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Thor opened in Australia on the 21st.  It is now the 25th and I have seen it twice.  It is that good.

I found myself really engaged by this movie.  The direction and scriptwriting are very tight, with almost no wasted scenes or movement, and everything rolls along very smoothly.  The characterizations are excellent; Chris Hemsworth is a great Thor, impulsive and brash and yet noble at the same time.  Tom Hiddleston wears Loki well, and shows his roots as a stage actor doing Shakespeare and other stage plays.  The special effects are good without being overbearing, and from what I understand it stays pretty close to the comics while updating aspects.

There were a few bits and pieces to the movie that I only noticed after thinking about it.  Natalie Portman's character isn't particularly strong.  Not in in the sense of character or physical strength, but in the sense that it seems only there to help Thor's character do things.  Her character isn't exactly wishy washy, but almost.  It seems that the scriptwriters wanted 'human' to be really obvious when compared with the Asgardians, who seem larger than life and are given a lot of screen time.

Any Kat Dennings fans will be disappointed that she stays completely covered up for the entire movie.  Not a bosom in sight.   :teddyr:  She's given a slightly dorky librarianish character, glasses and woolen beanie and everything.

Anthony Hopkins is just great.  That's all I can say about him.  Just great.

I only know about Thor from a few comics like Secret Wars (1980's) and what I have read on wikipedia, so I came into this pretty fresh.  I had no expectations about what the characters should be like, and I was very pleasantly surprised.  It's not quite like Iron Man, but I would rate it was one of the best Marvel movies to date.  I was all set to be disappointed due to flops like Spiderman 3, The Punisher (new movies), but my hopes were tentatively up due to the X-Men movies.  I think Marvel Studios really score with Thor.

I'm looking forward to it!

By Heimdall's Horns I'm psyched!!

I'm going to try to see it opening day.  I was scared away by the bad press with Sucker Punch, so I'm going to try to see this on opening day instead.  Hoping it will be good since I'm taking one of my cousins to it.

Okay, I just got back from a while ago.  First time I ever saw a movie on opening day, so that's pretty cool as well.  Though I'm surprised not all of the seats were filled, even at the 3D screening I saw.  I dunno.

So, how was it you may ask.  Well to answer that question, it was great.  It was a great film and the perfect way to open the summer blockbuster year.  It also hyped me for the upcoming Captain America and Avengers movie coming later on.  Here's hoping that it'll be just as good.

I won't talk about the plot to avoid spoilers and talk about the rest, but the plot was very solid and enjoyable.  Acting wise, it was good and everyone turned in a decent performance, though a couple of giggle worthy moments did crop up.  All the special effects looked and the settings were incredible to look at.  The only complaint was that one of the mechincal machines looked a bit faked when the sun shined directly on it.  Action was solid and enjoyable, though there were a few edits that looked bad.

Overall; it was great movie ,with an occasion problem, and I had a blast watching it.  Here's hoping the rest of the season's films will be just as good, but that's unlikely considering The Smurfs are on the horizon...

I was very pleased with Thor. Nice execution of character arcs for the hero and even for the villain.

The Destroyer was nerfed for the movie pretty much as I expected, so be ready for that if you're a comic book purist.

I think it's unfortunate that they're rushing out all the individual avenger movies so quickly. They should take their time and establish the characters before launching into the Avengers movie.

Umm... these movies are establishing the characters so we know them before the main event arrives.

Every time I read the "yes, yes, yes" part of the subject line it makes me horny.   :teddyr:

I enjoyed it, and it places itself quite well within the Marvel universe that Marvel are trying to develop, which would invigorate the genre muchly.  I'm not the biggest Avengers fan but there's only so long you can go making individual superhero pictures without them either running out of villains or the whole 'I'm a unique creature in the world' becomes a bit silly [you're a superhero who is alone in the world yet there's so many villains??]  That's why they're one up on DC at the moment, not that I mind their pics either.

Thor was well put together with some funny moments and some terrific effects work.  It also benefits from having a main villain that you could feel sympathetic for and could easily be developed as an anti-hero if they wanted to go in a different direction to the norm [not that they will or should]

"I'll watch what HE's watching!"  :teddyr:

Marvel Studios seem to be operating with a fairly well defined plot arc regarding the Avengers, what with all the little post-trailer scenes and other tie-in references.  The scene at the end of Iron Man regarding Thor's hammer, and the scene at the end of Thor that sets us up most likely for the Avengers movie itself.  I praise Merrill Lynch for investing so much money into Marvel Studios for ten movies.

