The Official PHOTOS Thread

[Duker Jay]

I would have LOVED to have seen a LOTR like Thor too! I'm happy both ways tho my heroes gonna ROCK!!!

Oh, don't get me wrong. I wouldn't be opposed to a LOTResque version of Thor but I don't think it's fair to call what we have wrong. In fact, a design closer to LOTR may come off seeming, at best, derivative or, at worst, a rip-off.

Could the costumes be improved? Perhaps. Personally, I wouldn't mind an extended tunic, blue-tinged pants and even some yellow/gold banding on Thor's boots. I also see why, in the context of the design of the film, they may have steered clear of some of those elements, as well. For example, it seems obvious that Loki, not Thor, inherited the gold from Odin.

As for the rest of it, there's the fact that all of these Marvel Studios movies are existing within the same universe, so that undoubtedly affects design...as opposed to having it be it's own stand-alone story.

For me, it's the otherworldliness that works so well with these designs...they aren't a fantastical pre-history like Jackson was aiming for with LOTR but, rather, a fantastical parallel dimension that we can't comprehend.

Again...just my opinion.

 

[Vartha]

Oh, don't get me wrong. I wouldn't be opposed to a LOTResque version of Thor but I don't think it's fair to call what we have wrong. In fact, a design closer to LOTR may come off seeming, at best, derivative or, at worst, a rip-off.

Could the costumes be improved? Perhaps. Personally, I wouldn't mind an extended tunic, blue-tinged pants and even some yellow/gold banding on Thor's boots. I also see why, in the context of the design of the film, they may have steered clear of some of those elements, as well. For example, it seems obvious that Loki, not Thor, inherited the gold from Odin.

As for the rest of it, there's the fact that all of these Marvel Studios movies are existing within the same universe, so that undoubtedly affects design...as opposed to having it be it's own stand-alone story.

For me, it's the otherworldliness that works so well with these designs...they aren't a fantastical pre-history like Jackson was aiming for with LOTR but, rather, a fantastical parallel dimension that we can't comprehend.

Again...just my opinion.

To ME they looked at Kirby's Asgard and went from there to be Honest.
I like the idea that they had been here before and left just not the way Earth-X portrayed it. I like that they do have a parallel universe you just can't fly to in an earth ship.

 

[Denny67]

This pics makes me scared for the movie, as by just looking at it i can see the all movie...and i don´t like it....one bit.
And it screams King Arthur and the sword in the stone.

Just by looking at the pic, the movie will be more of less this one:

Thor is stripped-down of his godly powers and sent to Earth (so, no Donald Blake), and only when he is able to lift Mjolnir once again, do his powers return.
The question that remains is, is he sent to Earth by Odin like in the comics, for a lesson in humility; or is he or Odin tricked by Loki....i fear is the last one.
That´s why the Entertainment Tonight video of the movie has Thor running around with regular clothes and fighting like a normal human.

You can see the video here and the fight is at 3:08

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX4KtF0Xnc0&feature=player_embedded#!

I think the idea in this scene is that the hammer was found and contained by s.h.i.e.l.d and he has had to fight his way to get back to it.

Seeing Thor reunited with his hammer and having the sky open up upon that reunion in and epic fashion is hardly ripping off the ledged of Excalibur. It is also by no means the first time Arthurian imagery has been used in a fantasy story.

It is classic heroic fantasy, sword and sorcerer stuff.

 

[Isildur´s Heir]

I think the idea in this scene is that the hammer was found and contained by s.h.i.e.l.d and he has had to fight his way to get back to it.

And that´s the problem right there, the storyline is crap.
That is not to say the movie will be bad, but it will be a bad adaptation of the character.
Then again, all superhero movies so far fail when it comes to that...sad and weird, but true.
People tend to forget that an origin movie is not just the 15 minutes of the character "getting the powers", that is just a moment of it all, and origin movie is the "journey" of the character until he is "complete", until he is the hero he is meant to be.
And then there is the understanding of the chacters, and there lies the big problem.
That´s why i feel sad with the inclusion of the Destroyer and the Infinite Gauntlet and all that, because, sometimes, less is more, and that is always true in origin movies.
More even, origin movies can easily spawn into trilogies or at least two movies, for there is much to tell.

