I seriously could have sat in that theater all afternoon watching it over and over. DAMN, I'm glad I went.

Damn, now I wish I'd gone.

We saw it tonight; 5th time for me, 3rd for Tim. My god, Chris Evans' ASS. And Jeremy Renner's arms. Where is that picture of Renner with rope? Did I bookmark it?

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6th time for me tonight, still the funnest. This time the new thing I spotted was that they made the Hulk's hair gray where Mark Ruffalo's is. Patterning the Hulk on the actor's appearance and doing motion capture with him really made a difference over the other two movies, I think. He seemed pretty real instead of like a figure from a videogame cut and pasted into the scene.

I watched Natasha's fight with Clint more closely this time around, and they had her pulling a lot of moves like biting and knocking him into objects rather than just out-punching him. I approve.

Every time I see it, I love Natasha more.

Patterning the Hulk on the actor's appearance and doing motion capture with him really made a difference over the other two movies, I think.

ITA. The Hulk seems as real as any of the actors. I wonder why no one did it before. I guess it's just much more expensive than CGI.

I love it that Hulk can talk and is clearly intelligent. Next movie I want a brief scene where Hulk looks over Stark's shoulder at some equipment and says something like, "MAGNET FIELD DEFLECT ION BEAM! GENIUS" and Stark says, "oh! uh, yeah, got it, thanks big guy" and everyone boggles. It's still Banner, after all. There's no reason to think he loses all his intelligence and knowledge; it's just that Hulk is normally too angry to give a shit about deflected ion beams.

There's a great scene in one of the episodes of the current Avengers cartoon where Tony is looking over some schematics or something and Hulk asks him what he's doing. Tony replies with some techno-babble followed by "But I guess you wouldn't understand." Hulk looks at him and gives a curt summary of what Tony just said. "Oh, I guess you would."

Okay, now I need to watch the current Avengers cartoon.

...where would that be found, anyway?

It's currently airing on Disney XD (though the current/second season is the last because Disney wants to replace it with a show that ties in more directly with the movies and the terrible Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon.)

All of season 1 is available on Netflix streaming. The show's full title is Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

There's no reason to think he loses all his intelligence and knowledge;

Not other than a lot of comic canon which says he does. It might come as a surprise to many readers, since at one point the writers went to the trouble of having a different coloured Hulk to indicate that he still had his eloquence and brains together.

Not other than a lot of comic canon which says he does.

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If he's got enough brains to snark, "Puny god!" and grin to himself, then he's intelligent and self-aware, aware not only of his surroundings but his own responses to them. It takes some brains to be a smart-ass. He's got enough brains to know what was about to happen to Tony when he was falling. He's got enough self-control to give Loki what-for and then walk away smugly having made his point, instead of continuing to beat on and try to kill him. If he's got some of his brains, I say there's reason to believe all his brains are still functioning.

If he's got some of his brains, I say there's reason to believe all his brains are still functioning.

As long as you're good with that contradicting much of comics canon, then why not?

I'm good with that. Comics canon gets rewritten to contradict itself fairly often.