Well, just when I began to think that Marvel Comics
was losing its edge in movie making with the production of Iron Man 3 to which
the film came off as more of an American’s wartime propaganda film than one for
entertainment, they release a winner film like Thor: The Dark World. Sure in
terms of profit, dollars, and cents are great to make when investing millions
of dollars in the production one film, but artistic creativity merits some
value also.
Thor: The Dark World is the squeal to the 2011 Kenneth
Branagh film of Thor. In this
film, Thor: The Dark World as directed by Alan Taylor and
cam out on November 8. Now Thor (Chris Hemsworth) must enlist the help of Loki (Tom
Hiddleston) to battle Malekith the Accursed (Christopher Eccleston). He is the
leader of a race of beings called the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim
want to cast the universe, Earth and Asgard included, into darkness.
Malekith and his evil elves ere defeated eon ago by
Thor grandfather and though dead. The powerful weapon they wanted to use to
destroy everything is the Aether. Trapped inside Jane Foster the Aether awakens
Malekith attacks Asgard where he badly wounded. However, the Agrarians have no
time to rejoice because Thor and his team go off seeking the stop Malekith from
destroying Earth.
After the Aether merges with Jane (Natalie Portman),Heimdall (Idris Elba), Asgard’s gatekeeper, cannot see her. Thor goes the Earth
and returns to Asgard with Jane. She receives a chilly welcome from Odin
(Anthony Hopkins) and enquiring looks from Sif (Jaimie Alexander), an Asgard
warrior goddess.
Suddenly, Malekith and his army of dark elves and a
being called the Kursed attack Asgard, and Thor soon learns that he cannot win
the battle with Malekith without Loki.
As all fans of Thor know, it is not a question of if
Loki will betray Thor. It is more of a question of when and where Loki will
betray him. From this point on in the movie, Loki steals the attention of the
audience as we all watch his attempts to charm Jane and her friend, including
Eric who he once as possessed.
An all too willing Loki awaits his moment. When
Thor’s plan to destroy the Aether fails, in an act of what looks to Thor and
Jane like a sacrificial gesture, Loki attacks the Kursed being, he is in turn
impaled and his death appears to Thor and to Jane a noble one. Thor and Jane
return to Earth and the city of Greenwich in England for the final show down
with Malekith and his army of dark.
When Malekith arrives, the battle for the universe
begins. Thor, Jane, Eric, and their two assistants do their upmost to dwarf
Malekith invasion, and in the end, Thor kills Malekith off world and destroys
the Aether with him. End of the movie? Nooo!
Loki‘s Reign.
Unbeknown to Thor and the other people of Asgard the
trickier Loki has dethroned Odin. He appears as Odin to the people of Asgard,
and where the aged king is, no one knows.
As for cinematography, the kingdom of Asgardmaintained its otherworldly and storybook look as in the first Thor film. The
dark worlds were welcoming and cold and appeared uninhabitable for most beings.
Although destroy in the battle with Malekith, the rainbow bridge of Asgard
looked dream like.
In all, Thor: the Dark World is the best Marvel’s film of the year. In
addition, I, like many other viewers, would look to see a film arc featuring
the Lady Sif as it star character. She is a little known film character but she
made her appearance in the Marvel Comics books, Journey Into Mystery #102
in1964. -- Evelyn F. Altheimer-Fain
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In 2014, do not miss Captain America: the Winter
Soldier starring Chris Evans as Captain America and Sebastian Stan as Bucky
Barnes, the Winter Soldier.
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Fans of Max Steel will be glad to know that a live-action of the
popular cartoon is coming to the big
screen in 2014. No detail yet of who is
starring in this Mattel toy based character driven film. For those of you who
not know Max Steel here is a brief summary of the character.
Maxwell McGrath is teenage boy infused
with an energy source called TURBO (Tachyon Unlimited Radiant Bio-Optimized).
However, in order to control his power and fight the bad guys Max must pair up with
a technological alien that he has named Steel. Steel’s origins is a mystery
even to itself. However, it learns more and more about itself as it fight the
criminal elements with Max and protects him.
For
the part of the live-action Max Twilight‘s Taylor Lautner was once
thought to has the part, but now the Paramount Pictures had been withdrawn as
the film makers, casting appears up in the air.
-- Evelyn F. Altheimer-Fain
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