and portman's totally fine in it and has great chemistry with mr thor, tho their relaysh is p underwritten & perfunctory
guy playin loki really owns in this; also the frost giants are freakin... awesome
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 7 May 2011 09:31 (thirteen years ago) link
branagh uses a lot of dutch angles without really seeming to understand their purpose
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 7 May 2011 09:32 (thirteen years ago) link
movie was very balaeric true
― Roz, Saturday, 7 May 2011 10:34 (thirteen years ago) link
bah, balearic*
idk what that means
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 7 May 2011 10:43 (thirteen years ago) link
it means that if you ask kenneth branagh what he thinks of king lear he just goes "BA!"
― "Hungry clouds swag on the deep." — William Blake (bernard snowy), Saturday, 7 May 2011 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah dude playing Loki is excellent. I guess he's gonna be the villain for The Avengers too so i can live with that.
― Number None, Saturday, 7 May 2011 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I could've done without all the dutch angles, but Hemsworth has a fuckton of charm as Thor, the pacing is pretty good, Skaarsgard is surprisingly effective, Elba is great as Heimdahl, and Asgard itself looks so much like a bunch of Kirby panels I wanted to shit myself with joy. That part of it, as well as the dialogue amongst the Warriors Three, Branagh and his team definitely understood. I mean, I could easily picture myself sitting there seeing the Bifrost on a comics page with all of Kirby's technospeak descriptions. And the Asgardian dialogue was just florid enough to sound like a Kirby/Lee Thor comic.
― Captain Hyrax (Phil D.), Saturday, 7 May 2011 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
this was a lot of fun. the romance was completely tacked on but they managed to make a corny story convincing.
― starland vocal banned (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Looked great, but Hemsworth/Portman had all the chemistry of a game of frog baseball. But it looked great.
― Stomp! in the name of love (WmC), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Natalie Portman = worst actress alive.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 May 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Does she win for most number of crap movies in a row interrupted by an Oscar an the middle of her crap run?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 May 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Have to assume Theron, Witherspoon and Bullock are still in the running.
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Monday, 30 May 2011 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
also Berry
― Goonhynhnms & YaHOOS (WmC), Monday, 30 May 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
on the other hand Tom Hiddleston was a terrific Loki.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lol Alfred why did you see this?
― metally ill (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I went to a 10:15 a.m. at a multiplex by the house – it was too early for the pool.
Meek's Cutoff tomorrow night though!
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
this was actually finally the movie that won me over re: portman. she has just enough charisma to offset all those bad line readings... i've never considered her a good actress but she just has too much of *something* for me to call her bad either.
― ( . __ . ) . o O ( cum ) (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
damn! Haven't seen this yet.
― such a shame (jel --), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/QjoHx.gif
― ( . __ . ) . o O ( cum ) (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
This was fun! Would've tipped into the good if not for the Portmonster. She's horrible. Really liked Hiddleston's Loki - just hammy enough to make the absurdity work. Hemsworth also seemed to revel in the cheese in a good way, and their fight at the end was two guys making slow motion fight faces. Brilliant.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 5 June 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
truly tasty slice of superhokum. whereas x-men is total balls.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 6 June 2011 02:44 (thirteen years ago) link
The Green Lantern preview before Thor looked like total balls too. Yuck.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 6 June 2011 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
freal. i was kinda like :/ and then they went all "here is deadpool shouting the gl creed" at the end i was more o_0 bc guess what that shit does not get less corny when it is shouted.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 6 June 2011 07:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't think Portman was totally bad, but she wasn't memorable in any way either. Thankfully her role wasn't that large; I half expected her to rush to Asgard with Thor to fight Loki, but I was happy the plot went as it did. The bittersweet ending made Thor seem like a more noble hero, even if everyone knows she and Foster will get back together in the sequel.
I would've preferred to see a Thor & Sif romance story though, like in the comics (and, obviously, in the original myths)... Especially since they stuck to the warrior Sif version of the Marvel comics; IIRC, in the original myths Sif was just Thor's wife with no asskicking tendencies (though Peter Madsen's Valhalla comics proved you can still make her an interesting character while sticking closer to the Edda poems). I also liked the wisecracking research assistant, plus the actress who played her was cute. And the old scientist guy male bonding with Thor was done nicely too.
I agree that both Hiddleston and Hemsworth handled their roles well, without taking them too seriously. The idea that Loki was kind of a Shakespearean tragic character who had noble motives behind his evil deeds was interesting, though personally I prefer Loki a trickster god, who sometimes works on the side of the Asgardians, sometimes against them. But I guess that kind of a "villain" doesn't work well in a superhero story?
