Just saw Thor.

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Samuel L. Jackson is Nick Fury!

Spoiler, by the way.

Honestly, the movie is very good. The best part for me was the previews, which were for Harry Potter 7b, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, Green Lantern and Captain America.

It's a good time to be a nerd.
 
Dan Nickname Beshers said:
Samuel L. Jackson is Nick Fury!

Spoiler, by the way.

Honestly, the movie is very good. The best part for me was the previews, which were for Harry Potter 7b, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, Green Lantern and Captain America.

It's a good time to be a nerd.
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If anyone has seen Iron Man or IM2, don't worry about the spoiler. :) And I am looking forward to seein' ol' Cap' on the screen. First time I've seen a Captain America movie really try to stick to the roots of his creation.
 
Thor is the going to be the new King Leonidas of internet memes. So many meme-worthy quotes... :thumbsup:
 
Cowboys and Alien's looks like a fun ride...
 
jpariury said:
My review for Thor can be found here. (spoilers, etc.)

I didn't get Harry Potter 7b, I got Cowboys and Aliens.

I am trepidatious about Cap. Chris Evans doesn't inspire confidence for me.
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Your Thor review sums up my feelings with 101% accuracy. Even down to your feelings on Loki.
 
I almost walked out of Thor.....I have walked out of only two movies to date....White Chicks w/ the weenan brothers and "The SPirit"....should have walked out of BoonDockSaints II.
 
BtB said:
I almost walked out of Thor.....I have walked out of only two movies to date....White Chicks w/ the weenan brothers and "The SPirit"....should have walked out of BoonDockSaints II.
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Why the hate?
 
EricMarsters said:
BtB said:
I almost walked out of Thor.....I have walked out of only two movies to date....White Chicks w/ the weenan brothers and "The SPirit"....should have walked out of BoonDockSaints II.
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Why the hate?
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Unfortunately the movie was so bad that I can not even work up the will to hate it or to discuss why I did not like it.
 
Are you sure you saw the right film? I mean, no one's saying that Thor was X2 good, but I can't even envision how the pacing (the only major flaw) was such a problem for you that you were rendered unable to sustain an emotional response.

Hell, even outside the movie itself the Vader/Thor/Natalie love triangle is stunningly rich in mockortunity.
 
BtB said:
... should have walked out of BoonDockSaints II.
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I KNEW that movie was going to be a flop. The first one was so good, they couldn't possibly follow up with another just as good.

I just watched that movie for the first time a few weeks ago, and only because it was on Netflix.
 
BS2 probably would have been good had it been done half a decade ago when Troy Duffy wanted to do it. Unfortunately, thanks to some legal battles, the rights were tied up for a long time, which cost him Willem Dafoe and led to a lot of rewriting that hurt the final product.
 
I really liked Thor. There were so many ways the movie could have been a disaster, but it felt genuine and full of heart. Although I wasn't a huge fan of Thor's costume and I would have preferred a more classic look, I thought the other Asgardian costumes were very good, especially Loki's. Thor just looked a little too goofy and I was really disappointed that he rarely wore the helmet. Other than that, it was definitely a very fun movie. The acting was pretty good, especially with Thor and Loki. Overall, I liked it a lot.
 
I just watched it for the second time yesterday (I missed half of it last time because of my son).

This may be an unfair comparison.... but it wasn't Iron Man. Iron Man was practically a religious experience for me.

I thought it was good. It did a fair enough job of weaving Thor into the Marvel movie continuity. But, I think that might have been it's downfall. It felt like that was the ONLY reason it was made. It didn't feel like they were trying to set Thor up for his own movies. It felt like Marvel said, "Well... if we want to do this Avengers thing... we need to make a Thor and a Captain America movie so we don't have to squeeze their whole backstory into the Avengers."

The Avengers have always been my favorite super hero team... so I'm wicked excited to finally see it all get played out on the big screen. But, one of the reasons the Avengers works is because of the fact that Iron Man, Cap, Thor and Hulk are all alphas. None of them fill the "support role." It kind of felt to me like the Thor film betrayed that theme by being less "complete" than Iron Man did.
 
RiddickDale said:
I just watched it for the second time yesterday (I missed half of it last time because of my son).

This may be an unfair comparison.... but it wasn't Iron Man. Iron Man was practically a religious experience for me.

I thought it was good. It did a fair enough job of weaving Thor into the Marvel movie continuity. But, I think that might have been it's downfall. It felt like that was the ONLY reason it was made. It didn't feel like they were trying to set Thor up for his own movies. It felt like Marvel said, "Well... if we want to do this Avengers thing... we need to make a Thor and a Captain America movie so we don't have to squeeze their whole back story into the Avengers."

The Avengers have always been my favorite super hero team... so I'm wicked excited to finally see it all get played out on the big screen. But, one of the reasons the Avengers works is because of the fact that Iron Man, Cap, Thor and Hulk are all alphas. None of them fill the "support role." It kind of felt to me like the Thor film betrayed that theme by being less "complete" than Iron Man did.
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I don't doubt that at all. Iron Man basically went in with the preconceived notion of being 2-3 movies on its own with the chance of tossing in Avengers, so they had the advantage of going in with a deeper back story. Hulk went in as it's own movies and had a similar advantage, too bad Ang Lee pushed too hard towards having his own back story but at least the Edward Norton version was good.

While I grew up on Spiderman, Wolverine, Avengers & X-men, there is going to come a point where either the comic book fans get tired of rewritten histories & just stay away *or* Hollywood starts sticking to the scripts that are basically written for them already.
 
Thor felt like it WAS the deeper backstory.

That will be ok if Avengers comes out next year and rocks the house. Then the lingering doubts I have will be difused when you take the whole list of movies as a whole.

But, that is a BIG if.

Stephen
 
I finally saw Thor this weekend.

Going in as someone who literally knew nothing about Marvel's Thor (I pretty much knew he was some deity of thunder or something), and I thought that it was pretty good for what it was. Granted, I had exceedingly low expectations given that I do not believe that Hollywood is capable of doing any sort of good book to movie translation on purpose.

There have, of course, been good book (comic or otherwise) to movie stories, but those were accidents in my opinion.

The plot had all kinds of holes, it was rife with cheese in some places, and some stuff just didn't make sense; but I wasn't expecting anything else.

All in all, a fun film. I do with they had gotten a different actor for the old professor/doctor role, but that's splitting hairs a bit. Worth seeing a Matinee showing, definitely not worth full price.
 
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