Thor
This is almost a real film. An actual plot with good actors, drama, cool visuals. It nearly outgrows its dark origins as childish dross, but there’s some specks of horse manure attached to a somewhat polished gemstone.
By “horse manure”, I don’t mean the Marvel canon, the cameos, the necessity for attaching it to the rest of the series, or even the weaksauce cliffhanger ending (begging to be undone in the next film). Those are all flaws that can be overlooked.
What cannot are the product placement in a serious film (and it’s so much), the replacement of drama with action scenes, the mood swings. Not having a disposable army is a plus, only factions that remain, but on the other hand, you know this is a one-off that ends without closure.
This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.