05-07-2011, 05:53 AM
The Frost Giants were cool.
The True Villain was so obvious, I knew it from the first second I saw him. I thought they were going to pull a switcheroo, thinking that he had to be a red herring.
Instead, I got exactly the guy I thought would do it, for extremely generic reasons we've all heard a hundred times before, and motivations which seemed to change from scene to scene. Instead of conveying complexity, the character came off as frustratingly ineffectual and schizophrenic. I was ANNOYED by the villain, but I didn't hate him.
If nothing else, I was hoping for some good action. And there's action there. But, as the Plinkett says: "action is good, but pointless action is boring." There's a sequence that gets a lot of play in the previews where Thor is decimating SHIELD guards to try and get somewhere. It looks dramatic, right? But in the actual movie, having them there is completely pointless and irrelevant to the plot. The ultimate climax of the scene could've taken place in a completely deserted landscape and had as much emotional impact; SHIELD is shoved in there as nothing more than an obligatory link to the coming movies and does nothing at all. They could've used all the time that they spent on that action sequence to do some actual CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, so that Thor's sudden conversion from "arrogant dickhead" to "wise actionking" didn't take place on a fucking dime, apparently in reaction to Natalie Portman's magical muff.
The True Villain was so obvious, I knew it from the first second I saw him. I thought they were going to pull a switcheroo, thinking that he had to be a red herring.
Instead, I got exactly the guy I thought would do it, for extremely generic reasons we've all heard a hundred times before, and motivations which seemed to change from scene to scene. Instead of conveying complexity, the character came off as frustratingly ineffectual and schizophrenic. I was ANNOYED by the villain, but I didn't hate him.
If nothing else, I was hoping for some good action. And there's action there. But, as the Plinkett says: "action is good, but pointless action is boring." There's a sequence that gets a lot of play in the previews where Thor is decimating SHIELD guards to try and get somewhere. It looks dramatic, right? But in the actual movie, having them there is completely pointless and irrelevant to the plot. The ultimate climax of the scene could've taken place in a completely deserted landscape and had as much emotional impact; SHIELD is shoved in there as nothing more than an obligatory link to the coming movies and does nothing at all. They could've used all the time that they spent on that action sequence to do some actual CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, so that Thor's sudden conversion from "arrogant dickhead" to "wise actionking" didn't take place on a fucking dime, apparently in reaction to Natalie Portman's magical muff.
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