Thor Review
May. 6th, 2011 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaI really enjoyed it. I thought it was funny and one of the better superhero movies.
- I had no prior experience with Thor and so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I loved him. He is adorable! He’s so cheerful and exuberant and I love his grins. He has the best grins.
- Also I discovered that Chris Hemsworth is smoking hot. Or at least he is as Thor. Just - wow.
- I... am not completely sold on Jane/Thor. I like both of them as characters and I did like their interactions but I didn’t really buy the romance. The big problem I have is that the movie takes place over three or four day from start to finish and maybe I’ve just stopped believing in love at first sight but I don’t buy them having a deep love in that amount of time. I saw them being drawn to each other, attracted and deeply enjoying being around the other person. But I didn’t get any deep connection that I feel like the movie was trying to say was there.
- Actually the timeline was an issue all around for me. Thor started the film as selfish, egotistical and immature; Loki wasn’t wrong that he wasn’t ready to be king. He would have been a bad king (in the beginning). But the fact that he went from that to being someone self-sacrificing (twice – once literally with the machine, then in closing the way back to Jane) and realising he wasn’t ready to be king in only four days – it’s just a bit fast. Sure, a lot happened in those days – banishment, loss of his powers (and who he was), meeting Jane and the thought that he’d caused his father’s death – and he was a caring person underneath but still.
- The ending bugged me a little because it just seems so obvious how it should have gone – Thor breaks the end of the Bifröst Bridge but ends up falling through to Earth (while perhaps Loki falls to Earth as well, or to Jotunheim) and ends up reunited with Jane but also stuck on Earth thus explaining why he becomes a part of the Avengers (the final scenes could be of Odin & Frigga & Heimdall looking down on Earth and watching Thor) – but instead we get him trapped in Asgard (while Loki causes mischief on Earth). Now Thor having to stop whatever plan Loki is concocting on Earth, as well as reuniting with Jane, are reasons for him to return but are they really enough reason for him to stay on Earth permanently?
- Asgard was gorgeous. I really loved that they weren’t actual Gods but were beings from another world/part of space where far advanced science mixed with magic. I love that Yggdrasil is basically the cosmos and the wormholes that connect the various worlds. The Bifröst Bridge as a means of transportation was very cool.
- Loki pleased me. I like that he was a complicated and deeply grey character who wasn’t just evil or just the ‘bad guy’. I figured that he would survive the fall at the end but I was still happy to see him in the after credits scene. I really hope that his final scene doesn’t mean the next time we see him he’s going to be a more normal ‘bad guy’ character because in this movie his character arc was just as interesting as Thor’s if not more so and it would be a huge disservice.
- I liked Sif immediately. She was fabulous. It wasn’t until I looked her up on wiki though that I realised that Sif was played by Jaimie Alexander! Jesse! I hadn’t even had the thought that she looked familiar unlike with Frigga (who was played by Rene Russo which I did know and it was great to see her). Anyway, she was great and I really wanted to see more of her.
- Darcy was fabulous and hilarious and I hope we get to see her again. I loved that Jane had a female assistant.
- It was great to see Agent Coulson again.
- I liked that they made the Asgard much more diverse by making Heimdall black and Hogun Japanese.
- I had no prior experience with Thor and so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I loved him. He is adorable! He’s so cheerful and exuberant and I love his grins. He has the best grins.
- Also I discovered that Chris Hemsworth is smoking hot. Or at least he is as Thor. Just - wow.
- I... am not completely sold on Jane/Thor. I like both of them as characters and I did like their interactions but I didn’t really buy the romance. The big problem I have is that the movie takes place over three or four day from start to finish and maybe I’ve just stopped believing in love at first sight but I don’t buy them having a deep love in that amount of time. I saw them being drawn to each other, attracted and deeply enjoying being around the other person. But I didn’t get any deep connection that I feel like the movie was trying to say was there.
- Actually the timeline was an issue all around for me. Thor started the film as selfish, egotistical and immature; Loki wasn’t wrong that he wasn’t ready to be king. He would have been a bad king (in the beginning). But the fact that he went from that to being someone self-sacrificing (twice – once literally with the machine, then in closing the way back to Jane) and realising he wasn’t ready to be king in only four days – it’s just a bit fast. Sure, a lot happened in those days – banishment, loss of his powers (and who he was), meeting Jane and the thought that he’d caused his father’s death – and he was a caring person underneath but still.
- The ending bugged me a little because it just seems so obvious how it should have gone – Thor breaks the end of the Bifröst Bridge but ends up falling through to Earth (while perhaps Loki falls to Earth as well, or to Jotunheim) and ends up reunited with Jane but also stuck on Earth thus explaining why he becomes a part of the Avengers (the final scenes could be of Odin & Frigga & Heimdall looking down on Earth and watching Thor) – but instead we get him trapped in Asgard (while Loki causes mischief on Earth). Now Thor having to stop whatever plan Loki is concocting on Earth, as well as reuniting with Jane, are reasons for him to return but are they really enough reason for him to stay on Earth permanently?
- Asgard was gorgeous. I really loved that they weren’t actual Gods but were beings from another world/part of space where far advanced science mixed with magic. I love that Yggdrasil is basically the cosmos and the wormholes that connect the various worlds. The Bifröst Bridge as a means of transportation was very cool.
- Loki pleased me. I like that he was a complicated and deeply grey character who wasn’t just evil or just the ‘bad guy’. I figured that he would survive the fall at the end but I was still happy to see him in the after credits scene. I really hope that his final scene doesn’t mean the next time we see him he’s going to be a more normal ‘bad guy’ character because in this movie his character arc was just as interesting as Thor’s if not more so and it would be a huge disservice.
- I liked Sif immediately. She was fabulous. It wasn’t until I looked her up on wiki though that I realised that Sif was played by Jaimie Alexander! Jesse! I hadn’t even had the thought that she looked familiar unlike with Frigga (who was played by Rene Russo which I did know and it was great to see her). Anyway, she was great and I really wanted to see more of her.
- Darcy was fabulous and hilarious and I hope we get to see her again. I loved that Jane had a female assistant.
- It was great to see Agent Coulson again.
- I liked that they made the Asgard much more diverse by making Heimdall black and Hogun Japanese.
