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

[Rock Sexton]

Man that is one thing I will be buying with my next pay check, is the Score!

I knew it was gonna be bad ass when as it started playing during the sequence with the Marvel logo. It gave me chills.

 

[Morg]

I honestly find Thor to be one of the harder films to nitpick because it does a lot of the little things right.

The battle against Destroyer was too quick IMO
Thor shouldn't been able to beat Destroyer that easy

 

[Vartha]

I have the Sons of Asgard from the site looping now.

 

[Vartha]

The battle against Destroyer was too quick IMO
Thor shouldn't been able to beat Destroyer that easy

That's one of my nitpiks too Morg.

 

[Vartha]

I knew it was gonna be bad ass when as it started playing during the sequence with the Marvel logo.

The scene with music that gave me chills was when Thor received Mjolnir back.

 

[Project862006]

still get chills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGCjE7Q0FzE

 

[bunk]

The battle against Destroyer was too quick IMO
Thor shouldn't been able to beat Destroyer that easy

It didn't bother me that it was easy. I just wanted to see Thor really bash the crap out of him. It was too obscured the way it happened. However, I did love the shot of him briskly walking out of the dust like what he did was nothing.

 

[El Payaso]

STILL haven't seen that last supes film

Watch the movie. Many fans hated it because it doesn't have as much action as some other superhero movies and because, well, you have to be very into the Donner movies to get this one. Oh, and Superman doesn't punch someone and that means the movie is bad.

But to me it felt dozens of times more fresh and honest than most of the recent cookie-cutter superhero movies with so many fantastic effects.





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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?

Oh, a list of bad ideas will make romance in Thor feel better?

Anyways, the romance was quite poor and even the soap opera-ish Spidey romance feels like someone put some effort in developing that part of the story. And that, good results or not, at least was something.

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.

The romantic scenes in thor were almost non-existent. And what was about romance was poor and cliché.

Iron Man might have had little romance between Tony and Pepper but what it was there was fully fleshed out because the characters were so damn well performed. Hemsworth had charisma as Thor but the writing about the romance in the movie was too poor. And Portman was there just making some caricature of the brainy girl.

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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.

It might be because some people really feel the flaws outweight the goods.

In Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne changed his personality by being slapped by Katie Holmes' Rachel, and no one said anything bad about it.

I think enough people have said enough bad things about every single scene Katie Holmes was in BB. The double slap thing was horrid. Can't say if because it's just a bad idea to repeat the dramatic device for no apparent reason, or because Holmes failed when she tried the first time and then failed even worse at the second attempt.


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I know but it just seems that everybody has to look for flaws these days. Everything and every movie has them. I just tend to ignore them unless they are so ridiculous that they detract from the movie.

This is an opinion forum of comic geeks. You're not going to find some general ideas and nothing else but every second of every movie dissected many times. Why suddenly is so bad.

 

[StarkTheProdigy]

I agree that the fight between Thor and the Destroyer was short, but I feel it worked best that way. I mean, Thor is a god, and is powerful, and through the quick battle, it shows us how powerful he was. Plus, it just built up to the fight between the two brothers, which I thought was spot on.
Also, there's nothing more that bugs me, than when I see a supposedly invincible hero (such as Thor or Superman) get tossed around like a rag doll when they're supposed to be the most powerful. That's what I liked about Thor, he was tossed around few times, but a majority, he proved he was a god imo.

 

[piccolo]

Just saw Thor for the 2nd time, this time in 2d, and it was even better than the first. I think the frost giant fight needs to be seen in 2d, I could barely follow some of the action when I saw it in 3d the first time. All of Thor's power and love for battle seemed to jump at you even more when you could clearly follow haha.

And he definitely CRAVED battle, you could tell, I thought when the frost giant roared and he roared back laughing it really drove home how battle hungry he was. Which was fantastic.

Another thing noticed 2nd time over is that Hemsworth nailed Thor just as much as Hiddleston nailed Loki. Of course, Loki's performance and character was a little more fantastical just because of the nature of the part, but even in Thor's more subdued role Hemsworth managed to become the character completely.

The humor was even more charming this time around too. Genuinely laugh out loud moments. And again blown away by Hiddlestons performance, that was like an acting seminar put on by him. Such a great movie.

