The Official 'Thor Rate & Review' thread - Part 2

[Stringer]

Really? What parts did you find bad? That was one area I particularly felt it excelled.

The only part they looked bad to me was when Thor was flying through Asgard. Other than that it looked great to me

Anytime Thor was flying looked bad to me. There were parts in the frost giants fight that liked like a cartoon. Mainly the beast, Thor spinning the hammer to launch chunks of ice at the first giants, and the final part of the destroyer fight. Those were all pretty jarring to me.

 

[marvelrobbins]

Loved the Asgard parts.The earth parts were a mixed bag.Jane and the others shouldn't
have been seen till Odin exiled Thor.

I saw no point In the character of darcy,and she should never had been Included.

Chris Hemsworth,Tom Hiddleston,Anthony Hopkins,and Jamie Alexander were all great In
their parts.However we had very little of the complete Thor.And I would have liked more of Sif,and the Warriors Three.The Shield parts were fine.The Hawkeye Cameo was a nice
Itroduction of him.

I for one liked jamie Alexander far more than Natalie Portman In the film.Hopefully In sequel we get more Sif.

 

[ElMariachi]

I don't see the frost giants as completely evil, and if they were they won't have honored the truce after Thor pretty much thrashed their homeworld. And they were on a mission to retrieve their chest, taken by Odin in the last war, and not to slaughter random Asgardians. I don't see how they were depicted as mindless, faceless evil like the orcs and uruk-hai from LOTR.

I agree with this. It was Loki, not the Frost Giants, who reignited the conflict. They were being manipulated by Loki and offered rewards so great, that Laufey could not pass them up (Casket of Ancient Winters, a vulnerable Odin). I didn't think they were particularly evil at all. Maybe in the beginning of the movie but they came across as a defeated, humbled race in the present day.

 

[ElMariachi]

Anytime Thor was flying looked bad to me. There were parts in the frost giants fight that liked like a cartoon. Mainly the beast, Thor spinning the hammer to launch chunks of ice at the first giants, and the final part of the destroyer fight. Those were all pretty jarring to me.

I didn't think it was noticeably bad at all. Anytime somebody flies in a movie, it's going to look a little goofy because it's so unrealistic.

And isn't it supposed to look like a cartoon? It's a Thor movie! I thought this was perfect comic book action. As if straight out of the pages of a Thor comic.

 

[El Payaso]

That doesn't scream "they fell in love" to me. That just says that he liked her, he misses her and that he wanted the chance to be with her longer.

It's like, you see a girl out at a club or whatever. You really get along, maybe even share a kiss at the end of the night. Then you don't know if you'll see her again. But you still think about her.

It was that shallow really? Well I guess it was more like I met a girl, during a couple of hours he made me humble enough to become a king, we share a kiss and then I don't really care but I get out of my coronation party longing to be with her.

Can't buy it. the movie presented the story as a romance, it's just that they didn't develope it.

I don't understand any criticisms about Thor's change being too sudden, I thought it was perfectly developed, and I certainly didnt feel the earth stuff was too short.

How long was Thor on Earth acyually? Like 2 days? One would think that a god needed a long journey to find what's needed to get rid of his arrogance and achieve the crown.

And I agree that Loki was very sympathetic, and you felt genuinely bad for him.
But I don't think he was so sympathetic that you forgive what he's trying to do.

Exactly. Ididn't know there was a rule about villiains forbidden to be sympathetic. I'd say that if the villiain is evil and yet sympathetic, the writers and/or the actors are doing an excellent job.

 

[Stringer]

I didn't think it was noticeably bad at all. Anytime somebody flies in a movie, it's going to look a little goofy because it's so unrealistic.

And isn't it supposed to look like a cartoon? It's a Thor movie! I thought this was perfect comic book action. As if straight out of the pages of a Thor comic.

I just look at it in comparison to the Iron Man movies and how those effects didn't take me out of the moment like they did in Thor.

 

[Vartha]

Loved the Asgard parts.The earth parts were a mixed bag.Jane and the others shouldn't
have been seen till Odin exiled Thor.

I saw no point In the character of darcy,and she should never had been Included.

Chris Hemsworth,Tom Hiddleston,Anthony Hopkins,and Jamie Alexander were all great In
their parts.However we had very little of the complete Thor.And I would have liked more of Sif,and the Warriors Three.The Shield parts were fine.The Hawkeye Cameo was a nice
Itroduction of him.

I for one liked jamie Alexander far more than Natalie Portman In the film.Hopefully In sequel we get more Sif.

hehe I just want to see more of Sif/Jamie.........

 

[Marvin]

One of the problems with marvel films so far has to be the fights.

The battles have a way of feeling, underwhelming and or forgettable. The reason this is, is mainly due to the odds in my opinion.

I remember that in just about every last spiderman confrontation, Pete's antagonist had the upper hand and you had a feeling pete could and would lose at any moment. It was nothing but a compelling struggle for this dude in every fight. The one fight that was boring and forgettable? When he had the black suit and whooped sand mans ass. or when he beat up some thugs.

This is the problem with the new studio's films. Both Iron Man and Thor are constantly in fights where all I'm doing is waiting on them to win. They kinda have this upper hand all the time. I mean how much harder was beating up the frost giants for thor than spidey dispatching some back alley thugs? The only fight I found compelling in the whole film was his "battle" with shield. His battle with the destroyer was probably the worst one. And if he had returned to fight a now even "godlier" Loki that might have been a finale I could get behind.

Hey sometimes spectacle is fine, I'm one of those transformers fans and some of the conflicts are one sided in the wrong way, but the spectacle is present, I think if marvel doesn't want to really shell out dough for raw spectacle, they need to go back to what makes fights awesome in the marvel sense. The underdog.

