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Thor: The Dark World.
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RDJ as Tony Stark is dogshit. It's RDJ playing RDJ who's name happens to be Tony Stark in this movie.
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Just saw it. Good movie through and through. Good pacing. Comic relief wasn't overdone and was implanted at appropriate moments.
It was almost as if the actors weren't comfortable with the setting and characters in Thor: 1, but now are after two movies
The same goes with budgeting. Thor and Avengers were hits, so this got a bigger budget and better effects.
Asgard looked kind of lame before. Not so now.
The effects and art assets were great.
Portals borderline irksome, but could have been way worse. Nothing prickled. Nothing went too far. I dislike the chick intern, but she was kept in check.
It was almost as if the actors weren't comfortable with the setting and characters in Thor: 1, but now are after two movies
The same goes with budgeting. Thor and Avengers were hits, so this got a bigger budget and better effects.
Asgard looked kind of lame before. Not so now.
The effects and art assets were great.
Portals borderline irksome, but could have been way worse. Nothing prickled. Nothing went too far. I dislike the chick intern, but she was kept in check.
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This was one of my criticisms of the first movie, too. It's been a while since I've seen it, but if I remember correctly we didn't really see Thor fighting much "non-Asgardian-esque" stuff in that, either.
What I mean is that we don't really get to see just how insanely powerful Thor is because he's always fighting stuff that's pretty much on his level or so alien to us (as humans) that we can't judge the power level. I would love for a scene of Thor smashing apart a tank or something, just to show his power in a way that can be easily measured for people who aren't familiar with the character.
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I liked it a lot. Much better than the first one. Good balance between story and action, good acting and didn't treat the audience like idiots.
Can we give a brief mention to how awesome Chuck was in this movie? I had no clue it was him until the end credits.
Can we give a brief mention to how awesome Chuck was in this movie? I had no clue it was him until the end credits.
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I did mention that as one of the highlights, since I am apparently the only person in the universe that didn't think this movie was awesome (I did still like it, just not as much as a lot of others). If he was in the first movie, I didn't realize it. (Ah, I just checked IMDB, and he wasn't. It was fucking Charming from Once Upon A Time no less. Chuck was vastly more entertaining.)
All of these positive reviews have at least made me curious to watch it again when it comes out on bluray to see if maybe I was just in the wrong mood or something. Movies typically don't get universally positive reviews on this forum. Could I be wrong?! Could my whole life be a lie? Inquiring minds want to know.
I was the opposite, although I can understand why an audience might react differently. Freya's death was unexpected to me, and it was clear from her fight with the Dark Elf that she was pretty badass. I was stunned they'd go as far as to kill Thor's Mom who even though she's not a main character per say, wasn't a throwaway character. Loki on the other hand, we never really had any doubt that Loki was faking it so getting upset about it would have been weird to me.
I thought both movies were rubbish, the second only less so.
The first movie should have opened with a flashback to Odin and his dwarves creating Mjolnir; informing the audience of how insane Mjolnir is goes a long way towards explaining Thor. Let's say something like the first LoTR intro about the ring, only this time, with the goddamned hammer. After that, everything should have revolved around Asgard not meddling in the affairs of Man (Midgard). Show how resolute Odin is against any intervention, with cuts to Thor being Thor (beating on Galactus-like things, Dynasty Warrior beat downs, drinking, being the baddest motherfucker alive, etc). You then balance that with the rising of events on Earth that eventually reaches Asgard's doorstep. Add in Portman heading the "science" behind why the problem is tied to Asgard's inaction, and how they can fix it. Odin decides against it, Thor is too concerned with being Thor, which leaves Loki open to playing the "hero". Bad things happen (Loki being Loki) which forces Odin's hand, but he wants Thor to take the lead, which he does not want to do. Add in some scenes with Thor seeing that being an eternal warrior bro isn't his end game and comes to the rescue right at the end. Over.
In its place, we get a severely neutered Thor playing the bumbling human ripped bro for Portman and Denning to fawn over. And a shitty ass, thin ass plot. And shitty Odin. The only saving grace was, and still is, Heimdall; Elba manhandles what little screen time he gets.
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Nester
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That is the cliff hanger.
Anyone else tackle the idea that the Dark Elves, who are race from before the universe was formed (WTF) who want the universe to go back to the time of darkness, HAVE BIG FUCKING LIGHTS ALL OVER THIER SPACE SHIP? So they hate light, except when they need it to see where they are flying? Maybe I missed something about their backstory but its pretty dumb.
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that isn't really the writers, that's the basis behind the technology in Asgard in the comic books as well.
Think about it, if there were no lights on the ship, in space, how would the viewer see it?!Nester_sl said:
McCheese
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Yeah, true, I was just referring to the fact that the movie went out of its way to show it via Natalie Portman's dialogue when she was being examined by the Asgardians. It's the sort of thing that could easily have been glossed over, so I liked how they specifically pointed it out.
I imagine it was left vague on purpose.
One person I saw it with assumed Loki killed him, and another assumed Loki snuck in and Odin was off doing something else. Plus Anthony Hopkins is getting up there in age, if he croaks before Thor 3 they can easily write him out now!