Avengers continues to dominate: [link]

The thing that surprised me most in that article was that Dictator cost $25M more to make than What To Expect When You're Expecting. They aren't huge names in the ensemble, but just by virtue of being an ensemble I'd have thought it more expensive. Is Dictator heavy in FX, or what? SBC gets a massive paycheque?

My take on the ship Hulk-out: Banner seems to have the Hulk under control except when his life is in imminent danger, as in the thwarted suicide attempt. So when he's under attack and doesn't know what's going on, his survival instinct kicks in and he can no longer distinguish friend from foe.

I like that take on it a lot, actually. That makes sense to me.

Could somebody who knows the canon tell me: does Bruce remember what happens when he's Hulk? I vaguely remember (from the tv series) that he doesn't, but I haven't seen either of the Hulk movies.

In the Ed Norton pre-Avengers movie, he sort-of remembered, like you'd remember a dream. There was a scene of Banner having a PSTD-type meltdown recalling machine-gun fire coming at him. As I recall Banner in the tv series didn't remember at all. Avengers-movie Banner seems to remember pretty well. Except for when he fell out of the sky really hard. He did say "sorry" to Natasha like he knew exactly what had happened, and really what's the point of becoming a superhero if you never remember all the amazing things you did?

There's just one problem with that: the Hulk can't actually fly, or change trajectory mid-leap. He landed wherever the exploding plane randomly threw him.

shhh, that's Actual Physics. The only science allowed here is Awesome Comic-Book Science. (Like when Tony was in deep space and he let go of the missile, instead of continuing that trajectory and velocity, he fell back to Earth.) The aircraft carrier had been heading out for open water, so the plane with Hulk on it could easily have been over a largely unpopulated area anyway. Thor's Hamster Ball of the Gods fell in a marsh with no people around, too.

Thor's Hamster Ball of the Gods

Heh.

(Like when Tony was in deep space and he let go of the missile, instead of continuing that trajectory and velocity, he fell back to Earth.)

I know, right?? What the hell was that. Joss, you did a whole show set in space. YOU KNOW HOW SPACE WORKS.

Oh, DUDE. Has anyone linked to this Loki figurine yet? It is fabulous! I must have it.

The Infamous BlueJay hasn't yet stopped allcaps shrieking about it to me. Loki is her special damaged/malevolent woobie.

(Like when Tony was in deep space and he let go of the missile, instead of continuing that trajectory and velocity, he fell back to Earth.)

Possibly anything near the portal would be attracted by Earth's gravity?

Quick, who knows astrophysics well enough to tell us if gravitational effects can persist through a wormhole....

Well, since gravity is actually the curvature of space-time, a wormhole is gravity. When Carl Sagan was writing Contact, he made his graduate students do a lot of mathematics to prove that wormholes were theoretically possible.

Possibly anything near the portal would be attracted by Earth's gravity?

That's my handwave. It was close enough to Earth that Earth gravity spilled through the portal. Clearly enough of Earth's atmosphere got through the portal for the explosion to make noise! jazz hands

I know, right?? What the hell was that. Joss, you did a whole show set in space. YOU KNOW HOW SPACE WORKS.

Yes, where was the gritty realism of a terraformed planet with a lightning nebula around it, heat shields falling off yet presenting no problem upon re-entry, growling nonverbal lunatics being able to work together well enough to maintain and operate a space fleet for years, and a non-aerodynamic ship falling from low orbit and bouncing but just shaking the occupants up like a roller-coaster ride rather than turning them into strawberry jam?

HULK SMASH GRITTY REALISM

PUNY REALISM