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I would love a Black Widow/Hawkeye combo film. Globetrotting espionage and amazing action set pieces! Done right it could be amazing.

I've got to echo what everyone else said about the trailer. Give it to meeeeee now. It looks fantastic.

I'm hoping Hawkeye makes a surprise appearance in this film, not only because of Hawkeye/Black Widow (OTP!), but so Mackie and Renner can be reunited. Quite frankly, they are adorable.

I'll be honest, I get the appeal (and to a certain extent, necessity) of a Black Widow film, but I think the problem is, what made her so interesting in The Avengers was she a relatively normal person against a fantastic backdrop, but in a solo spy film, would be the exact opposite, which is a narrative downgrade. I think Agents of SHIELD shows that Marvel kind of doesn't really have the best handle on its spy stuff.

I have my tickets for Thor 2! Okay, so it's for Monday and the film came out today (Wednesday) but that's the soonest I can see it. God, I miss being in college where things like essays and lectures were no hindrance to me seeing films practically as soon as they came out.

Empire's review of the film is up and they have deemed it worthy of 4 stars out of 5.

Also, Aaron Taylor-Johnson is officially confirmed as Quicksilver in The Avengers 2.

I saw Thor 2 today. It was really good! Better than the first one, IMO. There was a mid-credits scene, but I didn't stay until the very end. Someone else will have to report on if I missed anything.

Drew at HitFix says there's a mid-credits and an end credits scene.

Yeah, I saw that in an article somewhere. From now on, I'll stay to the absolute finish. It's not like I had anywhere better to be, really.

I can't work out how to do spoilers on my phone, but the 2nd post credits is mostly cute without hinting where the next film might go.

This Probably Doesn't Belong Here But Where Else Would I Put it?


Also: Netflix already gets my money, so this is Shut Up And Keep Taking It.

I stuck it in the Agents of SHIELD thread :P

Very excited about it. I wonder if they'll use it as a backdoor for Doctor Strange? He's the character I most identify with the Defenders' revolving door roster, but I know they want him to be a feature film character. Maybe they'll try him out here first as either a recurring character across the four series or as a guest star for the mini?

I just got in from seeing the Thor marathon. Wow. I loved Thor 2. It was so much better than the first. I still have some Jane/Natalie Portman issues, though I don't hate her. And my Loki feelings are so complicated.

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I have other thoughts but I'm going to see it again on Saturday and let everything kind of settle.

Just got back from seeing Thor 2, and really enjoyed it! It was fun and had lots of good moments. My favorite is probably

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Still not feeling the Thor-Jane thing, but she was actually important and active so that was nice. Love Darcy, hope she gets a short at least.

MOAR HEIMDALL! MOAR DARCY!

Other than that, I enjoyed the hell out of it. "Darcy!" "Jane!" "Ian!" "Selvig!" .... "Mew-mew!"

Can't decide if that exchange or the prison break cameo was my favorite moment.

Loved both post-movie scenes. I've never seen Zoolander, but apparently

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is channeling someone from that movie? Whatever, it's got me mega-pumped for next summer. And then the really last scene... well, looks like Coulson and his team are going to have their hands full in the November 19 episode. Love it.

Thank you! I was trying to figure out who

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What was the post-credits scene? I had to pee like crazy after the commercials + trailers + movie. I guess it'll pop up on youtube (link?).

Overall I enjoyed it, definitely better than the the first Thor. I would have liked more Loki and less space ship stuff.

There were two.

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This also has a pretty good explanation about the first post-credit scene: What Did Thor 2’s Post-Credits Scene Mean? Knowing who directed the first one and

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Thank you, TiffanyNichelle! The end credits usually mean more to people familiar with Marvel comics, so I fled to the toilet.

I have wanted to ask about the first credits scene since Monday but the only people I know to ask are US snarkers and ye hadn't seen it yet! So thanks, TiffanyNichelle!

The bit where

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I think I want to see this again.

When

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TiffanyNichelle wrote:When

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I liked the

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Personally, I'm holding out hope that

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I thought the movie as okay. I didn't think it was nearly as good as the first one, to be honest. My main complaint was that the tone of it was all over the place. The first movie balanced the action, drama, and slapstick comedy very well, but in this one the changes were very abrupt and jarring, and I thought that the comedic elements often just didn't fit. I liked that the movie had them, because that was one of my favourite things about the first movie, but they just weren't handled well in terms of integrating them with the overall feel of the movie.

Christopher Eccleston was criminally underused. At one point I thought, "He spent hours in a makeup chair for this?" Honestly, they could have had anyone in that part. And maybe I've reached the saturation point on superhero movies but I wasn't one bit interested in the entire Dark Elves/superweapon plot trope at all. The opening monologue/explanation from Odin, all I thought was, "Blah, blah - bad guys, MacGuffin, the universe and all life as we know it threatened, there'll be big battles, Thor will save the day, the End." So I was hoping for more but didn't really get it. There were flickers with the interaction between Thor and Loki, and I thought they had some really great moments, but perhaps

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I mean, in the first one, Loki turned out to be entirely not what I was expecting at all (no one did, I don't think) and that turned the whole story on its ear, so I was really caught up in all that and I loved how the standard villain/good guy conflict was played out. I was hoping for something meaty like that in terms of characters and conflict for this one but it was thin on the ground. I mean, the efforts of Jane, Darcy, Selvig to combat the big invasion at the end even came across as half-assed, to be honest. I wasn't interested in or didn't care about whatever it was they had set up or how it worked. Just...skip to the end, to be honest. Also, if you insist on having the Warriors Three in the movie then *please* do something with them. They're such great characters and it's a shame to have them stuck so far in the background.

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Loki's "Ta-daaa!" was hilarious.

sagitare wrote:Personally, I'm holding out hope that

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Hmm, that'd also be a great way for

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I just came back from it, and I LOVED it. I didn't have a problem with how they balanced the humour and the pathos.

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Basically, the first thing I said when we left was, "That was SO. MUCH. FUN." And it really was. Thor seems to be the lightest of the Marvel franchises. It entertained me and made me happy. Can't ask for much more than that.

I think that's what I liked about it. Despite some of the darker stuff, it was fun. There wasn't a lot funny stuff in Avengers and Iron Man 3 (where you could usually count on Tony Stark to bring the quips) had a darker tone to it because Tony was still dealing with the effects of everything that happened in Avengers.

But here they still made time to make it fun and not just dark and broody

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I just got back from seeing it again.

I saw it last night, and it was so much fun! Beyond the first ten minutes with the backstory, I enjoyed the whole thing. The Avengers is still my favorite entry in the MCU, but Thor 2 is probably 2nd.

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I like that Jane did end up

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