Thor babble
A friend of ours talked us into seeing Thor this weekend. I've got to admit that I was less than excited about Thor. Every preview I saw of it looked cheesy and overproduced. I want some gritty Norse action, dammit.
Anyway, everything was shiny and clean and outer spacey. I've never read the comics, obviously, but I think Norse mythology is awesome and I can't decide if I like how they interpreted it. Bifrost looked like something they janked from Tron or something, so I kind of wish they had gone in a slightly different direction with that in particular >_> Heimdall was a fucking badass, though, so I may forgive them for Bifrost.
I hate to say it, because I usually really like Natalie Portman, but she made me want to jam my thumbs into my eyes. Hard. Every time she had to talk about something sciencey, she stumbled and sounded like she was reading lines. If you're supposed to be a scientist in a movie, you damn well better sound like you know what you're talking about when it comes to science. Natalie Portman, ILU, but damn.
You know, I have no idea who Thor's little sidekick buddies were supposed to be. I don't think they ever really named any of them, and they just felt kind of tacked on and goofy for the most part. That one guy had an awesome mustache, though.
I can't decide how I felt about Loki. Like, on the one hand, he's a skinny weird-looking little greasy nerd, but on the other hand, EPIC HELMET and he's also kind of a dick. I think I expected more from him?
I get unreasonably upset in large theaters full of people. We couldn't get good seats so we had to sit in the SECOND ROW. I don't mean the second row that's 15 feet away from the screen, I mean the second row that's like...four feet from the screen. It sucked. The 3D wasn't impressive at all to me because we had to squeeze in so close and look up to see it, and even then we couldn't see the whole screen at once. Why do they even put seats there? :C
Also, I hate your average movie going audience. They laugh at stupid shit and let their kids run around the theater because unless some 3D stuff is jumping out at them, kids have no interest in movies. Stop taking your kids to movies they're not going to want to even try to sit through. You just spent like $15 to buy your kid a ticket, and guess what? HE COULDN'T CARE LESS. If I ever have kids, we're not GOING to the movies until they're at least like, 10-15, and they damn well better appreciate it.
Anyway, I wish they had fleshed out some of the characters a bit more, and I could have done without Natalie Portman's bad science talks, and I wasn't crazy about the way they SHOT THEM THROUGH SPACE, but it wasn't the worst superhero movie I've ever seen so...
Anyway, everything was shiny and clean and outer spacey. I've never read the comics, obviously, but I think Norse mythology is awesome and I can't decide if I like how they interpreted it. Bifrost looked like something they janked from Tron or something, so I kind of wish they had gone in a slightly different direction with that in particular >_> Heimdall was a fucking badass, though, so I may forgive them for Bifrost.
I hate to say it, because I usually really like Natalie Portman, but she made me want to jam my thumbs into my eyes. Hard. Every time she had to talk about something sciencey, she stumbled and sounded like she was reading lines. If you're supposed to be a scientist in a movie, you damn well better sound like you know what you're talking about when it comes to science. Natalie Portman, ILU, but damn.
You know, I have no idea who Thor's little sidekick buddies were supposed to be. I don't think they ever really named any of them, and they just felt kind of tacked on and goofy for the most part. That one guy had an awesome mustache, though.
I can't decide how I felt about Loki. Like, on the one hand, he's a skinny weird-looking little greasy nerd, but on the other hand, EPIC HELMET and he's also kind of a dick. I think I expected more from him?
I get unreasonably upset in large theaters full of people. We couldn't get good seats so we had to sit in the SECOND ROW. I don't mean the second row that's 15 feet away from the screen, I mean the second row that's like...four feet from the screen. It sucked. The 3D wasn't impressive at all to me because we had to squeeze in so close and look up to see it, and even then we couldn't see the whole screen at once. Why do they even put seats there? :C
Also, I hate your average movie going audience. They laugh at stupid shit and let their kids run around the theater because unless some 3D stuff is jumping out at them, kids have no interest in movies. Stop taking your kids to movies they're not going to want to even try to sit through. You just spent like $15 to buy your kid a ticket, and guess what? HE COULDN'T CARE LESS. If I ever have kids, we're not GOING to the movies until they're at least like, 10-15, and they damn well better appreciate it.
Anyway, I wish they had fleshed out some of the characters a bit more, and I could have done without Natalie Portman's bad science talks, and I wasn't crazy about the way they SHOT THEM THROUGH SPACE, but it wasn't the worst superhero movie I've ever seen so...