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seriousficAt least, so I suspect will be the response from at least one guy in every forum, as if Kenneth Branagh was a badass action director.
It's hard to see a downside to Patty Jenkins, since the appeal of Thor was the family dynamics and not the action. Putting an auteur in the director's seat, while not always a pay-off (Hulk, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) at least can give a movie more ambitions than just being an oversized fan film (Daredevil, Elektra, Ghost Rider... the Mark Steven Johnson oeuvre, I like to call it). Feminism-wise, it's always good to see a female storyteller get work and it's hard not to imagine that someone who made LESBIAN CHARLIZE THERON SERIAL KILLER into an Oscar-winner could at least bring some tact to a potentially problematic character like, say, Hela or the Enchantress. It would just be nice if such a villain's motivation ran to more than "Thor's semen." Oh, Jeph Loeb!
It's hard to see a downside to Patty Jenkins, since the appeal of Thor was the family dynamics and not the action. Putting an auteur in the director's seat, while not always a pay-off (Hulk, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) at least can give a movie more ambitions than just being an oversized fan film (Daredevil, Elektra, Ghost Rider... the Mark Steven Johnson oeuvre, I like to call it). Feminism-wise, it's always good to see a female storyteller get work and it's hard not to imagine that someone who made LESBIAN CHARLIZE THERON SERIAL KILLER into an Oscar-winner could at least bring some tact to a potentially problematic character like, say, Hela or the Enchantress. It would just be nice if such a villain's motivation ran to more than "Thor's semen." Oh, Jeph Loeb!
