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I'm just being critical, I suppose, but I thought a movie about the Norse Armageddon where basically everyone is supposed to die would be a bit darker and more serious.

In this trailer we've got colors and jokes and that *record scratch* "I bet you're wondering how I got here" that's at the start of every straight-to-DVD movie they play on BET late nights.

We've got Heimdall with dreads looking like Bishop from Days of Future Past's doppelgänger.

We've got the Planet Hulk storyline fused with a major Thor arc.

Just wasn't feeling it. I'm still gonna watch it doe!
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Well, I already know one character is going to die. It was perhaps the greatest moment in the Simonson run on Thor but without the character being in multiple movies it kinda robs the emotional impact.


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I'm glad to see there is good response to Blanchet. I'm a big Blanchet fan but I didn't know how this would play. Looks like she's killing it.

I personally think Cate is hot as hell(a). (See what I did there? :-)) but I can understand how she wouldn't do it for some. Factor in her age (47) and she is amazing.
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Those Thor videos on YouTube with him interacting with regular people are comical and popular. It seems they may be having a slight influence on direction of the movie character.
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Hela looks like she was ripped right from the pages of a comic book. And Cate is smokin. The goth look suits her.
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For the uninitiated:

https://youtu.be/n3TOw6r7ghc

Pretty funny. Worth a minute of your time.
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I personally think their casting has been aces across the board. Again, as always, with minor exceptions.

The decision to turn Paul Rudd into Ant-Man was always curious to me. He's never not Paul Rudd. And nobody buys Rudd as a lovable jackass, he's just lovable. He doesn't sell it as effortlessly as RDJ or Pratt do, so the film had to keep writing characters calling him a jackass. Because even based on the things he does on screen, Scott Lang seems like a sweet, nice guy. They should have just run with that, or cast someone else. I liked Ant-Man but I thought that was a misfire.

Let me go on record and say Paul Bettany as Vision was excellent casting. His cold, mechanical demeanor is perfect for the role, and I think he imbues the role with exactly the right amount of humanity. I love that casting.

Probably the worst casting have been two of the love choices: Natalie Portman and Rachel MacAdams, but I don't even think it's their fault, is it? Their characters are horrifically written, only with the exception of the first Thor, which I've argued is a top tier Marvel film.

Since I'm just rambling at this point: I really love Benecio Del Toro (sp?) but he was ridiculously terrible as the Collector. Either that or they just didn't write the role well. And Mads Mikkelson is possibly the most wasted actor in the Marvel cinematic universe. This guy could have been the best Marvel villain of them all, and he was just shabbily written.

Marvel does an excellent job in their casting. For every complaint I have in the casting department, I have like 100 more praises. It's a great thing they've got going.
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Well I'll be. This DOES seem like a nice cozy place to hide out from obligations. . .
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To be fair, I really was not sold on Evans after the first Captain America. In fact, I thought they may have made a mistake passing up on John Krasinski (Evans just felt so wooden, but a lot of that was due to the writing).

Boy has Evans made me eat my words. The last two Captain America movies are my favorite Marvel movies to date.

I'm hopeful Cumberbatch will be able to settle into his role in a similar fashion.
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I'm still a little confused why Hela is so overpowered.
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Theory out there that she is in possession of the final Infinity Stone, the Soul Stone, which makes her so powerful
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I watched a video about it. I'll put it in spoilers for those that don't want to know.



KCLees theory makes a lot of sense too
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So I may or may not be getting a divorce. I showed my wife the trailer and she commented that Hulk is one of the worst characters in these movies. I almost packed my shit at that very moment.
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I'd rather they just tell planet hulk as sub plot throughout the final stages of the big storyline playing out in the next CPL/few films and set the stage for a WWH standalone after IW wraps up.
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