The Marvelous Marvel Rewatch (Now Playing: Avengers: Infinity War)

[Angelus]

I wonder how I'll feel about Thor as I rewatch it. I had actually watched Avengers before I ever saw Thor, because I simply had no interest in the character at the time, but seeing Chris Hemsworth in the role - and his chemistry with the rest of the cast - I thought ok I'll check out his solo flick. It was a bit of a mixed bag as I recall.

The action at the start was quite fun, and really brought home how powerful Thor is. Even more so than Avengers did, I'd say. Chris Hemsworth also had great chemistry with the supporting cast once again, and Tom Hiddleston equally is just as good as he was in Avengers. The main issue for me was really the plot, and it ran into problems quite quickly in the movie. We're shown at the start that it took Odin a massive army, and war effort to overcome the Frost Giants (which he also lost an eye to), but then 10 minutes or so later we see Thor single handedly wreck all their collective remaining asses. Hell in one scene he shatters what seems to be a city sized chunk of land from right out under them with fairly minimal effort. Then Odin shows up and chastises him for endangering the people of Asgard with possible war. I'm like "......what war? This guy could probably genocide their whole race by himself if you let him loose." There is no believable threat here.

Then towards the end of the movie, I remember being really hyped for the fight between Thor and the Destroyer armor, which I knew a bit about from playing the Marvel Ultimate Alliance game back in the day, and that turned out to be like the biggest dud ever. In the Avengers, Fury claimed Thor had levelled that entire town in his fight with that thing, but that isn't even remotely what happened. As I recall, the town came out of it miraculously unscathed, despite Thor summoning a big ass tornado, and he dismantled the Destroyer armor in less than a minute. Then afterwards we were supposed to buy that Loki was somehow a more serious physical threat in the final fight. I mean.....seriously? Nah.....

I also thought that whole bit in the middle of the movie was pretty hilarious, with Shield trying to figure out what this mystical hammer is, closing down the surrounding area, taking all these precautions. Then a giant barbarian of a man waltzes in, beats the brakes off all your men guarding the area, and instead of having Hawkeye take him out before this dude potentially actually does something with this hammer you've been trying to keep away from people cus you don't know wtf is up with this thing, Coulson is just like "meh.....lets see what happens." Really? Lets see what happens? What if Thor is a bad guy, picks up that hammer, and proceeds to expand the crater you're already in? What kind of shit show are you people running over there?




And yet.....with all that said, I actually still quite enjoyed the movie overall. Curious to see if that will still be the case now.