Thor: The Dark World (SPOILERS)

[Kramodlog]

Unequal. Some jokes are really funny, others not so much. Humans understand dimensions just like that and manipulating with rods? Not buying it. There are a lot of concidences that are just too convinient. Weak script.

I did like how Loki ends up in the film, but the best element is the foreshadowing of the Infinity Gauntlet.

 

[Abraxas]

Just saw it yesterday - meh.

PROS
- Thor / Loki interaction
- Loki's portrayal in general
- The con Thor & Loki pulled to get a shot at the Aether
- The Erik Selvig character
- Frigga kicking ass

CONS
- Too many star wars sound effects and sci fi elements
- Asgardian pod racers and deathstar-like gun turrets
- The Asgardians keep bringing knives to a gun fight
- The dark elves looked like aliens as opposed to looking alien
- Kurse not being a singular character
- Odin being a complete jerk
- Thor just leaving Loki's body making it too convenient for that little illusion to work
- Portman's portrayal of Jane Foster - but that was mostly due to the weak sauce part and not really anything she did wrong.

Something I would have liked to see is Loki actually having a more direct impact on defeating Malekith as opposed to it being just Thor and the keystone scientists.

 

[Janx]

I liked it. My wife liked it. My friends liked it.

We all seem to have liked it more than the first.

I knew Loki wasn't dead when the Guard who was apparently just finding his body had green magic sauce finishing up as the scene opened. That pretty much meant whatever we saw as Loki dying was an illusion (Loki was likely nowhere near the blade).

Didn't quite call that Thor was talking to Loki-as-Odin, but given what I'd called when I saw the prior scene, it wasn't a shock either.

Given what Loki-as-Odin said, it would be a bit of character growth for Loki if he actually did a good job as King.



I also sense that Asgard is on the decline tecnologically. Odin's dad fought the dark elves and contained the Aether.
Yet his own son Odin has no clue how it works or how to extract it from Jane Foster. I realize that 5000 years have passed, but we're not talking about 5,000 years of radically changing human history, we're talking a single generation step of passing knowledge on.

it's like the present day Asgardians are the iPod generation with no clue how any of this technology they rely on got here. They think its magic (like Soul Forge), whereas the primitive hairless primate actually knew what it was doing.


These people need Tony Stark to study their tech, before their RenFair King's Feast ends.

 

[calronmoonflower]

I think that the knowledge of the aether might have been purposely been concealed, as for the soul forge, the users did know how it worked. But the lack of knowledge being passed n from one generation to the next does seem notice able, like how knowledge of the dark elves' ships was lost.

 

[RangerWickett]

I loved it. It was extremely fun.

Odin being a jerk, first while he's dealing with his son's weird foreign girlfriend? Maybe that was a little un-called for. But being a jerk later, right after his wife was murdered? Made sense to me.

Every time there was a fight, I found myself thinking, "Damn, this is a hell of a lot better than Man of Steel."

 

[Kramodlog]

I'm not sure hy it is sucha suprised that Odin is a jerk. He might be specist and/or doesn't want a future king to marry a commoner.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I enjoyed it, it kept me entertained for 2 hours and it kicked ass.

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

I enjoyed it, it kept me entertained for 2 hours and it kicked ass.

This is the thing I have grown to love about the Marvel movies.

They're solid entertainment.

And I'm not a comics guy so I have little, if any, grounding in the genre. I just enjoy a couple of hours of action with a bit of humour.

Long may Marvel continue....

 

[billd91]

This is the thing I have grown to love about the Marvel movies.

They're solid entertainment.

And I'm not a comics guy so I have little, if any, grounding in the genre. I just enjoy a couple of hours of action with a bit of humour.

Long may Marvel continue....

Hear! Hear!

There may be relatively minor quibbles about each of the Marvel movies (there are for most movies), but they've been pretty good fun to watch. I thought that this outing for Thor was quite entertaining. The first movie, I thought, had a certain awkwardness to it that this one lacked. I think maybe the idea of the fusion of alien/high tech and divine/magic was a bit jarring and needed a bit of sinking in before it reached a more natural acceptance. I also think that the jumping of scenes from one location to another as it told the story flowed a bit better in the second movie.

And yes, there's plenty of humor, but I think it worked pretty well with the movie. If there's ever been one thing about Thor (as a Marvel character not counting the Ultimates) I didn't enjoy, it's his excessive seriousness. Having a bit of humorous lightness in the environment around him is a plus.

 

[Mallus]

I didn't intend to see it in the theater, but I'm glad I did. I surprised to find myself saying Thor 2 was one of the best superhero movies in recent memory. A lot of fun. Embraces the source material instead of running away from/camouflaging it. Tom Hiddleston continues to be great, and Chris Hemsworth continues to be pleasantly adequate. It's the kind of movie that buries it's (obvious) weaknesses under a load of entertainment.

The portal-tastic battle at the end was very, very clever. Hands down one of the best superheroic fight scenes in film. It's nice to see spectacle that's "witty and exciting", and not just "technically impressive and numbing". Loved the magic-tech and design(s) of Asgard -- as I did in the first one -- and the very updated-Flash-Gordon feel of the dark elf spaceship attack.

Really, the fact the film sports a "dark elf spaceship attack" and is not utter garbage says something about the talent that went into making it.