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Thor was a pretty good movie. It's not a fantastic movie, and I don't believe I will ever need to see it again unless the Special Shirtless Director's Cut is released, but I was happy to have seen it, and happy to have paid to do so in a theater, which is pretty rare for me.
As Ta-Nehisi Coates said, it stayed on the rails. A day later I've spotted all sorts of plot holes, but at the time I mostly didn't, and that's all it needed to do. The fights were entertaining, the frost giants were genuinely neat, the dialogue was often witty and always adequate, and Chris Hemsworth is an extraordinarily attractive man. I'd complain more about his tragic shirt wearing throughout the movie, but the female warrior wore actual useful (if shapely) armor, so I feel they earned themselves a pass. In fact, there were four female characters, two of whom talked to each other about things besides the hero. That's as many as women as were in Batman 1, Iron Man 1, and Spider-Man 1 combined (if you count the female reporter in Iron Man as a person, then remove Batman to make the math work).
I maintain healthy amounts of skepticism regarding Marvel Studio's grand unified field project, but I'm a little less so after this movie.
As Ta-Nehisi Coates said, it stayed on the rails. A day later I've spotted all sorts of plot holes, but at the time I mostly didn't, and that's all it needed to do. The fights were entertaining, the frost giants were genuinely neat, the dialogue was often witty and always adequate, and Chris Hemsworth is an extraordinarily attractive man. I'd complain more about his tragic shirt wearing throughout the movie, but the female warrior wore actual useful (if shapely) armor, so I feel they earned themselves a pass. In fact, there were four female characters, two of whom talked to each other about things besides the hero. That's as many as women as were in Batman 1, Iron Man 1, and Spider-Man 1 combined (if you count the female reporter in Iron Man as a person, then remove Batman to make the math work).
I maintain healthy amounts of skepticism regarding Marvel Studio's grand unified field project, but I'm a little less so after this movie.
