Video: “Thor” trailer

posted at 9:18 pm on December 13, 2010 by Allahpundit

So, between this and “The Green Lantern,” the lesson is that we’ve exhausted the supply of cool superheroes, right? Superman got the movie treatment long ago, then we got a half dozen Batman films and Spider-Man broke big, then they rolled the dice on the Hulk and rebounded a bit with Iron Man, and now … this. I keep making jokes about the inevitability of an Aqua Man movie and they’re getting less funny by the day. There are but two options, my friends: Either we come up with fun new postmodern superheroes for films or we jump off the cliff and just do the Aqua Man picture already. Instead of playing it straight, maybe they could borrow a page from “The Brady Bunch Movie” and turn it into a satire of the concept. Cast Will Ferrell in the lead, with Mike Myers as Poseidon? You’d see it.

Minor surprise here: Natalie Portman starring opposite the Heath Ledger-y guy as Thor.

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4. Primary weapon is a hammer too heavy (cue Beavis and Butthead, “We’re not worthy!!!”) for anyone else to lift but Odin (well, Marvel allows the Hulk and Beta Ray Bill to lift it as well I guess). The hammer has some other amazing attributes; returns to its wielder after being thrown, can transport Thor to other dimensions, can alter Thor’s physical characteristics, and can summon/control weather on a nearly global scale (rain, lightning, & wind typically). Makes Storm look like a piker

It’s not that it’s too heavy, it’s only people that are worhy of wielding it can. Captain america for exmaple can hold the hammer without any problems and he’s not be any stecth superhuman strong. Ditto for Beta ray Bill.I have no idea why the hulk can hold it through.

LordDaMan on December 14, 2010 at 1:15 PM

Having been more than passingly familiar with this film for rather a while (NDA and all), I can say I’ve never quite gotten it. As you can see in the trailers, they seem to be pursuing a pretty-boy, appeal-to-the-ladies angle in their depiction of Thor. My feeling has always been that if you couldn’t run Amon Amarth’s “Twilight of the Thunder God” during the closing credits without it seeming incongruous, you’ve failed at “mainstreaming” Thor in any memorable way. They should’ve gone Viking and f’ing metal with it. Instead, it all feels much closer to Justin Bieber to me. Oh well.

There are other, far more obscure heroes in the Marvel stable who I think could translate well to film: Iron Fist, Power Man/Luke Cage (though probably not teamed with the former), maybe even Black Panther or Moonknight (though making those two not feel like the Batman wannabes they are might be tough–you’d really have to play up the Egyptian mystic angle with the latter). Daredevil and Punisher reboots might even be worth it.

Blacklake on December 14, 2010 at 2:59 PM

Marvel fan, but Thor is not my favorite.
I’ll watch this for some cheap thrills.
Portman is bleck! But whatever.

Now, can someone please make another X-Men movie?

Badger40 on December 14, 2010 at 7:39 PM

Savage Dragon movie?

abobo on December 13, 2010 at 9:23 PM

How ’bout Doc Savage?

Badger40 on December 14, 2010 at 7:41 PM

There are other, far more obscure heroes in the Marvel stable who I think could translate well to film: Iron Fist, Power Man/Luke Cage (though probably not teamed with the former), maybe even Black Panther or Moonknight (though making those two not feel like the Batman wannabes they are might be tough–you’d really have to play up the Egyptian mystic angle with the latter). Daredevil and Punisher reboots might even be worth it.

Blacklake on December 14, 2010 at 2:59 PM

They’ve just relaunched Heroes for Hire with most of those guys on the same team. And Moon Knight’s a (Secret) Avenger again. MK’s getting a lot of love lately. A little scared about the Bendis/Maleev MK “reimagining” though.

DrSteve on December 15, 2010 at 8:10 AM

Well, I may be late to the “party”, but I’m still going to voice how devastated I am to see grown men and women acting juvenile in how they put down Aquaman, all because his powers aren’t as “cool” as Superman’s. And for crying out loud, what does it take to make clear that attacking the characters instead of how they’re written is an incredibly, stupefyingly brainless way to make an argument about fictional characters?

What anyone who attacks Aquaman and other minor characters like him, solely because they’re minor, I assume, is doing, is an insult to every comics contributor back to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. They went to all that trouble and such pains to create entertainment items and this is how you repay them? However, if that’s how you’re going to act, then I guess you’ve pretty much told all there is to know about what your take is on Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner. Oh yeah, don’t tell you don’t think he’s a “douche” as some fools here called Aquaman.

Again, I’m very disappointed in more than a few people here for acting so juvenile and proving that they haven’t grown up, one more reason why, in truth, comics didn’t either. Thanks a lot for enabling Quesada, DiDio, Johns, Bendis, and countless other pretentious people in the biz today to destroy a childhood and even to laugh at all the people who’ve blindly submitted to the junk they’re publishing.

Avi Green on December 16, 2010 at 12:52 AM

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