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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:30 am
by TheCatt
My wife: Natalie Portman's character must have been pretty pissed that Thor came all the way back and didn't see her.
Me: He was kinda saving the world.
My wife: Still. After he saved the world, he just went back with Loki.
Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 4:26 pm
by GORDON
Know what must have sucked?
SHIELD had this massive compound/headquarters/lab/dish array somewhere out in a desert, and they had a self-destruct to keep their sooper-seekrit cube from getting stolen and in enemy hands, and Fury pushed the self-destruct button and wiped out their massive, expensive compound and the cube still got away.
Oopsie.
Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 4:32 pm
by thibodeaux
You know what's really stupid? Using giant fans to make a flying aircraft carrier. Zeppelin, bitches!
Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 4:39 pm
by GORDON
thibodeaux wrote:You know what's really stupid? Using giant fans to make a flying aircraft carrier. Zeppelin, bitches!
Is there any reason why those fan blades weren't at an angle, to actually push air from above to below? When Stark went to repair the stopped fan blades, they were all up-and-down.
Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 5:24 pm
by thibodeaux
I think it's because the whole movie is make-believe.
Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 5:35 pm
by GORDON
thibodeaux wrote:I think it's because the whole movie is make-believe.
no it isnt shut up
Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 8:33 pm
by Leisher
You know what's really stupid? Using giant fans to make a flying aircraft carrier.
Those things go back to the 50s/60s.
You have to admit that such a craft would be pretty intimidating.
Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 9:48 pm
by thibodeaux
Leisher wrote:You have to admit that such a craft would be pretty intimidating.
To who, the poor dumb bastards manning this suicide-machine?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 9:53 am
by Leisher
You don't think a flying aircraft carrier would be an intimidating sight?
Although, in the books they're not actual aircraft carriers. They do house aircraft, but they aren't sea worthy.
Think of it as an Imperial Cruiser, only not in space.
Years ago they went into the "why" behind the concept, and it had something to do with a moving command center, and the ability for this army to have a quick response to any situation on the globe. It also was pointed out that SHIELD wasn't stationed in any specific country, which was important to the writers.
What's funnier is that up until recently, and I think very recently, the helicarriers, as they're called, were drawn with actual helicopter propellers above them. Most designs were four separate propellers, but I remember some drawings that had mini-propellers scattered about on the carrier as well.
Artists are not engineers.