Thundergod

Yesterday I saw the Thor movie and i thought it was great fun. Has anyone else seen it already?

Just some folk in Australia so far I think.

Thanks for rubbing it in by the way!

That isn't rubbing it in.

Telling you I'm going to see it today in 3D IMAX is rubbing it in...

Spoilers ahead:




Saw it last night and thought it was OK. Not bad, not great, but OK. Can't really say why, I thought the acting was good, effects worked, the plot seemed OK (Although Loki's reasons for doing things the way he did didn't make much sense to me. He brought his frost giant father in to Asgard to murder Odin, but then killed him before he could do it. It's not like he needed another reason to go to war with Jotunheim, as far as I understood it they were already at war by this time, due to Thor's attack. Then Loki proceeded to try to kill everything in Jotunheim, allegedly to impress Odin, but at that point they didn't even know if Odin would ever wake up from the Odin sleep. Did he try to do it to win the war for Asgard? It just seems that he could have set himself up to eventually be ruler of both realms). And what happened to the Destroyer armor at the end? It seemed like Thor just smashed it into the ground and then it was over.

Liked Hawkeye, even if he only had a few lines. And could that SHIELD agent Thor fought at the crater possibly be named Cage (The last one that could take more than one punch)? Idle speculation, but why not?

Liked the post-credits scene, more of a story hint for the Avengers movie than in the previous post-credits scenes we've seen.


I have a feeling having the guy sitting next to me breathe loudly throughout the entire movie didn't exactly improve the experience, so I'm definately going to give it another watch when released on disc.

I thought Loki was willing to kill Jotunheim because they left him behind for dead as a revenge. He was just trying to talk himself out of trouble when adressing to Odin.

Local reviews peg it as "incredible silly, but not as bad as we'd feared".

I suspect that will be my impression as well, when I see it tomorrow.

i did not think it was silly it had a few funny moments but that's all.

I imagine they called it silly because Thor's origin is different from every other superhero movie since he isn't Earthbound.

Well it's currently got a 93% rating on RottenTomatoes.com and that's with 42 reviewers reporting in. Most of them seem to be saying something along the lines of "it's not perfect and has some silliness to it, but for a comic book movie it's pretty good".

I'm expecting it'll be well worth the price of a ticket at this point.

*looks at local theater listings for Thor premiere here in the states as May 6th*

*looks at calendar*

*looks at watch*

*cries*

I saw it and really liked it. The guy playing Thor was great as were pretty much all the cast. Loki was a good villain and Thor was shown to be incredibly powerful at full strength. All in all, a good fun movie.

The movie was...MIGHTY!

Went to the midnight show. Enjoyable movie. Enjoyed the funny bits on Earth. Wished Brian Bless was younger so he could have played Volstagg. Avenger's teaser at the end was OK.

Also they seem to show every comic book movie trailer for the summer before it.

Captain America
Cowboys and Aliens
Green Lantern (sadly the first "goofy" trailer)
X-Men: First Class

and also Super 8 (which seems like an ET remake except ET is POed).

Edit: Also besides the Stan the Man cameo, J Michael Straczynski pops up (I missed him). Don't know if any other Marvel Thor writers had parts.

A decent B movie with more than a whiff of 80s cheese about it. Grand but nothing spectular really.


Also : 3D sucks and I'm never, ever going to another 3D movie, at least not in this generation. Everything was so bloody dark and all the action scenes became a confusing mess.

Didn't see it in 3D. I tend to avoid it due to the extra cost and excessive dimness. Bet the frost giant realm was nice and dark in 3D.

Also, I missed the Eye of Agamotto in the Asgard vault (or I did notice it and couldn't make the connection).

My cousin says the IMAX experience was good but the 3D isn't as immersive as Avatar was, so it's not de rigeur for enjoyment the way it is for Avatar.

Speaking of Easter Eggs in Marvel films, I re-watched The Incredible Hulk the other night and noticed that not only is one of the college kids videotaping the Hulk's campus rampage named Jack McGee (the reporter who hounded Banner in the TV series), but the black kid with him was named Sam Wilson... the real name of The Falcon, who later becomes Captain America's partner.

Just saw the IMAX 3D version. The 3D adds very little. Pretty much all of the Earth scenes benefit zero from 3D so you are basically seeing 3D only in Asgard. There were only a couple of scenes I really took issue with the CGI, but I've seen worse. Overall I put it about an 8. It was fun, but it's not near a top of genre film either. Chris Hemsworth really nails the part of Thor though.