Sunday, November 24, 2013

November 2013!!!!

The Month of November brings with it two films to review the first being Thor:The Dark World Starring Chis Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Tom Hiddlestone.



Plot

"Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.".

My Thoughts


Anyone who read my review for the original "Thor" (here it is Thor) will know that while I didn't think the film was terribly bad I did criticize the film for its plot, its choices for some of the casting (Mainly Natalie Portman from the main cast) and overall to me out of the marvel films that I have seen (dating back to X-Men in 2000) this was the weakest of the mall, I will add that I am not a huge Thor fan but I like the idea being the Norse mythology and I am fascinated by the whole idea of a Norse god as a hero. Coming off of the huge success of the avengers last year, I was ready to give this film a new chance ti impress me much more than the first film did. Sadly this film for me does not do much better than the first film, the plot I felt was weak as the main enemy in the film to me did have that "It" factor that a villain in any marvel films needs to have to be useful, the villain dopes his job but to me for how much h the "dark elves":'' where being touted about in the film, I expected more and felt that overall the elves where underwhelming. Natalie Portman for anyone who read my original "Thor" review will know that to me she was completely unneeded in the first film and was basically just there for Thor to have a love interest her character just felt “forced “and “slammed “into the film and her acting for a "academy" award winner was downright awful. With her being recast in this film I was hoping that her role would prove to at least be more useful and Natalie Portman’s acting to kick it up a notch. Again I was disappointed, her character again was not needed in this film and it felt like the producers made her a huge part of the story just to give her screen time, I honestly felt they could have taken her character away made one slight tweak to the script and you would have not missed her, if her character is in the next film I don’t know what they should do but her character needs to be overhauled completely. Chris Hemsworth by this point knows how to play Thor and does a decent job at playing the Norse god for the third time, nothing spectacular but not Natalie Portman bad by no means. The rest of the main cast does a decent Job (I did feel that Darcy's character was again not really need for this film and was used just for comic relief which she did not do a great job of) . Onto my next gripe wit this film the use of CG in my opinion CG is fine as long as it is used tastefully and well done, for a film with a budget of this caliber I was hugely let down by the low quality  of the CG a and the amount of how much was used. There were not many bright spots for me in this film, the only real one that I can think of would be the Scale of the settings of the film the backdrops and the different worlds that where shown did look beautiful and I commend the production and visual arts team or the great job that they did on that part of the film. RotttenTomatoes
Gave this film a 65% saying "It may not be the finest film to come from the Marvel Universe, but Thor: The Dark World still offers plenty of the humor and high-stakes action that fans have come to expect". I agree for the most part except that the humor to me was bland and not funny the action was pretty good but with a marvel film that is the least you expect. Overall this film for me was no better than the original and that is a disappointment I expected better the second time around and it basically felt the same as the first film expect that the characters knew each other better this time around.

Rating 

Dissappointment expected more 6.9/10!!!!



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