taffysaur

April 3, 2014 4:39 pm I don't think you know what aesthetic means.

April 3, 2014 4:35 pm The ending is Cap crashing the plane/saving the day. Waking up in present-day NY is postscript/epilogue.

April 1, 2014 7:34 pm Jane a damsel in distress? Don't say that! Look, in a superhero movie, someone needs to be in some sort of peril, right? Otherwise nothing much is going to happen. Sure, you can make Jane a super-competant ass-kicker, and only have Thor rescue strangers, but you are giving up a pretty patently useful emotional hook, there. She's a scientist, just like Slevig. Selvig needed rescuing last movie, because what are scientists going to do against gods? This is what really bothered me in Iron Man 3; the bit where Pepper is suddenly a more deadly and effective superhero than Iron Man. It feels very Mich like someone was worried about Pepper coming off as a "damsel in distress" (I.e: having human vulnerabilities). I mean fair enough, but it's just that if everyone can do it, what's so special about Tony? If nobody needs resuming or protection anymore, why are we watching his movie? Also gotta disagree regarding Star Wars II (it rules. Kiss my Midichlorians), and the mid-credits sequence. It was corny, but also cool as hell. This is actually precisely where I'd like to see the Marvel Cinematic U head, more-or-less. Love James Gunn, love Rocket Raccoon, looking very much forward to the movie. I will agree that maybe the early Loki scene is unnecessary. It's actually adapted from Chris Yost's excellent prequel comic; the producers liked the scene so much they shoehorned it into the movie. It was better-written in the book, too ('I meant to rule Midgard with the iron fist with which you rule the nine realms! I may have even stolen a mortal infant and raised it as my own!")

April 1, 2014 5:44 pm Funnily enough, the Masters of the Universe movie was based in large part on Jack Kirby's Fourth World stories. Watch it again and imagine He-Man is Orion and Skeletor is Darkseid. And of course Thor (IMO) is like the proto-Fourth World, so it makes sense that they are similar. I actually thought the same thing as I was watching Thor II.