A Thor movie should be one about humility: How can a man be humble with the power of a God?
That´s why Donald Blake is imperative.

 

[Denny67]

And that´s the problem right there, the storyline is crap.
That is not to say the movie will be bad, but it will be a bad adaptation of the character.
Then again, all superhero movies so far fail when it comes to that...sad and weird, but true.
People tend to forget that an origin movie is not just the 15 minutes of the character "getting the powers", that is just a moment of it all, and origin movie is the "journey" of the character until he is "complete", until he is the hero he is meant to be.
And then there is the understanding of the chacters, and there lies the big problem.
That´s why i feel sad with the inclusion of the Destroyer and the Infinite Gauntlet and all that, because, sometimes, less is more, and that is always true in origin movies.
More even, origin movies can easily spawn into trilogies or at least two movies, for there is much to tell.

A Thor movie should be one about humility: How can a man be humble with the power of a God?
That´s why Donald Blake is imperative.

I am not sure why it is a crap storyline.

Thor being an established character as a god and then separated from his hammer and cast down to live among mortals seems like a fine story to tell.

As far as what the movie “should be.” Well that is hard to say. Especially where it has done well or fallen short… you see it has not been released yet.

This may sound crazy but I think I will reserve judgment, until after seeing the film in its final form.

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

I think it's just a bad decision to do it right off the bat myself. You introduce Thor for the very first time, and then strip him of all powers right in the first movie? Save something like that for the 2nd or 3rd movie. But like you said, I'll reserve final judgement until I actually see it.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I think it's just a bad decision to do it right off the bat myself. You introduce Thor for the very first time, and then strip him of all powers right in the first movie? Save something like that for the 2nd or 3rd movie. But like you said, I'll reserve final judgement until I actually see it.

No you do that in the first film. You don't go all out in the first and then leave a second or third film, which should be much bigger films in terms of scale, with a powerless Thor.

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

No you do that in the first film. You don't go all out in the first and then leave a second or third film, which should be much bigger films in terms of scale, with a powerless Thor.

Or here's an idea... don't do it at all. I want superheroes to be super. Don't waste movies on superheroes coping with having no powers. Do that in comics where you have all the time in the world, not in movies where you only get one shot. I don't want to see Peter Parker without powers againt unless it's the first half hour of the reboot.

It's as stupid as Optimus Prime being dead for half of TF2. That wasn't the only reason I hated it, but it certainly didn't help.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Or here's an idea... don't do it at all. I want superheroes to be super. Don't waste movies on superheroes coping with having no powers. Do that in comics where you have all the time in the world, not in movies where you only get one shot. I don't want to see Peter Parker without powers againt unless it's the first half hour of the reboot.

But here is the thing, that is what the writers and director want to do and they are making the film. And I agree with them.

The whole point of Superheroes on film are the grandiose stories which encompass the character and it their best stories/idea. What makes them tick. Not to limit them to caricatures who slam one another into walls for 120 minutes.

There is more to being a superhero then the powers. Just look at Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. t:

 

[FaT_tONle]

I hope this doesn't become part Mission Impossible, with Hemsworth becoming Ethan Hunt and breaking into SHIELD HQ to steal the hammer... give me a break. Do I have any idea how it would turn out? No... but it just sounds like another silly attempt to modernize a character. A dude with no powers who has never been on Earth before breaking into the SHIELD with the help of a couple of scientists? As soon as you turn him into Bond, it just kills the plausibility of going to Earth, living as a mere mortal, and learning a lesson in humility... but, "hey, we only have two hours to tell the story so let's come up with a lame plot device that let's our hero become the hero quickly."

