#liv rewatches odinsons (2018)

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lol my goal is to watch ragnarok before its first year anniversary (hey y'all let's do a ragnarok week on its first year anniversary, who's with me?) and on that end, i have finally rewatched the dark world (this one got a bit too long bc i was already taking notes while i was watching it)!!!

thor: the dark world (2013):

- you know what, for all that we disrespect this film for, it did give us a lot of things like fleshing out the world kenneth branagh began, juicy brotherly bickering and drama, the loki and frigga scene (WHICH WAS STILL TOO SHORT :( ), loki as cap, a fantastic soundtrack and iconic scenes like remember that part where thor jumps off the balcony, twirls and flies off after he catches mjolnir? still can't find a scene that beats that

- also tada. never forget tada.

- ODIN IS SUCH A COLONIZER like it's nice to know he hasn't changed through the thousands and thousands of years he was alive but in the light of what we'd discovered it's...kind of disturbing? maybe? but like, he's said things like the nine realms are united again and reminded of our strength during the intro and then he was ready to sacrifice every single asgardian against the dark elves and he's so sure of winning and hey remember that he thinks mortals are lesser (for all his we are not gods speech) and he keeps insisting that the dark elves are all dead? sounds typical!

- sif going there are nine realms, the future king of asgard must focus on more than one and i bet thor's glad they're disconnected from the world tree now. no need to be king of nine realms, just one! let the rest of the realms rule themselves like they were supposed to lmao

- their dialogues are really so heavy tho, even more so than the first two films but weirdly enough, it feels like i only ever notice this whenever thor talks? so maybe it's just chris hemsworth tripping over the weight idk

- i feel like richard and ian don't get as much credit, they're both very sweet! i kinda hope jane and richard got a chance with each other after she and thor split, i mean richard's a stable kinda guy and jane deserves stability after all the shit she put up with ok!!!

- the post-credits scene between thor and jane really is so romantic tho, i'm glad they got that moment before shit hit the fan

- also weird, sometimes it feels like nat portman's wig is too big on her or smth like i know everyone was in-between other shootings during this film but

- i laughed at "we're americans!" "that's supposed to make them like us?" like this is a joke i only got five years on wtf

- idk smth about the way the whole thing was shot feels so...old! like it's a very old technique or smth. kinda like how you can tell if a movie was from the 90s or what but...2013!

- also i made a discovery: i thought they buried the aether on earth (BECAUSE WHO SAYS GODS HAVE TO BE SMART) but i never realized it's a hidden dimension accessible anywhere in the world tree during the convergence (or through spells???)

- JUSTICE FOR MALEKITH AND THE DARK ELVES they deserved so much more from the budget and the plot ok!!!

- the castle shield thing really was such bad plotting, too. actually this movie doesn't do plotting and fight scenes and pacing too well. about the only fight scenes i enjoyed (now) (that i'm no longer like that meme that goes tdw is a good movie y'all are just mean) is frigga vs malekith, loki vs everyone and thor's final blow on malekith

- they never let it rain when thor arrives anymore :( and honestly, give me dreamy, romantic, idealistic thor any day. i feel like we don't get this enough.

- i have forgotten so many amazing lines like, "she's dangerous!" "so am i" and the butthurt "I AM" when thor asks jane if she was ready and loki's like I'M HERE BY THE WAY

- 28 minutes in and heimdall is already rolling his eyes

- man, you can really see the difference with how the odinsons behave between odin and frigga. odin gets shit while frigga gets nothing but hearts and i mean that's fair

- heimdall jumping to attack the dark elves' ship is so 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 thor: the dark world aka watch heimdall be the only functional member of the government

- you know what, frigga really has nice shoes, i can't get over this (headcanon that frigga saw her fate from the norns and was ready to die)

- you have to admit that for all that he is a disaster, the level of composure with which loki took the news of frigga's death was admirable. what happened after is a different story ofc lol

- sometimes sif is just...too good for thor...too good for everyone...just too good...

- also loki is alive in avengers 4, just look at his masterful illusions in this film. i feel like he doesn't get much credit for his illusions. or his acting skills—i swear he enjoyed pretending to be odin in that last scene with thor a liiittle too much

- also remember thor taking the train to greenwhich and being such a pure soul when the woman stumbles to him? never forget

- THIS was also the first time i noticed something! thor ends his first battle with "i accept your surrender" and his final battle with "i've come to accept your surrender" like whatever you call that narrative device, i love it

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man it took me like, a month+ to watch the next movie in the thor mcu franchise but

avengers (2012):

- wowowow what a classic!!! it sucks that the director never turned out to be the quality human being we thought him to be (he was the chosen one) but man it really was such a great movie, still the greatest avengers title movie in the whole whole whole damn franchise. like just the feeling of largeness and excitement and drum roll and and such classic lines, such great quotable lines!!!

- lots of really cheesy comic book ones too!!! it's hard not to cringe but you gotta bear it, knowing the history of these characters lmao

- oh man i love me some classic avengers jokes

- and just the cut scenes and the scene transitions building up one after the other! particularly in the part before loki boards the helicarrier

- man that movie had like so many potential points for loki's character development for iw and a4! (i am now positively convinced he's coming back from the grave and the flashback in some way or form in a4) it made such a huge deal about loki learning so much about the tesseract and other worlds and stuff on the first half of the film and we never got to see that in play yet, did we? still holding out hope it comes up in a4

- the true mvps are him, tony stark who has all the best scenes, bruce banner who has all the best lines and nuances and nat romanoff who i miss??? she was so good here, idk why we never saw this nat anymore. or maybe we did i just...never paid attention but she was so good here i really missed her

- i'm laughing at how much respect bruce just lost for the hulk in a span of 8 years

- thor was so surprisingly stiff???? like i never saw the light before but can now totally understand why chris was so frustrated. he's like thor's cape but the new laundry guy overstarched it

- when nat shared her story to loki tho i was still screaming, "no you don't share your vulnerability to the captive criminal YOU DON'T—siiiiighhh nat"

- unpopular opinion 1: nat misunderstood loki's plan. she thought loki's plan was to unleash just the hulk so loki was like uhhhh what? when she exited the scene

- unpopular opinion 2: loki's plan was and always has been to get the avengers to fight each other exactly like tony said and imma say he did it by magic. exhibit a, bruce squeezing the part between his eyes after loki passes. exhibit b, tony doing the same after their team squabble with the sfx to boot. could be bc of the mind stone but could have also been loki tapping into the mind stone. see: exhibit a. also: thor 2011 hidden ending and his power roster, one entry being hypnosis.

- unpopular opinion 3: nick fury asking thor what he was prepared to do was nick fury asking thor if he was prepared to torture loki into giving up the tesseract. interesting to note: the next scene was loki telling nat he was expecting her to come to him as a balm after he's been tortured to hell and back

- interesting also to note was the chitauri bemoaning that earth could not be "ruled". dk if this is a continuity issue or thanos just went "nm about ruling them let's just kill em"

- loki called the battle "glorious, not lengthy" but it got a bit lengthy to me tbh