Thor's franchise definately dropped the ball on giving us some good ol fashioned street battles.
Thor 1 was set in that lame ass desert town and Thor: TDW's battle with Malekith and Thor started off well, but got kind of lame with all the dimension shifting and Thor relying FAR tio heavily on Mjolnir.
I agree 100%
I know they wanted to have the little desert town be a change of pace, but so many Thor battles were in city streets........
I guess they had just done Hulk vs. Abomination in NYC and knew that Avengers was going to be a city battle as well so they gave us something different.
But little desert towns scream "budget saver" -- just like "East Houston, Idaho" in Superman II all those years ago.

Seems like the huge amount of improvisation worked really well for this movie, that scene was so funny and well acted by Ruffalo, Hemsworth and Thompson.
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