Od's Blood! Hath ILE no thread for anticipation of Kenneth Branagh's THOR? Verily?

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.

damn! Haven't seen this yet.

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lol

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.

truly tasty slice of superhokum. whereas x-men is total balls.

The Green Lantern preview before Thor looked like total balls too. Yuck.

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.

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.

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:

The Green Lantern preview before Thor looked like total balls too. Yuck.

― EZ Snappin, Sunday, June 5, 2011 10:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Word to life, god.

Good ass though on portman

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 this
http://www.immortalthor.net/bio-thor.jpg

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

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.

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?

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

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...

yeah hawkeye's in it briefly/pointlessly.

is Thanos the blue dude with the Wonder Glove who's always smiling?

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

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

I want a Marvel movie about Acts of Vengeance.

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.

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.

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oh I meant to post that on the "happy birthday ILE " thread but couldnt be arsed to find it

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agreed, heil hitler

no I mean heat your head

Thor 2: Thor Harder. No Branagh.

Mallets Aforethought

boy, Thor is much less sexy without his bearsd.

beard too

Thor 2: Yggdrasil Boogaloo

Kind of a daft movie, but dude playing Thor was very likable.

The trick is to imagine him nude.

I also liked the thing that shot fire out of its face, pretty sure that was naked to begin with.

I only just saw this today. I can't tell if I liked it because Thor was so delicious or if Thor was delicious or if...*wistful gaze, twirls hair* sorry what was I saying

enjoyed this. it was silly. some kind of funny moments as well.

The coffee cup smashing in the diner made me lol

I liked this. Excellent balancing of humans meet GODS!!/GODS have their own problems. Loved the constant visual knods to Jack Kirby (costumes/Asgard sets/galaxies+nebulas in bground during heavy arguments and fight scenes in Asgard sequences). Probably my fave Marvel Comics-based film so far as far as nerdy detail goes.(Haven't seen Cap.)

Saw this on a plane. Maybe this seemed better because I watched after the deeply mediocre X-Men: First Class but I thought it was very likeable. All the coming-to-America cultureshock stuff (smashing the coffee cup, calling Colson "son of Col"), took me back to a lot of movies I liked as a kid — demolishing the small town reminded me of Superman 2. Hemsworth and Hiddleston were both v good. Asgard scenes were much less fun but not too burdensome. Superhero movies set a low bar but this was solid.

This is my 4 yr old daughter's favorite movie, so I've probably seen this about ten times now. It's pretty entertaining, and it is nice that you can boil down the moral of the story to "don't sass your parents".

I’m going through the Marvel films for the first time in order, and so far I’ve enjoyed all of them and maybe Thor most of all? I get tons of mileage out of Hemsworth’s comedic skills and likability, and in places this is just about as good a fantastical fish-out-of-water comedy as Star Trek IV.

Hiddleston was *extremely* excellent here, I mean simply a peak superhero genre performance, Elba was perfect, and I thought Portman was totally fine in her role. But I mean Thor, that’s a character and a role that could be easily hateable but with Hemsworth you can’t imagine how that’s possible.

Unfortunately I hear the next Thor is the worst Marvel film. But I’ll watch it anyway.

First Thor movie is great, Branagh got some wonderful performances & it feels very much like classic theatre at times; also much quieter & more open space than most of the other movies.

It fits with that era too -- Feige and company got to the first Avengers over four years' time and each new film (Iron Man 2 aside) was a chance to experiment with a different style just a bit. The blessing/curse of the first Avengers wasn't just that it made sure the gamble really did pay off, it kinda forced a new 'house tone' that's only now starting to loosen up more -- Guardians helped in that regard but it's only playing out more now with the last few films.

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