Just read Doc's review.

I like reading Doc's reviews.

I vehemently disagree with your assertion that the film's mostly taking place on the airship is a flaw. I, personally, was relieved when I saw that they were mostly staying on the ship. I was so worried that they'd try to go to twenty different locations and be intercutting separate scenes of the various heroes tracking down different targets or something and only coming together at the end, etc. Something more Star Wars Episode 6 or 2 until the final battle scene. I was so glad they didn't do that.

Also, I would encourage you to not read superhero comics, as they are mostly pulp trash. The only one I've read that I actually keep up with is "Powers", which is more of a detective/comedy that happens to have superheroes in the background (the main characters are just regular cops / detectives).

Check out Blade of the Immortal, though that series is quite long and still not quite finished. I've recently started reading Mouseguard and am liking them a lot. Nothing happens in superhero comics because the ongoing books have to adhere to the 'universe' rules. You can't do anything without it being aproved by the big wigs, or you have to do something because the big wigs say so to keep in-line with the other books in the same universe. In reality, you kinda have to buy ten or more books sometimes to really understand what the fuck is happening at any given time in the marvel universe, cause you can pick up a Spiderman book that references something that happened in Fantastic Four last month. It's exhausting to try to keep up with it all sometimes.

And they wonder why comics have stopped being a thing. Superhero comics are directly comparable to Pro Wrestling. Same shit, different day. Good guys, bad guys, mostly just a soap opera for testosterone-saturated teenagers and dorks who never grew out of them.
... also directly comparable to most console videogames for the same reasons...
There are a lot of good comics, tho. Avoid the spandex.

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Yeah, I can see where you're coming from by wanting something with bigger scope and more threatening situations. Just a personal preference, like you said in the review. I found it refreshing to see a big budget movie not try to do that.

Didn't the Norton movie explain that his Hulk transformation is based on heart rate? And at the end of that movie it showed him meditating. Maybe he learned to control his heart rate, like a monk. I'm pretty sure the old TV show had a plotline dealing with that.

In the screening that I saw....Yes!
In fact, it got to the point the people were cheering and laughing so loudly, that you couldn't hear some of the lines delivered. In this very scene, after Hulk smashes Loki into the ground like a ragdoll, he says something as he is walking away. I couldn't hear because of the cheering/laughing, but, if you watched his mouth, it looked(to me) like Hulk was saying: "Asshole." as he walked away.

A friend of mine, who saw this earlier, told me that this wasn't the case. Hulk says something to the effect of "Puny god" ..... or... "Puny weakling."

I guess this makes sense, but, wouldn't it be better if the Hulk was just tired of LOKI's bullshit, smashes him into the ground, and afterwards, he says: "Asshole." ???
I think so.

We had the same thing in our screening.  In fact there was more than one time where the audience was cheering and laughing so hard you couldn't make out the film.  I'm pretty sure things calmed down in enough time to hear Loki's slow, painful groan of exhalation.