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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 .
^You've gotta wonder how many times a waiter has asked him if he wanted a nice Chianti with dinner.
 
^ I thought this was telling:

Oh, it is my sincere desire that Captain America and Green Lantern are incrementally worse than Thor, so that we may never be subjected to seeing the cluster-f*** that surely will be The Avengers.)

Idiot doesn't even know that GL has nothing to do with The Avengers and is from a different studio and stable.
 
Volstagg was a bit thin; but hey, you ocouldn't do a live action version faithful to the comic without making him a CGI character, so what they did definitely worked.

I don't know, has Harry Knowles got any acting experience?

He's appeared as a background extra more than a few times, I think the first for him was The Faculty.

But the dude can't stand up for long - every time I've seen him in person, he's been in a wheelchair.
 
^ Yeah, he has awful spinal and leg problems not helped by his weight (IIRC he started the website when laid up as a result). He writes about it quite a bit on the site.
 
^^ I thought he had done gone the gastric bypass route last year or something, but haven't seen much about it since.
 
^ I thought this was telling:

Oh, it is my sincere desire that Captain America and Green Lantern are incrementally worse than Thor, so that we may never be subjected to seeing the cluster-f*** that surely will be The Avengers.)

Idiot doesn't even know that GL has nothing to do with The Avengers and is from a different studio and stable.
I caught that also.
When one sets out to hate a particular film or sub-genre then there is nothing the film can do to win over that person. I wonder if it was LonePirate from BoxOfficeMojo who summitted that review?

Frankly I'm amazed when I get to the bottom that he gave it 1.5 stars. Seems high for such a waste of time as that reviewer was trying to drive home.

Edit: I left a comment on the Weekly Volcano review, guess I'll see if it gets approved and posted.
 
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Speaking of Stevenson, anyone else wish that Kevin McKidd had played the blond warrior? :rommie:
 
^ Nope. Nor do I wish Alexander Skarsgard did (though I did marvel at how they by-passed him for a long time). Hemsworth was perfect.
 
Be that as it may, Hemsworth was good, but Alexander Skaarsgard (Eric from True Blood) was on the list to play Thor too. Imagine if he had played Thor and his father Stellan played Odin. That would have been just as awesome.
 
^ That was one of the rumours at the time. Of course, Stellan ended up in the movie anyway, but I really don't think he would have been right for the role. You needed someone with Hopkins' bombast.

The thing about Alexander is that he has a sort of sly glint in his eye that is wrong for Thor. He'd almost be a good Loki, if they decided to make Loki more physically imposing.
 
^ Oh right. I forgot he was up for that - at one stage he was supposed to be in the running for Thor himself, as was James Bond, Daniel Craig.

It would have been a nice little Rome reunion if he and Stevenson had comprised two of the warriors three, wouldn't it?!
 
^ And sticking with the HBO connection, in each he played opposite a star of The Wire (Dominic West in Punisher, Idris Elba in Thor).
 
<snip>

I was a little surprised that he was so vehement in telling Thor to not break the rainbow bridge - "you will never see her again". Why is it important for Loki that Thor see her again? I know that Loki being selfish himself was trying to persuade Thor to not break the bridge and assumes that Thor being selfish will refuse it too. But at other times during the movie, he takes advantage of Thor's "noble" nature (when he dupes him on earth). I guess in the heat of battle he forgets to "think" like Thor would.

O<snip>.

Why would you think Loki gave a damn about Thor never seeing her again? He just didn't want Thor to break the bridge and was desperately throwing out a reason for him not to do it.
 
Black Swan is quite good.

One can only imagine the poor dear and Hopkins having a smoke backstage on this one and commiserating about their awards and nominations.

The things make good doorstops, but you gotta eat.

(Well, okay, they were probably never on set the same day) :lol:

Hehe.

Though, to be fair--everyone enjoys an easy day at work, now and then.

They might have spent more time discussing the stuff they were planning to buy when they cashed their paycheques.
I remember and interview where some reporter asked Judy Dench why she did the Ridick movie. She asked in a very incredulous and snooty way. Lady Dench replied (as if talking to a slow child) "They paid me an obscene amount of money"
 
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