Thor: The Dark World |OT|
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A friend reviewed this last night, his written review isn't up yet but he told me it was "surprisingly good."
Glad to hear.
Glad to hear.
I usually like the Marvel movies, but I found it incredibly mediocre. Slightly better than the first one but can't stand Nathalie Portman role in the serie, she's so useless.
Typically the movie you forget as soon as you step out of the theater. IM>Avengers>Captain America>Hulk>X-men>spiderman>Thor
Typically the movie you forget as soon as you step out of the theater. IM>Avengers>Captain America>Hulk>X-men>spiderman>Thor
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
I thought it was a pretty fun movie. It was all blockbuster - very little creativity but very enjoyable nonetheless. It is certainly no Iron Man 3. The visual effects were phenomenal and I loved the fantasy-sci-fi blend of the different worlds. However I couldn't help but think throughout it that the only reason it was London-based was due to the tax credits....
X-men?
Eek
Just got back from seeing this.
MILD SPOILERS!
The main story set off-world is awesome, but I really couldn't stand the side story with Kat Dennings, the intern who can't act and that guy from true blood's dad making it into a slap stick comedy. In-fact, they could easily have cut all the earth portion of the film (including Natalie Portman) and it'd have been all the better for it.
Portman's character took the damsel in distress trope and dialed it to 11, constantly being saved by other characters was a huge step backwards from the first film, where she put up a fight quite a number of times. Sure she's a human in a world of super heroes - but she did absolutely nothing of merit for the whole film. I recall rumors she really wanted to bail out of the film but couldn't due to contracts, I can't blame her.
The final battle was weak, the plot had too many characters trying to be useful which just didn't work for me - it was also stupid how the enemies who ripped through armed guards suddenly turned into bumbling storm troopers when confronting the aforementioned slap stick trio, and a deus ex machina machine that looks like it was made on Blue Peter makes no sense considering Earth is clearly thousands of years behind tech wise to every other race in the entire universe.
On to the good stuff.
Asgard is fucking awesome - I want to live there, or at least book a holiday. It's the setting for the majority of the movie and unlike the first film, it felt like a living breathing city - loved seeing the people training, the merchants and bars.
Loki was fucking awesome, I knew he was going to be in it from the trailer but I'm glad he got a proper role. It's definitely a trade-off, story wise it's very difficult to integrate him in after what happened in the avengers but screw it - he's worth it.
Fights were fucking awesome, loved how the film started with an epic lord of the rings style flashback to get the blood pumping. One minor gripe is that so many of the fights turned into laser gun battles that it ended up feeling more Star Wars than Thor, but luckily Thor really likes his hammer so it still had plenty of people being thrown half a mile into rocks.
The ending was fucking awesome x 2. That reveal at the end, then the cameo mid way into the credits gave me some massive nerd chills. Avoiding names - but the actor in the cameo did such a good job even with just a few seconds screen time that I'm extremely pumped for seeing him as the main protagonist in the future.
MILD SPOILERS!
The main story set off-world is awesome, but I really couldn't stand the side story with Kat Dennings, the intern who can't act and that guy from true blood's dad making it into a slap stick comedy. In-fact, they could easily have cut all the earth portion of the film (including Natalie Portman) and it'd have been all the better for it.
Portman's character took the damsel in distress trope and dialed it to 11, constantly being saved by other characters was a huge step backwards from the first film, where she put up a fight quite a number of times. Sure she's a human in a world of super heroes - but she did absolutely nothing of merit for the whole film. I recall rumors she really wanted to bail out of the film but couldn't due to contracts, I can't blame her.
The final battle was weak, the plot had too many characters trying to be useful which just didn't work for me - it was also stupid how the enemies who ripped through armed guards suddenly turned into bumbling storm troopers when confronting the aforementioned slap stick trio, and a deus ex machina machine that looks like it was made on Blue Peter makes no sense considering Earth is clearly thousands of years behind tech wise to every other race in the entire universe.
On to the good stuff.
Asgard is fucking awesome - I want to live there, or at least book a holiday. It's the setting for the majority of the movie and unlike the first film, it felt like a living breathing city - loved seeing the people training, the merchants and bars.
Loki was fucking awesome, I knew he was going to be in it from the trailer but I'm glad he got a proper role. It's definitely a trade-off, story wise it's very difficult to integrate him in after what happened in the avengers but screw it - he's worth it.
Fights were fucking awesome, loved how the film started with an epic lord of the rings style flashback to get the blood pumping. One minor gripe is that so many of the fights turned into laser gun battles that it ended up feeling more Star Wars than Thor, but luckily Thor really likes his hammer so it still had plenty of people being thrown half a mile into rocks.
