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Posted: May 08 2011 04:07 pm

Watched it yesterday. In 3D.
Woooh, i know. The film was good, i liked the CGI and the fighting scenes
(especially the one in the beginning of the movie against the Ice Titans). The human characters and thor were pretty stupid and the dialogues between them just shitty. But i didn't mind.
My favorite characters were Heimdal, Loki and the Destroyer. Also, was the guy from S.H.I.E.L.D. with the crossbow supposed to be Hawkeye and what did you people think of it?

Posted: May 08 2011 05:41 pm

Yes, the S.H.I.E.L.D. sniper was Hawkeye. The guy even called him Barton (Hawkeye's real name being Clint Barton). I was sort of spoiled on this by reading a blurb on shooting for The Avengers and it mentioned Hawkeye's actor in it, specifically mentioning he had a role in Thor.

The movie was alright. Weak 3rd act especially with the ending. The stinger at the end was good. Even though they used 3D-capable cameras from the start instead of stereoscoping it after filming, the 3D wasn't worth it. When are studios going to realize that 3D works in areas with lots of light and NOT in dark/low-light areas like was used in Jotunheim?

Tractor pulling Mjolinr out of the crater amused me.

Lastly, Ralph Macchio shows up in the credits under the Special Thanks section. What the hell?!

Posted: May 08 2011 11:11 pm

The ending really blew. The whole romance with portman felt rushed and unneccassary.

Posted: May 09 2011 12:00 am

i'll_bite_your_ear wrote:

The ending really blew. The whole romance with portman felt rushed and unneccassary.

I wouldn't mind having an unnecessary and rushed romance with Natalie Portman.

Posted: May 09 2011 01:42 am

I liked the movie overall, but I felt that Loki needed to be more treacherous and Volstag needed to be more fat. They should've cast Brian Blessed. In fact, I guess he and the director are like real life BFF's, so not sure why they didn't.

Joined: Jun 29 2010 Posts: 1818

Watched it in plain old 2D, and I gotta say, the movie was surprisingly good. You see, when I think of the comic book character Thor, all that comes to mind is... Well, nothing, really. The character failed to make any impression on me whatsoever, and I'm sure I've read at least a dozen stories with him in it.
The movie, however, was extraordinary. It was fun, and way more interesting than I expected. Then again, 25% of the fun came from this group of fan girls who were sitting right in front of me, giggling every time Thor appeared on the screen.
I guess that's also another reason to watch the movie, if you're into that sort of thing Razz

Posted: May 09 2011 07:12 am

I thought the movie was decent enough, but the villain wasn't villainous enough.

The villain interesting at least, unlike Obadiah Stane from the first Iron Man movie. Stane was really fucking boring, which is a shame, because reading his Wikipedia entry, he could have been a huge badass.

Posted: May 09 2011 12:14 pm

Stane as presented in the movie didn't even make sense as a villain.

As for Loki, I was just talking about it with one of my bosses, and the problem with him as a main villain is that he isn't really evil. He's the god of mischief, which basically just means he's a jerk, but not malevolent.

Also, I now know what The Avengers movie is going to be about and I'm pretty damn interested, especially with how they're going to fit everything they want to into a single movie.

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I really liked the movie, I thought it was paced oddly and the second half just kind of sped along but not so bad. I would have liked to see Blessed in the movie too but I think he's too old to be Volstag.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

It was definitely oddly paced and the last half felt rushed but it was definitely a competent action flick. I'd give it a C+.

Posted: May 09 2011 03:53 pm

Optimist With Doubts wrote:

I really liked the movie, I thought it was paced oddly and the second half just kind of sped along but not so bad. I would have liked to see Blessed in the movie too but I think he's too old to be Volstag.

As I understand it he was indeed their first choice (Considering there is no actor on this planet taht anyone would think of as Volstag besides Blessed), and while he wasn't deemed too old for this film, they were concerned that if they were to make like 3 movies over 10 years that he wouldn't be alive for the last one. Not an unfair concern since he's apparently like 70 and he's a huge fat guy.

Posted: May 09 2011 10:24 pm

lordsathien wrote:

Lastly, Ralph Macchio shows up in the credits under the Special Thanks section. What the hell?!

I noticed this too and thought the same thing.

Posted: May 09 2011 10:32 pm

i'll_bite_your_ear wrote:

The ending really blew. The whole romance with portman felt rushed and unneccassary.

He's a god of vikings. Honestly, I'm surprised Portman wasn't pumping out babies by the end while serving him some roasted hog she was turning over a fire all day while in labor. I guess that's why he deserved Mjolinr.

