Title: THOR THOUGHTS
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Title: THOR THOUGHTS
Print Status: Available
Title: THOR THOUGHTS
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Thor was a fantastically entertaining film for me – one of the best comicbook movies I’ve seen. I didn’t have great expectations for it either but Brannagh did a fantastic job with it.
I’ve heard a few different people say that it was a bit light on with the action but I didn’t notice that at all. I thought it was well paced.
Yes, I squeed a little when I saw Hawkeye. Yes, I love Clark Gregg as Coulson and that he’s popping up everywhere.
I don’t think it was light on action, but it felt a little unbalanced. You have the Frost Giants at the outset and the Destroyer at the end, but very little going on in the middle.
You have the Frost Giants at the outset and the Destroyer at the end
At least that’s one more bit of superhero arse-kicking than you get in the typical origin story, where you have to wait for most of the movie for the main character to get their act together and find the supervillain to fight.
I just got the chance to see Thor last night. It was entertaining… but I didn’t love it.
What I thought was done well:
– Graphics, art direction and special effects (including makeup on the Frost Giants)
– Humor (and the interplay with Coulson and other Avengers movie elements)
– Casting, all around
What I thought was lacking:
– Development! I just didn’t get the sense that Thor’s time on Earth would have changed him as much as it did. Besides the one scene trying to pick up Mjolnir, what does he learn about being ‘mortal’?? Why does that change him? And while all the flirty stuff with Natalie Portman was adorable on both sides, it didn’t seem like the end result would be his sudden, deep love for her.
– My boyfriend disagreed with me, but I thought the scene jumps between Asgard and Earth didn’t work well. They were like two different movies, and while I get that that’s kinda the point of two different worlds… Asgard just ended up looking over-the-top CGI to me when it came on screen just after scenes on Earth. I think it was the faked light.
– I felt like the beginning was a little long (not that it dragged, there was just a little too much there for me). I could have done without the scene in Norway and the first Frost Giant battle. In any case, I’d far rather have more development of Thor on Earth instead.
Just my thoughts. Still, fun movie!
I’m so in love with Kat Dennings. I’ll see this movie just based on that one blurb.
“meow-meow” You’ll get it.
The week before the movie came out in the U.S there was some leaked footage of part of the scene with Hawkeye. Seeing the entire thing tho in theatres….eh… I wasn’t impressed. I’ve never really been a Hawkeye fan but maybe the Avengers movie will change that… I dunno. I kinda like him in the cartoon (especially his love/hate buddy relationship with Hulk).
But yeah. I was totally chuckling over the Don Blake references. Im glad there was at least SOME mention as I was bummed he wasn’t gonna be Don Blake. Course I was also confused before going to see it as to why Jane Foster wasn’t a doctor (or as the case is in Avengers Earth’s Mightiest where she’s an EMT) in the medical field. Noo..now she’s an Astrophysisist…and appererantly a storm chaser. *lol*
Oh and the thing with Laufey (the Frost Giant king). In mythology um…he’s actually Loki’s MOTHER…. but Stan Lee gave him a sex change in the comics. *lol* But hey anything’s possible. Loki switched sexes on a dime in mythology. He even gave birth once…to Odin’s eight legged horse! *lol*
Loki actually switched sexes recently in the comics as well. He was a woman during the Secret Invasion crossover.
I think he was recently killed and reincarnated as a small boy.
Finally someone else who agrees about Kat Dennings. She was one of my favorite things about this movie. Yet many I’ve talked to and stuff I’ve read on line has called her annoying and unnecessary.
Yeah she was there just for comic relief and usually those characters are a waste in these movies. But her, I actually enjoyed. Her being cute didn’t hurt either.
I saw the movie over the weekend. I liked it, but I have a question for everyone: Did anyone else who saw the film in 3-D think the 3-D was almost completely wasted?
If I have a choice anymore, I’ll skip 3D and save the extra money. I’m tired of seeing films that are 20% less bright than they should be for a cheap optical effect.
One should not watch Tron:Legacy on Blu-ray and say to oneself “Oh! That looks SO much better than it did in the theater!”
It wasn’t just the brightness. The only part that felt like 3-d was when the camera was flying through Asgard. Everything else just looked as flat as if it had been a regular movie.
I agree completely. I came out of the movie asking my friend what the point of 3D was in that film. I’m with Tom about staying away from 3D whereever possible – this time around I was with my friend who is a projectionist at the theatre and I got in for $2 so I wasn’t complaining too loudly.
Saw Thor this weekend, liked it quite a bit for what it is. It’s no Iron Man 1 or Batman Begins/TDK, though. The backstory/universe around Thor is what doesn’t appeal to me, way too fantasy for my liking. I like my superhero movies to be somewhat grounded in reality. Having a magical hammer that decides who’s fit to handle it, yeah, a bit too much fantasy for my liking. I’m curious to see how they bridge all that magical stuff into The Avengers with the other superheroes that are mostly grounded in reality and don’t rely on magical superpowers. Thor was still an entertaining movie, though, no questions about it.