Thor 2
Well, thank god I wasn't expecting it to replicate the first movie and... yeah. It was entertaining, but nowhere near as awesome.
-My main complaint with it would be that it reverted to the typical action movie formula of lots of big booms and SFX and stuff in favour of the character stuff. While the character stuff was good and witty, there simply wasn't enough of it before another long epic action sequence started. It wasn't nearly as awful as with The Avengers, thank fuck, but I can't help thinking that I only gave a shit about the characters because the first movie made me fall in love with the characters.
-NEEDED MOAR LOKI. That was kind of disappointing. There wasn't much more of him than in The Avengers, and that is a minus. Especially if the main villain of the story didn't really have much of a character. Malekith was a really generic villain, and even the Aether as a concept was more fascinating as he was. So in that sense, it seemed like a waste when you've already got a really complex character there and then you... well... stick him in a prison cell for most of the time and basically just use him as a plot device. That should've really been the other way round.
-Glad that Thor got more to do. Thor fans will like that; this was far more of a Thor movie than Thor was--at least when it came to kicking ass and being the proper protagonist of the story, whereas Thor was basically Loki: The Movie. Still, again, I missed the character focus.
-WAS THE SLASH JUST DRIPPING OFF THE SCREEN OR WHAT? The beginning basically had me slack-jawed over and over because of the Thor/Loki and I was like oh my god, plz. And and and Malekith and his henchman dude? When he made him into the horny monster thing? With that thing he stuck in his stomach? That was slashy as fuck and I want someone to flesh those two out and write a really fucked-up POV thing about that scene where it's sexual as hell and and and.
-ALSO FUCKING CAPTAIN AMERICA OH GOD OH GOD I ACTUALLY FUCKING SHRIEKED AND BENT DOUBLE WITH HOWLING LOLS IN MY SEAT OH MY FUCKING GOD AÖSKCHÖLCKKJCLKJkcjkckckckckc
-FUCKING DARCY, THOUGH. I LOVE DARCY. I NEED TO MARRY DARCY. FUCKIN' DARCY. <3 She got the best lines. And I LOVE LOVE LOVE how Intern Guy was the girl! Did you see the bit where he screamed and SHE took his hand and dragged him to safety? And when they did the heroic snog, he was the swooning heroine? DARCY. From the first cockblock to the last snog, you were magnificient. Give this girl a movie of her own.
-Also Selvig. <3
-Also, I may have shrieked internally as ALICE FUCKING KRIGE OUTTA NOWHERE. I loved the healing room and the energy body thing and I want more of that in fanfic, please.
-I loved Loki's swagger. Tom's really honed it. His body language just keeps improving movie by movie, and some of his battle stuff was just gorgeously androgynous. Not as beautiful as the bits of him in Jotunheim in the first movie, though *sigh* but still.
-EVERYONE'S HAIR WAS FUCKING AMAZING. Someone give the hair team a bunch of Oscars, now. There was so much hair porn about I don't even know where to begin. I don't care if the gods' hairdos looked a bit crummier, they were still lovely.
-NINE, YOU FUCKING FUCK. YOU DID NOT JUST FUCKING KILL FRIGGA. I AM GOING TO DESTROY YOU. I may have cried. Because fuckin' Frigga D: The whole funeral scene was just breathtaking and I hated having to sit to two smelly gruffy dudes so I didn't feel free to sob as much as a part of me wanted to.
-I didn't really believe Loki's betraying of Thor or him dying for a second, which was a bit of a minus. I don't know why, but I feel that if it had been Branagh handling the story and if, again, stuff had been more character-focused, I could've believed it more. But again, if the guy's basically made of tricks and lies, how in the hell are you going to believe anything he does/says? Except for the rage, of course. They had a good point with that. But I really want more fanfic now that explores the stuff he did and why he did it.
-Speaking of the fanfic I want, can someone write a story of how Jane feels when the Aether surges through her? That looked fucking *erotic*, I swear. It was really fascinating and I'm sure someone could write a really amazing story of that. I haven't really been this fascinated by something like that since Rose swallowed the Time Vortex. (Incidentally, I just kept waiting for the moment when Malekith would regenerate into David Tennant...)
-I actually teared a bit when I finally saw Asgard on a proper cinema screen. <3 Again, not as breathtaking as in the first movie, but Odin and Hugin and Munin <3 Eeeeeeeee.
-AND THOR, IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO FUCKING MARRY SIF, I WILL.
-BIG DRIIS. DID YOU SEE HOW BIG DRIIS PWNED THAT DARK ELF SHIP? I AM GLAD BIG DRIIS GOT MORE TO DO.
-The elf ships looked kind of silly in the trailers, I thought, but they were pretty beautiful once they really got going. I was impressed by that; it was a nice alien design.
-I basically noticed from the way Odin was sitting and looking mischievous that it was going to turn out to be Loki. So again, predictable, but it was delicious to see him on that throne again.
-So, to sum it up: not enough character stuff; I want more. MORE. WHERE IS THE FUCKING FANFIC?