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Mega Mana
First Scene That comes to Mind: The Destroyer in New Mexico

There were a lot of scenes in this movie I didn't remember, particularly everything before the fight in Jotunheim and everything after the Destroyer fight. I remembered Darcy being more annoying than she was (she wasn't!), Jane being less of note (she was excellent), and Loki being more... smooth? Mercurial? instead of out-and-out villain. Like, there feels like disconnect between every scene he's in where you think for one moment he could be misunderstood and that would inform what happens next, but... it's haphazard.

Like, most of Loki's plot is a haphazard series of events and not an expert scheme. He sneaks Frost Giants in to disrupt Thor's coronation and manipulates their band to go fight in Jotunheim and break the peace so Thor will be reprimanded and Odin will keep the throne in war. But the Frost Giant origin just happens, Odin's collapse just happens, and then his actions are just smug lies and messy disasters. He's just a jerk.

I was quite entertained by the human elements of the movie, more than expected. I like Thor's growth over the course of the movie, and how he's tempered by the oath on his hammer and Loki's news of his father's passing and edicts. Again, based on future movies and how Loki is treated as a character after this movie, I was expecting more from their exchange, but Thor simply thanking his brother for the news and accepting his punishment was a really great moment for a character who'd be more prone to stubbornly resist and grouse and seek vengeance not long before. Decent enough movie. Further credit to Idris Elba, Anthony Hopkins, and Stellan Skarsgard. String!

Paratroopa1
This is the point at my list at which I effortlessly enjoy every film, so suffice to say the MCU is pretty easy to enjoy overall. Thor's a fun little movie. Fish-out-of-water stories are pretty easy to win me over with, and there's some fun situational comedy out of Thor being all like 'what's up with earth' and everyone else being all like 'what's up with Thor'. I like the scene of Thor fighting through the facility to get to the hammer and discovering he's not worthy to wield it, and his eventual self-sacrifice to regain worthiness is predictable but satisfying. There isn't a whole lot else here though. The human side cast isn't that great, and the chemistry between Thor and Jane feels like it comes out of nowhere (Thor's like a thousand years old and he just kinda falls for this human woman for no reason? I know she's Natalie Portman but still). The parts in New Mexico feel like a high-budget tv show, and Asgard doesn't feel lived in at all - it feels like one of those sterile cgi sets in the Star Wars prequels.

Red13n
This was our first taste of Thor and it was pretty clear early on that normal super serious Thor doesn't really work. This wasn't the complete bore that The Dark World forced upon us, but it also wasn't great either. Loki is here and we get our first taste of how he'll end up one of the more memorable characters in the MCU. But Thor is here and hes too naive for asgardian politics, then gets banished to earth where we get to see him continue to be too ignorant of earth customs. It will feel more than played out by the time it is all done.

VengefulKaelee
You know, I would like this movie a lot more than I do were it not for the weird directorial choices that Kenneth Branagh makes throughout. One of my biggest filmmaking pet peeves is Dutch angles with no apparent purpose, and this movie is only one step removed from the likes of Battlefield Earth in that regard. It's a weird, distracting stylistic choice that completely takes me out of the movie during several key scenes. That being said, I do love Chris Hemsworth as Thor, the visual aesthetic and Shakespearean tone of Asgard, and a lot of the supporting performances between the likes of Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Idris Elba, Stellan Skarsgrd, etc., it's just one hell of a stacked cast. Unfortunately Natalie Portman's character turns out to be pretty irrelevant in the grand scheme of things (and Kat Dennings is just kind of annoying). So yeah, Thor is one that I wish I liked more than I do, due to its often-quite-strong script and cast, but it's dragged down by some bad stylistic choices and poor use of its female characters.

Whiskey Nick
(No write-up.)

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