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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
That's one of my biggest beefs with the film. They did Demon in a Bottle but didn't really have the courage to actually go full Demon in a Bottle. In the comics, Tony Stark's alcoholism is one of his biggest character flaws. Seeing him succumb only to rise again is one of the most iconic stories in Iron Man history.
But Iron Man 2 chickened out on actually giving that story its proper due.
Of course, in fairness, the MCU was still getting its sea legs way back when and didn't quite have the nerve to do something that risky. It wouldn't be until Winter Soldier that the MCU started redefining what you can and cannot do in a superhero film.
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That. Tony running through cycles of self-destructing and rebuilding himself is basically his whole MCU arc. And sometimes Real Life Writes the Plot no matter what you do. RDJ was firm about not delving too deep into substance abuse specifically because of his own history and not Tempting Fate in that mindset for the role, so it is what it is.
Thor has one of the best villains in the MCU.
What I didn't like about the Avengers is that Loki will go from being a tragic villain to being a homicidal psychopath.
Avengers is better than Thor, but has a worst villain in characterization. (I am aware that they are the same character)
Edited by JoLuRo075 on Sep 5th 2019 at 6:01:43 AM
I finshed watching Thor!
Summary: Thor Odinson is banished on Earth and stripped of his powers after being reckless by going to Jotunheim to fight the Frost Giants and make them fear. Meanwhile, his adoptive brother, Loki Laufeyson, is a Magnificent Bastardnote in his plan to impress his adoptive father, Odin, by impressing his real father, only to impress his adoptive father Odin, by killing the Frost Giants and their home Jotunheim with the Bifrost.
Stan Lee cameo: A man trying to lift Mjolnir with his car, who is laughed at. Credited as "Stan the Man".
Observations:
- Hawkeye debuts here.
- D'awww, man, Odin shedding a tear for Thor, it's warming my heart...
- J. Michael Straczynski, who contributed to the story for the movie, appears as a civilian.
- Bo Welch is production designer. You know him from The Cat in the Hat, Men in Black and both the film and television adaptations of A Series of Unfortunate Events.
- Before he wrote Thor: Ragnarok, Craig Kyle was co-producer of this movie.
- Heimdall looks great. Idris Elba makes him cool. Great job!
- First "[X] will return in [Y]" message.
- Asgard looks great!
- I rooted for Loki here. He isn't so bad. But I also understood Thor, too.
- Bruce Banner is mentioned, but not by name.
- There was the Infinity Gauntlet? How could I miss it?
The Stinger: Dr. Erik Selvig meets with Nick Fury, discussing about what happened on New Mexico, and then seeing a mysterious blue cube. Looks like Loki has plans...
10/10!note
Yeah, come and get me.
Edited by Andrei_Bondoc on Sep 5th 2019 at 4:48:52 PM
"Scooby Dooby Doo!"I guess you can say Thor was the first real start to the Infinity Saga, due the fact the Tesseract appeared in The Stinger. That little cube's been on one crazy adventure.
And yeah, they hadn't really had that in mind when they first made the film, but still.
Edited by chasemaddigan on Sep 5th 2019 at 10:03:28 AM
The Dark World is awful, but the first Thor is an underrated gem.
It introduced fan-favorite villain Loki to the franchise and made him an interesting and sympathetic figure who constantly keeps the audience guessing as to his true motive - while being charming and likable in the process.
It's probably the best performance that Anthony Hopkins ever turned in as Odin, outside that one scene in Ragnarok: "God of Hammers?"
For as much as people complain that the Thor movies spend too much time on Earth, that only became a problem in the second one. The Earth stuff in this movie are a lot of fun, and watching Thor utterly fail to be a convincing human being is fantastic.
Jane, Selvig, and Darcy were similarly pretty good in this one. They, too, wouldn't become a problem until The Dark World. The first Thor film had just the right amount of them, used in the right ways.
Thor has an actual arc! And Character Development! Gets a bit Jesus-y near the end, but it's still more than the big lug usually gets. I think Endgame's the only other film that presented Thor as a flawed person who has to learn things in order to be the hero he needs to be, and it had to invent new flaws and derail his character first in order to do it.
Ragnarok sort of did, but that was really more of a lightswitch growth. His arc in Ragnarok is that his dad tells him near the end that he doesn't actually need Mjolnir and he accepts it immediately.
Thor 1 is still the only movie in the MCU filmography to just be like, "Thor's a cool dude but he's got some issues and maybe we should talk about that."
There's a lot to like about this movie. Later films blow it out of the water, certainly, but it's an underappreciated classic.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I find the Earth cast annoying, and indeed most of the secondary cast is white noise for me, didn't particularly care for the action and, well, I nearly slept through the movie at one point and that says all it needs saying, really.
Different strokes for different folks, but about the only thing I got out of Thor is that the same day I watched it in the movie teather was also the first time I played a Metal Gear Solid game.
Thor deserves a bit of credit for helping pave the way for more fantastical superheroes on the big screen. Before the film was released, a lot people thought Thor was too silly a hero to be taken seriously. They thought a movie starring the God of Thunder, magic hammers, and Rainbow Bridges would never work.
But it did. It proved that as long as the cast and crew are willing to take a outlandish concept seriously, any hero can lead their own film. We probably wouldn't have gotten films like Guardians of the Galaxy, SHAZAM! (2019), or even Deadpool (2016) without Thor paving the way.
Those blonde eyebrows on the other hand...
Granted Thor did a little defantisfying with Asgard including making the bifrost a cool teleport instead of a cool literal rainbow road
Forever liveblogging the AvengersWell, there is a rainbow bridge leading to the Bifrost. That's a thing.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Thor 1 is fantastic.
Gorgeous shots in Asgard, an imaginative translation of Jack Kirby's designs to the big screen.
Both Thor and Loki have some great character work in this one.
Also feel Jane was good here. She is shown to be driven and curious, and I can see why she'd be attracted to Thor, specially in that talk about the World Tree.
Its only the sequel that ruins her character (and to an extent Thor's) by placing an overemphasis on the at that point non-existant relationship.
And I like the human cast. They make good foils and enhance the mortal Thor bits a lot.
Also, Sif and the Warriors Three show a lot of potential.
It's a shame that the former would be ruined by clunky, forced inclusion in the sequel, while the latter would just never realize their potential and just vanish into the ether.
Yeah, if they hadn't tried so hard to convince us that Thor and Jane were TOTES an epic romance for the ages, then Jane's role in the first film would have been absolutely fine. That's pretty much the only thing wrong with it.
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I finished watching Iron Man 2!
Summary: Tony Stark makes questionable decisions, became alcoholic, oh, and he's also nearly dying (huh, thay's why he's drinking much). Meanwhile, someone else wants to fight him.
Stan Lee cameo: As himself, mistaken for Larry King (or is he really Larry King?).note
Observations:
The Stinger: Agent Coulson informs that Mjolnir has been found.note
Overall, 8/10.note
This was a double feature today.
Edited by Andrei_Bondoc on Sep 4th 2019 at 12:46:30 PM
"Scooby Dooby Doo!"