Again, I am not saying it won't work. I am just saying it's kinda predictable. I don't even care if that's the plot they go with. It's about learning a lesson in humility. How does a 6'3 blond with a perfect physique learn a lesson like that on Earth? That's why I felt some version of Blake should be in this, even if Hemsworth was playing him. And no, I didn't foresee such a character bridge breaking into SHIELD, laying the smack down on security guards, and escaping with the hammer. Not trying to be a hater, and I am not ever sure of a better alternative. It just sounds like the lead becoming the action hero before he's supposed to be the action hero, and that takes some of the plausibility away when he's supposed to be a mortal man learning a lesson.

Edit: Didn't see the CC footage until now. Probably will be way different than that anyhow.

 

[S.A.A.D.]

I hope this doesn't become part Mission Impossible, with Hemsworth becoming Ethan Hunt and breaking into SHIELD HQ to steal the hammer... give me a break. Do I have any idea how it would turn out? No... but it just sounds like another silly attempt to modernize a character. A dude with no powers who has never been on Earth before breaking into the SHIELD with the help of a couple of scientists? As soon as you turn him into Bond, it just kills the plausibility of going to Earth, living as a mere mortal, and learning a lesson in humility... but, "hey, we only have two hours to tell the story so let's come up with a lame plot device that let's our hero become the hero quickly."

Again, I am not saying it won't work. I am just saying it's kinda predictable. I don't even care if that's the plot they go with. It's about learning a lesson in humility. How does a 6'3 blond with a perfect physique learn a lesson like that on Earth? That's why I felt some version of Blake should be in this, even if Hemsworth was playing him. And no, I didn't foresee such a character bridge breaking into SHIELD, laying the smack down on security guards, and escaping with the hammer. Not trying to be a hater, and I am not ever sure of a better alternative. It just sounds like the lead becoming the action hero before he's supposed to be the action hero, and that takes some of the plausibility away when he's supposed to be a mortal man learning a lesson.

Edit: Didn't see the CC footage until now. Probably will be way different than that anyhow.

I understand your criticism on one hand,however on the other it totally went over my head. It sounds like to me that you have to look a certain way to learn something that is an idea,which is humility. And as for the action hero part,he was already an action hero in the movie before coming down to earth.

 

[FaT_tONle]

I just didn't think he'd still have superior fighting abilities on Earth. I guess it wouldn't make for much of a summer movie if he didn't. Doesn't seem like such a harsh punishment when you are banished to Earth looking like that, falling into Portman's lap, and fighting like that.

 

[S.A.A.D.]

I just didn't think he'd still have superior fighting abilities on Earth. I guess it wouldn't make for much of a summer movie if he didn't. Doesn't seem like such a harsh punishment when you are banished to Earth looking like that, falling into Portman's lap, and fighting like that.

It is a punishment,when you consider the fact that he is like oh no once he is on earth.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Heh, I love that people hate this storyline, which is effectively ripped straight from the comics (minus Don Blake, of course). I felt the same way about Thor not being incapacitated in some way initially, but thinking it about it more, the fact that he's human is enough. To go from god to man must be unthinkably horrible to any god, let alone one who knows he's among the absolute most powerful of his kind. The fact that he's so arrogant about it means that his power is central to his very identity. He has all of that power stripped in an instant and is forced to get by as a normal man. Yeah, he may still be able to knock a few people around, but that's not the same as having his full godly powers. We already know he'll be humbled at least once by SHIELD.

 

[Scandalous]

^^ Agreed.

Looks absolutely fantastic to me. Very excited for this one.

 

[Denny67]

Heh, I love that people hate this storyline, which is effectively ripped straight from the comics (minus Don Blake, of course). I felt the same way about Thor not being incapacitated in some way initially, but thinking it about it more, the fact that he's human is enough. To go from god to man must be unthinkably horrible to any god, let alone one who knows he's among the absolute most powerful of his kind. The fact that he's so arrogant about it means that his power is central to his very identity. He has all of that power stripped in an instant and is forced to get by as a normal man. Yeah, he may still be able to knock a few people around, but that's not the same as having his full godly powers. We already know he'll be humbled at least once by SHIELD.

