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Thor
Kenneth Branagh, 2011
The beginning of summer pretty much has a new tradition, we get a new Marvel film every year the first weekend of May. This year, we got the start of a new franchise instead of a sequel. They had more than just cause to do this, seeing as how the last two years have pretty much been duds for the start of the summer. Thor is a much-needed improvement from Marvel, as I was beginning to loose faith in Marvel. While it didn’t quite “wow” me as much as when I saw Iron Man for the first time, it still ended up being pretty good.
I went into Thor knowing absolutely nothing about him at all, so I had virtually no expectations at all. I hear Hemsworth really captured the arrogance of Thor really well, and he did have quite an arrogant personality throughout the movie. I really can’t wait to see Thor again when the Avengers comes out. The Hawkeye cameo got me pretty excited for the Avengers, too. Also, it had the beautiful Natalie Portman in it as well, so you can’t completely hate this even if it did turn out horrible, which it didn’t.
Thor is really the start of a different kind of origins story though, which I thought they handled really well. Half of the movie takes place on another planet, and he already has his powers at the beginning of the movie unlike the usual origin story where they find their power somewhere towards the middle. Green Lantern is supposed to be doing something similar to that later in the summer, which I’m looking forward to.
I also want to point out that I really liked the 3D; it was done in a similar fashion to Avatar where they didn’t send things popping out at your face and instead just added depth to the movie. I only really noticed it at the scenes that took place on Asgard, though, and it actually made the movie look a little darker in the scenes that took place on Earth. I guess there were just some ups-and-downs to it.
So coming from someone who knows nothing about Thor at all: liked it. As far as Marvel origin stories goes, it’s not quite as good as Iron Man, but pretty much ranks on level with The Incredible Hulk and the original X-Men. I have a feeling I’m going to like First Class and Captain America more later in the summer, but I know more about each of those.
Kenneth Branagh, 2011
The beginning of summer pretty much has a new tradition, we get a new Marvel film every year the first weekend of May. This year, we got the start of a new franchise instead of a sequel. They had more than just cause to do this, seeing as how the last two years have pretty much been duds for the start of the summer. Thor is a much-needed improvement from Marvel, as I was beginning to loose faith in Marvel. While it didn’t quite “wow” me as much as when I saw Iron Man for the first time, it still ended up being pretty good.
I went into Thor knowing absolutely nothing about him at all, so I had virtually no expectations at all. I hear Hemsworth really captured the arrogance of Thor really well, and he did have quite an arrogant personality throughout the movie. I really can’t wait to see Thor again when the Avengers comes out. The Hawkeye cameo got me pretty excited for the Avengers, too. Also, it had the beautiful Natalie Portman in it as well, so you can’t completely hate this even if it did turn out horrible, which it didn’t.
Thor is really the start of a different kind of origins story though, which I thought they handled really well. Half of the movie takes place on another planet, and he already has his powers at the beginning of the movie unlike the usual origin story where they find their power somewhere towards the middle. Green Lantern is supposed to be doing something similar to that later in the summer, which I’m looking forward to.
I also want to point out that I really liked the 3D; it was done in a similar fashion to Avatar where they didn’t send things popping out at your face and instead just added depth to the movie. I only really noticed it at the scenes that took place on Asgard, though, and it actually made the movie look a little darker in the scenes that took place on Earth. I guess there were just some ups-and-downs to it.
So coming from someone who knows nothing about Thor at all: liked it. As far as Marvel origin stories goes, it’s not quite as good as Iron Man, but pretty much ranks on level with The Incredible Hulk and the original X-Men. I have a feeling I’m going to like First Class and Captain America more later in the summer, but I know more about each of those.