>1. The Thor water-of-spirits stuff. Clearly there were scenes
>cut here, because this led absolutely nowhere and ended up not
>even being an efficient set-up to Thor 3. It just... existed.
>Didn't take away from the whole, but compared to what everyone
>else saw, it had less than zero impact.


Whedon's first cut of the movie was three and a half hours, so yeah a lot had to be cut to get it to 142 minutes. There will be a directors cut on the blu-ray with an alternate ending.