Thor Movie Reviews

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I'm with the film all the way up to the banishment - all that was thumbs up. Thor doing the side helicopter thing was the BALLS. It's once he gets to Earth where the problem starts and lingers. Mind you, I am well aware it's difficult to match the Earth scenes to those in Asguard - but damnit, they should have tried harder. A Superman II approach may have been what was needed. Bad guys or a guy who arrive on Earth not long after Thor in an attempt to kill him now that he is powerless. They hate Earthlings and don't mind killing them for no good reason. Seeing how we already know Thor is going to get his hammer back, might as well give something else for the audience something exciting to watch.
The Portman love story needed like 3 more things complicating it. Her ex-boyfriend shows up and tries to kick Thor's ass - or maybe he dumps Thor in some super tough biker bar expecting his buddies to handle him - but when he comes back later Thor is singing Warrior songs with the bikers, everyone downing cargos of beer -- this would have at least connected him (seeing both the good and the bad) in the people he wants to save - not just one women who he didn't really know. I mean if Portman would have told Thor she loved him while she was cradling him - how horrible would that have played? I'll answer for you - I was cringing thinking it was coming - luckily they didn't do it. If the love story has worked - they would have been able to.

You guys are right about the geek moments (when the hammer flew to him and slapped into his hand) - but i would have traded some stuff to have a nice well rounded story.
 
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Just got out of the theatre. Really, really liked this movie.

To me the love story was a nonissue. I've seen relationships based on less, hell, been in relationships based on less. They kissed once, at the end, and no one dropped the L word. I think it fits fine for what it is.

Laufey was very cool, Hopkins was solid, Heimdall was really cool as well. No complaints from me about this film, other than the helmet not showing up when he got his powers back.
 
The helmet is a real touchy subject as it could've ruined the film visually, due to it being the hero. They may have gotten away with it in the last act, but it seems they left his helmet as more for ceremonial use that for battle. At least that's the way they treated it story-wise.
I was expecting the helmet a little when the Thor became worthy. Oh, well...
 
KnightAsylum said:
Saw it last night, thought they did a great job. I have always felt this would be the hardest character to make a good movie out of, but they did really well with it.
Always a Hawkeye fan, so that was an awesome little bonus.
Looking forward to seeing him again in Avengers.:thumbsup
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I just saw it in 3D. I feel the same way on what you said. I'm not really a big Thor fan. Actually, I could really care less about Thor and his comics. I felt that it would be difficult to portray his story on screen. However, they did a pretty decent job on the film.

It isnt the greatest superhero movie, but it isnt the worst either. The film was entertaining, funny, few good action scenes, and Loki was terrific. I doubt I would watch this film again, but I did enjoy it.

Solid B grading for me
 
Jet Beetle said:
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I'm with the film all the way up to the banishment - all that was thumbs up. Thor doing the side helicopter thing was the BALLS. It's once he gets to Earth where the problem starts and lingers. Mind you, I am well aware it's difficult to match the Earth scenes to those in Asguard - but damnit, they should have tried harder. A Superman II approach may have been what was needed. Bad guys or a guy who arrive on Earth not long after Thor in an attempt to kill him now that he is powerless. They hate Earthlings and don't mind killing them for no good reason. Seeing how we already know Thor is going to get his hammer back, might as well give something else for the audience something exciting to watch.
The Portman love story needed like 3 more things complicating it. Her ex-boyfriend shows up and tries to kick Thor's ass - or maybe he dumps Thor in some super tough biker bar expecting his buddies to handle him - but when he comes back later Thor is singing Warrior songs with the bikers, everyone downing cargos of beer -- this would have at least connected him (seeing both the good and the bad) in the people he wants to save - not just one women who he didn't really know. I mean if Portman would have told Thor she loved him while she was cradling him - how horrible would that have played? I'll answer for you - I was cringing thinking it was coming - luckily they didn't do it. If the love story has worked - they would have been able to.

