It was pretty good, actually! Thor's character development (and Loki's) were the thrust of the movie and fairly well-handled (actually slightly more sympathetic than the comics usually are, in Loki's case, though not as much as the actual myths), the various Asgardians and Asgard itself were all visually striking (Bifrost in particular was awesome), the action was larger-than-life heroic. I'm not really familiar enough with Thor's origin stories to know what was changed with the human element, though I suspect Jane Foster wasn't originally an astrophysicist. There were fewer "Thor comes across as stupid or crazy because he doesn't know about Midgard" moments than I had feared there would be. Stan Lee tried to pull Mjolnir out of a crater with a truck, to the expected disasterously negative effect.
Either they already had an Avengers movie in mind when they made this, or they just wanted to establish that it's a shared universe, because there were references made to Bruce Banner, Tony Stark, and of course a charming snarky sniper-in-th-night-for-SHIELD cameo of Clint Barton. No mutants.
DON'T ANSWER but can I just say that I hope the Cube sapiates and chooses Cap as its model and rebels against Loki in the Avengers movie or possibly the future Cap movie or SOMETHING
I...actually tend to forget about the Hulk movies. They came out while I was in Japan, and never got a release there, unlike Iron Man. So it wasn't on the list at all. ^^; It's below Iron Man 1 and Captain America (Odd, because I was expecting to hate that movie up until I saw it) and above Iron Man 2.
I really enjoyed Captain America and was very excited aobut it beforehand. Tai and I went to dinner with her parents shortly after and ended up chattering with her comic-geek dad about the Howling Commandos for a big chunk of the meal. X3
It...didn't make any sense to me that Johnny Storm was going to be Steve Rogers. Coming on the heels of the excellent, at least in my opinion, Thor and Tony Stark choices, it made my brain hurt. Not to mention the fact that I was bored by the first Fantastic Four movie and strongly disliked the second. I am willing to admit that I was too hasty in my judgement, and I was wrong to boot. And that's kind of adorable about Tai's dad. Intergenerational meekness ftw!
I wonder if that same car sports little antlers come Decemeber...? ;3
See, The Fantastic Four are boring to me 100% of the time, so I didn't watch that movie (wait, they made two?) and so it didn't bother me at all about the actor~
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Date: 2012-04-07 11:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-04-08 10:09 am (UTC)Either they already had an Avengers movie in mind when they made this, or they just wanted to establish that it's a shared universe, because there were references made to Bruce Banner, Tony Stark, and of course a charming snarky sniper-in-th-night-for-SHIELD cameo of Clint Barton. No mutants.
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Date: 2012-04-08 08:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-05-14 12:10 pm (UTC)I just thought to look this up on youtube
HOLY SHIT THE CUBE THE CUBE
OH SHIT LOKI KNOWS AOBUT THE CUBE AND IS CONTRLLING Dr. SELVIG! D:
SHIT
SHIT
SHIT'S GONNA GET REAL
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Date: 2012-05-14 12:14 pm (UTC)KUBIIIIIIK
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Date: 2012-04-08 03:38 pm (UTC)Thor...my third favorite of the four released Avenger movies so far. Would be higher if not for the "our love is pasted on" romance. ^^;
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Date: 2012-04-08 09:06 pm (UTC)Second last! I take it you're counting the Iron Man movies and the Hulk movies as single entities, not seperate?
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Date: 2012-04-08 10:30 pm (UTC)I...actually tend to forget about the Hulk movies. They came out while I was in Japan, and never got a release there, unlike Iron Man. So it wasn't on the list at all. ^^; It's below Iron Man 1 and Captain America (Odd, because I was expecting to hate that movie up until I saw it) and above Iron Man 2.
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Date: 2012-04-08 11:52 pm (UTC)I really enjoyed Captain America and was very excited aobut it beforehand. Tai and I went to dinner with her parents shortly after and ended up chattering with her comic-geek dad about the Howling Commandos for a big chunk of the meal. X3
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Date: 2012-04-09 12:05 am (UTC)It...didn't make any sense to me that Johnny Storm was going to be Steve Rogers. Coming on the heels of the excellent, at least in my opinion, Thor and Tony Stark choices, it made my brain hurt. Not to mention the fact that I was bored by the first Fantastic Four movie and strongly disliked the second. I am willing to admit that I was too hasty in my judgement, and I was wrong to boot. And that's kind of adorable about Tai's dad. Intergenerational meekness ftw!
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Date: 2012-04-09 12:33 am (UTC)See, The Fantastic Four are boring to me 100% of the time, so I didn't watch that movie (wait, they made two?) and so it didn't bother me at all about the actor~
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Date: 2012-04-09 12:53 am (UTC)That works! (Yup. Fantastic Four, and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Which was more..."Fantastic Four: Insult to the Silver Surfer)
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