I went to a movie!

[kiya]

I haven't been to a movie since Star Trek: Rebooted! (Not that I got to more than one every year and a half or so even pre-baby, because movies involve leaving the house.)

teinedreugan and I saw Thor.

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Branagh always brings such loving care and attention to his source material, doesn't he?

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

The source material in question is the comics, rather than the mythology -- and, yeah, actually he does treat the Marvel Comics source material with a great deal of respect.

The Norse mythology? Not so much, but that's not actually in the mix.

[kiya]

The mythology was never on the table, indeed.

[beloitst.livejournal.com]

I liked Thor. I also didn't consider it to have even the remotest bearing on real mythology. That would be like watching Land Before Time to learn about dinosaurs.

[kiya]

Yes, but the relevant source material is superhero comic books.

[beloitst.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, I'm even more ignorant on those than I am on Norse mythology, and that's really saying something there.

[netbard.livejournal.com]

I liked it as well. I was, in fact, delightedly surprised at this fact, as I didn't go in expecting much.

[joyful-storm.livejournal.com]

What an excellent summary you make in your last sentence!

I did like Loki a great deal, though. What can I say, lean intelligent brunettes beat out dim but ripped blondes in my opinion every time.

[(Anonymous)]

Thor is not precisely _dim_; it just takes a lot of work to get him to register something as a thinking problem, rather than a smiting problem.

I've come to regard the Marvel continuity of alien gods as ever bit as valid as Herr Wagner's wild misreadings that everyone thinks are a good redaction of the surviving heathen material.

-- Graydon

[boojum.livejournal.com]

I realized halfway through the movie that they'd set a movie that was related to Norse mythology in New Mexico. It was really hard not to laugh myself out of the theater.