"Thor": I say thee YAY!

[thehefner]

I loved Thor. Loved, loved, loved it.

Now, it wasn't perfect. There was some serious Dutch Angle abuse (and you know it's bad when the photo on the Wikipedia entry for Dutch Angle is from Battlefield Earth), and I'm not sure how satisfying Thor's character arc was, plus I'm sure I'll notice more flaws upon revisiting the film. Which I plan to do. Several times.

I'm so glad I avoided reading any reviews, raves though they were. I went into this with very few expectations. I did my best to ignore the headlines that hyperbolically raved "Best superhero film since The Dark Knight/Iron Man/Blankman, etc!" because I already knew that this would (or at least should) be a different beast entirely. Only fools would compare them on the same level, as if all DC and Marvel superhero properties were the same. But even geeks make that mistake, it seems.

Ughhh, I'm crashing hard, and we still have a lot to accomplish IRL over here with rehearsal and packing up. I'm lacking the energy to give it a proper review right now, so I'll leave that for the comments. If you've seen the film, chime in with your thoughts! And if not, you'd best avoid reading the comments. I'm not gonna be able to hold back with certain things which made me giddy in ways that probably earned me weird looks from all the normal people in the movie theater.

So yeah, SPOILERS to follow in comments.

Comments

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

So very, very true. Really, it just added so much on a visceral level, just to watch Thor and Loki WALK. That's the kind of cape magic I'd want to see on Superman. Ironically, they're probably going to do the same stupid thing as they did for Superman Returns (and what they're now doing for Smallville) and make the reds too dark. Thor's cape with bright, awesome, comic-book-RED.

[surrealname.livejournal.com]

I don't even want to think about the new superman. They lost me the moment they cast a british actor to play superman. that movie officially does not exist to me.