As for the movie:

Considering I thought the whole premise of Thor was pretty ridiculous and was not expecting to enjoy it I was thoroughly entertained. When it comes to criticisms shared here I feel much the same way. Loki could have been much worse and we could still feel sorry for him but they did sort of make him out to be a annoying little brother for the most part. Then all of the sudden he is capable of mass genocide and I feel like "Meh. That's our Loki." I think him killing Laufey and using it to escalate war so he can continue a power grab would have made more sense. Instead he did it for "dad" while during the entire movie he was explaining to Thor that he didn't understand what it meant to be king because he disregards the advice related to peace, knowledge, and negotiations.

Posted: May 10 2011 02:20 pm

I think Loki's decision to wipe out the frost giants was the result of an inner conflict. He had two dads, one who had betrayed him by lying, and one who had betrayed him by leaving him for dead. So there was sort of an internal identity struggle where he had to decide whether he was Asgardian or a Frost Giant. And ultimately, he decided that his biological father had betrayed him more.

Posted: May 11 2011 07:07 am

Shots of other cosmic objects in Odin's vault:

Info and descriptions here:
http://www.dailyblam.com/news/2011/05/08/thor-movie-concept-art-reveals-cosmic-weapons-from-odins-vault

Posted: May 11 2011 05:15 pm

Haha, is that the Infinity Gauntlet?

Posted: May 11 2011 05:47 pm

The Eternal Flame stolen from Surtur, possibly the Eye of Agamoto, the Formula of Eternal life (or something like that), the Infinity Gauntlet, and (not Adam) Warlock's Eye.

Posted: May 11 2011 07:25 pm

Yes that's the Infinity Gauntlet, and the site says it's the Orb of Agamoto, not the eye.

Posted: May 15 2011 12:59 pm

I don't like 3D movies, so I think I'll just go see it in 2D.
I heard the movie is great though!

Posted: May 15 2011 01:41 pm

I didn't see it in 3D, but I LOVED this movie. Saw it yesterday. I think Iron Man still wins as my favorite comic movie, but man was this close. The opening scenes in Asgard were just jaw droppingly awesome.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

I didn't see it in 3D, but I enjoyed it. Given the source material, I don't see how they could've made it any better, and that's not a diss to the comic by any means. I have limited knowledge to the Thor comic, but of what I do know, it seems pretty forward and true to it. I was very worried at the beginning, and I hoped that the entire movie wasn't going to take place on this faraway land, with dialogue that was a little corny, however once he was banished to Earth, that's when the movie definitely picked up. It contained all the elements needed to get me behind the characters as well as the internal conflicts that Loki had. It wasn't a great movie, but I did enjoy it. I think a few things that lacked were not enough emphasis to care about Thor's wacky friends, as well as what S.H.I.E.L.D. was exactly trying to accomplish (maybe I missed it or something). If you're going to see it, see it now in the theater, it's a fun time.

Posted: May 16 2011 05:04 am

I actually have one complaint with the movie, and it's a relatively minor one.
Not even a glimpse of Enchantress.

I understand the reason for the pacing, but it's still a little odd it only took 2-3 days for Thor to be humbled. It was almost more like Odin being all "You go to your room WITHOUT your toys and think about what you've done!"

Joined: Apr 25 2011 Location: Orem, UT Posts: 75

the only con i found with this movie is natalie portman didnt get viking railed on screen

i loved it, personally

Posted: May 16 2011 12:09 pm

Doddsino wrote:

I didn't see it in 3D, but I enjoyed it. Given the source material, I don't see how they could've made it any better, and that's not a diss to the comic by any means. I have limited knowledge to the Thor comic, but of what I do know, it seems pretty forward and true to it. I was very worried at the beginning, and I hoped that the entire movie wasn't going to take place on this faraway land, with dialogue that was a little corny, however once he was banished to Earth, that's when the movie definitely picked up. It contained all the elements needed to get me behind the characters as well as the internal conflicts that Loki had. It wasn't a great movie, but I did enjoy it. I think a few things that lacked were not enough emphasis to care about Thor's wacky friends, as well as what S.H.I.E.L.D. was exactly trying to accomplish (maybe I missed it or something). If you're going to see it, see it now in the theater, it's a fun time.

This is ironic, since the stuff on Earth is EASILY the worst stuff in the movie. Fortunately, there's very little of it, but I figured that would be a point of disconnect for a lot of people.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

For a casual viewer, I think the Earth stuff has to work, otherwise you'll be bored on Asgard, you need that fish out of water experience to understand what's going on, otherwise you don't care. Thor going to Earth helped further everything we needed to know. My knowledge of Thor is very limited, as is a lot of people who saw the movie, I'm sure.