It was awesome. By far the best marvel movie to date.

It was pretty good but Avengers was much better. Too much Darcy/Selvig/Jane and not nearly enough Sif/Warrior's Three/Malekith.

That movie was a pile of sh!t

I enjoyed it. The Thor Loki team up was cool.

The one thing I loved was the rather ominous ending.

@farkam: No swearing dude

I loved it, light years better than Iron Man 3

I see tons of people swear on this site. Plus I substituted a lower case "L" with an "I".

Enjoyed it

@farkam: still looks like the word.

I'll just replace the "I" with an exclamation mark, since that's what i've seen a few others do.

Lame

@theacidskull: it was really really good

It was very mediocre. Not awful, just "meh".

I bet if I made a thread saying it was the worst movie ever I would get a whole thread of people saying that it is a great movie, and most of you would be saying it :)

@haveatthee: I agree. Darcy doesn't really have a point in this movie and severe her purpose at the start. The warriors three and Sif where awesome but need more time. There was enough Malekieth but an extra scene or two wouldn't have hurt. Also I want the whole Jane/Thor to end because I like Sif :) apart from those I stand by my opinion best marvel movie to date.

Rewatched it last night. Only good thing about it are the production values.

Movie was humiliating for Thor! All he did was getting beaten! A Thundergod without significant thunder and lightning scene??

I m so angry!! Sorry for my bad english:)

I just watched it as of today...... In my opinion it SUCKED!

It was NOT the actors

The story sucked and the tone was cornball..... It felt like Green Lantern type mess.

If I was going to compare DC vs Marvel movies as of late

I would say

Marvel seems to have a "WHITE HOUSE DOWN" VIBE

and DC has an "AN OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN" VIBE

I would much rather have Olympus has fallen

Same can be said with DC and Marvel when it comes to animation.

The people at marvel are Geniuses for setting up the Marvel Cinematic universe the way they did because even if the movie sucks like this one did people are going to SEE it.

anyway glad some people liked it.

best part : Heimdall killing a giant invisible spaceship...with knives.

I agree with many, to much darcy, jane and selvig. the end battle was like 2 second scene that shows one hit by mjolnir and after that cut to darcy and the intern for one minute. I personally wanted to see some more thor-mjolnir action. Not like in man of steel for example, cause in the end they dont really surprise you at all with the fighting scene, but at least something more. I mean the Neo agents smith battle in matrix revolution has more action than malekith vs Thor. its only paced fast to give you the impresion of action.

and again Mjolnir the most powerful weapon in the universe is just a joke... I mean, a spear pierced Kurse, come on a f... spear? and mjolnir was deflected as nothing. after that some pointy things kill malekith, not mjolnir. If I were Thor, I would think of buying a lightsaber.

Not awful, but pretty disappointing compared to the first one which almost always managed to handle the comic relief rather well. While in TDW the comedy was for the most part pretty poor. Odin's change from noble, benevolent guy to grumpy prejudiced asshole was also not that great but thats what you get when you have a "good guy" who is supposed to be more powerful than the protagonist actually be awake for the entire movie - he has to become a gruff, irritable obstacle to the heroes goals. Same thing happens in the comics.

There were some compelling elements to the film but for a film apparently trying to "explore the Asgardian realms" it failed miserably trying to accomplish said task. Asgard looked cooler and more full of life thanks to the real locations that were shot, but that's about it. The reason it was so successful was how appealing Marvel Studios made the film to all sorts of audiences (especially women). My guess is those cuts and retakes months before release were meant to streamline the film and give the viewer a basic plot without much substance. The true success in the story was, again, Loki's machinations throughout, which obviously have large implications for the entire Marvel movie universe. So studio bosses were like "Let's give them Thor and Loki throughout and show Jane/Darcy/Selvig for comic relief and to keep the story 'grounded' on Earth." The idea that a super-amped Malekith with an Infinity stone was defeated by a human science project was also ridiculous.

I do agree with the sentiment that DC has taken the more serious approach to their films, and while some don't appreciate that, I very much like the tone of their films. Marvel is obsessed with injecting too much snarky humor into their scripts, and while it works with some characters (Iron Man, Spider-Man) it's rather obtuse and detracting from others (Thor, Hulk).

since we are getting more thor in avengers 2 and 3 and thor 3 i hope they show more of him with lightning and show what he can really do with that mighty hammer.....i love how they make storm powers look cool in the x-men movies.....its like in the first thor movie he was strong and was flipping the hammer all kinds of ways and we got that awesome tornado at the end.......in the avengers he used more lightning attacks but less fightning with the hammer in a cool way like he did on the first thor movie and he was still strong......in thor 3 his offense wasnt that good....and he only use 2 lightning attacks that i can think of which was really cool but we need more thunder and lightning....marvel may just amp his strenght and mljonir powers up these next 3 movies it has to get better from here.

Unless Thor has to take on Surtur in Thor 3, I doubt we'll see Thor "amped" up in power. That's about as strong as he's going to get (admittedly not very).

Pfffft, the movie was perfectly mediocre, not at all the best Marvel movie to date (in my opinion), even the first Thor was better.

I thought the movie was pretty good, I agree there should have been more Malekith and too much Darcy and Jane, but I really liked the action scenes and loved the Thor/Loki team-up. Loki was Awesome in the movie.

The criticism here seems remarkably shallow. Honestly, the most pressing issue with Thor: DW / the Marvel CU in general is the fact magic doesn't existin the universe. Which in the case of Thor, a character that literally lives in an extra dimensional (which, yeah - it's been confirmed twice now) city in the clouds - takes away from, for the lack of a better term, the magic of Thor's universe. I'd rather have Hopkins as the nigh-omnipotent plot device in the comics, Malekith as a wizard, Thor going physically to Hel fighting for the souls of mankind against Hela- but realistically - short of a Ragnarok retcon - that's not going to happen.

