Re: OSC muses about Thor, rips 3D

>> http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2011-05-12.shtml
>
>> At first glance, the reason why the comic book movie *Thor* works so 
>> well might seem to be the superb casting. When you have gods in a 
>> movie, the silliness factor jumps exponentially, and the fact that we 
>> aren't laughing at the dialogue could easily be due to the talent of 
>> Anthony Hopkins as Odin and Rene Russo as Frigga.

Um, I'm sorry, did Rene Russo actually *do* anything in this movie?

>> But in this case, it is also due to the script, which takes the absurd 
>> premise and turns it into something that actually approaches epic. The 
>> key is that instead of pontificating gods, above the realm of human 
>> understanding, these characters are portrayed as a family of powerful 
>> people with really cool toys -- and instead of being mythic, the 
>> universe is science fictional, so that a faint whiff of believability 
>> is maintained.

Oh, I think a "mythic" story could have been believable.  The reason they 
went all science-fictiony here is because they need to integrate Thor into 
the rest of the Marvel universe, which, as far as the movies are concerned 
at least, is dominated by the science-lab origins of Iron Man, Hulk, etc.

>> I mean, would *The King's Speech* or *Black Swan* have made any sense 
>> in 3D? And if they had been filmed in 3D, would anyone have taken them 
>> seriously? 3D is a marker of *trashiness* in filmmaking.

Actually, Black Swan was already so over-the-top that 3D might not have 
hurt it, depending on how it was used.  And there was certainly something 
sensationalistic about the film that arguably dovetails with "trash".

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