That movie hit a Thor spot

[uberreiniger]

Just got back from seeing Thor with some friends. Yeah, I'm two weeks behind everyone else but it was worth the wait. I'll be honest, I know fuck all about Marvel's "Thor" comics. I've never read one, mostly because I always thought the character design for Thor looked kind of dumb. So I have no idea how true to the comics the movie was. But, WOW their conception of Norse mythology is actually really cool. Sort of a "Stargate" approach without totally sucking all the magic out and just making everyone advanced-yet-mundane aliens. I do not know if they are the Diversity Vikings in the comics as they are in the film. But even that's okay because.... Wow, Heimdall... I think I have a new man crush and I'm not ashamed to say it.

Quite a good film, I thought. Being a nut for character actors I was pretty stoked to see some favorites like Ray Stevenson, (Between this and The Punisher I'd say Marvel Studios has been very good to him,) Tadanobu Asano, and Colm Feore (quite unrecognizable under all that makeup, I must say.) I also had no clue Stellan Skarsgaard was in it. Always a pleasure to see him.

New Pirates too, apparently. Just have to work that into my schedule now.

Comments

[ravenbrenna.livejournal.com]

I LOVED the movie. The only different I saw was that in the comics Thor seems a bit more campy, but it only works in animation, not in the movies. lol. They still captured the feeling of the world really well and they had a combo of a bunch of different iterations. It was great :) And they got Loki perfect in my opinion.