 

[terry78]

I did like how the Asgardians are fish out of water on Earth, but they know OF Earth so they're not like completely clueless as to how **** works or how to act. Thor knew when to shut up and when to realize he was freaking someone out for the most part, he wasn't stupid.

 

[bunk]

I did like how the Asgardians are fish out of water on Earth, but they know OF Earth so they're not like completely clueless as to how **** works or how to act. Thor knew when to shut up and when to realize he was freaking someone out for the most part, he wasn't stupid.

I feel like it was indicated that they had actually been on Earth before, but I'm not sure if they said as much. They did a good job with that though. It was enough to bring some levity, but at the same not distracting from the actual story.

 

[darkslayer101]

The scene with music that gave me chills was when Thor received Mjolnir back.

i totally agree
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Re0aBeOsvA&feature=related

 

[Nokio]

I have the Sons of Asgard from the site looping now.

I agree. That is something that Odin also created to battle a Celestial. It shouldn't have been a quick pushover for Thor. I think the fight ended to quickly. Thor shouldve opened a portal to swallow it, but sense it wasn't the climax I'm fine with it.

 

[Tony Stark]

Watch the movie. Many fans hated it because it doesn't have as much action as some other superhero movies and because, well, you have to be very into the Donner movies to get this one. Oh, and Superman doesn't punch someone and that means the movie is bad.

But to me it felt dozens of times more fresh and honest than most of the recent cookie-cutter superhero movies with so many fantastic effects.

Um you're certainly entitled to your opinion of the movie, but that's not really why I thought the movie was bad. I thought it was bad because it basically was a remake of the Donner film, with new special effects. It was so in love with the Donner movie that it failed to break new ground, other than turning the Man of Steel into a creepy stalker.

 

[Rock Sexton]

Just saw Thor for the 2nd time, this time in 2d, and it was even better than the first. I think the frost giant fight needs to be seen in 2d, I could barely follow some of the action when I saw it in 3d the first time. All of Thor's power and love for battle seemed to jump at you even more when you could clearly follow haha.

One of my few qualms with the movie is that even in 2D those two battles with the Frost Giants were kinda blurry. The one in the prologue explaining what happened to Laufey and the rest of them was kind of rough because the camera angle is too close to the action.

 

[Gamma Burst]

Watch the movie. Many fans hated it because it doesn't have as much action as some other superhero movies and because, well, you have to be very into the Donner movies to get this one. Oh, and Superman doesn't punch someone and that means the movie is bad.

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Nope. Superman returns is a really bad movie.And its not an opinion,it's a fact.

 

[Flemm]

Well, I just saw the movie far the second time and man, I have to say, I really liked it a lot more this time. Everything just really clicked for me the second time around. I went from liking it to loving it. Can't wait to catch it for a third time now.

 

[StarkTheProdigy]

Here's my question...When's the release date for the special edition Blu-Ray/DVD? t:

 

[Vartha]

lol no clue yet Marvel. lol

 

[JAK®]

Nope. Superman returns is a really bad movie.And its not an opinion,it's a fact.

It's not a really bad movie, just a very underwhelming one. That's a fact.

 

[phoenixwarrior]

just watched it today with my dad.
we both loved it.
we give it 10/10

 

[piccolo]

Superman Returns may be a bad movie, but I still watch the airplane scene every time its on. Thor dvd/directors cut is gonna be a must watch, I want to see every minute left on the cutting room floor. And I have to find some way to download the fight on Jotunheim, that was everything a comic book battle should be.

One of my few qualms with the movie is that even in 2D those two battles with the Frost Giants were kinda blurry. The one in the prologue explaining what happened to Laufey and the rest of them was kind of rough because the camera angle is too close to the action.

Yeah, even in 2d the opening battle was a little choppy. It didn't bother me much though.

2d I could follow the second frost giant battle pretty well. Seeing Thor in all his smashing glory....the spinning mjolnir hits were amazing.

 

[StarkTheProdigy]

Honestly, if this argument goes farther, you guys should just make another thread as each side keeps adding to the fire...

 

[Sam Fisher]

Nope. Superman returns is a really bad movie.And its not an opinion,it's a fact.

And besides, I thought this was the 'Thor Rate & Review" thread, not the "Superman Returns teh sucks!" thread.