Best part of the movie by far was Chris Hemsworth.
I was sure Hawkeye was played by Jeremy Renner. Imdb agrees though it says he was uncredited. Imdb also has him listed on the Avengers page. They could have done more with him to show him being a badass.
I didn’t think I’d like it but I did. It was entertaining, and I know very little about mythology.
“I need a horse!”
“We don’t have horses here. All we have are dogs and cats and birds.”
“Then give me one big enough that I can ride!!”
BWAAHAHAHA!!
The only miscast character, I thought, was Hogun of the Warriors Three. I don’t mind him being Asian, but he’s supposed to be much more dour and scary.
I did, however, love the line from the guard: “Uh . . . we got Xena, Robin Hood, and Jet Li coming through.”
Marcellus Wallace had a Cosmic Cube in his briefcase? :eek:
I thought the visuals were beautiful. They did a good job of bringing to life Jack Kirby’s version of Asgard.
Saw it this afternoon with The Druidess. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit. Loved the way they tagged Thor with the “Donald Blake” alias. Could have done without the “obligatory Asian” as one of the Warriors. Liked the split narrative format…thought it worked very well for this movie, and as a set up for The Avengers.
I don’t know. In the comics, Hogun always looked semi-Asian to me. Though more Hun or Mongol than Samurai.
It’s Thor vs. Thor!
We comic geeks knew it was Hawkeye as soon as he went for the bow over the gun, though he seems more of an Ultimate Universe Hawkeye versus the regular universe.
I also like that Loki remains, as he was the one who originally got the Avengers together.
Go tell Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s ghost you didn’t like one being Asian. The “diversity casting” the dweebs were up in arms with was Heimdall, which is a stupid outrage from the start.
I liked Thor addressing Agent Colson as Son of Col.
The director made the mistake of using way too many dutch angles in an effort to capture a comic book spirit. This was the first good superher flick that has. The last time I saw so many was the execrable Sky High with Kurt Russell.
That was the “Cask of Ancient Winters” - it has a long history in the comics. There was a time it was opened on earth (early 90 or late 80s) casting all of marveldom into deep winter.
The good:
Loved Loki - much better than the comics, where he often comes off as a Snidely Whiplash type who is evil just for the sake of being evil.
Liked Sif and the Warriors Three, though Volstagg was way too thin. Baldur should have been there, too, though.
Even though there were absolutely no surprises, I was massively entertained.
Chris Hemsworth was also very good - it is hard to do cocky and charming at the same time.
The bad:
Sorry, I didn’t buy the Natalie Portman - Chris Hemsworth chemistry.
Frankly, the comics abandoned the Don Blake/ Jane Foster story a long time ago, with good reason. They shouldn’t have brought it back. I much prefer a Thor without a “secret identity”.
The movies have to decide if SHIELD are good guys or bad guys. They act like big brother and then someone says “were the good guys” and everythings ok again. Its happened in more than one movie.
The theatre we were in had the sound up way too loud. Most of the theatre plugged their ears through most of the movie.
Random thought:
The movies have (or are going to) introduce[d] all but three of the first 10 Avengers.
Hulk (own movies)
Iron Man (own movies)
Thor (own movie)
Captain America (this summer)
Hawkeye (Thor movie)
Black Widow (Iron Man 2)
Quicksilver (X-men - does that count?)
Who’s left?
Ant-man
Wasp
Scarlet Witch
I wonder if they will be upcoming.
I liked when Barton has a bead on Thor, and asks for someone to make a decision because, “I’m starting to root for this guy.” Shows great attitude, which is just what I would expect from the hawkster.
Thanks! I love how they’ve got Lou Ferrigno to voice the Hulk. 
I was particularly impressed with Loki’s dialogue. Nearly all of his lines where dripping with rhetoric and crafted to subtly manipulate. Silver-tongued indeed. I think I could justify screening this to an intro to composition course simply to demonstrate rhetoric as a concept.
Ant-Man is crawling along from Shaun of the Dead / Scott Pilgrim director Edgar Wright. [link]
Well, he didn’t here, really, so it’s all good. 
Pretty funny how frequently thor gets hit by a truck.
Just curious, how did the frost giants travel to midgard(earth) way back when? Seems like Bifrost was the only way.