The second main issue being the film is convoluted - mainly because everything important for the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has to happen in Thor - he's the main lead into the grander plot. Hopefully with GoTG's success, Marvel can start introducing cosmic franchises that can also deal with the big picture so Thor doesn't have to have infinity gems / Avengers 3(+) plot set-up, so the writers can simply tell a centric Thor story - maybe tapping into more whacky enemies like Ego or more recent foes like the God-Butcher (leading into an expansion of pantheons in the MCU).

Outside that - Thor: Dark World was good. Visually it could be argued to be Marvel's best looking movie alone to date and while it relies on the same Deux Ex Machina Avengers did (SELVIG!) to save the day - its a fun mix between LoTR / Star Wars - although partly carried by the interaction between Loki / Thor - that is perfectly enjoyable. Not mention, no-where near as cheesy as the original was at times.

Avengers was better, but that's mainly because of Whedon. The man is a comic fanboy, isn't afraid to call stuff magic and can write a scenes that hit at the core of his characters - scenes like Thor brooding over Mjolnir says an incredible amount about Thor himself without any dialogue or significant time spent on said scene. It's a damn shame DC didn't get him to do his Batman.

That's also a fair criticism, the fact that Asgardians have been designated as an extra-dimensional alien race that uses advanced science rather than being mystical beings. Takes a lot of mystique away from the Nine Realms, which the film was supposed to have expanded on. I actually think the fact that Thor (being the only cosmic/off-planet Avenger) is a major player in the larger Marvel film universe is one of the more redeemable qualities about the franchise, because other than that Marvel studios have gone out of their way to make the character "relatable/likeable" by hanging out on Earth so much and feeling responsible for bringing extra-terrestrial threats to the planet. Not to mention having Jane and Selvig be such significant players literally influencing the outcome of large-scale cosmic battles.

When The Dark World was concentrated on Asgard and focused on Asgardian characters (Odin, Freyja, Warriors Three, Sif) I thought the film had clear direction and was doing a decent job of fleshing out these characters, but then the film would cut back to Earth for idiotic scenes involving Jane, Darcy and Selvig. I also think that having one of the Infinity stones be some type of Ethereal virus infecting Jane was greatly contrived to try and give her a larger role in the film other than being Thor's love interest.

Overall I felt the film was stylistically superior to the first and included some great elements (the Thor/Loki relationship, Loki's manipulations and Asgard's importance in Marvel movieverse) but was flawed in many ways plot-wise. Still was more entertaining than Iron Man 3.

it was a great movie.

ITs sad how any movie that gets watched sucks for most people nowadays. I suggest for them to stop watching movies.

THOR 2 was a great movie. Your an idiot if you can't see that. Sorry for my arrogance.

MALEfuckingKEITH THE ACCURSED got duped by 2 stupid interns holding tripods. that blew chunks & a half.

The best part was the end. I just like that Loki won. HA! suckitTHOR:P

I liked the part when thor was getting knocked on his azz! Which was the majority of the motion picture..

if THOR won all his battles easily you'd still be complaining, so what's your purpose? do you even seek for one?

@thorson: he didnt win any in solo combat..

It is a good movie.

i agree.....lol i never understood how it felt for a movie to present someone most favorite character in the wrong way....i use to always say its not that serious...but thor is my favorite character and the limited power is killing me...i understand the pain some fans get now

Otherwise it would seem too "unrealistic" for a fictitious Norse God to posses unimaginable strength. Have to give the viewing audience some semblance of realism (lol). What's worse, it would seem the only thing Thor can really do is call down lightning, a bit of rain and a tornado when he really gets going.

he defeated melekth. Not defeating Kurse only helped further story with Loki. If you aren't flexible to see these possiblites, then iunno what can help you.

Do you think its possible to have a very powerful THOR with little to no weakness and have a good, intriguing story?

This. It's my second favorite Marvel Studios movie so far.

@thorson: Yes. Give the characters a proper writer with imagination and you can get incredible results. Thor's two main fights happened as follows:

vs. Kurse- Fly after Malekith and get sucker-punched by Kurse. Kurse then proceeds to beat the holy snot out of Thor. Thor lands maybe one or two punches which have little effect, but takes quite a beating. This is supposed to be the mightiest warrior in the Nine Realms? Take Mjolnir away and he's a glorified Iron Man. The only thing the entire fight showed is that Thor is quite durable to get pounded on continuously, as well as eat a massive flying boulder to the face, and walk away from it with little more than a few scratches.

vs. Malekith- Aside from the atrocious editing and the whole "jump through realms" bit, Thor throws Mjolnir at Malekith to great effect, and he mostly brawls back and forth, neither gaining any advantage. Half the climactic battle is devoted to showing Selvig and Jane using a science project to stop Malekith and Darcy being saved by the idiot intern. Malekith is wielding an Infinity gem/stone and Thor is carrying Mjolnir. This battle could and should have been MASSIVE.

Again, there certainly are redeemable aspects of the film. Thor and Loki's relationship was a nice part of the plot, as well as Loki's manipulations and Thor again defying Odin. But there are way too many things wrong with it to be considered Marvel's best film.

Well he didnt really have to be very powerful the first two movies since he had lots of help on the avengers.....but for the last 3 i just want more epic lightning battles they could give us atleast one good battle with him and mjolnir.....thats all im asking give me something epic to remember about my favorite character.....something that can out do everything he has done on screen so far.....for asgard.

@thorson: i said solo..as in a battle without aid...or help from friends..He could not defeat that elf by himself..clearly the building did..not his hammer..