiers who do likewise. (That’s not a spoiler; it’s in the commercials.)
It does, but as the movie goes on they play it increasingly straight.
Of course. Galileo’s skydiver/Hulk drop tests are well documented. He found that the average skydiver would accelerate at the same rate as the average Hulk if dropped in a vacuum. Unfortunately, the Grand Duke of Tuscany cut off his funding after one of the seals ruptured and the rapid compression caused the Tower of Pisa to start leaning.
“hulk! Fart!”
I didn’t read this whole thread, but I thought the movie sucked… probably because I knew nothing about the characters. How did Banner become The Hulk? Or Captain America get super powers, (they said something about him being trapped in ice?) How did people know Thor and Loki before they came to Earth? The Tesseract, an energy source, that also is a door to another universe? Where/how did we get it? Why did the aliens want to take over Earth?
Some of these questions may have been answered, but I didn’t catch any of them. Maybe it was because the man in back of me was snoring.
Some of it was explained in previous movies, but some is just pop culture. I’d think anyone who would go to see this movie would know how the Hulk came to be, who Captain America is and probably more than a little about Iron Man. That’s just part of the American zeitgeist these days.
Banner became the Hulk because he was researching the super-soldier serum that created Captain America in World War II. Thor had been to Earth previously, when a small town got flattened in a fight. The Tesseract was used by a Nazi sub-group to make weapons, and was lost in the ice when Captain American crashed into the arctic. It was found by Howard Stark, Ironman’s father, who was a friend of Captian America and searched for him after his disappearance. The aliens didn’t want to take over Earth, they wanted the Tesseract, and Loki promised it to them, if they would give him an army to take over the Earth.
Loki wants to take over the Earth because he’s been banished and his brother loves it.
I should note that all of these things were said in the film. If the guy behind you was snoring so loud that you couldn’t hear, you should have told him to wake up, or called an usher.
I recall some of that… but it’s hard to piece together all the back story by only small bits of dialog devoted to catch people up on what’s going on. Thanks for helping me understand though. 
Bear in mind, each of those sentences was an entire two-hour movie, condensed down. I’m thinking this movie didn’t put much effort into explaining the setup for people who are new to the franchise.