Comments on: Joe Quesada Raises Expectations for Thor Movie

By: Joe Quesada Loves Iron Man 2, Meets for Captain America - Screen Rant

Joe Quesada Loves Iron Man 2, Meets for Captain America - Screen Rant — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:48:46 +0000

[...] love with it, praising director Jon Favreau for his masterful work. This is not dissimilar to his high regard for Thor director Kenneth Branagh whom he says he could listen to talk and act out scenes of Thor for hours on end. As for Captain [...]

By: ulik

ulik — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:06:08 +0000

Ray Stevenson and Idris Elba still leave a BIG “?” in my mind here in this movie. Idris Elba is an incredible actor but him being cast as Hiemdall has to be either genius or the total opposite. It makes you wonder if Branagh really knows what he’s doing. Idris Elba is the perfect actor to play as Luke Cage and hopefully Marvel can still hire him to play as Luke cage in the near future,why not Ray was The Punisher. Whats cool about Idris is aside from him being able to do a great American accent is that he does it very convincingly without any feelings of hmmmmm,this guys has some kind of foreign vibe to him. Idris has the New York accent and swagger down necessary to play as Harlemite Luke Cage NOT the horrible “same character in all his movie” “TYRESE”. John Singleton and Tyrese need to be dropped as contenders for “Luke Cage” and or “Black Panther”. They both are from L.A. and are very good at doing the “L.A.” thing THATS IT. They need to seriously think hard on who’d be better to direct those movies.

By: Harvey Dynamite

Harvey Dynamite — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:28:18 +0000

Reaper is an idiot. first off, Joe Q didnt ruin spiderman 3, Avi Arad did.He pressured Raimi into doing a Venom movie while he had his mind on doing a sandman flick.And this movie will be awesome.Seriously,I hate fan boys who bitch about stuff before it even comes out.The movie is sounding epic so far with the cast and the news over these weeks.Keep it up Marvel!!

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:34:59 +0000

My hope is that the public wont see this as a Superhero film,
But a huge Epic, the Likes of LOTR.

By: stuntmanj

stuntmanj — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:04:21 +0000

I trust in Branaugh

By: skippy2057

skippy2057 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:39:37 +0000

I’m really curious to see how this turns out. I am not a huge comic book fan; I know some of the characters from my childhood, but I don’t read comic books now. I don’t consider myself “above” the material on anything, just not something I follow these days. For example, I had no idea what “Watchmen” was (I’ll probably be banned now,lol).

It seems to be really hard to translate the (usually) very stylized illustrations in comics with the real world – and some of the story lines are pretty “far out” too, when you think about it.

I’m looking forward to see how they go with this – will it be a total fantasy (which is fine by me too) or will they somehow take a stab at a “realistic” approach to the subject matter? Could be a lot of fun either way (or not).

By: John "Kahless" Taylor

John "Kahless" Taylor — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:16:49 +0000

I don’t know; my expectations have been tarnished a bit by this report. Genre changer? Blade was a genre changer and so was Batman Begins. I just hope Branaugh realizes that the fans of Thor are not the fans of Citizen Kane.

By: Aknot

Aknot — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:06:22 +0000

Well the game changer could be a hero actually “killing” things.

We need to look at the mythology and super hero mixture.

Thor in the comics is a true to life card carrying “lesser” God. Banishing him to earth to live like a human doesn’t mean he will not act like a God. Yeah mess his pancake order up and then give him lip.

Rob him, or attack him and don’t see if he doesn’t lay the justice down, eye for an eye.

By: DrSamBeckett

DrSamBeckett — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:30:37 +0000

I actually think this one really could be a game changer, in the context of comic book movies, it is something truly different, and the cast is amazing, picking Brannagh as the director is the most inspired move. This is a guy with real vision, and as an actor himself, he really knows what performances he should be getting from his stars.

By: The Glove

The Glove — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:34:42 +0000

I think Thor will be a good film which will lead on to “The Avengers” nicely, but i dont think it will be a fantastic mind blowing genre busting film simply because Branah is directing it. (dont get me wrong i’m not a Branah basher, far from it. but something keeps niggleing at me that Branah has not got the right credencials for this type of film, but then again what do i know? this might be his Citizen Kane…finnaly.
I truly hope it is!(even with no Brian Blessed in it.)

By: Reaper

Reaper — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:44:05 +0000

While I’m sure Thor will be a good film, I’d be surprised if it was a game changer. Why? Because I don’t believe that anything can be a game changer, in the end it still be a story that we will have seen elements of before (or read before) or in fact that we have seen the whole thing before.

Plus I tend to try and block out Joe Q, he was the guy who ruined Spider-Man

By: M-Cat

M-Cat — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:23:05 +0000

To whoever is interested, I found a 13 or 14 part fan-made movie for The Avengers. It uses parts from all the Spiderman movies, X-Men’s, Fantastic Four movies, the Incredible Hulk and Iron Man to come up with a full 90 minutes of action combining all the movies. It’s not bad considering how it was put together but it shows how hard the process will be to come up with a good story and movie for all the characters combined.

Check it here:

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/mediageek/news/?a=12281

By: M-Cat

M-Cat — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:19:43 +0000

It’s only hype to us guys. Not many people know about Thor.

By: KanTstandYa

KanTstandYa — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:17:09 +0000

yea this movie is getting quite the hype hope it live up to it hard not to in my opnion if done right, i hope there is alot of hammer action!!

By: !_!

!_! — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:14:25 +0000

@Gary

because this film will be fuking aweseom!!!

By: Iron Knight

Iron Knight — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:13:24 +0000

And it’s still so early… But I’m confident it’ll live up to them [expectations]. Man, I wish Branagh had a twitter account like Favreau so as to keep us teased and informed during shooting when it starts in a few weeks.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:58:45 +0000

My concern is that everyone is so hyped for this film that they are raising their expectations WAY too high.