You guys are right about the geek moments (when the hammer flew to him and slapped into his hand) - but i would have traded some stuff to have a nice well rounded story.
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The thing is he didn't sacrifice himself to save her, he did it for all the people of the town. Once he realized his friends couldn't handle the guardian - he knew it'd kill everyone it came in contact with and wouldn't stop til it killed him or he killed it. Being powerless, he had one option.

The began a relationship in this one, but I can't say they're in love. In this one, at least, too - her boyfriend was a Doctor. Can't see him being in or friends with a biker gang or whatever. The premise you give, they essentially did - just not as overtly. I can't recall his name but the older guy took him to a bar and basically said get out and don't bother her again. They drank, and in lieu of singing battle songs, they had him carry the passed out drunk guy back to the trailer and put him to bed. It wasn't a jeopardy type situation or anything, but still. Not to mention, he took out an entire special forces division trying to get to the hammer. After that, no audience is going to believe he wouldn't wipe the floor with her doctor ex-boyfriend or a gang of bikers. They could have had the old guy try and send him to a biker bar to get beat up, but it would have been way out of character.

I saw the point being him way to willing to go and fight a war without any thought the consequences or collateral damage it caused then being put in a situation where he couldn't be part of the war and having to deal with how to handle just the collateral damage. It wasn't a threat to him that changed his ways, it was being forced to see the other side of the spectrum and not being able to do anything about it from a battle standpoint and having to realize saving the innocent was more important that saving himself or even killing the bad guys.
 
superDrool said:
Kenneth Branagh is a genius.
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I can't think of one movie he's direct that wasn't an enjoyable experience. I mean, Hamlet, Dead Again, Frankenstein (with De Niro), Peter's Friends, Much Ado About Nothing and Sleuth (the remake) were all pretty damn good to me. I haven't seen Thor yet, but seeing one of the shots from one the trailers reminded me much of a shot from Hamlet, and since he's done a good job at direct the films I mentioned, I expect the quality of it will be just as good. :)
 
Oh, no, there's nothing inherently wrong with a well placed dutch angle.
I'll rephrase and say "I hope you like liberal use and seemingly unmotivated placement of dutch angles."
 
CB2001 said:
There's nothing wrong with dutch angles. Most comic books include dutch angles. Name one that didn't include them?
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Astronauts in Trouble: Live From the Moon. Space: 1959. One Shot, One Beer. There's eleven right there. :lol

I was going to say The Black Diamond, but there is one when they lasso the train.
 
TKRalph said:
Is Cpt America First Avenger trailer attached to this movie?
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It was on mine, which was BigD in Carmike threatres. Which is a larger than normal but smaller than Imax screen with leather seats and better sound systems. and it was in 3d in this particular showing with a 3d Cap trailer. The 3d in the trailer looked awesome for Cap.

As for the movie, being more of a fan of the mythology than I have been the comics, I still thought it was a good movie. I liked it better than Iron Man 2. Not quite as much as Iron Man the first. And I'm jealous that it was a million times better than Wolverine Origins :( lol
 
Liked it, but I couldn't see how KB brought any particular artistry/panache/style to it. Looked like a better than average hero movie, no more or less. Too many grand sweeping CG landscapes of a silly looking Asgard counterbalanced with some snappy dialogue, solid acting, and a cameo in the crane that made me grin...I'm glad I went, had a lot of fun, but I wasn't wowed.

One thing that I liked was treating Asgard as more of an alien place with alien science...I have trouble stomaching mythical gods running around with Iron Man. But extra-dimensional beings once treated by the Norse as gods (the whole "magic is science we don't understand yet" thing) made it MUCH more palatable.
 
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I thought it was complete crap. :confused

The first 20 minutes made me realize just how good the Lord of the Rings movies were.

Thor and his girlfriend were well cast, everybody else was OK I guess. Anthony Hopkins probably couldn't wait to cash the check, whatever happened to him?

I had no idea Snow Miser was the main "ice giant" bad guy. C'mon..."Ice Giants?"...that's the best you can do?

So the Punisher is now one of Thor's buddies and Johnny Storm is now Captain America? There are so few hunky actors in the world that we gotta use two or three of them for EVERY movie?

