I loved how both Thor and The First Avenger featured Tonsberg as a place significant to the Asgardians.
One of many reasons why I like watching these movies in this order.
Oh right, Odin takes their power source, the Casket of Ancient Winters, so that's why they can't get off Jotunheim anymore.
Whoa, nice catch! Makes sense too since Odin wouldn't want them invading Midgard again.
"At least make it a challenge for me!" Oh Thor... "IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?!" "You just had to ask."
Another nice catch! Heh.
I always thought it was weird that the best fight scene of the movie was in the beginning. There's a lot of awesome moments in this fight scene, from all of the characters.
Again, the sound design really pulls it together for me personally. Thor smacking them left to right with Mjolnir was so satisfying to hear.
Am I the only one that feels like Thor's behavior change from Asgard to Midgard is so weird and sudden? I personally feel like Thor has such a strange 2-dimensional personality. It was actually expanded upon in The Dark World, which was something I really enjoyed, and I hope Ragnarok further expands it. So far, Loki is a much more complex and interesting character than Thor is, and the part that makes Thor interesting is his complex relationship with Loki. If anyone can make an argument for Thor's personality and character development in this movie, I would love to hear it, because it would probably boost my appreciation for this movie a bunch.
Personally, I think Thor isn't as interesting a character compared to Loki or even Tony Stark because he doesn't have nearly as many character flaws as them. Thor's only real character flaw was that he was an entitled brat who was raised to believe that he would be King.
All it took for him to grow as a character was for him to be humbled and I think that that's something, like you said, has been developing throughout the movies. Him being unable to pick up Mjolnir was a wake up call to him. Coupled with being told by his brother that he's the cause of his Father's death and Thor learns a lesson in humility.
Him refusing to be King of Asgard was him, once again, being humble. He didn't want such authority and responsibility to go to his head, to change him, as he said in his own words.
While Thor isn't as interesting a character, he's still a nice character in my opinion.
He's actually pretty well adjusted compared to his fellow Avengers.
As I said before, I find the romance between Thor and Jane incredibly disappointing. However, I do suppose that Thor loves that Jane was figuring out the nature of the nine realms without guidance from the Asgardians at first, but I don't feel like that's something that would build their relationship because Thor doesn't seem like the kind of person to fall in love with someone because of their intelligence. Have great respect for them, sure, but to fall in love with them? Falling in love with someone that cares about people and seeks to help them like a paramedic makes a lot more sense to me.
There are points for both sides, but you make a really compelling point about her helping people. Jane Foster putting herself in the line of danger to help others just sounds like a much more appealing means of building a relationship, while also helping Thor being a more humbled and selfless individual.
Especially if she were to personally help save Thor's life as he arrives on Midgard in some sort of accident. Then when he saves her at the end of the movie, it comes full circle and feeds into his overall arc.
But yeah, Jane Foster as a character had so much more potential, but they seemed to botch it...
Thor's move of self sacrifice in order to protect the humans would also have made more sense if Jane Foster was a paramedic, because she would have aided in instilling ideals of protection and aid to others in him. However, you can also say that it's a marked character improvement that he came to the conclusion on his own, but I don't feel like it was built up enough.
Exactly!
So does anyone else wonder what happened to Heimdall? When they got back to Asgard he was unconscious on the ground in the Bifrost chamber, but then the chamber fell into space at the end of the battle... Granted he wasn't in the chamber during the battle, but I never saw anyone carry him away :/
Thor tells Sif and The Warriors Three to carry him to the healing room while he went to see Odin.