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nausicaa83Hope you all are having a great weekend! Me, I just had the loveliest afternoon with my two favourite persons in the world. My aunt, Tati and I went to the cinema to watch Thor 2 - The Dark World, then pizza and dessert, and lots of great conversation. It was absolutely awesome. We liked the movie, especially because we already knew it was a lot weaker than its predecessor and had no high expectations. Spoiler-free review: the direction was really, really boring, ditto for the cinematography, and the pace was off. Most of the time it was a couple of lines just to get to the next action sequence, and repeat. And I didn't like how they resolved Frigga's storyline. But I really loved Jane, and I think the second part was a lot better than the first, even if the villains had no real personality. Still, always great to see Chris Eccleston!
I think the main problem was that they tried to recreate the pace of a comic book, where the individual chapters are short, they have to always end on some sort of cliffhanger, and make sense on their own, even if they belong to a longer story. It makes perfect sense for a comic book, but not for a movie, where it makes it disjointed and goofy. Plus they just assumed we already know and care for the characters, and gave us no scenes to actually nurture our feelings for them in the present. We care because we love them from before. But otherwise none of their actions are truly explained.
After all, I really, really loved the first one, so after they changed director I was prepared to be disappointed. With that already in mind, I enjoyed myself and even shouted at the screen a couple of times (a couple of loud and clear "fuck that!"s that my aunt decided to ignore, thank the gods), and laughed a lot. Good enough for me.
But to be honest I'm a lot more excited at the idea of Captain America 2. The trailer and the story look great, let's cross fingers it'll deliver what it promises!
And now I'll go back to being spoiled rotten by my aunt, see you soon. ;)
I think the main problem was that they tried to recreate the pace of a comic book, where the individual chapters are short, they have to always end on some sort of cliffhanger, and make sense on their own, even if they belong to a longer story. It makes perfect sense for a comic book, but not for a movie, where it makes it disjointed and goofy. Plus they just assumed we already know and care for the characters, and gave us no scenes to actually nurture our feelings for them in the present. We care because we love them from before. But otherwise none of their actions are truly explained.
After all, I really, really loved the first one, so after they changed director I was prepared to be disappointed. With that already in mind, I enjoyed myself and even shouted at the screen a couple of times (a couple of loud and clear "fuck that!"s that my aunt decided to ignore, thank the gods), and laughed a lot. Good enough for me.
But to be honest I'm a lot more excited at the idea of Captain America 2. The trailer and the story look great, let's cross fingers it'll deliver what it promises!
And now I'll go back to being spoiled rotten by my aunt, see you soon. ;)