The batman films have this problem but even moreso.
Hulk somewhat dealt with this and I'm sure that film actually gets the most praise for it's fights.

I hope captain america is address this issue. I know spiderman will, and I prey superman does.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

But IM was different. Whenever he was flying, he was CGI. It's easier to make something completely digital fly and look realistic. Thor was live action, thus harder to make it look the same digitally. I thought Thor looked better than any live action flying i've seen. It still looked like him, he wasn't all digital and lame like Neo or Brandon Routh

 

[Vartha]

STILL haven't seen that last supes film

 

[Spider-Fan]

I recommend you avoid it like the plague

 

[Vartha]

heh that's the thing tho, I'm a sucker for B movies. lol

 

[Spider-Fan]

But...it's just so bad

 

[Morg]

finally saw the movie, I liked it. Wished the Thor vs Destroyer was longer, Destroyer shouldn't been that easy to win against

 

[The Morningstar]

How long was Thor on Earth acyually? Like 2 days? One would think that a god needed a long journey to find what's needed to get rid of his arrogance and achieve the crown.

God or not, finding out that your arrogance and all round *****ey behaviour has caused your father to keel over and your mother to disown you (even though it was a lie) and the burden that you started a war you can't actually be there for, must be quite a humbling experience.

Put it this way, if you was a *****e bag, say, you was a criminal or something and you did something really bad, and your behaviour caused your dad or mom to have a heart attack... wouldn't you like, sit up and think "you know what? i'm a prick, better sort myself out".

Yea there could have been more showing Thor reflecting on that, but it's a two hour summer movie, not an ongoing comic book. You have to suspend your disbelief and accept that the revelation that Loki lays on Thor (even though it's a lie) has made him buck his ideas up.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

It's quite simple and believable. Those two awful things for Thor, his being utterly humiliated with the hammer and the tragedy of knowing he's trapped, killed his Dad and his Mum doesn't want him, combined with the fact that this pretty woman is being so kind and genuine whilst he is so emotionally vulnerable, make perfect sense as to his change in character.

Also,it's not like his WHOLE personality needed to change, it was merely his attitude and self importance. That's the sort of thing that CAN change in a relatively short time. The cockiness etc is still there, that's PART of him, he's a prince and a warrior, but it's his attitude as to what is important that has changed.

 

[scatterax]

To me IM flew like a jet while thor flew like a bullet.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Thor flew like Superman should, but better :P

 

[ElMariachi]

It was that shallow really? Well I guess it was more like I met a girl, during a couple of hours he made me humble enough to become a king, we share a kiss and then I don't really care but I get out of my coronation party longing to be with her.

Can't buy it. the movie presented the story as a romance, it's just that they didn't develope it.



How long was Thor on Earth acyually? Like 2 days? One would think that a god needed a long journey to find what's needed to get rid of his arrogance and achieve the crown.

Dude, really? It's a two hour movie. What are you expecting here--- The Way We Were starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford? Or Ghost? Or shoot---Spider-Man 2, where half the movie is Peter Parker being depressed because he can't see Mary Janes stupid play and she is with somebody else?

The 'romance' in Thor was believable to me. Nobody ever said they were getting married. They were infatuated with each other. That's how most actual romances are started. Maybe you forgot the part where Thor charmed her by kissing her hand or that scene on the rooftop? Also the fact that he was walking proof of her other love, that being science. In my opinion, the romantic scenes in Thor were far superior than anything I have seen in other comic movies or most action movies. Iron Man 1 and Spider-Man 1 are the only other two that come to mind.

 

[Quasimod0]

only part i didnt like were his take-off sequences. i didnt like how they looked. Too fast or sumthin

 

[ElMariachi]

I just look at it in comparison to the Iron Man movies and how those effects didn't take me out of the moment like they did in Thor.

It's a bad comparison, IMO. It's easier to make something look better with a flying CGI robot like Iron Man or Transformers than it is a flying human being.

I didn't have a problem with it at all. Actually, the only dodgy CGI I noticed was at the beginning with the wall hiding the Destroyer morphed. It wasn't as noticeable later in the movie when Loki summoned it though.

 

[ElMariachi]

Not to get off-topic here, but why are you guys pointing out the minor flaws and few things you didn't like? I will never understand that about people. Shouldn't all the great things in a movie outweigh the few negatives? It was the same thing last year with Iron Man 2. People piling on the few flaws and failing to enjoy the rest of the movie that was great. People not liking that movie because one action sequence was too short or Nick Fury gave Tony Stark a dose of a medicine. It's all rather silly in my opinion. If people are going out of their way to find flaws and minor details to complain about, then they most likely have a pent up bias.

 

[Quasimod0]

only part i didnt like were his take-off sequences. i didnt like how they looked. Too fast or sumthin

 

[Quasimod0]

Not to get off-topic here, but why are you guys pointing out the minor flaws and few things you didn't like? I will never understand that about people. Shouldn't all the great things in a movie outweigh the few negatives? It was the same thing last year with Iron Man 2. People piling on the few flaws and failing to enjoy the rest of the movie that was great. People not liking that movie because one action sequence was too short or Nick Fury gave Tony Stark a dose of a medicine. It's all rather silly in my opinion. If people are going out of their way to find flaws and minor details to complain about, then they most likely have a pent up bias.

I think most of us talking about little negative things actually loved the movie. I gave it a 9.5 but it wasnt perfect. The good far outweighed the bad imo, but it doesnt mean i cant talk about the things i didnt like.

 

[terry78]

I didn't even know that was Rene Russo as Frigga until after the fact. She does a decent accent.