Thor
So, as we established before, drive-ins are great. They even are so when the movie itself is crap! Okay, so Thor wasn’t completely crappy. I thought it was mostly enjoyable and somewhat suspenseful. Even Loki’s turns were actually surprisingly interesting, though I might have been too tired to completely get it.
What bugs me about the film the most are perhaps its absolutely horrendous directing (the way the story is told is just somewhat boring) and the main character. I haven’t seen all that many testosterone-laden films where the main character possesses huge man boobs, but whenever I do, the manliness of this main character annoys me like crazy. At times it’s fun (like the scene in the diner where Thor smashes his cup), but most of the time, it just makes its main character one-dimensional. Even his character development towards a wiser and more humble son didn’t help.
I also wonder if it was Natalie Portman who herself decided to turn her character into a fierce and supposedly smart scientist, because it’s cool nowadays to do the Marie Curie thing to little girls. It would be very like her, and perhaps this film marks the verge at which I think I don’t actually like her as an actress anymore. Ugh.
There is a part of me who really wanted to see the film. Maybe I was just smitten with its looks and it’s a film that a lot of people have probably seen and could talk about. Plus, I like nordic mythology. But even though the film was enjoyable per se, I thought it was ultimately forgettable at the same time.
Well, it is a summer blockbuster movie. But it was one of the better comic book movies with emphasis on action than romantic subplots. Condensed, but still watchable.
Plus, watching it during the election period had its own charm. (The hammer is a logo for an opposition party)
It’s comments time!
Hahahaha, I was so sure that you watched this in a cinema. B. and a friend of his watched it too and turned it into a sarcastic “we talk throughout the whole film about how bad the film is” screening.
@MrMayat: lol, the connection to the election is awesome. I totally didn’t think that it was one of the better comic book movies; in fact, it was the worst I have ever seen (which might be because I haven’t seen that many of them). Nevertheless, my benchmark is still set at “The Dark Knight”, “Sin City” and “V for Vendetta” – and I guess that bar is just very high.
@Shii: We should have done that too. But then again, I must admit that I found it incredibly hard to make fun of the film, because it was ultimately enjoyable… just incredibly silly?