enjoyed this. it was silly. some kind of funny moments as well.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 18 September 2011 05:25 (twelve years ago) link
The coffee cup smashing in the diner made me lol
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 September 2011 05:38 (twelve years ago) link
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.)
― Vendo Caramelos A Veces Sin Dinero (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 18 September 2011 08:33 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Saturday, 1 October 2011 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
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".
― bouquet beatdown (Nicole), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Monday, 7 May 2018 03:27 (five years ago) link
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.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 May 2018 03:49 (five years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 May 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link
otm
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 May 2018 04:44 (five years ago) link
I only saw it one time, as with I think all these Marvel movies, but I thought the second Thor movie was pretty good, and pretty funny.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 May 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
one thing i want to add is that over the end credits there's the most terrible generic alt-rock song and i had to find out who performed it so I could hate them, and it was the Foo Fighters. They are really that bad.
Since it doesn't have its own thread, I want to also say I mostly liked the 2008 Hulk film, a solid 6/10 movie with a nice amount of pacing and a very wise decision to begin the film in medias res (probably because we'd already had Ang Lee/Eric Bana Hulk a few years before.) The stakes were extremely low and I can't decide whether or not it was a good narrative decision. Not much happened in the film and I'd have bought the Tim Roth role more if he wasn't just a random amoral black-ops soldier type. That said, I liked him.
I couldn't stop looking at William Hurt's mustache though, I think it was stolen from the set of Gettysburg.
― omar little, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
been watching these movies since i liked wandavision and loki
this one was dire
― mookieproof, Sunday, 18 July 2021 13:02 (two years ago) link
It's pretty dull. They hadn't quite figured everything out yet, with Thor himself the biggest oversight. The Dark World might not be anyone's fave, but at least he'd moved beyond Space Tarzan.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
Ragnarok is top two marvel efforts tho
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
Exactly. If it took Thor one to get to Thor 3, it was all worth it. There are definitely sequels better than the original, but how often is the third one significantly better than both of them?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
Besides Godfather 3 and Jaws 3, of course.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
Significantly is prob tbh underselling it!
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
First two Thors are the only og core Avengers solo flix I don't rate very highly (I even prefer Iron Man 2, and yes I know that everyone thinks I'm an idiot on that count and likely many other counts).
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
Iron Man 2 suuuuuuucks. It might be the only MCU movie that is outright bad, imo. Looks bad, written bad, over stuffed and under stuffed.
xpost Well, like, a lot of people like Toy Story 3 a lot and think it's the best. I personally don't, but even so, no sane person that would call it significantly better than Toy Story 3. So Thor 3 is not just better, it's *significantly*, dramatically better than the other two.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
(And yes, I even rate Norton Hulk higher, bring it bruh.)Obviously the presence of Hemsworth and Hiddleston elevates the material considerably but they're pretty saggy affairs otherwise.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
Iron man 2 is certainly better than thor 1
Iron man 2 may be better than the two endgames and black panther tbh
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link
Oof. When my kid and I rewatched them all over the last year Iron Man 2 was the only one we kind of looked at each other after and agreed, well, that was pretty shitty. I want to say I liked Thor more the second time. And Dark World remained fine to me.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
Dr strange woeful
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
Anyways, thor 1 no good, back on topic
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
Dr. Strange, like Thor, often felt like it had just a couple of sets and tried to make those two sets look like lots of sets, but I wasn't fooled.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
Didn’t like Thor 1 the first time I watched it but it really grew on me after the second viewing - it’s kinda lovably goofy. And I’ve said it before but so glad they cast Chris and not Liam Hemsworth as Thor.
Thor 2 is forgettable, Iron Man 2 is outright bad - those two, along with Dr Strange and Avengers: Age of Ultron, are solidly bottom tier MCU.
― Roz, Sunday, 18 July 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
I feel like this is a fair compromise position from which to bring in the endgames and black panther and i look fwd to the next round of talks
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Sunday, 18 July 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
i've only seen the first four, to which i say
iron man 1 >>>>>>>>>>>> iron man 2 > hulk >>>>>>>>>>>> thor 1
probably only because of downey tho. and paltrow is the best of the ladies so far
idris elba is the only good part of thor (although hemsworth is indeed quite a physical specimen)
― mookieproof, Sunday, 18 July 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
I don't even remember the baddy in Iron Man 2. I know it's sometimes Mickey Rourke, but other than him, there's some other shit going on that I just totally blank on. Which is crazy for a film with soooooo much going on (literally; the movie otherwise has nothing going on).
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 July 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link
Mockey rourke and sam rockwell put it well out of the mire tbh
Now that's as entertainment, if there are metrics under which those guys' performances actually bring what is held to be a decent movie down then they are imo nonsense metrics because nothing in that movie besides is worth a look
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Sunday, 18 July 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
I believe tombot had views as to the pinpoint accuracy of Sam Rockwell's performance as an non-military contractor pitching for military contracts. I don't have any views on that, I don't have access to that metric and I don't feel that I should have. It might be "a good civil servant's film" is what I'm saying.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 18 July 2021 23:19 (two years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, July 18, 2021 2:44 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
this always stuck out to me about thor 1, the scenes that took place on earth looked incredibly cheap. like they were filmed on a theme park wild west shootout show set
― ✖, Monday, 19 July 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link
Thor 1 was great
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Monday, 19 July 2021 11:13 (two years ago) link
I love the first Thor. To me it is a very well-working mix between sword-and-sorcery fantasy & contemporary MCU real-world stuff. I find Loki done particularly well, I also think the Warriors Three and Lady Sif are nicely distinguished enriching extras.
I remember hoping to love the second Thor as much but coming out of the cinema quite disappointed. However, when I rewatched it later, I enjoyed it immensely.
I personally don't think any of the MCU movies has been below average-to-good. My least favourite has always been Iron Man II as well, but I thought it was enjoyable enough. It has been a while since the last time I watched it, I wonder if I like it better now as with The Dark World.
― Valentijn, Monday, 19 July 2021 11:48 (two years ago) link
I personally don't think any of the MCU movies has been below average-to-good.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 July 2021 11:56 (two years ago) link
Thor 2 had the business with the portals at the end, which was quite fun for an MCU boss battle
otherwise pretty worthless iirc
― Number None, Monday, 19 July 2021 13:04 (two years ago) link
Except that Thor himself is more fun, too, and Darcy is a funny character as well.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 July 2021 13:12 (two years ago) link
ragnarok used hemsworth so perfectly that it made you wonder why it took so long for the creative team to realize that thor should be a total goofball. ragnarok and infinity war did a good job of indulging in that side of him while also remembering why he's a noble hammer-wielding hero. endgame went a little too far in the goofy direction, imo, tho who wouldn't want to sit around and play video games all day with korg.
― bart harley-jarvis cocker (voodoo chili), Monday, 19 July 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link