Thor

I actually saw this movie on Friday night, but due to a combination of actually having fun stuff to do and being incredibly unmotivated, I am not getting this up until Sunday.  To my seventeen readers, I say I am sorry.  Also, why the hell haven't you seen this movie yet?
Welcome to a very biased version of Mainstreamin'!

I am not a comic book nerd.  First off, that hobby is far too expensive.  I cannot envision a day where I willingly plop down $5 for 30 pages of art work, read the entire thing in ten minutes and eagerly await the next time I get to spend $5 for the continued adventures of Super Person Man.
I am, however, a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy, which most Marvel and DC comics fall within the realm of.  This means that I was one of two things when I approached the movie theater on Friday. 

1. Excited to see something that could be fun and awesome.
2. Scared that this would be a giant flustercluck.

I'm sure most of you can figure out why I was excited, but scared?  How the hell could I be scared?  I'll tell you why, hypothetical reader:  Though Marvel has had a very good track record of putting out genuinely entertaining, decently-written movies in the last few years, they still run the risk of sucking.  Look at the first Hulk film, or every Fantastic Four movie.  Yes, they sold tickets, but they also suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked. 
On top of that, Thor is a huge deviation from the usual mutant/space radiation/gamma radiation stories that Marvel has been putting up on the screen.  This one deals with magic and gods.  As much as we love sci-fi and explosions, robots and ninjas, moviegoers still have a hard time swallowing truly fantasy-style stories, especially when magic is concerned.  Actually, this kind of pisses me off.  You can take a movie with a sparkly damn vampire and turn it into a franchise, but if some dude throws a fireball out of the palm of his hand, it's almost a guaranteed flop?  Screw you, general public.
Anyhow, on Thor, they did a fantastic job of skirting the issue by giving a very plausible (for a world that already has Iron Man and The Hulk in it) explanation as to how Thor could even be possible.
Add on to that everything needed for a good film, and you've got a fantastic blockbuster on your hands.  This movie offers a little something for everyone.  For the ladies, there is Thor himself, played by Chris Hemsworth in all his 12-pack glory.  For the guys, there is...well, everything else.  Natalie Portman runs around in skin-tight jeans, things blow up and there are a ton of fight scenes.  For the snob, there are more classically trained people (Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hiddleston, the freaking director) than most versions of Othello.  What does that mean for us?  The acting does not stink!
That has been my biggest complaint while Mainstreamin' this year.  So many movies focus on spectacle that they forget about acting.  Why does Hollywood keep forgetting that some of us actually care about how lines are delivered, and whether or not the good guy is believable when he utters certain phrases?  If the acting is poor, then nobody is even going to care when he gets the girl.  Yes, I'm looking at you Mr. Bay.  The only thing I root for in your films are for the main characters to die in a Bay'Splosion.

In conclusion, go see Thor.  Also, don't leave before the credits.  If you haven't figured it out yet, EVERY Marvel film has something after the credits.
So go see Thor!  Do it!  It's better than every Marvel film so far, except for the first Iron Man.