Expect venom. The biggest insult to this film, I spent the whole film wondering what happened in Hollywood that all the big villains in the comic book, sci-fi universe are pale creepy Prometheus like individuals, they are all too similar, too boring, whoever thought they looked scary or interesting were clearly mistaken, it's been done, think of some interesting creature/bad guy designs, someone somewhere! Then at the end of the film I saw Christopher Eccleston's name pop up on the screen as key bad guy and I felt like hurling my shoe at the screen. That was the most pointless role I've ever seen ever in a film and it was Christopher Eccleston? The ninth doctor? A damn fine actor elevating most material he is given to a higher level of authentic awesome, I didn't recognise him and he was white noise in a film that was mostly explosions and nonsense.
I'm growing fatigued with the comic book universe bleeding into cinema. The Avengers, which I won't lie was a good film, but not the best film ever as most people assume, we spent way too long on that floating fortress... Pacing was a bit off in my eyes, it was a good film, it just wasn't the best. At this point most comic book films aren't even trying to be amazing, it's like they take a bunch of elements, stick them in a blender and churn out nonsense. There is nothing interesting going on! Specifically in Thor 2. There are explosions and fight scenes but... I could wash the plot off in the shower and forget every important plot point, not that there were many significant ones to start with...
There's a bunch of dark elves, they possessed the Aether but then lost it when they tried to use it to destroy all the planes of existence which 'converged' at a point in time, and coincidentally are on the verge of doing so again in this film, so it's handy that the Aether is inadvertently discovered by Natalie Portman who is whisked away by Thor and then the chase ensues... Oh good God! Natalie Portman. I feel so bad for her having this much shit to put up with; the film wants us to believe that her character and Thor have some epic love thing going on, but I don't think I've ever seen less chemistry between two actors in my life, it's painfully awkward watching them together. Also, Chris Hemsworth has very little to do apart from at certain points smile with that effortless charming manner, and say something rousing, and smash things with his hammer... If Chris Hemsworth is topless or charming in a film he is essentially earning his pay, he doesn't need to do anything else, and a lot of the time in this film he barely registers as charming, and there is about twenty seconds of him with his top off for no real reason at all except, hey ladies, there it is, look at those bulging muscles... I want my money back... not that I paid for the tickets at the cinema I work at...
Speaking of which, the entire mediocrity of this film is just painful, who genuinely sat back and thought, as a product, this was the best thing they could produce with what they had? Even London couldn't be bothered to make an effort and have decent weather, it was cloudy and overcast and although I chortled at the fact that it was showing London for it's normal manner, which is dreary wet weather, it just felt limp and wet, like the weather...
Loki, well he just about elevates this movie from utter rubbish to at least remotely watchable for each scene he is involved in, at least there is some level of intrigue going on there. You never can tell where Loki stands and he is such a tricky devil that at least there is something going on under the surface. Apart from moving the plot along, most characters can't even muster any energy than to be simple plot devices. Although, Idris Elba is a pretty damn good mover and shaker, he has some fun scenes, specifically just to show how much of a badass he is. Unfortunately scenes with Tom Hiddleston and Idris Elba are few and far between and there are battles to be fought and nonsense to be spouted, it's all just a stretch too far.
This film was boring.
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