I went to see Thor today. It was about a monarchy on another planet. It's about the Father, who was almost about to give up the throne to his son, Thor, and of course the other son gets jealous. The aliens are from Asgard, and they know how to travel to other planets by creating a worm hole. That's how earth gets involved in the planet Asgard's monarchy family drama. Just about when Thor gets to be crowned, a situation ensues and one thing leads to another and Thor ends up on earth. I don't want to give too much away.
I explain it badly, but the movie is somehow cool because it mixes science and reality with magic, legend and "dumb" marvel comic characters. Basically, the Marvel movies like Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Transformers, could easily be very lame like the power rangers, and they almost get to that point at times, but they redeem themselves by mixing real people, scientists, and just what seems like a real world, and the wonder of science in with the crazy "power ranger" characters. They mesh the far fetched with reality and it comes off as very intriguing. Altogether, I liked most of the Marvel movies I have seen, especially Iron Man.
This movie had some very good special effects and some very beautiful scenes from Asgard and outer space. The movie had plotting and treachery and betrayal and family dramas and a lot of fighting and excitement and special powers. Then the Asgardians had an alien enemy called the Frozen Giants which added extra intrigue to the movie. It had a good plot to go with all that power ranger action effects.
The one thing that was a put off for me was that the Asgardians seemed primitive. If they are from another planet and are smart enough to travel from planet to planet, how come they still ride on horses? Why do they dress like humans from six hundred years ago? Or a thousand years ago? If they are alien, should they have their own fashions? Not human fashions from back in the day? And, it was hard for me to see the aliens as real people or to take them seriously because of the way they talked. No one talks that way. It was a distraction for me.
It was a good movie, but somehow embarrassing for me to watch, because it's not a real drama, or thriller, a serious movie for adults. But, it was very imaginative and well done with very good visuals. I'll be honest, I am not good at noticing if the acting was good the first time I watch a movie. I'm too caught up in the movie the first time around to notice if the acting is top notch.
