Thor and Other Nerd Thoughts


Blog / Saturday, November 16th, 2013

I watched Thor: The Dark World last night, and I wasn’t very impressed. While it I enjoyed watching, Thor is still my least favorite of the Marvel storylines on-screen now. Two saving graces are Kat Dennings and Natalie Portman, who are always great to see on-screen (can anyone else not get enough of Kat Denning’s snark?).

Thor's Hammer
The Hammer of Thor stuck in the ground during Civil War.

The movie put too much focus on Loki, who I would not mind seeing dropped from the franchise altogether because something about his character doesn’t work for me. Maybe it’s the constant stream of second chances he gets and no one learns that he’s going to screw them over. But I know that he’s too much of a fan favorite for him to be cut from the scripts. I guess I’ll have to suffer.

Shoutout to the guy who lifted a Mini Cooper to save Kat Dennings. We all would have done the same.

I recommend seeing it nonetheless for the previews alone. There were some okay previews but there were some really good ones for the upcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier and X-Men: Days of Future Past. Before last night, I hadn’t heard much about the X-Men movie and after seeing the trailer, that’s the movie I’m looking forward to the most now.

A last thought, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug trailer has me very outraged now. Nearly everything about the trailer I saw last night makes tells me that the movie is going to be terrible. I haven’t read The Hobbit in over a year, but I’m pretty damned sure that Legolas doesn’t have some love affair with another elf in it nor does Legolas appear in The Hobbit. Also, what’s with the dwarves diving away from Smaug’s fire? As far as I remember, the dwarves never encounter Smaug, only one of two of them accompany Mr. Baggins halfway down the tunnel before getting scared and turning back. After Bilbo chats with Smaug, he takes off and terrorizes Dale once more. While terrorizing Dale, Dane shoots him down into the lake using the information the bird heard Bilbo tell the dwarves about his armour which the bird told to Dane. The dwarves then warily enter the mountain and fortify it for the oncoming attack of armies who which to plunder the dragon’s plunder.

I could go on but I won’t. Peter Jackson, The Hobbit is not Lord of the Rings. It’s fantastical and whimsical, not epic. It doesn’t need to be epic. Stop ruining a perfectly good story.

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