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I also noted the return of Hulk's super-jump.

I told myself to resist watching more clips and such as they're released but . . .

Cap tells Hulk to smash

I was powerless.

It's only too bad that there's no female villain for Black Widow to get into a catfight with, like Sinn or Madame Hydra. Whedon does awesome catfights.

I'm looking forward to all of the Avengers getting their Whedonized moments.

Also this one:

Also, is it possible Cap will adopt scalemail and physical wings on his helmet after wielding Mjolnir? Hmm...

All these sites are coming out with articles speculating and asking the fans who they think the army is. I think it's become pretty obvious that it's the Annihilation Wave, what with the chitin style of the army and ships and Loki sporting the Cosmic Control Rod in that staff he's carrying around now.

I call it the Hawking Hole.

Just got back from it. It covered what it needed to cover, but I thought certain moments lacked emotional punch and the plot progression could have been a little more smooth. Then again, you can say that about most adaptations, and when you can come out of it and can't bring yourself to say it was actually bad, then it puts it above most adaptations.

I blame LOTR for setting the adaptation bar so high. >.>

The notion of throwing second-class citizens into a death arena isn't all that unique. Let's see, there's Running Man, Death Race, Hunger Games, Battle Royale, and what else? Not to mention the actual battle royales that would take place at least a century back where they would take black kids, blindfold them, then toss them into a pit, force them to fight, and bet to see who comes out on top.

Insidious
Dog Soldiers (kind of more action but still features one of horror's classic monsters)
The Descent

Okay here's my screen cap analysis.

POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD



So here we see what looks like an UFO hovering above a waterfall. Could this be on Earth? The UFO doesn't look like the C-shaped craft we've seen in the Alien films and the Prometheus trailers. Also, it's possible this is on the planet our explorers land on because . . .



The planet has snow on the mountains, so waterfalls aren't out of the question.



It seems like in this film we're having the Prometheus crew fearing infection from some kind of entity or virus instead of a more apparent physical threat like a xenomorph. Here we see someone clearly infected standing at the previously shown waterfall. However, there's no UFO on the other side of the waterfall, so maybe they're standing below it or the whole waterfall/UFO/infection scene we're shown is a flashback.



Here's a look at the statue/pod chamber from a different angle than we've seen. The pods obviously resemble the xeno eggs, though they're less organic and slimey.



Here the crew is exploring some tunnels, but are they in the halls of the C-shaped ship? Or some other ruins? Also, notice that there appear to be a heap of humanoid bodies on the left hand side.



This is what Shaw (Noomi Rapace's character) is looking at when we hear her say, "They're changing." But is this audio taken from another scene and spliced into what we're seeing just for the trailer, or is she referring to some kind of mural on the ceiling that is, in fact, changing? If so, perhaps she's watching some kind of shifting carving that goes from human . . .



. . . to this?



Are these (what appear to be shifting rock-looking sacks) the xenomorphs' "small beginnings?"



And are these evolving/growing xenomorphs?



Here we see Fassbender's character activate some kind of holographic map, but take note of the chamber he's in.



Basically just included this shot of the expanded holo-map because it looks cool. >.>

Ahem, however, you can also see what look like planet systems and bits of the alien writing on them. Is it just me or does the alien language look a bit similar to the language of the Predators?



Space Jockey in his nude glory.



Remember the holo map chamber layout? Four horizontal pods and a small control area on the floor? Looks like it's the Space Jockey's chamber, and here we see him without his suit.



This shot shows more of the parasite being removed from one of the crew. Looks to have more appendages than assumed. Still does not resemble a face-hugger, however.



In the trailer it looks like the Prometheus crew is going to be a race against time with the C-shaped craft looking to take off and head for Earth. Looks like they decide to crash into it to stop it.



Here we see the alien craft falling, but no sign of the Prometheus ship. So is this an explosion caused a little bit after the collision? Perhaps by someone who stayed on the C-shaped craft and sabotaged it? Or is this right after the collision and Prometheus gets disintegrated, explaining why Ripley's crew and Newt's folks only ever saw the alien ship and not Prometheus wreckage as well?



Here's the Space Jockey's suit retracting. It seems obvious now that the elephantine head was just a helmet and what we see walking around in other bits of the trailer is the pilot. Still, if the Space Jockey was there the whole time, does this mean the suit he's in was actually like a stasis pod similar to the stasis tech humans have developed by this point? Or is the trailer reversing the footage and instead of getting out of the suit, he's getting in? Possibly because he's activating the stasis in hopes of avoiding his chest-bursting fate?



There looks to be a faceoff between Shaw and the Space Jockey. Here you can see more of Space Jockey's design, clearly in the vein of H.R. Giger's style.



Here's Shaw in a Ripley/Leeloo-esque bikini, covered in some kind of substance. Possibly the blood of an infected crew member or maybe even the blood of the Space Jockey, proving she gets the better of him, though in the shots of the confrontation she's wearing her spacesuit, which wouldn't allow the splatter to reach all those areas.

Tell me this isn't an Alien:



And a possible variant of a facehugger here, but it doesn't look like one I've seen before:

Here's the full trailer via youtube so you don't hafta watch that damn extreme sports ad every time.

Also, a new full trailer.