Zack and I went and saw Thor the other day.  I don't know why it took us so long to do so, we both have wanted to see it since we knew it was coming.

I think part of the reason is that we went to a matinee and it cost us $10.50 each!!!

I own a very large, high definition TV. For the same price,  I can wait a few months, buy the movie on DVD and watch it every day in the comfort of my own home while eating the pizza I have delivered with the money left over.

Bridesmaids would have been just as funny if I saw it at home as it was in a theater.

Thor will be just as cool when I see it at home.

Movies are way too expensive.

Not only that, but the theater we saw it in had some kind of malfunction with the floor lights.  You know, the red lights that line the floor so that you can excuse yourself to use the restroom and buy more popcorn in the middle of the film because you are incapable of sitting still for two hours?  Those lights.  They kept flashing on and off.  It was distracting.

We should have demanded our money back for that.

But we both really liked the movie.

It was weird, though.

Here's the thing; I remember the comics; Thor is the Norse god of Thunder.  Odin is his Dad, the Norse version of Zeus, the head god.  Loki was Thor's brother and not to be trusted, as he is the god of Mischief.

This movie changes the premise.  Instead of gods, Odin and his boys are merely from an advanced civilization light years away who occasionally visit Earth via worm hole (the theory of relativity could explain why they've lived so long but the script hints that they are immortal.  WTF?  It's a comic book; relax.) and that primitive people like the Vikings simply mistook them for gods.

The movie has a very szchizophrenic feel.  Spellcheck has no idea what word I'm trying to spell there, so it can't help me.  You know what I mean, though, right?

It has a split personality; half of it takes place on Earth, in the same world inhabited by Tony Stark of Iron Man, while the other half takes place on the far away world where Thor is from.  We bounce back and forth through the worm hole for the action.

It was like watching Iron Man and Episode III of Star Wars in ten minute intervals, with some of the same people.

I liked the parts on Earth better.  At first I really liked the way the other planet looked but by the third visit there, I was thinking "No trees?  Really?"

The movie had the same sense of humor as Iron Man but no one in it has the charisma of RDjr.  I can't hold that against it, as very few actors do.  I liked the movie because I like fantasy/sci fi and so does Zack but I would have prefered staying on Earth longer.

Part of the fun of these movies is that they put fantastical premises into the real world environment and it's fun to watch people's reaction to the craziness of it all.  When the whole "Hey, I'm Thor, god of thunder" is on a different world, you have an entiely different reality to embrace.  It's tough to tie them both together.

Kenneth Branagh does a good job but I can totally see why people would be confused by this one.

So basically, we paid way too much money to sit in a blinking theater, watching a movie that couldn't decide what the hell it was.

And we liked it.

 

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