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darchildreSo, tonight I went to see Thor.
I went in telling myself not to rant about things that are wrong as compared with the mythology, so I am notably not talking about that. Except in one instance, because I'm sorry, I could not get past this, Laufey is Loki's mother. I realize that's confusing because he gets called Loki Laufeyjarson and usually that's a patronymic but, y'know, Laufey. Not a dude.
I'm done now.
Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I really like Chris Hemsworth's Thor. He is...well, that's pretty much exactly how I picture Thor*. Big and brash and kind and really enthusiastic about smashing stuff. He was perfect. Tom Hiddleston is not at all how I picture Loki but he's very pretty (that scene where he was in human clothes was especially nice) and I enjoyed him and his ridiculous daddy issues and identity crisis. I look forward to seeing him again. Anthony Hopkins is likewise not Odin but he's Anthony Hopkins and that's always fun. And all the humans were nifty.
The movie does feel a lot like set up, but that is the curse of the superhero movie. Now we have the origin story out of the way, so we can do more interesting things next time. I would definitely watch more Thor movies and I'm totally looking forward to The Avengers.
Maybe I should read Thor comics.
*Let's talk about how it's deeply weird to watch superhero movies about one's gods. On one level, I'm watching a silly but entertaining superhero movie and on another level, I'm watching a story that sort of nominally is about stuff that is, y'know, religiously important to me and occasionally having weird moments where things click and resonate. Mr Hemsworth's Thor smiles all the time, for example, and I'd never really thought about it but of course Thor does. Thor is that kind of god. There was a scene where Loki and Frigga were talking (Loki and Frigga are the gods I probably talk to most, though not generally at the same time) and she's kinda sorta his mom in this film and she obviously had so much love for him. And, just, of course, because Frigga is the All-Mother and she has that boundless love for everyone. Of course Heimdall can see Jane Foster from Asgard - Heimdall watches over all of us.
(Alas, I did not have such moments concerning Odin or Loki because the film's Odin and Loki are incredibly far from being the Odin and Loki I know. Ah, well.)
And it's bizarre because how the hell do you talk to people about that? "So I had this religious insight during this cheesy comic book movie..." Deeply weird.
I went in telling myself not to rant about things that are wrong as compared with the mythology, so I am notably not talking about that. Except in one instance, because I'm sorry, I could not get past this, Laufey is Loki's mother. I realize that's confusing because he gets called Loki Laufeyjarson and usually that's a patronymic but, y'know, Laufey. Not a dude.
I'm done now.
Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I really like Chris Hemsworth's Thor. He is...well, that's pretty much exactly how I picture Thor*. Big and brash and kind and really enthusiastic about smashing stuff. He was perfect. Tom Hiddleston is not at all how I picture Loki but he's very pretty (that scene where he was in human clothes was especially nice) and I enjoyed him and his ridiculous daddy issues and identity crisis. I look forward to seeing him again. Anthony Hopkins is likewise not Odin but he's Anthony Hopkins and that's always fun. And all the humans were nifty.
The movie does feel a lot like set up, but that is the curse of the superhero movie. Now we have the origin story out of the way, so we can do more interesting things next time. I would definitely watch more Thor movies and I'm totally looking forward to The Avengers.
Maybe I should read Thor comics.
*Let's talk about how it's deeply weird to watch superhero movies about one's gods. On one level, I'm watching a silly but entertaining superhero movie and on another level, I'm watching a story that sort of nominally is about stuff that is, y'know, religiously important to me and occasionally having weird moments where things click and resonate. Mr Hemsworth's Thor smiles all the time, for example, and I'd never really thought about it but of course Thor does. Thor is that kind of god. There was a scene where Loki and Frigga were talking (Loki and Frigga are the gods I probably talk to most, though not generally at the same time) and she's kinda sorta his mom in this film and she obviously had so much love for him. And, just, of course, because Frigga is the All-Mother and she has that boundless love for everyone. Of course Heimdall can see Jane Foster from Asgard - Heimdall watches over all of us.
(Alas, I did not have such moments concerning Odin or Loki because the film's Odin and Loki are incredibly far from being the Odin and Loki I know. Ah, well.)
And it's bizarre because how the hell do you talk to people about that? "So I had this religious insight during this cheesy comic book movie..." Deeply weird.
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Date: 2011-05-08 07:43 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-05-08 04:24 pm (UTC)Weirdly, the only casting thing that I couldn't quite get past was the fact that Sif was a brunette. XD
The Simonson run on Thor is some of the best comics period, IMO, but the current stuff that Matt Fraction is doing is also excellent, and the Thor: The Mighty Avenger series was great if tragically cut short eight issues in.
(Also, having seen Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter and Dogma while I was still nominally Christian, I didn't think a movie about my gods was that weird. But I'm odd.)
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Date: 2011-05-09 03:58 am (UTC)