Thor

[SliceOfDog]

Just come back from seeing Thor (and I'll straighten this out right now. I mean Thor, not Almighty Thor) and it was pretty enjoyable.

I'm not quite sure how faithful it was to the comic, but I saw it with a couple fans of the comic and they were mostly happy with it. It spammed the special effects a bit, but overall it looked nice, a sort of mix between Stargate and LotR. The acting was above average (if not always exceptional) and the humour was genuinely funny, not corny and forced.

My favourite aspect of it (and again, I've not read the comic, so I don't know which version is to thank for this) is that the villain of the film has a believable motive, and isn't just evil. His views are twisted, but there's a justifiable logic to it. He also turns more evil as the film goes on, which is always nice to see. In contrast, the hero (That would be Thor, if you didn't guess) starts off as an arrogant, violence-loving jerk. At first I was worried they were going to keep him like that and expect us to like him, but he gets punished for it and changes his ways.

Not the best hero movie we've had in the last few years, but definitely a good watch.

[Daryn]

It does look like the kind of action movie you could see with a few friends and enjoy. A lot like the two Iron Man movies if you ask me. Maybe they weren't completely faithful to the comic but they were good in their own right. Still, I don't think I'll get out to see it though.

[Silverwind]

I saw it with my friends who (like me) were big comic book fans, and my partner, who isn't so much. All of us enjoyed it - the comic book minded amongst us enjoyed it for the references, and the ties to the other Marvel movies and universe, and my GF enjoyed it because it was a funny, exciting, and interesting movie.

We all agreed that it probably could have done with a bit more Thor being Thor on Earth, and less Thor being a bum in a small town in the US, and I think it needed a bigger battle at the end, since the big shiny baddie didn't really do much before he got clobbered.

However, it was pretty cool, and all of us squee'd like fanboys/girls at the tease after the credits had rolled. Not to mention at the Captain America trailer we saw just before, too.

Overall, it wasn't better than Iron Man or Iron Man 2, but it was still better than The Incredible Hulk (that's the second one, not the Ang Lee one).

[SliceOfDog]

Yeah, I'd probably agree that Iron Man was the best of those three, and Incredible Hulk was the worst, but not by much (as in, Hulk wasn't worst by much, because I still enjoyed it. Iron Man was clearly the best XD)
I think all of those movies have been done really well, they seem to be on a winning streak at the moment.