Where in the movie did it state that Thor almost broke his wrist?
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He is probably talking about the scene where Thor tries to summon MJOLNIR and fails, he looks at his hand in disbelief and appears to be injured. Then he manually picks it up and summons lightning.
The whole scene was confusing.
Thor was hurt by that silly dagger Loki stabbed him with. Sort of makes me think there was magic involved with that given all the shit Thor tanked before.
Hulk looked at his best in this film, but here's a hard truth: Marvel was building him up a lot because they had to.
Of the four central Avengers who have had solo films, all have had terrific box office success except for Hulk. And ten years ago Marvel likely thought the opposite; Hulk would have seemed to have had the best built in audience and the most assurance of success. Then Ang Lee's Hulk film came out in 2003, and was a bitter pill to swallow; it was wondered how much of that film's failure was Ang Lee being too artistically daring (or cheesy) or whether the central problem was Hulk as a movie hero.
They made a second film in 2008 under the Marvel Studios banner and they reclaimed some ground with Hulk, but they still seemed to just miss the mark. What made it look more glaring was the shocking smash success of Iron Man just a month earlier - starring the previously unhireable Robert Downey Jr. - in what was a perfect storm of star, script and director. And Iron Man was a total unknown outside of comic circles, in comparison to Hulk. Then The Dark Knight came out and, well...forget about it. Then Marvel Studios succeeded again in daring form, with Thor and Captain America. Neither of them looked like that sure of a bet at the outset, but they found the sweet spot to hit them both out of the park.
So like I said in the Avengers thread in Comic Book Movies: Thor is the most powerful of the group, and he took a little bit of a backseat to Hulk, but I understand why. Hulk needed to be resold to the public more than anyone else, because it was going to be back to TV for him if it didn't work a third time. But it also made sense artistically, because Bruce Banner/Hulk needed a journey of acceptance; for his teammates, SHIELD, and the public. Joss Whedon recognized this; it's why I'm glad this movie's plot wasn't about trying to find and take down the Hulk only to find a larger threat makes them teammates, which is what we largely expected at the outset. That's the cool part of Whedon's style; he throws up the standard cliches just to knock them down as quickly and go a different direction. It certainly keeps me watching.
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I saw the special edition, after thor fell he summons mljonir and fails, after finding it he looks at his hand for 10 seconds, then manually picks it up and summon lighting to heal himself.
I personally have no doubt said daggers were Asgardian/mystic in nature given that they appeared to be the same ones that Loki used to slay Frost Giants in Thor's movie.
I would have no problem if they said Asgardians were more vulnerable to weapons from their own realm in comparison to ones from Earth. We saw how well Loki shrugged off standard gunfire in the SHIELD underground base. So Thor getting stabbed by one of Loki's daggers works for me.
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When I ask this, just know that I am not trying to be mean to you. I understand that you are trying to make Thor look Superior but I need to know the answer to this question. Did you even see the movie. The old man that seen the Hulk fall states that as soon as Hulk hits the ground, he gets up destroying and throwing everything. Pretty cut and dry.
With that said, you can go back reviewing the movie a lil further to try to find more low end showings for Hulk since you failed at that one.
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