The Thor sequel is the Avengers movie.

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Does it really matter who directs these Marvel comic book movies? Seems to me you could just hire some tried and true competent Hollywood DP's and AD's, get the CGI farm fired up and let a retarded ape do the actual stage direction.

I have a two year old at home that just crapped out some horrible stuff...can we just call that the next Thor movie?

What about Conan? I think he did a fantastic job with the trailer

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Nina_Hartley's_Ass: CitizenTed: Does it really matter who directs these Marvel comic book movies? Seems to me you could just hire some tried and true competent Hollywood DP's and AD's, get the CGI farm fired up and let a retarded ape do the actual stage direction.

Sounds good. Let's roll.

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Totally, man!

But I was pretty upset when my "any director" theory was put to the test. I carefully screened "Thor" and "Almighty Thor" in an effort to prove that mega-budget crap is worse than low-budget cheese, but "Amighty Thor" was so galactically awful I couldn't actually watch the whole thing. "Thor" was certainly a dim and dull movie. but "Almighty Thor" was so heinously terrible that it nearly caused me to vomit.

Despite this glaring hole in my theory, I will continue to monitor Marvel comic book movies to see if there is any true directorial merit to be found.

FerneJohn: I still haven't seen Iron Man 2, Thor, or Captain America. I have some catching up to do before The Avengers, I guess.

Do Farkers have a favorite among those?

Captain America was a lot of fun. Better than Thor and IM2. IM2 suffered because of the runaway success of the first one. People wanted it to exceed expectations, when it turned out to be a good popcorn movie, but not much else. I enjoyed both Thor and IM2, but I'd watch the first one or Captain America over them any day.

Wendy's Chili: Those characters were horribly represented overall, and that scene, in particular, sucked. I could see why it was deleted.

For one thing, Volstagg was not nearly fat enough.

I agree. I thought the renditions of Sif and the Three was abysmal and they were criminally underused. I also wish the giants had been more... giant. Also, Natalie Portman phoned it in.

But everything else... holy crap. I honestly didn't think it was possible to bring the Thor universe to life and they did it. They farking did it. The bifrost was gorgeous and they very deftly navigated the fact that magic *is* technology for Asgardians so everything looked tangible and mystic at the same time.

I know people complained about the black Heimdall and even though I'm black I saw it as a token thing too... but damn it, they pulled it out again. Idris Elba exuded cool and while Heimdall generally isn't utilized much in the books, he's very farking important in the mythology and they stepped up his significance for the movie. Very awesome, I thought.

Hannibal Lecter did an incredible job as Odin. And since they've finished their 'maturing the wild child' storyline with the first movie, I hope that any future rendition shows a more princely Thor. Maybe throw in a cameo of his best bud Herc as well. ;)

Hoboclown: All those scenes where he's a little pipsqueak getting kicked around don't really work when he's got this commanding baritone.

I agree. I was very surprised they didn't alter that. Turn up the pitch slightly or something.

Maybe they didn't want to suggest that the serum made made him a different man or something but still, it was off-putting.

IM>Cap>Thor>Hulk>IM2

If the Avengers secures itself a spot between cap and thor, i'll be more than happy. For arguments sake i watched catwoman, ghost rider and jonah hex last week.... If you havent watched catwoman, youre not qualified to refer to any of the marvel ultimates films as "bad comic book movies", and if you have, you wouldnt.

/ghost rider was cheesey as all hell, but not THAT terrible
/hex was just boring