Originally posted by Mindset
[B]OK, no counter on Supes ignoring the laws of physics by pushing the island out of orbit w/o it breaking. So you can't support your claim, understood.
Why would I have a counter to something I was never opposing in the first place?
Poor ol' Mindset. Putting himself in a tizzy thinking he has a counter point to an argument, when in fact he didn't thoroughly even comprehend what was being said.
The topic was never about this tangent you brought about yourself of whether a movie like Superman Returns is 100% physics accurate. The point was in counter to Bruce saying comics aren't that accurate as far as physics go, to which I said this that this NOT a comic, this is a movie. And that movies tend to at least attempt to have more realistic physics than comics(--At least when it comes to small scale real life possibilities, like you know, falling out of the sky.) And this is especially true of Marvel movies, since their characters are extremely unimpressive and toned down compared to the real thing (save Silver Surfer, he fares ok with his comic counter-part).
That quote of yours doesn't make any kind of sense. For one, Thor did not jump downwards towards the ground, he flew out of the container at an upwards angle, or sideways (don't really remember), then hit the ground.
It makes perfect sense, especially if you actually remembered the movie correctly, like you know, me. Thor did not fly out an upward angle, and then suddenly crash at a downward angle towards flat ground. Lmao.
Here are screencaps. This is the only thing I could find. Frame rate and quality sucked, but it will do;
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/220/thor0.png/
^Shows where the container is falling, which is on some coast.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/42/thor1j.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/6/thor2x.png/
^Shows the sequence of Thor pushing off the wall.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/267/thor3.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/23/thor4.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/836/thor5.png/
^Shows the sequence of Thor breaking out of the glass. Notice in the last screen capture, the little smudge/dot is Thor, and he's not angling upward is he? No, he's actually angling downward, which adds to the speed of his fall, while changing the direction.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/651/thor6.png/
^Takes place in the exact same continuous shot as the last screen capture, shows the container crash landing in the sand/water.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/850/thorfinal.png/
^here we see Thor on the left, skidding after his crash landing at a downward angle in some flat meadow well away from the beach, a mere second or so after the container hit the ground. With a huge ass dirt cloud that a human sized going at merely the speed of terminal velocity could never make.
He pushed himself out at a downward angle, which added to the speed of his landing and also added a horizontal force to what otherwise would have been just a vertical force from a free fall, and that means his net force would have been even greater from the combination
The final word; Thor busted out of the container about 50 feet or so away from it hitting ground, and he pushed himself out of it at a downward angle and he hit a patch of earth so hard he made a dirt cloud on par with 50 lbs of TNT going off. How fast does a human sized object have to be going to make that kind of impact with the ground? A lot more than just what you get with terminal velocity assisted force, I'll you that much.
How does it compare to Hulk's falling? More or less should be comparable. Thor hit the ground at much greater speeds than just what terminal velocity would give him since he added his own propulsion to it from his length strength, but Hulk weighs more and he fell on a building instead of earth.
Neither are overly impressive feats for a blockbuster superhero movie though, honestly.
Second, Hulk hitting the top of a concrete building that is about 30 feet from the ground would not make any significant difference in the force of impact than if he had just hit the ground w/o any interference.
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Way to continue to disappoint in your comprehension. Read, again.
I never said anything about taking away from Hulk's feat just because he fell on a 30-50 foot building out of a 30,000 foot fall. I was giving Hulk PROPS for falling on something more solid than a patch of earth. Jesus Christ. 😂
You're wrong, accept it, embrace it, and let it wash over you.
Pfft. Funny stuff. When have you ever been right against me? It's like a prime Cro Cop vs Josh Barnett; I just got your number. sneer
