Some of these defenses of Marvel are just insulting to the medium.
You're an insult and a disgrace to humanity, with your snide comments and holier than thou attitude. You're no better than the trolls wHo T@lk Lyk Dis, and no worse than snide jerk. You're opinions isn't law, and you need to get that out of your head that it is. These posters here express their opinions too, but do not talk down to people like children the way you do. Questioning people's intelligences and saying people's explanations are insulting to medium, as your explanations are more insulting to the people's minds with your terrible contrarion behavior.
Marvel Studios has been pretty well as a studio, and in terms of CBMs, Thor and Captain America, while not reeinventing the wheel (every movie, especially hollywood movies does not have to), they do what they do best: entertain the masses with faithful representations of their characters. With vision, we are so used to the director having the vision for the story that we forget that their not the only ones who could have a vision and could have
the vision. Producers have a vision too i.e. Tim Burton for a Nightmare before Christmas or Warren Beatty for Bonnie and Clyde. I'm not comparing Feige to them, but we don't know the whole story. Feige has a vision for these characters too that is obvious interfering with Thor.
Their goal clearly is not to make revisionist tales of the character like Batman. Every character isn't Batman, nor do they need to be placed in a realistic world like Batman. That's like going to see the The Transporter, wishing it was Drive. Both have similar concepts and are in the same genre, but have different appeals and tones. More people should accept that Marvel won't be making their movies like the Batman series, and they should accept that the Comic Book Genre has grown to be more complex to the point that there are different kinds of not only comic book, but superhero movies.
Why are people complaining that this movie "isn't the greatest superhero movie ever"? If the movie is good, fun, and entertaining, I couldn't care less if it isn't the great superhero movie ever. Marvel Studios has done that with every movie, and yes even IM2, which I felt was a fun comic book movie that almost literally felt like a comic book.