Re: Tough Choices...

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Mike Findlay wrote:
> I don't disagree that Thor was not especially superheroic.  Thor and his 
> family came across more as aliens than the gods they are supposed to be. 
> I realize that doesn't disqualify you from superherodom, (Superman) . . .

Well, part of the problem here was that the movie couldn't quite decide if 
Thor and his family were living on another planet or in, y'know, heaven 
(or something similarly mystical/religious/mythical).

I do appreciate what they were trying to do, especially given that they 
had to make everything "fit" with tech-based superheroes like Iron Man 
(and science-experiment superheroes like Hulk and Captain America), but if 
we're talking comparative comic-book mythologies, I think Green Lantern's 
is at least more consistent, on this level.  (Plus, as you note, in the 
comics, Green Lantern lives in a world where the dominant superhero, i.e. 
Superman, is *already* an alien from another planet... whereas Thor, in 
the movies, has to fit into a world of primarily earthbound heroes.)

> As Kurt Loder said:
>
> "But the picture is slathered with so much CGI goop that at several 
> points it’s indistinguishable from a Saturday morning cartoon show. 
> Very soon you start wondering why you had to leave your living room to 
> see it."

Yeah, well, people said the same thing after seeing the trailers for 
Avatar, too.  (Remember all those Delgo mash-ups?)

> > You turn it on during the previews?  Eep.  For me, when the house 
> > lights go down, *all* lights go down.<
>
> Except the lights don't go down for previews.

Really?  Not even a little, when the projector starts rolling?

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