Hey, everyone. Well, it's date night in America. If you are taking your lady out on the town, maybe you should take her to see Thor. My wife says that she rates it 3.5 stars out of 5 but I give it 4.5 stars out of 5. We went to see it today and really enjoyed it.
More as a matter of timing than anything else, we saw the regular version and not the 3d. If 3d makes it any cooler, I may have to go back and watch it again. The computer animated scenes of Asgard, which is Thor's home turf, are both good and bad. The scenes of the buildings were not as good as I expected, but everything else was awesome. The Rainbow Bridge looked real and the battles were very cool. When Thor did that deal, like in the comics, where he spins that big hammer super fast and creates a vortex, well, I was into that stuff.
The Aussie who plays Thor was born to play this role. To say that he nailed the role fails to do him justice. The dude is Thor. His name is Chris Hemsworth and doubtless, if we hired a private detective to check his background there would be ample evidence that his Dad's name was Odin. Even the cute little granny that accompanied me today said he was 'attractive'?
That brings me to Anthony Hopkins, who plays the role of King Odin, Thor's Dad. Hopkins did a great job and the funniest thing happened on our way home. Here's the conversation.
"Anthony Hopkins looked good with his hair long." I said.
"Yes, he should wear it long all the time," she said. "Then again, he looks good with his hair short, too."
"So, you're saying he just looks good?" I said.
"Well, yeah."
The plot goes something like this. Here's the recipe: Thor is a Prince of the realm. He is due to succeed Odin as King of Asgard. The youngster loves to fight and has a bit of a mouth on him. Odin is forced to calm him down a bit by kicking him out of Asgard to another realm, which is what we call earth. Odin also takes away his powers and that big magic hammer.
A team of researchers finds Thor out in the desert. Jane Foster, played capably by Natalie Portman, forms a bit of a bond with the big guy and he is certainly more than a lab rat to her. This part of the film is pretty funny as Thor tries to adapt to being human. In the refiner's fire of hard times, Thor learns about humility and sacrifice. His evil brother Loki plots against Odin and earth and only Thor stands in the way of destruction. You get the sense, early on, that if Thor ever gets that big hammer, and his powers back, he will see to it that somebody will carry home a beating. That's an expression here in the South.
This film is easily as good as Iron Man and better than the Spiderman movies. It might be a close call between Thor and the original Spiderman.
I read Thor comics when I was a kid and this was a real treat for me. The previews were good too. I saw the preview of Green Lantern and Captain America today and they looked to be good. I also saw the preview of Steven Spielberg's Super 8. It should be a good sci-fi as well. You know that Spielberg can bring the sci-fi, baby!
From the green lantern, uh, green retreat, I'm CE Wills.
More as a matter of timing than anything else, we saw the regular version and not the 3d. If 3d makes it any cooler, I may have to go back and watch it again. The computer animated scenes of Asgard, which is Thor's home turf, are both good and bad. The scenes of the buildings were not as good as I expected, but everything else was awesome. The Rainbow Bridge looked real and the battles were very cool. When Thor did that deal, like in the comics, where he spins that big hammer super fast and creates a vortex, well, I was into that stuff.
The Aussie who plays Thor was born to play this role. To say that he nailed the role fails to do him justice. The dude is Thor. His name is Chris Hemsworth and doubtless, if we hired a private detective to check his background there would be ample evidence that his Dad's name was Odin. Even the cute little granny that accompanied me today said he was 'attractive'?
That brings me to Anthony Hopkins, who plays the role of King Odin, Thor's Dad. Hopkins did a great job and the funniest thing happened on our way home. Here's the conversation.
"Anthony Hopkins looked good with his hair long." I said.
"Yes, he should wear it long all the time," she said. "Then again, he looks good with his hair short, too."
"So, you're saying he just looks good?" I said.
"Well, yeah."
The plot goes something like this. Here's the recipe: Thor is a Prince of the realm. He is due to succeed Odin as King of Asgard. The youngster loves to fight and has a bit of a mouth on him. Odin is forced to calm him down a bit by kicking him out of Asgard to another realm, which is what we call earth. Odin also takes away his powers and that big magic hammer.
A team of researchers finds Thor out in the desert. Jane Foster, played capably by Natalie Portman, forms a bit of a bond with the big guy and he is certainly more than a lab rat to her. This part of the film is pretty funny as Thor tries to adapt to being human. In the refiner's fire of hard times, Thor learns about humility and sacrifice. His evil brother Loki plots against Odin and earth and only Thor stands in the way of destruction. You get the sense, early on, that if Thor ever gets that big hammer, and his powers back, he will see to it that somebody will carry home a beating. That's an expression here in the South.
This film is easily as good as Iron Man and better than the Spiderman movies. It might be a close call between Thor and the original Spiderman.
I read Thor comics when I was a kid and this was a real treat for me. The previews were good too. I saw the preview of Green Lantern and Captain America today and they looked to be good. I also saw the preview of Steven Spielberg's Super 8. It should be a good sci-fi as well. You know that Spielberg can bring the sci-fi, baby!
From the green lantern, uh, green retreat, I'm CE Wills.
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