Thor: The Dark World

That’s right folks Tuesday my husband and I went to see Thor: The Dark World. I was expecting an action packed thriller, but I was happily surprised when that wasn’t all it was, it gave that little bit of everything. Thor 2, is an action packed, romantic with that little extra comedic relief.

I’m not much of theater goer -unless it is live theater- and neither is my husband. We are more the type to wait for it to either come to DVD or now days Netflix. However for one of my classes I needed to either watch a movie in theater, read a just released book, watch a just released song from an artist, etc. So in the spirit of wanting to use this to spend time with my husband, -plus the fact of not having enough free time to get some reading in- we went to the movies. We were trying to decide between Ender’s Game and Thor, technically we hadn’t chosen either until we got to the theater and Ender’s Game had already started. In any case, my husband and I had also just watched Avengers so it was fitting that we saw Thor 2.

As of Wednesday night Thor: The Dark World is ranked #26 on www.boxofficemojo.com 2013 list.

YAY Trailer!

Thor: The Dark World is a movie centered around this fight that is almost deemed un-winnable.  He is faced with the threat that the entirety of Asgard and Thor’s own father Odin is unable to fight. The fight become all the more personal when he discovers that Jane holds the other sides weapon inside her, and it could blow at any time. He battles to keep her alive and kicking while trying to save the nine realms from all consuming darkness.

Behind The Scenes

Director: Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor is an American television and film director, television producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for these feature films,  Palookaville, The Emperor’s New Clothes and Kill the Poor. Alan started his television career back in 1997, when he worked on two episodes of  the Television show OZ. Since his start Alan has worked with numerous different companies, one of which is most notable, HBO.  A few of the different T.V shows, he has worked on are as follows, Sex and the City, The Sopranos, The West Wing, Carnivale, Deadwood, Lost, Mad Men, and finally Game of Thrones. The episode “Kennedy and Heidi” on The Sopranos won Alan a Prime time Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series in 2007. Alan also landed the award for outstanding directing from the Directors Guild of America in 2007 for the episode “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” on the show Mad Men.

Taylor at the world premiere of Thor: The Dark World in October 2013 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London.

Photo and information credit goes to imdb.com as well as en.wikipedia.org

The main men!

 

Thor: Chris Hemsworth   

Chris is an Australian actor best known for his roles in the following: Thor, The Avengers, and of course Thor: The Dark world. He also made appearances in Star Trek, A Perfect Getaway, The Cabin in the Woods, Snow White and the Huntsman, Red Dawn and Rush.  

 Loki: Tom Hiddleston

Tom is an English actor best known for his roles in the following:Thor, The Avengers, and of course Thor: The Dark world.  He also had noteworthy roles in the following, War Horse, The Deep Blue Sea, Midnight in Paris , and Henry IV and Henry V.

Both stars received the MTV movie award for best fight in 2013 along with their co stars in the avengers (Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, and Jeremy Renner) for the fight between the avengers and Loki. On top of this Tom also received four more awards: Empire Award for Best Newcomer in 2012, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play in 2008, Glamour Awards Man of the Year in 2012, and finally MTV Movie Award for Best Villain in 2013.

Strengths                                                                            

The plot is appealing to both males and females.

The fact that some of the surprise were actually surprises was a nice thing to see in a superhero movie.

The fact that Kat Dennings‘ goofy humor was put in, made me smile. I am definitely a fan of hers.

Tom Hiddleson

Frigga’s part within this movie gave depth to her own story line as well as Loki, Thor, and very minimally Odin’s. (Yay for woman kicking ass!)

Weaknesses                                                                           

Natalie Portman‘s character seems to play that cliched damsel in distress role for most of the the film. Jane, her character doesn’t begin to stand by herself until the end of the movie. 

The lack of explanation as to why the dark elves wish to send the realms back into darkness is most definitely a weakness in my mind.

Malekith, the leader of the dark elves is never really flushed out in detail, or even at all.

The romantic notion that Sif and Thor should be together was poked at but other then a few glances between Jane and Sif, it isn’t addressed.

Aside from the few good surprises the story line was almost predictable, sadly.

                                                                                  

All in all Thor: The Dark World, is not a fantastic movie but it does hold it’s own in my mind. If it came down to it I don’t think I would watch it again unless watching it with someone who hadn’t seen it yet. -though that is because I am not  the type to re watch movies- When it comes down to it I think that this sequel will not be easily forgotten but it wont be as memorable as it could have been.

Words from the critics

Like so many comic book epics these days, Alan Taylor’s 3-D Thor: The Dark World is both monumental and generic.

November 8, 2013 Full Review 

Peter RainerChristian Science Monitor Top Critic

I would have to agree with Peter on the last part. This movie is monumental but at the very same time it is ultimately generic.

“The Dark World,” while a serious feature, does not take itself so seriously as the first film. It has a sly humor about it.

November 11, 2013 Full Review 

Bob BloomJournal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

I shamefully didn’t get to watch the first before seeing the second but I do see the Sly humor in this film. This relief from the serious is much needed in my mind.

You can find their full reviews at rottentomatoes.com

Aside from going to watch Thor 2, I attempted to watch the first movie, though it was too late at night after a long day to finish it. I also searched tons of GIFs and watched a great prank interview with Tom Hiddleson -I will embed this video below somewhere-. As for my husband, he thought the movie was good, the fact that it had a love plot within it didn’t sit quite right with him. He isn’t a fan of action movies with a love plot in them though so that was to be expected.

In conclusion, I would recommend someone to watch Thor: The Dark World, just because of the two main men within it. Tom and Chris play their characters very well and some of the lines Loki has made the movie, in my mind.

Various pictures and videos