Thor is just another hyper-marketed and polished turd of a film that spends millions of dollars on CGI as it tells a lousy story with unforgettable characters that you care nothing about.

I'm not a hater, but c'mon...this is the best that Marvel can do? I know there are some great stories to tell about these characters, I remember reading several of them back in the day and I'm sure the Marvel comic writers continue to churn them out, they just can't transfer one to the big screen.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm thinking that the end might be near for these big budget "comic book" movies? They're just not very good.

It hurts to say that.

Of course, just one geek's 2 cents

brad
 
There are spoilers in this post. You have been warned.


Based on the reviews, I went into this movie wanting to like it.. and walked out trying to think of something to like about it.

I will be the first to admit, I know nothing about Thor, but then, I knew nothing about Iron Man, and loved that movie, so it wasn't just a matter of not knowing the character.

For me, this movie didn't seem to know what it wanted to be and it mixed too many different emotions into a single film in a way that just didn't quite work. Because the very idea of a superhero movie is so far fetched, I think the injection of humor in incredibly important as well as the importance of the characters not taking themselves too seriously. I think Spider-man and Iron Man nailed the humor. Thor's humor was a little over the top and a bit forced.

This really should have been Loki's story not Thor's as Loki's character and what happened to him was infinitely more interesting. However, as with many things, it seems like the writer didn't really know what they wanted Loki's motivation to be and it seemed to switch multiple times throughout the move. I think not spending more time developing Loki was a very big missed opportunity.

The romantic angle was just utterly ridiculous, VERY forced, and added a completely unnecessary dimension to the film. From what I saw, Natalie Portman's 'love' interest in Thor was purely lust driven with nothing else to explain it as she knew him for all of a red hot moment. It didn't make sense and just felt tacked on.

The action seemed somewhat underwhelming. At what point was Thor ever truly in danger? The fight scene with the Ice Giants seemed like child's play as even their largest and most scary creature was taken out with a single blow. I also thought it extremely hypocritical for Thor to chastise Loki about wiping out an entire race when only days before, Thor was wanting to do the same thing, and went and killing scores of Ice Giants with no second thought. Was this supposed to indicate his change of character? If so, it was very ham-fisted.

As someone mentioned earlier, Thor's sudden concern for the townspeople was just strange and out of place. You cry in the rain and then you suddenly care about the people of this town? What? Now, speaking of the crying in the rain scene, I thought it was the most powerful moment in the whole film and didn't think that it was entirely necessary to see Thor suddenly becoming outwardly concerned about others. When he couldn't pull the hammer from the rock, everything that needed to be said about him was brought clearly to his mind, with the one sentence from his father lingering in his head. That was his defining moment and his realization of who he truly was and what he had done. Making him show it in some half-assed spectacle where he offers to throw his life away for what were essentially ants just seemed silly.

Much like the fight with the Ice Giants, Thor's fight with the big robot thing and with Loki were extremely anti-climactic as neither seemed to be any real fight at all. He blew through the robot like it was nothing and all he had to do to beat Loki was lay the hammer on him.

Sorry guys. Wanted to like this one, but just didn't. I have very high hopes for Captain America. Hopefully it will wash the bad taste of Thor out of my mouth.

One final note... what was the thing at the end? If that was supposed to be some kind of teaser, I didn't get it at all.
 
Art Andrews said:
One final note... what was the thing at the end? If that was supposed to be some kind of teaser, I didn't get it at all.
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It is the Cosmic Cube. It's supposed to make the weilder omnipotent. It is also setting up the Avengers. Rumor is he is the main villain there.
 
I don't have a problem with the love story...the actor is very charismatic, so hell, I probably would have snuggled up to his campfire as well. Intense feelings can be kindled very rapidly in the right circumstances, as many of you may have experienced, and the dividing lines between affection, love, lust, and infatuation become very hazy at times. But I DID have to laugh about the fact that it was obviously a bad, unsafe, stupid thing to do, going with this mad stranger, and it made me wonder if Portman is just gonna be typecast as a woman who hooks up with nutjobs :lol
 
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I just think it's obvious...some of you simply could not handle all the manli-manliness that is THOR!!!





:lol
 
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