Watched Thor 3d last night at midnight.
Visually, it was amazing. Amazing fight scenes, awesome costumes and decor, beautiful imagery. And the special effects were so freakin cool it was unreal. The shots of the stars and galaxies and such on Asgard were just breathtaking.
Chris Hemsworth is also awesome. It's not Shakespeare, but I was surprised at how well he carried the movie.
Other than that it sucked. The story was alright, but I just never got really invested in anything enough to care about it. Thor was an arrogant ass and all of a sudden stops being an arrogant ass and becomes the hero. What happened to make him change? Did I miss something?
And the love story between him and Natalie Portman was so hamfisted I felt like I was having it shoved down my throat every time I watched a scene with her. Which really sucks because I sorta love Natalie so I was looking forward to seeing her rock in this movie. She was hardly in it!
In fact, they could have taken everything about humans/Earth out of the story and it probably would have made it a much better movie. Maybe they felt that they needed human characters and an Earth setting to make it more relatable but that's just a huge mistake. Relatable characters aren't relatable because of where they live, but because of who they are. And in the end, we didn't really get any of that from Thor. It really feels like the movie was written by the entire boardroom of Marvel/Paramount instead of just Branagh and his crew. It's like they didn't even care that it was sloppy.
I enjoyed myself, but it wasn't easy. Still looking forward to Captain American and Green Lantern, however.
A few parts that really bugged me [SPOILER ALERT]:
His group of buddies from Asgard were pointless and dumb, and the sarcastic human chick who hung around with Portman was even more pointless. What were they thinking?
The scene where the giant-fire-robot-thing was tearing shit up and Thor says "I have a plan" and walks out to it, and the music starts to swell, and he says something corny and obvious about taking his life instead of theirs. Just stupid. Lame.
Towards the end he addresses the S.H.I.E.L.D. guy and says something like "We fight on the same side... so... I'll join your team!" It could've waited for the Avengers movie. It was clearly just forced in there to make him part of the team already, but god it was so LAZY!
Then, I'm cringing just thinking about it, when he was saying goodbye to whats-her-name and said, "Deal?" ...I wanted to vomit in my popcorn. So, so bad.