LogFAQs > #950251006

I'm gonna go ahead and defend the Dark World a little

The opening part of this bit is awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Un5aGqEcs

Coming out of the first movie, we are familiar with Heimdall, his devotion to guarding Asgard, his ability to be all seeing, AND we know his guard post at the end of the rainbow bridge. So we know this character, we know his motivations, we know his abilities, and we know the location.

So for a little invisible ship to sneak by his all seeing gaze, and for him to suddenly notice at the last second and be like "what the hell is this" and give everything he has to stop it is awesome.

But then, the scene moves on to a giant CGI action fest with set pieces and places that I'm not familiar with or connected to. What Heimdell accomplished didn't matter at all. The Dark World doesn't really set any of these areas up to really be meaningful to me besides there just being a bunch of shit happening on the screen. All of the set up I describe for Heimdell's part came from Thor 1, so TDW doesn't really get credit for that at all, though it did execute that part pretty well.

Overall, this is a great scene that slides right into why The Dark World isn't very good.

The defense rests.

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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG