Official Thor Trailer Strikes With the Might of Mjolnir
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thats Natalie Portman, im a bit surprised you dont know her, she has been in some good movies and in a ton of blockbusters, but youre right, that was a strange delivery of the line, it didnt seem forced to me, more like she had no idea how to react, im guessing the director is a hands off kinda guy, i didnt notice it at first since the lead actors deadpan ways stole the show.GrinningManiac said:
huh, i must have blocked that out ^^, isnt he also part time god of war, i dont remember if its when Denmark attacks or is being attacked, it may just be something the old Danes added to make themselves feel better than those stooped Swedes and Norwegians.Moonpooman said:
The first trailer, the one they took down, was better - it has countinuity humor in reguards to ironman.
From the way it's placed, I'm thinking the "science and magic" line is more of a lampshade/throwaway thing; i.e. "Anyone who's confused as to how me and Iron Man can live in the same universe? THAT'S how, moving on."
In any case, it's largely in-keeping with the way Marvel tends to handle it in the comics (though it varies from writer to writer.) In Marvel, "magic stuff" and "ridiculously-advance alien stuff" tends to all get grouped together under the "cosmic character" banner - i.e. Norse/Olympian/etc Gods, "Living Concepts" (in Marvel, "Infinity" and "Eternity" are folks you can just go talk to), crazy-otherworldly "Great Old One" type aliens, The Devil and outright wizardy tend to be on roughly-equal footing to one another (see any of Jim Starlin's Marvel stuff, for example.)
FWIW, Jack Kirby is supposed to have suggested big chunks of Thor's universe/origin, although he was only credited as the artist on that particular project, and Kirby was always a HUGE devotee of the "Chariots of The Gods Theory" - i.e. the idea that mythological god legends are actually primitive records of human encounters with highly-advanced aliens and/or extra-dimensional beings.
In any case, it's largely in-keeping with the way Marvel tends to handle it in the comics (though it varies from writer to writer.) In Marvel, "magic stuff" and "ridiculously-advance alien stuff" tends to all get grouped together under the "cosmic character" banner - i.e. Norse/Olympian/etc Gods, "Living Concepts" (in Marvel, "Infinity" and "Eternity" are folks you can just go talk to), crazy-otherworldly "Great Old One" type aliens, The Devil and outright wizardy tend to be on roughly-equal footing to one another (see any of Jim Starlin's Marvel stuff, for example.)
FWIW, Jack Kirby is supposed to have suggested big chunks of Thor's universe/origin, although he was only credited as the artist on that particular project, and Kirby was always a HUGE devotee of the "Chariots of The Gods Theory" - i.e. the idea that mythological god legends are actually primitive records of human encounters with highly-advanced aliens and/or extra-dimensional beings.
I managed to see it a few months ago before it was pulled off the web, and I have to say it looks surprisingly well done. I was afraid it would look super-cheesy, but it looks like it deserves to share the same universe with the Iron Man movies.
I have a major nitpick. Why the hell is Odin so pissed about Thor starting a war and disrupting the peace? The Norse loved war! Their idea of heaven was constant battle! The real Odin would have said, "War? Sweet! I'll grab my battle axe." Whoever wrote the script is taking ridiculous liberties with Norse mythology.Varewulf said:I have a minor nitpick, coming from the land of Norse. He said Earth instead of Midgard.That bugged me. I'm probably the only one to care though.
Otherwise, it looks interesting, but I was going to go see it anyway, so... had no impact there.
That would be Agent Coulson. He's also the guy from the first Iron Man film that kept trying to request a debriefing with Stark while saying SHIELDs long-form name only to be told he'd schedule something.NeedAUserName said:
Just like the comics the movie is based on.HarmanSmith said:
Wow. That looks really good. I had no interest in seeing Thor, except perhaps to complete the Avengers mythos before seeing that movie, but this trailer definitely sold me.
Anyone else thought the hammer looked kinda silly? A lot of the actors seem to be hamming it up too, and the whole 'in 3-D, in 2-D in some selected theatres' thing annoyed me for some reason (some of us can't watch 3-D without getting a killer migraine, thank you). Either way, I'll probably go see it just to see how they'll connect it to the other market movies.
Cue MovieBob creaming his pants in 3...2...
I sincerely hope he doesn't channel Batman and do an "I'm Thor" line because I'll probably bust out laughing in my seat. It'll bring me right back to that joke about how Thor picks up a Valkyrie at one of the afterparties one night in Valhalla (Where they fight all day and party all night) and bangs her all night long and in the morning, he figures he'd better introduce himself, because he didn't the night before.
"I'm Thor," he says.
"You're Thor?!" she says. "I'm tho thore, I can hardly pith!"
And yeah, when did Odin get his manhood removed? Odin loved war and fighting. The hall of the dead in Valhalla had all the best heroes from earth who killed each other all day, and at night, picked themselves up and put themselves back together from being chopped to pieces, and feasted and partied all night, only to do it again the next day. And this was a Norse warrior's idea of BLISS. Loki, now Loki was the one who hated straight up fighting. And when did Loki go all Emo and start dressing in black?
At least he was fairly pretty. Loki was a better looker than most of the Norse Gods, save Freyr/Frey, because he was only half God, the other half being giant. And thank the Ghods, Loki isn't wearing the horned helmet from the comics. They gave him -10,000 Ridiculous with that move (movie Loki, that is). Although I suppose it could always show up at some point.
I sincerely hope he doesn't channel Batman and do an "I'm Thor" line because I'll probably bust out laughing in my seat. It'll bring me right back to that joke about how Thor picks up a Valkyrie at one of the afterparties one night in Valhalla (Where they fight all day and party all night) and bangs her all night long and in the morning, he figures he'd better introduce himself, because he didn't the night before.
"I'm Thor," he says.
"You're Thor?!" she says. "I'm tho thore, I can hardly pith!"
And yeah, when did Odin get his manhood removed? Odin loved war and fighting. The hall of the dead in Valhalla had all the best heroes from earth who killed each other all day, and at night, picked themselves up and put themselves back together from being chopped to pieces, and feasted and partied all night, only to do it again the next day. And this was a Norse warrior's idea of BLISS. Loki, now Loki was the one who hated straight up fighting. And when did Loki go all Emo and start dressing in black?
At least he was fairly pretty. Loki was a better looker than most of the Norse Gods, save Freyr/Frey, because he was only half God, the other half being giant. And thank the Ghods, Loki isn't wearing the horned helmet from the comics. They gave him -10,000 Ridiculous with that move (movie Loki, that is). Although I suppose it could always show up at some point.
I had a point I was going to make, but for the life of me can't think of it. I definitely agree it's silly to downgrade the Asgardians to simply high tech.HellsingerAngel said:
But magic and science has overlapped in the MU, Eternity the anthromorphic personification of the entire universe did tell Hank Pym that magic and science were merely too sides of the same coin and that much of Pym's science borders on magic (pym particles, living machine, the infinity mansion). I could see magic as being explained as energy forms, dimensions and consciousnesses far beyond normal human comprehension.
Actually even in mythology it's got a small handle. There's a story about Loki betting some Dwarves that they couldn't match another Dwarf clans smithing. The prize was Loki's head. When they were forging Mjolnir, Loki turned into a marchfly (or something similar) and bit the blacksmith causing the handle to be prematurely short. Even so the work was better and Loki only got out of dying by telling the Dwarves they could only take his head if they spared his neck, so in return they sewed his lips shut.harv3034 said:
No, I agree he should have said Midgard.Varewulf said:I have a minor nitpick, coming from the land of Norse. He said Earth instead of Midgard.
He's wearing it at the end of the trailer. It looks fairly badassAnd thank the Ghods, Loki isn't wearing the horned helmet from the comics. They gave him -10,000 Ridiculous with that move (movie Loki, that is). Although I suppose it could always show up at some point.
And maybe he says Earth instead of Midgard because Earth is only a specific part of Midgard? I mean, what with all those other planets and alternate/parallel universes...
I an't say I'm as impressed as I perhaps feel I could be, but none-the-less I'm going to end up watching it.
