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Re: Thor

Zarban wrote:

I agree that that's sloppy. But I don't think it's a huge leap to think that Thor learning that "might does not make right" would lead him to decide they should not annihilate the entire frost giant race. How simple do we really want our movies to be?

The real mistake was probably in portraying the frost giants as blue orc monsters. If they looked more like humans and Asgardians, the connection would be clearer.

SPOILER --> Plus, Loki's parentage would make more sense.

I don't have as much of a problem with Thor's growth in that regard as with how that growth is ultimately borne out in the climax. If the threat was on Earth, and if Thor had to realize that annihilating his enemies was not worth destroying so many innocent lives, I would have liked this film a lot more.

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Re: Thor

Yeah. I kept hoping the film would tie Thor to Earth more securely. I thought he would have to fight an Earth supervillain (which is what I thought the giant magic furnace robot was) and decide that Earth and Jane needed his ongoing protection. Or maybe frost giants would come to earth or something.

Even right at the end, I thought... SPOILER when Loki falls presumably to Earth, he would boast that he would fuck it up just to spite Thor, so Thor would follow him and be trapped where he could at least protect Earth. But that really needed a theme of Thor being a loaner and learning that he has a moral duty to protect weaker people, which wasn't in the movie.

Warning: I'm probably rewriting this post as you read it.

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Re: Thor

I didn't think it was abysmal. I didn't think it was great either. I thought it was average and decently entertaining. I pretty much agree with all the praise and criticisms that have been stated thus far in the thread, the characters were weakly developed but I felt everything worked just well enough to keep me entertained.

Also, I cannot wait to see Tony Stark interact with the people of Asgard. That shit should be hilarious.

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Re: Thor

Finally saw this today.

I agree with Eddie.

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Re: Thor

Brian Finifter wrote:

Finally saw this today.

I agree with Eddie.

Sorry for the bump but I just noticed this thread.

I saw it as well and liked it a lot. I found the characters to be well developed an interesting, but the villians, not as such. I knew enough of Norse mythos to know that Loki would end up going bad. I didn't expect his turn and then return.

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The Frost Giants were not enough as villians. They should have been either the final bad guy and threaten Earth in some way, as mentioned before. Though, Loki's attempt to destroy the Frost Giants via the rainbow road seems to threaten the rest of the realms, besides the Frost Giants. At least that was my impression. Someone can correct me.

The best part is the scale of Asgard. The style choices, the costumes, the feel of the world, and landscape all felt appropriate and enough magical to fit the story.

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Re: Thor

So apparently Thor 2 is coming in 2013, but without Kenneth Branagh at the helm. Also coming in 2013: Iron Man 3. What do you think, are people going to want to keep seeing sequel after sequel? What I'm expecting is that 'Avengers' is going to be Marvel's jump-the-shark moment, and box office returns are going to start declining afterwards.

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