Is anyone really excited for the second Thor movie that comes out next year or is it just me?

Thor battles an ancient race of Dark Elves led by the vengeful Malekith who threatens to plunge the universe back into darkness after the events of The Avengers. (Description from IMDB)

Oh man I think this is the earliest thread we've had for a movie.

Anyway, praying to Odin this one will be better than the first one.

Oh, hell no.

Yeah. Odin was alright, but he could have been really freaking awesome.

Trailer.

It doesn't seem half bad, visually at least I think it looks pretty great. I'll never be done laughing at Loki's look though.

IMDB is full of trailer's you can try there

I don't really like the twisted take that Hollywood has put on both Greek and Nordish mythology. I have always been a fan of the old myths but they were plenty glorified on their own and this modern, western spin is not to my liking. Portraying hades as the villain in the Greek movies is unfair. He was never Evil, merely dutiful even though Zues had done what some people would call cheating him. Now portraying Loki as some evil twisted basterd? Loki was fickle, michevious and a bit of a little shit but he was never evil. Him, Hel and Freyja were my favourite Norse gods and to seem him put to shame like that is sad. I wish if they did make movies out of those myths, they kept them at least a little true to the original. I am glad at least Egyption myth has been unmolested so far but it is only a matter of time.

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>>8 Well in this case it's not so much Hollywood as it is Marvel (or more exactly Stan Lee and Jack Kirby who first introduced comic Thor).

But yeah, mythology of any kind will always be a big source of inspiration and will get adapted more or less successfully and faithfully. But Marvel took so many liberties with these characters and their universe that I tend to not connect it much to the originals. Not even the familial relations are the same (Loki as Thor's brother not Odin's).

In a simple story like those in (early) comic books or Disney movies you need a villain, and the person who caused the most trouble (in this case Loki) gets designated. And they could play the character more as more complicated or as a straight forward baddie. I'd frankly like to see more of the God of Chaos side of Loki then the wreck shit up side, but we shall see.

Anyway, I'm not really against loose adaptations, as long as the adaptation itself is good, which is debatable in this case depending on what you're looking at (movie/comics). It's not like people are going to go to these for actual information, but it might make them look for the actual stories later, who knows.

But I can't really hold anything against you, it's not a bad thing to want faithful adaptations of things you care about I guess.

>>10 I can see what you mean, its not that they are molesting the original stories but rather creating new ones off the same general tangent. I would certainly have no problem with that if they didn't sell it to the masses as "Greek Myth Reborn" and "The Great Epic Told Again" But rather accepted that they are completely different things. I wish they had put Poseidon as at least one of the villains because out of the three brothers he was the real dick.

Wait, But seeing as Iron man 3 is sorta of a Fan service kind of movie as it shows so many suits from beginning and such. I imagine if thor would be similar to that.

I really don't want to be hyped up about this movie but I'm hyped up about this movie.

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A Chinese theater spoils what the movie is actually about.

I wanna make a coherent post about this movies, but I think I'll do it later.

>>19 bang-bang

Now where have I seen that scene before. . .

oh wait I know the one it's from titanic right :P

>>21 Ahaha I never really thought about it, it sure doesn't look like this, but it does look a bit like this one don't it?

Now that I think about it, I know that the actual poster has Thor and Jane, but I really don't know where this Loki is taken from.

>>22 I was thinking of this one XD

Ok ok, so here are my thoughts on this movie.

Overall I had fun with it, I enjoyed most developments and pretty much every character, though most of them I already liked beforehand. I think I should mention that I’m pretty invested in Marvel movies and read Thor comics and stuff, so that might influence my perspective a bit.

Enjoyment aside though, there were a number of things that kept this movie from being as good as it could have been. First off, the pacing was pretty off. I could almost tell that things were left out in an effort to make it as short an action packed as possible, never a good idea. This also led to some weird mood whiplash on more than one occasion, where you skipped from a very emotional scene straight into a lighthearted joke. The movie would have really benefited from being a bit longer and including some more scenes to tie things together better and shed some more light on some characters’ motivations (Malekith for example).

Welp, this is getting into spoiler territory, but I really would have liked to see more asgardians especially in the final confrontation. I liked the Earth gang well enough, more than in the first Thor movie, but I would trade them for Sif and The Warriors Three anytime.

The highlight of the movie for me was Thor and Loki and their evolving relationship. They have pretty great on-screen chemistry and I really enjoyed the fact that they got to do something together after standing against each other in both their previous movies. You really get the sense that they’re still brothers even after all that, and there’s always this entertaining and sometimes heartbreaking back and forth between them.

I liked the Dark Elves a lot too, even though they weren’t very developed. They looked proper menacing (as opposed to the aliens in Avengers for example) and I really really liked their design. Their ships and their tech were really cool. On that note, I also liked seeing more of Asgard and more of how it looks and works. Visually I think the movie did a really great job.

So yeah, taken piece by piece there were a lot of things I liked about the movie – I also liked Frigga and her relationship with Loki, I thought Heimdall was awesome, and I liked the fact that the whole clandestine plan was Thor’s idea, because he always seemed like such a straight forward warrior type so this just shows how he’s changed since the first movie – but I think that put together not everything fit that well.

Still a very good addition to the Marvel cinematic universe and definitely worth seeing. I'm just gonna sit here and wait for the DVD/Bluray release and the deleted scenes that will most likely come with it.

Lol that ending though.

I think that The Dark World was far better than the first movie. I liked the first movie but I thought it had a lot of problems. The Dark World fixed most of those, however. The character were more fleshed out, the visuals were better, the story was better told, and it was more humorous. The only problem was that it still felt a bit rushed, much like the first one did.

Don't mention it can't wait to see it! i'm literally counting the seconds till I get to see it!!!

I wasn't sure I wanted to see it because I heard a few people talking bad about it and now I feel encouraged and want to see it again.

Alierana you have to watch it. me and a couple of my friends went to watch it today and i think it was great. ;)

Kirera how many seconds now?

This movie was greaaaaat!!! Like omg I saw it twice it was sooooo good!!

I just saw this movie yesterday and I thought it was awesome!
Also, I sort of cried when everybody thought Loki died (I'm sort of a fangirl, influenced by one of my best friends) but I was completely dumbstruck at the end! It was great!!
I can't wait for a third movie~