Chris made the same comment, but I don't see both First Class and Thor being in the same boat; the former is still being handled by Fox, so it's going to be different than the collective stories Marvel is setting up with the movies it still owns the rights to, and the latter deals a lot more heavily with mythology and fantasy through Asgard and the related characters. As movies on their own, I can agree that First Class is put together a bit better and has more serious tones and believable characters, but I enjoyed Thor for some of its goofy humor and almost over-the-top action, even if the love angle was rather forced.
All true, but I still can't really like Thor that much, because it was one of those cases wherein I think just a couple slight changes would have increased the quality exponentially. Like, I think I would have loved it if it had taken place over just a slightly longer period of time. Character growth is a huge part of the plot, and that takes longer than three damn days.
There are a lot of random knocks against Thor readily available, to be certain, but I'm just slightly confused at the need to compare it and First Class. They're both comic book movies, and that's about where the similarities end, and I've yet to hear someone compare either movie to any other movie that has come out recently, or even to older comic adaptations. Especially in Chris' case, something about watching the new X-Men brought out a desire to suddenly harp on Thor while he hadn't had that many complaints about it when we'd seen it several weeks ago.
Yeah that's true. My brother and I didn't care for it from the get go, but none of its problems stem from the fact that the source material is a comic book, or from the translation of comic into film (there are some I've seen where the problem lies in the actual translation from one medium to another), and that really is the only thing it has in common with X-Men.
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