Freeberg Looks at Thor
1st June 2011
The special effects were great, the story was on the weak side. The conflict between Richard the Lionheart and King John from any old Robin Hood story, was mashed together with Transformers II and The Good Son, threw in La Femme Nikita for good measure, then they mounted it on the ledge from Tron: Legacy, laced it with some monsters from the Lord of the Rings trilogy and let it fly.
Too bad it’s in ‘3D’, i.e. you pay extra and have to wear those shitty goggles to watch it.
Ever notice, lately, in these movies that star the puppy-face actors who were born sometime in the 1980’s — the men are all exotic European/Australian types, but the women are super-duper-Yankee-Americanized urban yuppie chicks? That certain voice inflection is really starting to wear on me, I must say. Julia Roberts, Monica Potter, Natalie Portman, Katie Holmes, Jessica Alba, Keira Knightley…they all have it. Just a little too polished and a little too flat. It’s got that “never stepped foot out of an urban metropolis with at least five million people living in it” sound to it.
He’s got that right.
June 2nd, 2011 at 19:13
The story in Thor comes pretty much from the comic book (first Journey into Mystery, the The Mighty Thor) in the 1960s. It pre-dates Transformers, The Good Son, La Femme Nikita or Tron.