(August 16, 2014 at 9:26 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: The plot was more incoherent than most super hero films though.Yeah, which is another reason why staying with the silly/light premise worked better. It reminded me of The Fifth Element, which has similar gaping plot holes yet is also easy to enjoy because it doesn't take itself seriously (although it did kind of try to at the end). I get the impression that it's like the first Captain America movie, just a bit of filler designed to build up the plot of Avengers 2 or 3. I wonder if they expected it to be such an immediate box office success.
They've already announced a sequel. The success of the first movie makes me worry that they'll change the formula for the second movie. And without that light and silly tone, the plot holes will be difficult to ignore.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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