SAN DIEGO — Any doubts about Thor, the upcoming movie based on the Norse god comic book character, got seriously hammered Saturday when Marvel Studios showed off a ballsy new trailer at Comic-Con International.The filmmakers set the movie in two distinctively different worlds. In the desert of the American Southwest, a banished Thor (played by Chris Hemsworth) is taken for a crazy homeless guy. In his homeland, the golden realm of Asgard, the thunder god tangles with his dysfunctional royal family.
In both settings, the bulked-up Hemsworth reads like the real deal: a hero on a journey. Whether he's brawling or swinging his mighty hammer Mjolnir, the action looks convincing. And while a leaked image of The Destroyer failed to impress, rest assured that the appearance of the enchanted suit of armor at the end of the trailer makes for a blazing big-screen moment.
The trailer, shown in 3-D at Comic-Con, blows away any fears aroused by an early publicity still of Thor's Asgardian family. Director Kenneth Branagh, best known for his cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare's work, has captured on film an Asgard of sweeping scale. As with Avatar, stills from the movie look a little on the cheesy side, but the lush moving images prove impressive.
this movie looks to be shaping up to be something really cool... i'm hoping it'll be something like the first Iron Man, which was simply awesome... can't wait to see this when it finally comes out in theaters, man.
speaking of movies, i finally got around to watching The Wolfman, which i thought was merely okay... kind of disappointed to be honest.... also saw Inception last night and damn, what a great movie -- heard so much about the movie i secretly figured i'd walk out being a little "bleh" about it... not the case at all, and ditto for the storyline... didn't find it too hard to follow or anything, though it feels like one of those movies you want to watch a couple times just to catch anything you might've missed along the way — christopher nolan is right up there with peter jackson, i think.
