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With all due respect Your Cosmic Emminence you know nothing of 13th century -sniff- but do tell how Generation X turns out as old people. Bitter, frustrated amd resentful is my guess…. (some of us are already there)

With all due respect Your Cosmic Emminence you know nothing of 13th century -sniff- but do tell how Generation X turns out as old people. Bitter, frustrated amd resentful is my guess…. (some of us are already there)

Not to mention all forms of progress being held back by the most selfish and hypocritical generation in history.

Not to mention all forms of progress being held back by the most selfish and hypocritical generation in history.

Spielberg … Jaws.

Spielberg … Jaws.

I'm actually hoping the Cap 2 villain is TV Arnim Zola.  I like how they handled him as a Nazi scientist and I have a real soft spot for him in the comics.  I was like 8 when I picked up Captain America 112 (??) which was his first appearance.

Cap had a writer on his side.  Not even Thanos can beat the writer.
In all geekiness Cap's main power when it comes to the cosmic entities isn't the shield, the super soldier stuff, etc, It's his willpower and leadership quality, tactics, strategery, and such.  Thor could fry him, Hulk could squish him and all that but…

I suspect we'll find Thor and Cap's main arcs in their sequels.

And that's probably why most of these reasonable discussions are focusing on some of those flaws.

Speaking of character arcs:
Shouldn't there have been a scene where we see how Banner finally "controls" the Hulk? He goes from outta control Black Widow/Thor/Helicarrier/FighterPilot smasher to in control team member awfully quick. Did Iron Man's encouragement change his personality or was Harry Dean Stanton's fateful…

I'd forgotten that.  
Also, Johannson does a lot with her eyes - slightly teary and clearly scared - which makes her a real audience surrogate for how horrifying the fucking Hulk actually is.  I think she did a great job here but I wonder if they shouldn't have shown some of the other characters freaked out by the…

That guy can eat one hell of a steak!

You're both right.  The interesting thing for me is that Loki is basically supposed to be like that.  He's the God of Mischief, an Agent of Chaos, and the cause of the end of the world. He's a schemer, but not a planner.  If you didn't get that from the movie (it's there in that fight between Thor and Loki on the…

I'm sure they do and I bet in about 5 minutes I'll forget the name again because, unlike KHAN!!!! or even Commander Kruge, he's barely a character much less a villain.  I agree with most of what Todd done wrote above, but I think Abrams made a mistake (with the whole randomly finding Scotty and Spock) by not having a…

Good point and that's a cool (if dismaying) observation but come on, everything that PowerRangers/Sentai does is not unique or original to PowerRangers/Sentai. This stuff is as old as storytelling and especially comic book storytelling. And so is Shawarma.

I liked Star Trek but I really think Abrams fucked it up by giving Bana's villain (does he have a name?) a meaningless motivation.  Or, at best, the same basic motivation as the Romulan villain trying to kill Picard in the last damn Star Trek movie.  The villain meant nothing to me, but I liked the good guys well…

Iron Man is the "main character" from a story perspective because he has the only real character growth arc. Remember the scene where Captain America challenges him and says something like: "You'd never lay on a wire for a fellow soldier" (he's referring to barbed wire but basically saying 'lay on a grenade').  Iron…

vs. Sever (Ecchhh)