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THOR: Grading, Discussion, Review **SPOILERS***

What grade do you give THOR?

  • A+

    Votes: 25 12.2%

  • A

    Votes: 48 23.4%

  • A-

    Votes: 49 23.9%

  • B+

    Votes: 33 16.1%

  • B

    Votes: 24 11.7%

  • B-

    Votes: 9 4.4%

  • C+

    Votes: 5 2.4%

  • C

    Votes: 6 2.9%

  • C-

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • D+

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • D

    Votes: 2 1.0%

  • D-

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • F

    Votes: 3 1.5%
  • Total voters
    205
  • Poll closed .
Yahoo loved it.

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blog/article/163539/thorreviewed.html

The first big comic book movie of the year is a real hammer blow to the genre. Chris Hemsworth is perfectly cast in the lead role and director Kenneth Branagh shows a complete understanding of the material. The film's grasp on what entertains is second to none in recent years, and outside of the Nolan universe this is the best superhero film since 'Spider-Man'.

Last word must go to the star of the show. Hemsworth looks and acts the part, and all things considered he is the best superhero we've seen since Christopher Reeve perfected Superman. And yes that includes Bale's take on Batman and Downey Jr's performance in 'Iron Man'.
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Hemsworth is getting wonderful reviews. Being compared to Bale and RDJ is high praise.
 
Nice to see Branagh successfully add another genre to his resume of movies made. Shakespearean Epic, Shakespearean Tragedy, Noir detective/mystery, horror/supernatural and now superhero.
 
From Deadline Hollywood:

"Fast Five" Runs Over "Thor 3D" in Australia - Well, this is a surprising start for the first two big films of Summer 2011. Marvel/Disney's Thor 3D distributor Paramount opened on Thursday in Down Under thinking its Norse God would steal Fast Five's thunder from Universal, which opened its street car racing pic the day before. Didn't happen. Day Two of Fast Five beat Thor by 38% -- $2.02 million U.S. dollars vs $1.5 million U.S. dollars -- even though both films are playing in the same number of theaters (220), Fast Five is only 2D so can't command the higher 3D ticket prices, and Thor's lead Chris Hemsworth is Australian. Universal is crowing that its Day 2 of Fast Five was ahead of Iron Man 2 and Spider-Man 3 and its cume there is now $4.43 million U.S. dollars. Meanwhile, also today, Fast Five's previews in Korea are running 34% bigger than Fast And Furious (the fourquel in the franchise). In North America, Fast Five opens April 29 and Thor on May 6.
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Llama, are you going to see it in 3D or 2D? I'm still trying to decide which I'm going to go with. Apparently the live action stuff was filmed in 2D, but all of the special effects were done in 3D, rather than being converted after the fact.
 
No IMAX option here. There was only one 2D session today (at 11.15am - too early for me) so I'm seeing it in 3D, although I'm no fan on the 3D fad...
 
If you didn't already know, The Asylum has "Almighty Thor" coming out to ride the coattails of Thor, and they have Richard Greico as Loki!

Here's the trailer for you to view if you've ever wanted to see Thor using a submachine gun. :lol:
 
I watched the movie last night. I thought it was probably comparable to Iron Man in quality....quite good for this type of movie, but not at the level of, say, Nolan's Batman, and not as subversive as a movie like Kick-@$$. Of course, given the subject matter, there's no way to make a movie like this as grounded as "The Dark Knight". So it was as good as it had any right to be, given what it was aiming for.

I hope that makes sense.
 
chrisspringob said:
I watched the movie last night. I thought it was probably comparable to Iron Man in quality....quite good for this type of movie, but not at the level of, say, Nolan's Batman, and not as subversive as a movie like Kick-@$$. Of course, given the subject matter, there's no way to make a movie like this as grounded as "The Dark Knight". So it was as good as it had any right to be, given what it was aiming for.

I hope that makes sense.
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Letter Grade?

Until others have seen it to vote and see the results perhaps for awhile people could also put their letter grade in their post as well. :)
 
Couple of initial thoughts:
No need to see it in 3D - the only bit that was worth it was the closing credits!
Enjoyable, fun, well acted, but not very epic (this for a movie set in 3 realms)
After credit scene will be confusing to non-fanboys
Grade = B+
 
Thanks for the info, Llama. I have a free movie ticket, but it's not good for 3D showings, so since Thor's 3D apparently isn't anything special, it looks like I'll be seeing this in 2D. :techman:
 
Now that I've had a little time to think about it I think I know why it didn't feel as epic as it should have. Both the redemption of Thor and the romance with Jane seemed to happen literally overnight. Had they stretched these two story points out a bit longer, the whole movie would have felt more real.

Some other thoughts:
The best scene is a quiet scene when Loki visits Thor on earth. A touching scene between two brothers, even though Loki was obviously being deceitful.
Skif (is hot) and seems to have a crush on Thor
The humour works - similar to Iron Man
Nice references to Don Blake MD
Irrelevant intro to hawkeye, who wasn't mentioned by hero name, but briefly called by name.
The warriors three were fun; hope they have a bigger role in future films - I'd love an epic film to the other realms with them as sidekicks
 
Llama said:
Now that I've had a little time to think about it I think I know why it didn't feel as epic as it should have. Both the redemption of Thor and the romance with Jane seemed to happen literally overnight. Had they stretched these two story points out a bit longer, the whole movie would have felt more real.

Some other thoughts:
The best scene is a quiet scene when Loki visits Thor on earth. A touching scene between two brothers, even though Loki was obviously being deceitful.
Skif (is hot) and seems to have a crush on Thor
The humour works - similar to Iron Man
Nice references to Don Blake MD
Irrelevant intro to hawkeye, who wasn't mentioned by hero name, but briefly called by name.
The warriors three were fun; hope they have a bigger role in future films - I'd love an epic film to the other realms with them as sidekicks
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I am looking forward to this. I can understand the Sif crush as she and Thor are married in Norse mythology though not in the comics as I recall.
 
Just saw it a couple of hours ago.

I enjoyed every minute of it. But overall, it seemed a little... unfinished? Not as in "unpolished", everything looked & sounded great -- I mean as in the story seemed a bit more compressed than I thought it would be. Less epic.

Overall I give it an A-. Definitely recommend seeing.
 
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