Exactly. It's happening too quickly.

For the majority of the movie-going public, most of these characters wont be familiar. They're not being given the time to settle into the public's consciousness. The Avengers is supposed to be the coming together of an all-star cast of superheroes but if nobody knows who they are, what's the point?

 I didn't mind the changes they made. If they kept it 100% true to the comic I think it would have come off a little more "Clash of the Titans" which i don't think they wanted. That would have been good too, and actually I would have liked to have seen how they resolve the existence of Norse gods alongside Christianity, Judaism etc.  Be that as it may, I still thought they delivered an entertaining movie. I thought the acting was good and there was some decent humor. The after credits scene was fun and I think this movie featured Stan lee's best cameo ever. :thumbup:

Saw it Saturday and enjoyed it very much.  I'm in a comic book mood.  Bring on Green Lantern, Conan, and Captain America.

If I remember so, the Norse gods aren't really gods.  They are superhuman people from another plane of existances that came to earth long, long ago to fight those ice people attacking the world.  People worshiped them for saving them and they had abilities and techonology far superior to any of the people at the time.

I agree . . . they said something tho that effect in the movie.

Saw the film 2 days ago.   Excellent!   It could have been so veeeeeery bad and campy, but they pulled it off well.  The romantic subplot was a bit feeble, my wife sez.  But the action was great, and the guy who played  Thor did a great job of playing the part straight and well.  (Same guy who played Kirk's dad, yes?)

Go see it, for sure.

I just watched it over the past few days, verily much so I'm pleased with the film.  I think the casting was spot on and I was happy to see Ray Stevensen from Rome in his role.  He is a great actor.

The film also accomplished somehow linking the realm of Asgard into our reality with grace.  I wasn't sure how they would do it but they did.  Awesome film, probably the best so far of all the Avengers origin stories.

I thought it was ok.  Pretty standard stuff.

I liked most of it but I felt the third act was boring, predictable, and anti-climactic. I felt the thing was just filler for the Avengers.

It was a decent watch. Better than average for comic book movies, but then I'm not as big a fan of them as some. It followed the general mold of the comics that I remember reading as a kid, I will give it that.

In the comics, they really are gods.  The marvel universe establishes as real quite a few gods and such - Hercules and Thor are buddies in Marvel, for example.  The ONLY god they don't seem to really definitively prove as real is the biblical one - probably because they don't want to touch the subject, but IIRC traditional vampires in Marvel are hurt by crosses, for whatever that tells you.

How all this works, I don't really know.  I figure it's like Discworld.

We all loved it!  :thumbup:

I like a lot of the more recent super hero movies, but this one honestly put me to sleep. Thor does some random sh¡!t on an ice planet, eats, breakfast, snore snores... Just watch Captain America and Iron Man

Pretty good. Not amazing, but pretty serviceable.

Chris Hemsworth does a great job as a viking transplanted to the real world, managing old world charm and chivalry in an age where it seems outdated. I'm glad I don't know this guy in real life, since every woman I know who has seen this film is entranced by the guy. Get used to being the "fat friend."

I liked it, and I really like the way these Marvel have been quietly creating a Marvel universe in film. I was wondering why they got Jeremy Renner to play a bit part before I realized he was Hawkeye.

My only quibble with the film is that Volstagg was not fat enough. "Do not mistake my appetite for apathy!" is a great line, but Volstagg is a big fat guy. I mean a huge fat guy, that's what's so lovable about him.

I found this movie lost something the second time around.  I saw it during its theatrical run, then I bought the 3-D blu-ray when it was released.  The second viewing wasn't nearly as interesting as the first.  maybe I didn't let enough time pass between the first time I saw it and the second.

     I rarely read the THOR comic, generally encountering the character in THE AVENGERS. However, I was aware enough of the mythos to be able to appreciate the film; this WAS Thor, as envisioned back between the pages of JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY.

(http://images.wikia.com/marveldatabase/images/0/0c/Journey_into_Mystery_Vol_1_83.jpg)

     My favorite line....
"He drank, he fought, he made his ancestors proud."

THOR had some really good stories, especially in JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY and then in the first 5 or so years when THOR had is own book.  I especially liked the Jack Kirby artwork in some of those issues.