Thor: The Dark World
SPOILER WARNING
I just came from seeing Thor 2 and here are my thoughts.
Random:
- I spent the first multiple scenes with Malekith going "OMG it's the Doctor with ears!" and I'm not even a Doctor Who fan
- was there some underlying mini-bromance in there with Malekith and Algrim?
- I couldn't tell if Loki was just feeling spiteful about Thor being interested in a girl, or really jealous?
Likes:
- the Warriors Three
- Frigga was effing kickass
- Darcy
- Heimdall was awesome
- Thor being adorable
- Thor and Loki working together
- Thor in the subway
- Loki being obnoxious while escaping
- Mjolnir being confused by Thor teleporting
- Malekith. He was actually an interesting villain and I had moments where I actually felt sympathy for him.
- my favorite moment of the film itself was the scene where Thor comes to find Loki and immediately tells Loki to drop the illusion. I just like that Thor, who obviously still can't see through illusions, just knows Loki well enough to know he was faking
- my other favorite scene was on the flying ship in Svartalfheim, when Thor says "I wish I could trust you" and my heart broke for him
- the sad thing is that the best part of this moviegoing experience for me was rewatching the DOFP trailer
Dislikes:
- Thor/Jane. I hated how undeveloped and "romance novel" this felt, and how they ended up making this film basically the epic Thor/Jane love story without actually attempting to show why they like each other at all.
- Jane. Jane has managed to /still/ be a 2-dimensional flimsy character whose only role is to be the pretty love interest. Yeah, she's a scientist and supposedly very intelligent, but she did almost jackshit except for be sad about Thor not coming back and steal Selvig's research to "save the day".
- I wanted Frigga to live. To be fair, I thought they did her justice, but I feel like now they have an excuse to make Loki do whatever terrible fuckery they want, whereas before I had hope she would try to help redeem him.
- I am so fucking tired of the repeated reuse of the "surprise! Loki secretly has an evil plan" plot twist. This is like the twentieth time he's done this, and yes, I get it, he's clever. But unless they manage to do some version of Blood Brothers as Thor 3 (doubtful), I'm really losing respect for their writing when Loki /yet again/ manages to continue being evil and have some sort of grand master plan that gets him what he wants and overglorifies the fact that he's a little shit. It wasn't particularly surprising and that twist just feels old now, but the obnoxious Loki fangirls are still going to eat it up. (Also my heart breaks a little for Thor, whose heart Loki is basically trampling on every time he does this.)