kgrogers1979

That's funny because

But yeah a Hawkeye/Black Widow movie of them doing the Ultimates (or Avengers) undercover black ops missions would be awesome. That's basically what they did in the comics.

Draven

That movie is already plotted. It could easily be about the past situations they mentioned in this movie. Then it fits right into the continuity too. Hell, we even saw a "scene" from it already in The Avengers, when they were watching their file footage.

Flatlander

This got me as well too. The way I at least explained it to myself is that when Stark and Banner are at SHIELD, I can't remember the exact line but Stark tells Banner that he has to learn how to control it like Stark and the ARC reactor. When Stark was confident that Banner would return to fight I took that as they came up with a way for Banner to control it. Since they were both in the lab for some time.

Other than that I am as lost as well as Hulk only destroys but when the battle started, Banner could control himself to change into the Hulk when he wanted to without a stresser.

Supermallet

I really, really hope they don't do this in the movies. I know that all of these films have taken some inspiration from the Ultimate universe, but the Ultimates was mainly awful. I don't understand why Mark Millar is so popular in comics.

kgrogers1979

Mark Millar is popular for the same reason Michael Bay is popular.

The Ultimates was basically a Michael Bay movie in comic book form. Big flashy explosions and non-stop ass kicking with a paper-thin plot. It was basically a multimillion-dollar blockbuster movie in comic book form, and the closest thing we had to a big screen adaption of the Avengers... until we actually got one now...

I really doubt the movies will turn Black Widow into a villain though. That only ever happened in the Ultimates, and not the main universe. Plus I don't think Scarlett could play a convincing villain anyway.

Hokeyboy

What, you didn't think "HULK WANTS FREDDIE PRINZE JUNIOOOOOORRRRR!!!" was the pinnacle of comics writing?

Millar is garbage. His entire shtick is taking existing comics concepts and subverting them with healthy doses extra-rapey violence.

Supermallet

What's funny is that we managed to get some decent movies out of Millar comics, but only by changing many aspects of the source material. I've never read a Millar comic I didn't hate thoroughly.

Burnt Thru

Perhaps I'm alone in thinking this but I didn't particularly like Loki as the villain. He's alright, but nothing that memorable. Certainly not someone I could imagine actually subjugating the entire Earth, and not a villain who will be remembered in the same breath as any of the greats of cinema, such as Darth Vader.

Burnt Thru

The greatest thing about the movie, to my mind, was the way the different tones of each character's particular universe were preserved within the context of a single cohesive film. As an example Iron Man is full of self loathing and intelligence which was preserved whenever Robert Downey Junior was on screen. But in contrast Captain America is slower and more "traditional" which was also somehow incorporated. It was somehow possible to view various sections of the movie successfully from the perspective of different characters but the characters then also interacted in a reasonable manner also. Quite some feat, and something which must have taken a good deal of planning.

That being said the plot was fairly basic (Transormers 4, effectively) which I'm guessing must have been necessary in order to accommodate all of the characters and their varied viewpoints.

Mordred

So can anyone explain to me why the Hulk is, on the airship, an uncontrollable killing machine who can't distinguish friend from foe, but on the ground he's now Mr. Team Player who only takes out the bad guys?

Please don't say it's because he's angry all the time.

Boba Fett

Hokeyboy

musick

he was being manipulated by Loki via the scepter on the helicarrier
remember when they (Avengers) are all in the same room together arguing as the camera is panning around .... the image is then flipped upside down showing the group with the glowing scepter in the foreground ... Banner even picks up the scepter without knowing it....

on the ground the staff is not within their vacinity to influence their actions

d2cheer

Might as well chime in here, that was the only real fault I had with it too.

After the movie when I was thinking about it and remembered him holding the staff I figured that it probably had something to do with that.

But enjoyed this as much as a person can enjoy a movie and will be seeing it again in the theater at some point. My son has already went twice and wants to see it a third time.

Mordred

Except the staff was on top of the building that the Hulk was also on (for part of the time), and he didn't seem to have any problems then.

My other complaint with the movie was the impenetrable portal shield being conveniently penetrable due to a "failsafe" that the scientist built in to sabotage everything while still under Loki's brainwashing power. How does that make any sense?

Anyway, I enjoyed the hell out of the movie, but I wouldn't call it a great movie by any stretch.

Draven

Maybe I'm misremembering, but wasn't the "failsafe" Loki's crystal? It was a natural way to get through the shield. Like a diamond can only be scratched by another diamond.

These kinds of statements make no sense to me. If I enjoy the hell out of a movie, that means I thought it was great. I don't enjoy movies I think are bad.

joeblow69

So am I the only one that was expecting this movie to flop? My take was "Who cares about a bunch of b-grade superheros getting together?" Apparently, everyone does!

Hokeyboy

You never enjoyed a movie that you thought was pretty good, but not great?

I enjoyed the hell out of, say, 21 Jump Street, but I wouldn't call it a great movie...

superdeluxe

Budapest?

musick

yeah sorry I don't have the spec sheet with the range of Loki's fictional scepter
I guess listing the range in the dialogue would have made this superhero movie much more realistic

superdeluxe

Maybe it is the Godzilla story..when there is no greater threat..he picks on the poor citizens of Japan. When Gamora shows up, he kicks Gamora's ass.

superdeluxe

Yes you were the only one. And B-Grade superheros? huh? Avengers is a A-list team.

Draven

If I genuinely "enjoyed the hell" out of something, then I think it's a great movie. If I liked it or thought it was OK, I say it that way instead. And for the record, I thought 21 Jump Street was a great movie too. Way better than it had any right to be.

I know they mentioned that but I couldn't remember if they'd mentioned more.

Mordred

There was this bit of dialog I'm paraphrasing:

Black Widow: Loki had brainwashed you. You didn't know what you're doing.
Stellan: But I think I did. I built in a failsafe.
[Exaggerated look at the staff down below]

I didn't say it was a bad movie... just a light weight enjoyable film that didn't always make sense, but had snappy dialog that I enjoyed, even if I thought the finished product dragged on a little long. It was immensely entertaining and had several awesome/hilarious scenes, but I wouldn't pay money to see it again in theaters.

Mordred

I didn't think it would flop, but I didn't expect it to do much better than Iron Man.