1385: God of Spoilers

[TheMikeLawrence]

I disagree. When it comes to superhero movies, fun does equal good. If I go and have a great time and enjoy myself then it was a good movie. The actors and tech people did a great job of letting me escape for two hours and enjoy some goofy Asgardian action.

Hellboy 1 wasn't fun to me because they were pretty much going through the motions, treading through the same origin story waters and boring the piss out of me most of the time. It felt like a tv pilot. Hellboy 2 however threw everything at me, had a lot of fantastical moments and over the top characters and gave me a really fun movie experience. Based on that alone I'd say part 2 was better than part 1. Because part 2 was more fun.

[lews_therin]

Perhaps I meant to say that fun doesn't always mean good, as fun can come from the either the movie, the people you see the movie with, the atmosphere, et cetra.

I didn't know enough about Thor to be disappointed with the content, and I may have been distracted too much by the nasty on my recycled 3d glasses the theatre gave me to enjoy it fully.

Although I did enjoy and like the movie, I'm not sure I'd rate it as ''good'', both because I do not know if it represented the actually basis of Thor and because it seemed to me that they tried to pack too much content into one movie for someone that had not read the comics, if that makes any sense?

[TheMikeLawrence]

As someone who is familiar with the comics, I think they did a great job of simplifying years of dense mythology. I'll agree with you that they did jam a lot in, and two hours is a short time to make such a huge leap in the universe they're still creating. From guys in metal suits to gamma irradiated monsters...to a land of gods. I think what I liked about it so much was they just tackled it head on. They threw in frost giants, the cask of ancient winters, the warriors three, the rainbow bridge, Loki's secret past...all those rich chunks of the mythology, and said "here you go" with no real time for the audience to take any of it in. You just kind of had to accept it and move on because of how brisk the pacing was. The downside to that was their was less emotional gravity than there should be, but the upside was that it never meandered. The characters never dwelled on anything, they immediately reacted to everything. After how slow the X-men and Spider-man movies were (glacial at times) I was happy to see a movie just go balls out with actors that dove right into it. It aint Shakespeare but I'm glad Branagh and crew still treated it as such.

[Lanfear]

Originally Posted by lews_therin

A song of fire and ice is a fantastic series, and only 4 books of average novel length thus far (all of which are available as audio). I haven't had the opportunity to see the series yet, but I look forward to it.

As for Martin wanting to kill off major characters, I'm not sure it's a desire to kill them as much as a desire to write an actual realistic (as far as events would go) series.

And to agree with Keith, Thor = meh. It was fun, but that doesn't mean good.

On Wiki it says "Originally planned as a trilogy, the series now consists of four published volumes with the fifth expected to be published in 2011 on July 12 and two more planned"
And the author is old as well so what if he decides to plan 5 more books and then dies on me as well?

[Norwegian_Fag]

Originally Posted by Keith

I also used to watch Smurfs.

Is it aliens in general or aliens on earth you don't like? Just curious.

[Keith]

It's Norwegians. And gays.

[Blitzgal]

Originally Posted by Lanfear

On Wiki it says "Originally planned as a trilogy, the series now consists of four published volumes with the fifth expected to be published in 2011 on July 12 and two more planned"
And the author is old as well so what if he decides to plan 5 more books and then dies on me as well?

Yeah, we've been waiting six years for the next book. That's the biggest drawback of the series.

Although I waited how long for Stephen King to finish the gunslinger books and then he doesn't even give us a real ending, so the waiting might be the best part of it all.

[lews_therin]

Originally Posted by Lanfear

On Wiki it says "Originally planned as a trilogy, the series now consists of four published volumes with the fifth expected to be published in 2011 on July 12 and two more planned"
And the author is old as well so what if he decides to plan 5 more books and then dies on me as well?

Meh, they can always get Brandon Sanderson to finish it up. Hope he leaves a plethora of notes

[marina]

Originally Posted by Lanfear

That is too much boobs on a guy IMHO and I am not down with the long hair but yeah I think I need to validate that in motion - so now I need to find somebody to drag to the movies with me to form a valid opinion - its basically my duty right?

If course.

Actually, I had a theory that one of the reasons that so many straight guys were like "this is shit," and every gay guy and straight lady I know thought it was great, is because of how totally unrealistically hot that man is, and how little clothing he wears in comparison to other superhero dudes, while Natalie Portman basically wears a sweater the whole time. If I ever doubted that boobaliscious ladies actually do make bad films bearable for straight dudes, this is my proof.

[Norwegian_Fag]

Originally Posted by Keith

It's Norwegians. And gays.

We're going to the map.