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MOVIE REVIEW: THOR (some spoilers)

Directed by Ken Branagh (Marvel Studios) Marvel Studios has done it yet again by producing the exceptional THOR movie. Bringing to life the “God of Thunder” may be the most difficult superhero movie of all to make, but the results are impressive. In some ways this is the hardest movie of the genre to pull off because you are asking movie goers to accept a race of gods are heroes and villains as opposed to those based on real life.  The Destroyer shows up in the film. Drawing the heavily from the original Marvel  Comics run character as seen in the “Journey Into Mystery” comics in the 1960's, first 180 issues of “The Mighty Thor” created by legendary team Stan Lee (he has a cameo, of course), his brother Larry Lieber and the iconic artist Jack Kirby as well as the modern vision of Brian Michael Bendis (who along with Joe Quesada was a consultant on the film). Blending the classic Norse Mythology, the comic book character's origin and a little modern creative license the f...