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MusicScribbles:
I was also surprised about the quality of the film. Some of its humor was pretty good considering that it was a family story mixed in with a fish out of water tale. The fish out of water stuff was pretty good.

I have to say though, that my biggest criticism for the film was that the dialogue wasn't good. If the acting from Hemsworth, Hopkins, and Hiddleston (Whoa guys.) had been anything less than excellent, some of the dialogue would have died in the theatre speakers it was so bad at times.

J:
i agree on the dialogue for the most part. it worked well for the gods and their epic proclamations of very simple things, but for the human characters it was very stilted and wooden.

the comedy was handled well by playing the character completely straight, and avoiding the usual 'fish out of water' cliches. the story was pretty basic and one dimensional, as were most of the characters, but that was fine. the one exception to this was loki, who was enjoyably much more layered than the usual supervillain from these movies.

visually, i do have a complaint about the fight scenes, as they overused the shaky-cam and quick-cuts to an extent that sometimes made it hard to distinguish exactly what just happened. other than that, the film looked good, with a unique aesthetic for asgard that was suitably over the top and embellished.

overall, a very enjoyable 'popcorn flick' without much substance, but enough style to make up for it, as well as it's moderate sodomization of norse mythology.



also, how fucking cool was that image of anthony hopkins rearing up on slepnir in a bolt of lightning?

Jimmy the Squid:

--- Quote from: Torlek on 07 May 2011, 23:29 ---I was quite impressed by the score, it felt appropriately epic and classic fantasy but had some shades of Hans Zimmer.

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Can't see why this would be a criticism to be honest. I know Zimmers style wouldn't be appropriate for a lot of films but I love basically everything he's done.

Torlek:

--- Quote from: Jimmy the Squid on 20 May 2011, 02:04 ---
--- Quote from: Torlek on 07 May 2011, 23:29 ---I was quite impressed by the score, it felt appropriately epic and classic fantasy but had some shades of Hans Zimmer.

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Can't see why this would be a criticism to be honest. I know Zimmers style wouldn't be appropriate for a lot of films but I love basically everything he's done.

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Wasn't a criticism. You just don't usually associate Zimmer's style with high fantasy. He's more rooted in slightly darker fare where his themes are slightly repetitive but build throughout the score until it finally erupts in a wall of sound that envelopes you and makes damn certain you know that this is the climax. I thoroughly enjoy his work too and I am pleased to see it start influencing the work of other composers.

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