To me, the fact that we know it will be undone later doesn’t matter; the character’s witnessing it don’t know that, and I’m empathizing with them.

I miss the natural, down-to-earth storytelling of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Diomedes, in particular, is a guy I can directly relate to in my day-to-day experiences.

It was Janet who only got the barest of mentions in the earlier drafts, as opposed to being a key piece of the backstory in the finished version,

Loki was the fourth most important character in the first Thor? He drives a huge portion of the narrative; it is basically as much his origin story as it is Thor’s. I’d say he pretty much ties with his brother as that movie’s most important characters.

I’d say it’s far more ACTIVELY bad than either of the two examples you cite, which I see more often dismissed as dull or forgettable. Iron Man 2 is and in-your-face grating mess of a movie.

I don’t find the use of Coulson in this movie “smart” and “economical.” I find it an obvious waste of screen time to heavy-handedly advertise the idea of “world-building” without actually contributing anything of substance. He shows up for a scene, declares that he’s there to serve a function (keep Tony under guard),…

I disagree about IM2 being watchable, unless there’s a lot of alcohol around. I find it a grating, disjointed mess. The Incredible Hulk is a much cleaner narrative with a better thematic and character focus, which unfortunately falls flat in some spots and comes off a little too goofy in others.

Although, seeing as it comes after the more appropriate code/epilogue, and doesn’t work with the flow the ending, I’ve always assumed it was intended to be a pre-credits scene, then moved into the body of the picture for... reasons(?).

I don’t remember how it played in the theater, but at least on my first issue DVD edition, that scene comes before the credits roll (where it feels entirely out of place).

There’s really supposed to be more to a prank than “cruel lie.”

Seeing as the movie has already completed principal photography, and it looks as though Hamill has just been cast, it’s temporally unlikely that they’ll be modeling the doll on his face.

I wouldn’t describe Seed as “stupid.” It’s a pretty well-conceived piece of camp pop-art.

Well, this is a supremely bad take...

No, as awful as her take was, I don’t think “he was a pedophile because he was black” was what she meant by that.

To be fair, Marvel reportedly had Thor splashing around in a cave over Joss Whedon’s objections.

Yes, but it’s an exceptionally poor adaptation of the original Devo song.

It takes a lot for me to trust rumors that a woman is difficult to work with, because it usually just means “not a total doormat.”

That would have been a pretty stunning revelation about the character!

I continue to detest the bit where he tosses around Thor’s hammer like it’s nothing, thus invalidating the whole cool buildup where nobody else is worthy to handle the thing.

Not nearly enough stars. Not only is your post on topic, but also it kinda reads like a Kids in the Hall sketch.