Mjolnir Reborn
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Okay, fine. There are at least 2 other people who liked TDW, maybe 3.
In all honesty I cannot understand the hate that movie gets. I remember watching it in the cinema and thinking:
- pretty good fight scenes ( especially, " holy crap, Kurse nearly killed Thor !")
- Hiddleston steals every scene, and Loki gets a good story arc,
- Hopkins and Russo do a lot with a little
-the Dark Elves whole look was cool and creepy
,including their tech and ships.
-Good pacing
- I liked the sorcery/science tech of the Asgardians.
- Hemsworth was more likeable than he was in Thor
- The Warrirors three get something useful to do.
On the negative I thought :
- Kat Dennings and the comedy sidekicks were a bit much
-Eccleston was disappointing as Malekith, and the use of Dark Elvish language diminished the impact of his lines ( sometimes it works, like in LOTR, sometimes it doesn't)
- the final confrontation was a mixed bag, there were bits of silliness mixed in with Eccleston's deadpan performance which didn't fit well together. If they were going to play it tongue in cheek, they should have stuck with that.
All in all not a bad film IMO. Where are all the Thor fans to back me up on this one ? Come on @Mjolnir Reborn , arise and summon the Asgardian horde ( all 2 of them).
Aye, I'm one of those that likes TDW, although part of my liking was things it brought that wasn't quite in the first Thor and since Rangarok did most of those things as well, only better, TDW has fallen a bit in the comparisons. I agree with most of what you say, but I didn't have an issue with Eccleston as Malekith (what was left to be desired for me was more due to the script, or what was cut) and I did enjoy the Dark Elf language.
I think they have stuck with the original planned ending for the final confrontation where Thor summons lightning from all the Nine Realms through the portals to defeat Malekith. I don't think there was anything gained from having the humans more involved, but we did lose a cool scene and display of power from Thor.
As for Malekith vs Vision it's hard because Malekith using the Aether is such an unknown factor. As far as I remember he never seems to take any damage apart from when he has limbs teleported away and when the huge ship crashes on him, so he seems to take a beating well, but he doesn't do all that much offensively. When he starts channeling the Aether through the portals and grows in size he seems to stop caring about fighting Thor. It kind of feels like they hadn't quite decided that the Aether was the Reality Stone when they made the film, or that they hadn't decided on quite how the stone was used the way they had when Infinity War came around.
The impact of Malekith's attack are harder than anything we've seen Vision do without Mjolnir, but Vision compensates for burning through things with ease with his Mind Stone beam. If those Aether bolts are all that Malekith can do I don't see him beating Vision, so then it comes down to whether Vision can harm Malekith. In any case Vision has shown more in terms of direct combat.
This is a battle that, if it took place in the MCU, would include several things we've never seen before.