The ending was fucking awesome x 2. That reveal at the end, then the cameo mid way into the credits gave me some massive nerd chills. Avoiding names - but the actor in the cameo did such a good job even with just a few seconds screen time that I'm extremely pumped for seeing him as the main protagonist in the future.
SteveWinwood
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My dad loved Thor to death as a kid, but hasn't followed anything with comics since he was like 10 (neither have I so whatever) and all he does is complain about how when he read Thor this was different or that was, and he didn't like how they changed it for the movie. I never feel like explaining to him about Ultimate lines and reboots and stuff like that.
He still likes them though so hopefully he'll like this one as well.
He still likes them though so hopefully he'll like this one as well.
Just watched it. It was not great. I'm not even sure if I would say it's good. Might well be the worst Marvel Cinematic Universe film so far. I did enjoy the film once Loki joined up and it turned into more of a fun caper with more humor, and in isolation there were good character scenes, and the production design for the Dark Elves tech was really cool, but mostly it was a disjointed, poor directed, muddling... mess.
The entire first 30-45 minutes should probably have been trimmed or cut entirely. The Dark Elves are poor villains and Malekith was a total disappointment. The main villain being a non-character is really a waste. The film has a lot of difficulty finding its feet, and it's clearly an editing mess. I think we can blame Alan Taylor and Marvel Studios equally for this, but if Taylor were a better director he would probably have a strong enough vision which didn't need all the babysitting. This is not a movie which feels confident about its direction and tone at all.
Oh, and the soundtrack fucking sucked. I blame that entirely on Marvel for fighting with the director over the chose of composer. The highlight of the film is basically: 1) Loki being Loki, 2) Thor washing his hot body with a wet towel. Sogood.gif
The entire first 30-45 minutes should probably have been trimmed or cut entirely. The Dark Elves are poor villains and Malekith was a total disappointment. The main villain being a non-character is really a waste. The film has a lot of difficulty finding its feet, and it's clearly an editing mess. I think we can blame Alan Taylor and Marvel Studios equally for this, but if Taylor were a better director he would probably have a strong enough vision which didn't need all the babysitting. This is not a movie which feels confident about its direction and tone at all.
Oh, and the soundtrack fucking sucked. I blame that entirely on Marvel for fighting with the director over the chose of composer. The highlight of the film is basically: 1) Loki being Loki, 2) Thor washing his hot body with a wet towel. Sogood.gif
Winnie the Pimp
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I enjoyed it and thought it was pretty decent, yet i cannot disagree with any of your points
Also, what's up with that post credits scene where they
showed the Collector talking about an "Infinity Stone"? Obviously they are trying to go all cosmic and are talking about the Infinity GEMS right? So why call it a STONE then? And why is the Tesseract one of the gems all of a sudden or did i miss something? I thought the 6 Inf. Gems were the Soul Gem, the Power gem etc. not the Tesseract which is a separate entity?
I enjoyed it and thought it was pretty decent, yet i cannot disagree with any of your points
Also, what's up with that post credits scene where theyshowed the Collector talking about an "Infinity Stone"? Obviously they are trying to go all cosmic and are talking about the Infinity GEMS right? So why call it a STONE then? And why is the Tesseract one of the gems all of a sudden or did i miss something? I thought the 6 Inf. Gems were the Soul Gem, the Power gem etc. not the Tesseract which is a separate entity?
The cinematic universe is not the comic universe, so yes in the movies they are stones and the tesseract was one of them.
I enjoyed it and thought it was pretty decent, yet i cannot disagree with any of your points
Also, what's up with that post credits scene where theyshowed the Collector talking about an "Infinity Stone"? Obviously they are trying to go all cosmic and are talking about the Infinity GEMS right? So why call it a STONE then? And why is the Tesseract one of the gems all of a sudden or did i miss something? I thought the 6 Inf. Gems were the Soul Gem, the Power gem etc. not the Tesseract which is a separate entity?
I thought it was a smart move, "Tesseract" is already a known-quantity, now "Aether" is another, keep adding them in their own individual movies and you don't have to create another set of mystical/alien stuff with properties as vague and abstract as the ones we already have.
Beer Monkey
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Captain America > X-Men? Too much face, not enough palm.
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
I enjoyed it and thought it was pretty decent, yet i cannot disagree with any of your points
Agreed.
In many ways it is the anti-Iron Man 3 (which I loved). Iron Man 3 eschewed fan service and felt very much like a Shane Black movie about Iron Man. This felt like a Marvel movie for Marvel fans. There isn't anything wrong with that, per se - I really enjoyed watching Hiddleston's pantomime act and love watching Chris Hemsworth stomp around the beautiful scenery.
