Have any Australians here seen Thor yet? I just watched it a few hours ago, and I wanted to know what other people thought of it.
To be honest, I was let down. Basically, all it really amounts to is two hours-worth of Avengers exposition. What little left that was actual movie material kept switching back and forth between Earth and Asgard, and it became hard to relate to anything that was going on. All that happened on Earth was confined to one tiny town in which Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth stared dreamily at eachother, save for one battle towards the end.
Asgard was very pretty, and the more interesting of the two locales, but the constant switching between Earth and Asgard was very jarring, and contrasted with the gooey love interest thing going on on earth, Asgard basically just became an excuse to show things being blown up. There isn't really a great sense of what Thor is fighting for, either at the start, where he's basically just fighting for the sake of fighting, or towards the end, where all he cares about by then is the girl back on Earth.
Plus, Thor becomes stuck back in Asgard by the end anyway, so he's not even on Earth to do the whole Avenger's thing, poor Natalie's rushing around doing sciencey stuff, I guess trying to get back to Thor somehow, the Frost Giants are saved from extinction at the hands of Loki, plotting their revenge or something, and... nothing's changed, really. There's no resolution. It all seemed rather pointless by the end. Once Avengers come around, they still have to work out how to get Thor back to Earth anyway.
All in all, the scenery was pretty, I guess, and the action sequences decent. But it's the sort of movie that could only really be appreciated by people who are aware of the existance of the avengers movie, and plan on seeing it. Anybody who sees it who did so simply because of a passing interest in Norse mythology, and not the comic books, would be sorely disappointed, I feel. The cameo of Hawkeye was very cool though.
Anyways, everybody raise your hand of you're Australian and you've seen Thor, and tell me what you thought.
To be honest, I was let down. Basically, all it really amounts to is two hours-worth of Avengers exposition. What little left that was actual movie material kept switching back and forth between Earth and Asgard, and it became hard to relate to anything that was going on. All that happened on Earth was confined to one tiny town in which Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth stared dreamily at eachother, save for one battle towards the end.
Asgard was very pretty, and the more interesting of the two locales, but the constant switching between Earth and Asgard was very jarring, and contrasted with the gooey love interest thing going on on earth, Asgard basically just became an excuse to show things being blown up. There isn't really a great sense of what Thor is fighting for, either at the start, where he's basically just fighting for the sake of fighting, or towards the end, where all he cares about by then is the girl back on Earth.
Plus, Thor becomes stuck back in Asgard by the end anyway, so he's not even on Earth to do the whole Avenger's thing, poor Natalie's rushing around doing sciencey stuff, I guess trying to get back to Thor somehow, the Frost Giants are saved from extinction at the hands of Loki, plotting their revenge or something, and... nothing's changed, really. There's no resolution. It all seemed rather pointless by the end. Once Avengers come around, they still have to work out how to get Thor back to Earth anyway.
All in all, the scenery was pretty, I guess, and the action sequences decent. But it's the sort of movie that could only really be appreciated by people who are aware of the existance of the avengers movie, and plan on seeing it. Anybody who sees it who did so simply because of a passing interest in Norse mythology, and not the comic books, would be sorely disappointed, I feel. The cameo of Hawkeye was very cool though.
Anyways, everybody raise your hand of you're Australian and you've seen Thor, and tell me what you thought.