The visuals in the movie were really gorgeous, they managed to convey Kirby's vision of "techno gods" almost perfectly. It would've been nice too see Thor & co. walk on an actual rainbow bridge, but their interpretation of Bifröst was certainly innovative. I wonder if it was also meant to be a variation of the Boom Tube, as a shout out to Kirby?
Oh, and obviously there were plenty of little clues for those familiar with Marvel comics. You had Donald Blake as Thor's false identity, references to Bruce Banner and Tony Stark, etc. The archer guy named Barton was obviously Hawkeye, and in the scene following the end titles there was the Cosmic Cube. Also, Odin's trophy room apparently had the Eye of Agamotto in it; from what I've read, the Infinity Gauntlet was also supposed to be there, but I didn't spot it.
― Tuomas, Monday, 6 June 2011 07:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Loki had the worst hat imaginable. What kind of shit was that? My kid was totally taken by this, so I laughed along, but this sealed the coffin for me on all these stupid superhero movies. I've been quietly pining for the 1990s, when movies were pretty awful, but the only superhero movie we had to deal with was Batman, and he was DC anyway so who gives a shit.
At least it gave me an opportunity to read him some norse mythology.
Also, this:
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, June 5, 2011 10:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Word to life, god.
― kkvgz, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Good ass though on portman
― Latham Green, Monday, 6 June 2011 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I must say I always wish they would just make all those kids of movies in a classic fashion so they look like the 60's Batman TV show. Just go for campy, I mean these are superheroes after all not Shakespeare. I wish Thor looked like thishttp://www.immortalthor.net/bio-thor.jpg
― Latham Green, Monday, 6 June 2011 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
friend of mine saw this and said there was a bunch of shit about the Cosmic Cube/Thanos in this as Avengers foreshadowing?!? Is that really what the Avengers movie is going to center around? rmde
― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
After the credits there was a Cosmic Cube & Loki moment. Don't remember any Thanos references. I think they're going to use Loki for the Avengers like the first story in the comics.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that really what the Avengers movie is going to center around? rmde
― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, June 8, 2011 7:44 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
what other direction should they have gone in?
― (.づ☀‿☀)づ ~da post-modernist struggle~ (.づ☀‿☀)づ (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
There have been Thanos rumours. Apparently you can see the Infinity Gauntlet in Odin's trophy room. Oh yeah, there's been some Skrull talk too
― Number None, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno... tbh I'm deeply skeptical of this whole approach to the Avengers movie and can't really see how it's going to work, but it sounds like they are just going for the "throw everything we can think of" approach.
friend also said Hawkeye makes an appearance in the Thor movie...
― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah hawkeye's in it briefly/pointlessly.
― (.づ☀‿☀)づ ~da post-modernist struggle~ (.づ☀‿☀)づ (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
is Thanos the blue dude with the Wonder Glove who's always smiling?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
the thing about thanos is he's too powerful for JUST the avengers to handle, even w/o the infinity gauntlet... either they're gonna de-power him or they're just setting him up as the bad guy for avengers 2 imo
― (.づ☀‿☀)づ ~da post-modernist struggle~ (.づ☀‿☀)づ (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
yes
Thanos for Avengers 2 seems more likely. I mean why not set all this stuff up? Nothing to lose even if the first one totally bombs
― Number None, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I want a Marvel movie about Acts of Vengeance.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno I just associate Thanos with that Starlin Captain Marvel run, which seems so dated and weird and sprawling (not to mention PSYCHEDELIC) ... I dunno it's probably been completely retconned into something else by now for all I know.
― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
You do know that one of the most famous Thanos stories is The Infinity Gauntlet (written by Starlin), where the Avengers are heavily involved, right? If Thanos will be in Avengers 2, I assume that's the plot they'll be using.
The Cosmic Cube in Thor is most likely a reference to the upcoming Captain America movie, since in the Cap comics Red Skull is always trying to get hold of it, and he will be the villain in the movie.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 9 June 2011 06:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://web.archive.org/web/20011108045652/http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=I+Love+Music
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Sunday, 19 June 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
???????
― little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Monday, 20 June 2011 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
oh I meant to post that on the "happy birthday ILE " thread but couldnt be arsed to find it
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Monday, 20 June 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
gg
― little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Monday, 20 June 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
HH
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
agreed, heil hitler
― little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
no I mean heat your head
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
Thor 2: Thor Harder. No Branagh.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 June 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link