Thor Movie

[captmorgan72]

I dunno.....he looks more like he belongs in Metallica, not Asgard.

I was thinking he looks like Hetfield too.

[BWPS]

I've got big ole' horn-rims and the current 3D glasses fit over mine. They work fairly well though...

Of course the majority of 3D movies these days aren't actually shot in 3D, so it looks totally fake, and the current polarized 3D is just like slapping a neutral density filter over your face, so everything is darker and the colours far less vivid, so all in all I feel pretty lacklustre about the 3D experience in general. Needless to say (but I will), I won't be seeing this or Cap in 3D.

Although I still did want to see Tron in 3D. Should have got around to that.

Tron is one of two 3D movies I've seen. The other being Meet the Robinsons when the trend was new. I hate 3D movies and hope I don't forget that again. The 3D added murky colors and a weird crosseyed headache feeling to an otherwise awesome experience. And I have perfect (some may say god-like) vision. I don't like the 3D, I don't want it, it's not immersive, it's like giving my eyeballs a chore when I just want to relax.

[detourne_me]

I'll beseeing this, cap, and gl the same way I saw green hornet.  IMAX 3D. Disposable income FTW

[steamteck]

Tron is one of two 3D movies I've seen. The other being Meet the Robinsons when the trend was new. I hate 3D movies and hope I don't forget that again. The 3D added murky colors and a weird crosseyed headache feeling to an otherwise awesome experience. And I have perfect (some may say god-like) vision. I don't like the 3D, I don't want it, it's not immersive, it's like giving my eyeballs a chore when I just want to relax.

I'm with you 100% on this one!

[captmorgan72]

I watched this movie again yesterday on Netflix and something caught my attention. Not sure why I never noticed it before, but it looked to me that Thor's power comes from technology, his armor and hammer. When Odin stripped him of his power he tore off the metallic disks from his armor, tore off his cape, taking away his title and reclaimed the hammer before casting him to Earth. While on Earth, stripped of his tech, he was like Captain America, a man who is at the peak of physical perfection.  The movie explains that the Asgardians are not magical beings but aliens that early humanity worshiped as gods, an idea which I really love and believe could have a basis in reality.

I thought about that scene in the Avengers, when Hulk couldn't lift the hammer and thought, what if the tech in the hammer uses a planet's magnetic field to keep itself anchored and unable to lift? Thor can lift it because of the tech in his armor or perhaps even in his blood via nanotechnology. The point is all the power is technology that humans doesn't yet understand, and I like that explanation far more than simply saying it's magic. This works in cinema very well. In the comics magic works fine but not in the movies.

[JeyNyce]

I believe he told Jane that it is science that we do not yet understand.

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

Actually what Thor said is that what humans consider technology and magic, his people consider to be both exactly the same thing.

Which adds up to something similar. The Asgardians do use extremely advanced tech which actually is exactly what "magic" actually is in the first place.

[Tawodi Osdi]

Having Mjolnir react to the EMF of the Earth does have interesting implications, especially if the storm controlling capacity of Mjolnir is considered a by-product of controlled electro-magnetic forces.  Perhaps, the Asgardians use advanced Tesla related technology.  Tesla had some theories that were too wild even for science fiction.

[thalaw2]

I thought about that scene in the Avengers, when Hulk couldn't lift the hammer and thought, what if the tech in the hammer uses a planet's magnetic field to keep itself anchored and unable to lift? Thor can lift it because of the tech in his armor or perhaps even in his blood via nanotechnology. The point is all the power is technology that humans doesn't yet understand, and I like that explanation far more than simply saying it's magic. This works in cinema very well. In the comics magic works fine but not in the movies.

I thought about the Hulk lifting the Hammer too and it seemed to contradict an old skool fight in which Jade Jaws was able to pick up the hammer, because (at that time) he was pure of heart.  Grey hulk couldn't pick it up but Green was able to...something like that.  I wish i had me comics so I could confirm it.

[Tomato]

In actual Thor news, Josh Dallas recently announced that, due to his commitment to Once Upon a Time, he will not be reprising his role as Fandrel in Thor 2.

[Glitch Girl]

Supposedly he's being replaced with Zachary Levi (Chuck, Tangled), who was supposedly to be their first choice for Fandrel.

[BentonGrey]

That's a real, real shame, as Fandral was perhaps the most perfectly cast of all of them.  He looked and carried himself EXACTLY like Fandral.  It's not going to ruin the movie or anything, but it is a little saddening.