Comments on: Hey look a trailer for Thor

By: Salieri

Salieri — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:10:18 +0000

…It’s frightening how right you were about all this.

By: Al Ewing

Al Ewing — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:01:28 +0000

“…their true selves would blast mortal minds with madness…”

Jane Foster to thread. As I recall she got blasted with madness when she visited Asgard, to the point of telling Thor he was completely insane and so was his entire society. (They did lock her in a cupboard with a Fear Beast, so it’s not an unreasonable comment from her POV.)

By: B_Munro

B_Munro — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:51:26 +0000

“I prefer my gods to actually be gods.”

@malakim2099 – sure, I find the notion of the Asgardians having a cultural history, a presumed iron and stone age and, say, Asgardian space-monkeys to have evolved from a bit wierd myself. But what _sort_ of gods?

I mean, presumably Marvel-earth was not assembled from the body of a dead giant, and man was not created out of Ash-wood by Odin and his brothers: so they’re not creator-Gods. And if we go with the old “Gods created by belief” chestnut, the Gods are going to be either dreadfully Old Norse (and that’s dreadfully as in “something to dread”: let’s start with the human sacrifice and more on from there), or constantly under revision (hey, wasn’t there something like that going on in Earth-X?)

So, what sort of origin do they have? Born from a primordial chaos, mating with other species and producing strange children, inhabiting a strange multi-dimensional realm tied together with ours by the endless twisting roots and branches of the world-tree, served by stunted underground creatures, one legend has it, created from the maggots in Ymirs dead flesh…

Perhaps the Asgardians are Elder Gods, or possibly Great Old Ones. Maybe they only look human when manifesting in our dimension, and their true selves would blast mortal minds with madness…

By: Menamebephil

Menamebephil — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:26:02 +0000

@katefan- Not disagreeing with you on general principle, but are you sure you’d call Frankenstein ‘great’? Because, um, I’m pretty sure that film was a trainwreck from start to finish.

His ‘Much Ado’ was good, though.

By: malakim2099

malakim2099 — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:59:28 +0000

In fact, given how there’s been so much talk from the fanboys about how the fantastical Thor will seem weird in the Avengers movie aside those oh-so-realistic SF-based heroes, you’d think this would ease their complaints.

Maybe it would, but personally, I prefer my gods to actually be gods.

By: The Scrote

The Scrote — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:43:15 +0000

Superman is without doubt THE most ridiculous superhero of all time. From his powers to his costume to his villans to his jesus complex.
How his popularity has continued on to the 21st century is beyond me.
Thor is positively shakesperian in comparison.
The trailer looked a bit of a mess though.

By: katefan

katefan — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:11:40 +0000

I have no problem with the slight modification in Thor and the Asgardians’ origin and it is not like it is the first time we have seen things re-written for the sake of either convenience or what the writer/director feels is an improvement. Spider Man got organic webbing because Raimi probably felt it unlikely a sixteen year old kid was going to be able to 1) create an all purpose super glue and 2) design a delivery system that is so compact it does not show up under his tights. In X-Men Rogue does not have Ms. Marvel’s powers because then you have to introduce Ms. Marvel. In The Incredible Hulk Banner’s origin can’t be a gamma bomb going off because above ground testing has been banned for decades.

In the case of Thor I think Brannagh might feel this origin will sell better to general audiences. I am willing to trust a director who gave me the awesome spectacles of Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Frankenstein, Dead Again and Hamlet. He is a good director and a great actor. Part of me wishes he was playing Odin instead of Hopkins.

By: ladypeyton

ladypeyton — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:27:59 +0000

@Andrew: Marvel Asgardians are not Scandinavian.

By: jackd

jackd — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:31:20 +0000

Nope, looks like the trailer is yanked from io9 and blogspot.

By: tbarrie

tbarrie — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:59:29 +0000

Walt Simonson didn’t use mangled medieval English, MGK.

And do you dismiss every fictional character who’s canonically unable to take Superman in a fight?

By: Prankster

Prankster — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:00:19 +0000

The Asgardians of the Marvel U. have always been ultradimensional entities of such power that they’re indistinguishable from gods. That’s the comics. I like it, because it sets them apart from the many other “gods who come to Earth in the present day” we see in fantasy movies, tv shows, books, and comics. And it’s very much of a piece with the Marvel Universe as a whole, which of course being made at the height of the Space Race was all about gadgetry, not magic.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:46:41 +0000

I don’t understand the problem with expecting a Scandinavian god-figure to look like a Scandinavian. It’s not like Nick Fury or the Kingpin – both roles which are well-enough served by an actor of any ethnicity of adequate talent.

By: malakim2099

malakim2099 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:49:12 +0000

If the Asgardians are “aliens” instead of actual gods, I think I’m going to have to boycott this movie.

Seriously. Are they from Zeist?

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:08:32 +0000

There better be some fucking Led Zeppelin on the soundtrack.

By: Strayph

Strayph — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:12:58 +0000

http://thor-trailer.blogspot.com/