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Jesse - May 06, 2011 8:45:55 am PDT #14357 of 30000

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Rottentomatoes.com gives it an 80%.

Sure, but at least one of the "positive" reviews is Ty Burr in the Globe, who gave it 2.5 stars, sure, but a review like this:

For a holding maneuver, “Thor’’ itself turns out to be diverting enough — not close to a sharp-edged romp like “Iron Man’’ but not the B-movie roadshow some of us were expecting. Call it a B+ movie.

§ ita § - May 06, 2011 8:52:57 am PDT #14358 of 30000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

at least one of the "positive" reviews is Ty Burr in the Globe, who gave it 2.5 stars, sure, but a review like this

But that's how rottentomatoes works. 80% is a good score for them, a good percentage of positive reviews, and they total 158 reviews evaluated (it's been out internationally for a while), so it's not like it hasn't been reviewed.

Not being Iron Man isn't a bad thing--I think that movie took everyone by surprise. Iron Man II was still considered a success, and this is getting better press.

Jesse - May 06, 2011 9:01:22 am PDT #14359 of 30000

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm not saying anything against the movie! (About its quality or chances of being a financial success.) Just that I didn't think Burr's review was that positive.

§ ita § - May 06, 2011 9:02:01 am PDT #14360 of 30000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But it was more positive than negative, and I'm just sticking by my point that most of the reviews so far have been that.

Jesse - May 06, 2011 9:13:49 am PDT #14361 of 30000

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am not arguing against your point.

§ ita § - May 06, 2011 9:15:05 am PDT #14362 of 30000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yes you are.

Jessica - May 06, 2011 9:15:51 am PDT #14363 of 30000

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

This conversation is about to become a Monty Python sketch, isn't it?

§ ita § - May 06, 2011 9:20:30 am PDT #14364 of 30000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think we're past that point by now.

And, Hayden, IO9 didn't gush or hate on Source Code, Limitless, or Paul, from a cursory glance. Although I think they were positive about all of them.

Gris - May 06, 2011 9:29:41 am PDT #14365 of 30000

Hey. New board.

EW thought Thor was kind of funny and kind of pretty. Or something. Metacritic has a 58 (I still prefer that over rottentomatoes, since it lets medium-positive reviews only be medium-positive) which is worse than Fast Five (67)and almost exactly the same as Iron Man II (57).

I will see both Fast Five and Thor.

Metacritic and EW did convince me not to see Something Borrowed (35, D+), though.

§ ita § - May 06, 2011 9:32:14 am PDT #14366 of 30000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Metacritic and EW did convince me not to see Something Borrowed (35, D+), though.

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