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Re: Spoilers about archery, aircraft carriers etc nossy Send a noteboard - 06/05/2012 03:51:23 PM
In short, I was right about the ridiculousness of an archer on a superhero team, but they kept it from dragging down the movie or the character. His other weaponry is no more effective, such as his deployment of the world’s most useless hand grenade. Based on the proximity of an ordinary human to it upon explosive, that grenade has an effective lethal radius of about six inches.

I think that the problem here is that you see a bow/arrow and dismiss him as nothing more than the pair of arms that uses it. I thought he worked into the story very well, and I never felt that he was anything other than a bad ass human helping out his team. I loved when they put him up for recon, basically, and he advised Stark on the banking, for example.

Another minor quibble is that in attempting to convey to Captain America that someone is very smart they tell him he’s like Stephen Hawking. When Steve Rogers draws a blank, having been frozen for most of Hawking’s career, the other party is at a loss for words and ends up saying just that he’s smart. First of all, most people don’t use Stephen Hawking as a touchstone for intelligence. The name that is still used as synonymous with genius is that of Steve Rogers’ contemporary, EINSTEIN. Who in the world thinks of Stephen Hawking as the most recognizable genius in human history, and decides that a man who lived in Einstein’ day would not know the name of any others?

No quibble at all for me. I thought it was amusing, and TMJ is right about opening it up for further humor re: references.

Finally, the Hulk ran into a problem that the first Ghost Rider film had, IMO. Namely his human alter-ego seems to believe that releasing the super-powered version is the worst thing in the world and on a par with playing midwife to the Antichrist, without adequate evidence to the contrary. For all that the Hulk seemed to be out of control initially, whenever the plot required it, he was perfectly well behaved and not at all inclined to humorously sucker-punch teammates.

That wasn't the problem I had, if I'm reading you correctly. I was a bit bothered that Hulk scared the snot out of BW by going nuts and trying to kill them all, then was somehow easily (almost, heheHEE!) controllable later in the film. That was my only hold up in the film, but the hulk was SO FUCKING COOL that I didn't care much. He now has some of my new favorite movie bits.
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