It’s Thor’s Day!

Updated on May 6, 2011 By Ken Begg 8 Comments

Finally, after thousands of years, the Norse god of thunder has his very own day. Good for you, son of Odin.

Because I’m really old I’ll probably hit the first show tomorrow morning so I can get the cheap ticket and hopefully avoid a swarm of texting teens. I’ll be seeing it in 2-D, though. As anticipated, the insanely high score at Rottentomatoes has moderated in the wake of the mainstream critics kicking in their reviews, but the positive score is still a very healthy 82%.

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  • The Rev.

    Lookin’ forward to this (although I’ll probably wait a couple of weeks for the crowds to die down). I still don’t know if the LotH will come along, but if she doesn’t then it’s a great chance to spend a little time with SD.

  • I find it impossible to get over the conflicting way in which they (A) decide to make him a “real” Norse god but (B) give him a goofy-ass superhero costume instead of a Norse God outfit. I guess I’m just not a Thor fan.

    To me, the X-Men have an interesting background – they must fight not only terrorist mutants, but their own government and people, radicalized by the atrocities of said terrorist mutants. This gives rise to lots of potentially interesting conflicts and storylines.

    Spiderman combines adolescent insecurity with bizarre enemies who impinge on his social and emotional maturing. He’s Everyman’s superhero.

    Batman is interesting too – not only his enemeies, but he himself is an insane schizoid personality.

    Hulk is somewhat less interesting – really it’s just the Jekyll-and-Hyde story. We even lose that sometimes in the comics, when Hulk becomes smart. Then he’s just another big strong guy *yawn*

    But what does Thor offer? Not even the Hulk’s minimal level of intrigue. He is a superhero without the remotest degree of interest to me. His villains are otherworldly – who cares if Asgard falls? His friends are dull and pompous (as witness Odin’s tedious speeches). His invulnerability and lack of human empathy leave me cold. I can say that of all the superhero movies to be announced, this one left me the least interestted.

  • tim

    I thought Thor was awesome. not better than the first iron man, but just as good. oscar noms for vfx, and I wouldn’t mind seeing one for tom hiddleston for best supporting actor. I thought he was terrific.
    colm feore was really good as laufey. so much so I went bought a frost giant figure at target today.

  • MatthewF

    Thor is really just Superman, which I think comes across in the movie too. He’s a super-being from another world who gets exiled to earth and decides to help them out.

    Thor came out here last week and I thought it was pretty good, a big dumb fun sort of movie – quite an old fashioned super hero flick – no inner demons here. Don’t bother with the 3D though…pretty much non-existent

  • Well my son Arthur just got back from watching Thor and he says it was terrific. I stand by my theory that Thor’s backstory is comparatively limp but gauged by my son’s reaction, apparently they did a good job with what they had. I may have to go see it.

  • Reed

    I like Thor specifically for the reasons Sandy doesn’t like him. The big concept that Marvel introduced into the superhero world was heroes with baggage. Thor is almost a throw-back to the golden age; his baggage is just about kicking more ass. In fact, I find the early Thor issues where Thor is the crippled doctor who reverts to human if he loses touch with Mjolnir for more than 30 seconds to be pretty weak. When they jettison all of that and just get into adventures in Asgard with Thor fighting demons and giants I think Thor really shines. Heresy perhaps, but I prefer Walt Simon Thor to Jack Kirby Thor.

    Haven’t seen the movie yet; I hope to very soon.

  • Mr. Rational

    I sympathize with Sandy — Thor has always been my least favorite of the major Avengers figures. Yet this movie, frankly, is the second-best of the lot thus far. I found it a shade better than the Hulk film, and definitely better than Iron Man 2 (which was a major misfire AFAIAC). I have no doubt it will drop to third once I get a look at Captain America, but it moved well and always sustained my interest. And they made the right decision going with the relatively unknown Chris Hemsworth as Thor. Heck, I even liked Natalie Portman — and these days, it takes a LOT to make that happen.

  • Reed

    A week late for this thread, but I finally got to see Thor. I must say, I enjoyed the heck out of it. Sure, it had a few problems, but it hit all of the correct notes for a Marvel Thor picture. I really loved Hawkeye’ cameo in the movie, particularly as he is never named. Once I realized who it was I wished I had paid more attention when they called him on the radio, I don’t know if the head SHIELD guy actually called him “Barton” or “Clint” or they used another name.