Gods what a movie
Last Thursday I went to the movies. The film was, suitably enough, was Thor. I read Marvel comics a lot during the late Eighties and early Nineties, so I've tried to catch most of the Marvel movies, if only to see what changes they've made. Mostly I read X-men, as a friend had a lot of those and there weren't that many Marvel magazines published in Finnish. I think X-men, Spider-Man and then a more generic Marvel comic.
At that time, the X-men (and New Mutants) did some Asgård adventures, so I was kind of familiar with the Norse gods in the Marvel universe. I think they were my first proper contact with the Norse mythos - I had read a bit of the Madsen's Valhalla stories at about the same time, though. I don't think the blonde Thor is a good thing, but it's probably because Stan Lee or Jack Kirby just put a generic Norse man in the role. The Marvel stories are of course, well, marvelish, but I still like them. I have the X-men Asgård adventures in a book, they're the only Marvel comics I own anymore.
The movie itself wasn't that good, though not that bad. I'm kind of expecting the Avengers movie, so I wanted to see this as a prequel to that one. The Asgård itself was cool, though Bifröst wasn't as nice as I'd like. The ice giants were a disappointment, in the comics they were much larger, more like moving mountains.
All in all, an average superhero movie. We watched it in 3D but that wasn't necessary as the best effects came in the end credits.
Nowadays the candy stores annoy me when I go to the movies. I have the habit of buying choose-your-candy, and it seems that there are less and less kinds in the stores nowadays. Also there are a lot of boxes where the candies are, but a lot of the boxes have the same candy - so it seems like there's more selection than actually exists. Annoying, I remember times when every box held a unique candy type (to the store anyway...)
At that time, the X-men (and New Mutants) did some Asgård adventures, so I was kind of familiar with the Norse gods in the Marvel universe. I think they were my first proper contact with the Norse mythos - I had read a bit of the Madsen's Valhalla stories at about the same time, though. I don't think the blonde Thor is a good thing, but it's probably because Stan Lee or Jack Kirby just put a generic Norse man in the role. The Marvel stories are of course, well, marvelish, but I still like them. I have the X-men Asgård adventures in a book, they're the only Marvel comics I own anymore.
The movie itself wasn't that good, though not that bad. I'm kind of expecting the Avengers movie, so I wanted to see this as a prequel to that one. The Asgård itself was cool, though Bifröst wasn't as nice as I'd like. The ice giants were a disappointment, in the comics they were much larger, more like moving mountains.
All in all, an average superhero movie. We watched it in 3D but that wasn't necessary as the best effects came in the end credits.
Nowadays the candy stores annoy me when I go to the movies. I have the habit of buying choose-your-candy, and it seems that there are less and less kinds in the stores nowadays. Also there are a lot of boxes where the candies are, but a lot of the boxes have the same candy - so it seems like there's more selection than actually exists. Annoying, I remember times when every box held a unique candy type (to the store anyway...)