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Other than Marvel's apparent desire to pull a type of cinematic equivalent of the nineteen eighties "Secret Wars" there really aren't a lot of reasons why this film needed making. It's actually kind of bizarre, and that i can't really imagine that the Thor (as in comic) audience is actually immense. Even though maybe I'm wrong. But I'm going to comment on it each a writer/viewer and as a historian of the mythological. Despite being a large Marvel fan in the 80s, I in no way read Thor itself.

It can competently cast. Everyone plays their roles as it should, and it's actually the kinda fun movie to view, specially the parts along with THOR 2 Thor in the "real globe. " This really is reminiscent of the moments in Superman two where General Zod kicks rear end in that city after arriving on earth.

But notice My answer is "the components in the real life. inch Because a good percentage, at least 1 / 2, of Thor takes place off within the strange SPECIAL worlds associated with Asgard and Jotunheim. Following a two-second introduction with Natalie Portman (hot however wasted) in the world we have been instantly moved into a large backstory tour of those bizarre places, including voiceover through Anthony Hopkins as "all-father Odin. " There is absolutely no try to fit this information naturally into the story, just a ginormous SPECIAL info-dump. The entire mythology has my head spinning, and that i really like mythologies. This certainly borrows liberally from cookie-cutter aspects of Norse myth, but its more like Stan Shelter learned what he needed to understand from Deities and Demigods (a favorite book of mine circa 1982! ). I'm still coming to terms using the weirdness of fusing Norse misconception and some type of alien outer space cosmology. I am not even really sure which it was supposed to be. Could they be aliens that mankind interpreted because gods (most probably) or even actually simply gods?

There is a lot of cool looking stuff, but there is certainly absolutely no attempt to catch the nature of ancient polytheistic deity wherever gods ARE/EMBODY/SUBSUME multiple aspects of organic and physical phenomenons. Not really that I anticipated this. Nevertheless, you can always hope. There are occasionally masterpieces like Pan's Labyrinth.

Well at any situation, as the imagery is kinda like Valhalla meets Star Wars episode three cityscape, the entire Asgardian globe just doesn't make any feeling. These like super immortal extraterrestrials lounge around using their dark age group Viking stylings. And they love hand to hand fight. At least they mostly have beards (HISS provided to Chris hamsworth films about clean-shaven Ancient greek language men). The actual action in Asgard/Jotunheim also is suffering from the way in which a lot of CGI factor, particularly the parts on Jotunheim in which the five brave actors would be the only non computer components. The large legion of frost giants and also the bigass ice-troll creature had that weightless really feel. Much less bad as in a repulsive pile of excrement like Vehicle Helsing (the film), but bad.

Still, combined with the qualified casting we get competent -- albeit uninspired - writing. The film, despite the INCREDIBLY weird mythology, is watchable and makes complete sense when taken in a scene through scene level. This is far far more than I can say of a turd like the aforementioned Van Helsing or various Michael Bey type movies. Maybe it stems from the odd selection of Kenneth Branagh because director (he should have required to refresh his financial institution account). Within Thor, the actual characters and the relationships are perfunctory, but they do have a type of (cinematic) clarity. This essentially made it fairly enjoyable. And also to tell the truth, if they happen to have built the whole movie from Thor on Earth, concentrating on his relationship using the underused Microsoft. Portman, it could happen to be a good movie.