Thor, highly entertaining bullshit, putting my newly acquired 3D goggles into action again.
If you're a fan of such whimsy, you'll be satisfied at the story-line proposition that the gods of nordic legend were actually visitors from a galaxy far, far away.
Thor gets booted out of Asgard by Odin, his old man, for being an arrogant impetuous upstart, winds down the worm-hole to exile on planet Earth, where he's discovered in the desert by a gorgeous young astro-physicist, (Natalie Portman).
Chris Hemsworth plays Thor, a 6'3" adonis as well as being an Aussie, ex 3 years in TV series, Home and Away, studied American dialect in Sydney acting school, did the tongue in cheek stuff really well, we should see more of him in future. In the 2009 version of Star Trek he played Jim Kirk's father.
Anthony Hopkins (Odin), and Renee Rouseau, (Mrs Odin) were the lovable cameo's.
Hot stuff, 5/5
The Hurt Locker, I watched on Sky movies, really wasnt looking forward to the suspense of bomb defusal, but was curious about what made it oscar material. Finished up really enjoying the experience as well as an education into US military technology, and an examination of personal character in the soldiers.
Kathryn Bigelow's oscar nominations were well-deserved. The hand-held camera work was a standout feature in conveying the reality.
The media are often too quick to portray clumbsiness and immaturity of the American troops and military. This movie should go a long way to rectifying this.
Rather topical at the moment, with the obliteration of Osama, and the focus on fear of reprisal, which fears again are compounded by this sense of US military incompetence.
Not so I think. Will Smith wasnt in fantasy-land flying an F16 up a canyon in Independence Day, I've seen that sort of stuff with my own eyes; have met a US Seal face to face who'd put Thor in a shadow.
Under their courteousness, Americans also have a steel stemming from a fighting heritage, War of Independence, Indian Wars, Civil War, County wars, and their efforts in WWII.
Plus the technology.
It wasnt the Spitfire or the Hurricane won the Battle of Britain, it was the Mustang P49, an RAF vet admitted as much to me, ditto Omaha Beach, and if it wasnt for the Americans in the Pacific, I'd know a fair bit about rice-growing and bicycle assembly right now, if I'd been allowed to live.
Pretty naive to take this assembly of force on, Hurt Locker told it like it was, most terrorist bombs blow up their own people, sad...
Even American educated General Kuribayashi, detailed by the Emperor to head Japanese forces at Iwo Jima knew he was on a hiding to nothing, that his country should never have booted America in the shins.
One of the gratifying things about how news has unfolded in the last week, has been the rise to prominence of the immediacy of the handheld cell-phone telling it how it is, rather than how John Campbell or Duncan Garner see it.
There's hope for all of us there, and hopefully enough Facebook, Twitter and blog capable appliances rife in the middle east to educate them about what life is really like here in the lands of us infidels, rather than how it might be in the hands of extremists.
Hurt Locker, 5/5
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