Thor 3-D: Movie Review
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Brannagh pulls it off– Just
I’ve seen it and i must admit i like it.
Many of my fears for the film were unfounded. It’s not too serious; the scenes where Thor interacts with mere mortals are handled with a lightness of touch not usually associated with Brannagh and the language is not too Shakespearian.
The characterisation if not the story, is true to the comic origins of the film and the two leads, Hemsworth and Portman are excellent, but it needed someone much fatter to play Volstag.
Time is wasted in the film attempting to explain scientifically the relationship between Asgard and Earth, (we all realise it is make believe) but overall the pace and look of the film are spot on.
I absolutely loved the Destroyer; it is exactly how I imagined it to be when I read the comics as a kid.
3D Dud
I’m still not sure about the 3D thing. The definition and quality of modern movie screens is now so good, I don’t think 3D adds anything, nothing jumps out of the screen and actually having to wear the glasses is quite disconcerting. The problem is if you don’t wear them, many images of the screen look fuzzy, definitely distracting from the experience.
Curiously half of the people in the cinema were not wearing 3D glasses. I asked after the film why not and was told.
- We didn’t realise it was 3D.
- No one gave us any glasses
- I’m not paying 80p extra for glasses.
- What is 3D?
- I prefer to watch it in normal vision.
- Bugger off and mind your own business.
The cinema itself was culpable. When we collected out tickets we were not told it was 3D and when we realised it was we had to ask three employees before we found out where to buy them and then had to wait in a long line to buy them.
Why not add the cost to the ticket price and have them in a box on entry like they do at Disney and Universal.
The Avengers Connection
As a comic fan I enjoyed the film but I don’t think it would work as a standalone film. Now comic fans looking for a bit of escapism would find the excellent Battle: Los Angeles more entertaining and I wouldn’t have enjoyed the film as much if I didn’t know it was a precursor to next year’s Avengers movie.
If you want to sit through what seems like endless credits at the end (there is no wonder these films cost millions to make if so many people are involved) there is the now obligatory “Bit at the end”
Personally I wouldn’t bother.
5:33 am
Where I went it was just part of the price and you automatically get glasses. both at the regular real d 3d theater and sony giant digital. That theater you went sounds dumb.
1:10 pm
If a movie is to be any good in 3D then it needs to be filmed in 3D. THOR and Last Airbender were after filming conversions, How to Train Your Dragon was filmed in 3D and it is breathtaking and a whole different movie experience. Real 3D or True 3D i think it is called.
9:20 am
I agree ,’How to train your dragon’ was brilliant in 3-D.