I really wish the movie focused more on Thor having adventures with his friends and Loki as unwilling allies, instead of trying to cast a wide net on so many different aspects of the Thor setting, and not really doing much with any of them. It really felt half-assed at times. The chemistry between the cast is the most enjoyable thing about the movie, and then they just let the scenes flow, I think the movie is pretty fun.
Beer Monkey
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Is Kat Dennings wearing any skimpy clothes in this?
No. Strangely enough this film has a number of memorable scenes of naked dudes, but as far as I can remember the women are always covered up... a lot. She's cute though, and if you found her funny in the first movie, she's just as funny here.
I think this was supposed to be the movie at some point, but who knows how hollywood makes its decisions.
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The Outsider
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Dear lord. I'll be back in a few.
greatestjediever
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Oh my.
moltonasty
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bryanee
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Winnie the Pimp
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geez, is such a dress even LEGAL?
Miles Quaritch
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Damn shame she wasn't in the movie more. Her few scenes were fantastic and she looked positively divine in the scene where everyone's drinking...
My goodness.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
It's on netflix, just watch it.
Honestly after the first one I'm prepared for disappointment, they didn't capture what made Thor so fucking cool in his solo comics, and that was him being a goddamn Viking god.
Miles Quaritch
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Brought down by Jane Foster. The movie would be so much better without her.
George Oscar Bluth II
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That premiere is one of the moments you just stare her in the eye.
Grassclipper
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This is basically all I want from the Thor movies. Why do Marvel deprive me of that?
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Not to mention the Asgardian aesthetic felt so plastic and toyish. I wanted Vikings living in a mythical city that was marble and grass with rivers flowing that gave you a general feeling of undisturbed garden of eden, not metallic and protoss like.
Basically this. Instead we got this
Colonel Nasty
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Tammy is so hot right now.
Not to mention the Asgardian aesthetic felt so plastic and toyish. I wanted Vikings living in a mythical city that was marble and grass with rivers flowing that gave you a general feeling of undisturbed garden of eden, not metallic and protoss like.
Basically this. Instead we got this
C'mon son.
They done Kirby and you are asking for the bible.
You're praying for the wrong gods.
George Oscar Bluth II
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I love how the Bifrost is designed in the films.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
C'mon son.
They done Kirby and you are asking for the bible.
You're praying for the wrong gods.
I wanted the Ragnarok saga version of Asgard though ;__;
Yeah there were, but still:
Avengers > Iron Man > Thor 2 > Captain America > Iron Man 3 > Thor > Iron Man 2 > Hulk
My biggest issue was with the placements of Hulk and and Iron Man.
I wanted the Ragnarok saga version of Asgard though ;__;
I don't like to argue taste, but you honestly prefer yet another european/medieval location instead of the amazing high-tech paradise we got?
I really love how they are pride of their "magic and religion is kind of high tech alien technology" thing. With the spaceships and the weird glowing swords that somehow didn't ended up looking like lightsabers.
I'll stand by this art direction over anything that could as well be in the lord of the rings.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
She really does it for me.
I really enjoyed this film - some very funny moments, great action, and a good villain, if he was a bit clichéd with hating everything in the universe for no good reason.
However, the one major gripe I had was with Kat Dennings, the intern and the science bloke - what a waste of time. They added nothing to the story, they were never funny and could easily have been cut from the entire film without me missing a single element to them.
I too wanted more Loki/Thor forming a longer uneasy relationship, but I was content with what we got.
Wowzers.
However, the one major gripe I had was with Kat Dennings, the intern and the science bloke - what a waste of time. They added nothing to the story, they were never funny and could easily have been cut from the entire film without me missing a single element to them.
I too wanted more Loki/Thor forming a longer uneasy relationship, but I was content with what we got.
Wowzers.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
I understand what you mean, it's new and it's different, the style was fresh I'll agree. However my core problem with it was always the way it was presented. I think I could have loved the high tech paradise we got but something about the general aesthetic felt really cheap, the metal came off as either really CG or really plastic.
Perhaps a mixture of classic Asgard and high tech Asgard could have been for the better? Honestly though, I usually found myself reading Thor stories that were more Viking or norse related than anything else, I loved the isolated stories that just took place on asgard or on other norse worlds.
I cannot say I hated the style completely though, the bifrost bridge was fantastic.
I'll second this. I just watched it and even though my expectations were low I was disappointed. It feels messy and there are only a handful of scenes that really entertained me. A few of which Duckroll mentioned and
the cameo of Captain America
Natalie Portman looked so miserable in this film, I really got the feeling she didn't want to be in it. Maybe that's because her character is so awful. I also found the two sidekick interns terribly annoying and not funny at all.
I did like the look of Asgard.
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Peggy Carter>Pepper Potts>>>>Betty Ross>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>² Jane Foster
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