Bingo.

 

[JamalYIgle]

I think it's just a bad decision to do it right off the bat myself. You introduce Thor for the very first time, and then strip him of all powers right in the first movie? Save something like that for the 2nd or 3rd movie. But like you said, I'll reserve final judgement until I actually see it.

Except for the fact that, well, that's the origin of Marvel's Thor.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I wonder if some of these reactions would've been better if they'd had Thor actually transform into Don Blake for half the movie instead of just being himself as a human. I'm guessing they wouldn't, but I'm just curious...

 

[cryptic name]

And that´s the problem right there, the storyline is crap.
That is not to say the movie will be bad, but it will be a bad adaptation of the character.
Then again, all superhero movies so far fail when it comes to that...sad and weird, but true.
People tend to forget that an origin movie is not just the 15 minutes of the character "getting the powers", that is just a moment of it all, and origin movie is the "journey" of the character until he is "complete", until he is the hero he is meant to be.
And then there is the understanding of the chacters, and there lies the big problem.
That´s why i feel sad with the inclusion of the Destroyer and the Infinite Gauntlet and all that, because, sometimes, less is more, and that is always true in origin movies.
More even, origin movies can easily spawn into trilogies or at least two movies, for there is much to tell.

A Thor movie should be one about humility: How can a man be humble with the power of a God?
That´s why Donald Blake is imperative.

this story is about humility...problem solved

 

[MAN O STEEL]

Who is Donald Blake?. Sorry if it sounds dumb but I know nothing of Thor.




Steve

 

[TheCorpulent1]

In the comics, Thor wasn't just cast out of Asgard for his arrogance; Odin recreated him as a mortal named Donald Blake. Blake was crippled, so he walked with a limp and had to use a cane. Odin replaced Thor's memories with those of a human life as Blake and dropped him on a college campus. Blake studied medicine and became a surgeon. Years later, when Odin thought he was ready, Odin gave Blake a yearning to visit Norway, where he became trapped in a cave and found a gnarled wooden stick. He tried to use the stick as a lever to move the stone blocking his way out of the cave, but he failed because he was too weak. In frustration, he slammed the stick against the rock. He was transformed back into Thor and the stick became his hammer, Mjolnir.

The point was to teach Thor humility by not only stripping him of his powers, but making him weak and vulnerable even by human standards.

 

[GhostPoet]

In the comics, Thor wasn't just cast out of Asgard for his arrogance; Odin recreated him as a mortal named Donald Blake. Blake was crippled, so he walked with a limp and had to use a cane. Odin replaced Thor's memories with those of a human life as Blake and dropped him on a college campus. Blake studied medicine and became a surgeon. Years later, when Odin thought he was ready, Odin gave Blake a yearning to visit Norway, where he became trapped in a cave and found a gnarled wooden stick. He tried to use the stick as a lever to move the stone blocking his way out of the cave, but he failed because he was too weak. In frustration, he slammed the stick against the rock. He was transformed back into Thor and the stick became his hammer, Mjolnir.

The point was to teach Thor humility by not only stripping him of his powers, but making him weak and vulnerable even by human standards.

I can understand why they would leave that out of the film...that's practically a whole film just for that.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Haha, yeah, it's a much more involved journey toward humility if Thor's gotta spend like 15 years as a human. I don't mind that they left it out. It's not like Thor's chained to the Blake persona, anyway. He lost it in the '80s and didn't get it back until a couple years ago.

 

[Thortress]

I wanted to bring this picture I found....is from the Thor cast and Ken at SDCC...I found this picture adorable yet weird....anyways as this is the Photo Thread.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Haha, they look more like the cast of a sitcom than a multi-million dollar blockbuster movie there.