Yeah, I could see the Hulk taking out a Stormbreaker-less Bill. I’m kind of amused at the thought of a Man-Thing match-up though.
“Whatever knows fear burns at the touch of the Man-Thing!”
pokes Hulk in the chest
“This usually works …”
I have never underestimated the babeishness of Cate Blanchett.
“But if you put the Hammer on an elevator…”
“Hammer goes up.”
“Elevator’s not ‘worthy’.”
Never understood that line. If the elevator couldn’t go up, it would be “not worthy”. But if the elevator could, it’s “Worthy”, right?
They’re trying to argue the nature of Vision. Is he machine or man? Presumably, if Thor set the hammer down in an elevator, the elevator would continue to go up. But the elevator is an inanimate object, it’s not “worthy.” Stark and Rodgers were trying to argue that Vision was only able to pick it up because he was a machine (clearly jealous that they couldn’t). Thor disagrees and declares Vision to be worthy.
I saw the scene as Steve and Tony trying to rationalize away the worthy test. Since presumably, the elevator would still lift the hammer despite ‘not being worthy’, worthiness can’t be the real test the hammer uses and therefore their inability to wield the hammer doesn’t say anything about their ‘worthiness’. Of course this assumes that elevators are ipso facto unworthy which could be an unjustified assumption.
I saw the movie Wednesday. I am by no means a comic book reader or a “MCU fan” but I have seen a handful of the movies. I don’t really know anything about backstories or the comics.
But I really enjoyed the movie! I thought it was very funny and laughed a lot. Jeff Goldblum was my favorite part. Hulk was great, Korg was great, Dr. Strange was great, all the characters were great really.
If nothing else this movie will definitely get more non-comic-fans buying tickets. I saw Spiderman: Homecoming and thought that was a lot of fun, as well.
We just got back and we enjoyed it, though to different degrees (we usually give movies a score afterwards, and the five of us landed on 60, 68, 70, 78 and 80). I was in the mood for something more funny than serious, and so the 78 was mine. Lots of funny lines, and even more appreciation reading upthread about some of the cultural implications we’d missed.
I kinda picture the Grandmaster as being more into intellectual contests like sixth-dimensional chess, rather than gladiatorial combat. Truth be told, he seems similar to the DCAU version of Mongol, staging such contests of Warworld to distract and entertain his oppressed subjects.
Anyone?
The heads were Easter Eggs of Marvel characters, of course. Presumably they were past champions and there is info on them and other Easter Eggs here:
As far as I can tell, there was no reason other than ‘Chris Hemsworth is hotter with short hair’ for the haircut, right? The plot certainly didn’t call for it.
Well, there was the whole Samson thing - cutting his hair to symbolically steal his powers and all that.
There was also the “Chris Hemsworth is tired of sitting in a chair getting hair extensions” factor.
Saw it last night and loved it from start to finish.
I agree this was the best of the Thor films, and I did like the first one quite a bit. This is probably in my top 5 of the MCU. (Iron Man 1, Avengers 1, Civil War, & Dr. Strange round out that list, though I’m not sure I can pin down an order, other than Civil War at #1)
The zany sci-fi business fell flat for me in the Guardians movies, but for some reason worked superbly here.
Korg was the highlight. Every line of his left me in giggles. (Particularly “unless you’re made of scissors.” That’s some fine surrealist humor.)
It was a visual feast, all the acting was stellar (with the notable exception of Ruffalo. Hulk was great, but his Banner was way better in the Avengers movies. I don’t think the zaniness worked with him.)
Loved the callbacks to the previous movies, particularly the Loki/Hulk bits.
Overall delightful. Well done, Marvel.
The Grandmaster is neither straight nor gay. Whatever he is clearly has a completely alien notion of sexuality-- Remember, when he first meets Thor, he has to ask whether he’s male. And while he does surround himself with scantily-clad humanoid females, I imagine he does so for the same reason as Jabba the Hutt: Because being able to surround oneself with scantily-clad humanoid females is a status symbol.
I did appreciate Thor thinking his way through problems for a change: Figuring out that he needed to destroy Asgard and how, and finally not falling for Loki betraying him. And contrary to what everyone thought from the trailer, that he was just having fun in the arena, in the movie he was actually trying to be the grown-up in the room: Asgard is in danger and he doesn’t have time for this nonsense, and of course Hulk is going to help him out.
I loved the humor. I noticed, though, that they used the “mismatched heroic timing” gag twice (when Thor summoned his hammer versus Sutr, and when Banner jumped out of the ship), which diminished it a bit.
Jabba was quite clearly making *sexual *advances on both that Rancor-victim dancer and Leia.
Yes, to show off the fact that he was able to get away with doing so.
In the old EU, it was explicit that Janna had a fetish for humanoids, which was viewed as pretty gross by other Hutts.
That’s out of canon, now, but even just going by the movie, “Ge was trying to lick Leia as a status symbol,” seems a bit of a reach.
Can you tell us more about Janna the LGBTQ Hutt, who apparently goes by “Ge/Gim/Gis”?