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To call this film "mythologically accurate" would be wrong - like super wrong - there are 3 examples I can recite right now. In the beginning of the film, there is a war on Midgard (Earth) with the jötnar (The frost giants) and the Æsir (the Norse gods). From my knowledge, there is no particular war on Midgard between either group. As an aside, Odin (Sir. Anthony Hopkins) loses an eye in this encounter. This has actual basis in the real world myth, but he didn't lose it in a war, he exchanges it for wisdom from Mimir, who incidentally was decapitated by the Vanir and gets preserved by Odin to give him knowledge. Unfortunately Mimir never gets mentioned in Thor (who coincidentally is played by Chris Hemsworth). Back to the war, Odin (after he lost the eye) finds a baby Jötann. This is Laufey's son - Loki (Tom Hiddleston)- Odin takes pity on this stranded frost giant and adopts him, this too is mythologically inaccurate. Loki is "related" to Odin, in that they're blood brothers. For those who don't know, a blood brother is a kind of pact, essentially Odin and Loki sworn to protect each other for all time. But they aren't father and son. AND ANOTHER MYTH INACCURACY! Loki's dad - his biological one - Laufey, is a dude. In the actual myth, he's a she. And just to conclude this rant on mythological accuracy, Thor is the kind of film that doesn't set itself out to be accurate to the myth, it just wants to tell a story in the MCU with aspects from the Norse religion. I don't think it'll matter too much that it's inaccurate, if it doesn't anger people, than it does its job. Now, on to the film, Frankly, I'd prefer if it was Loki's story and Thor was just a B plotline. Loki is, by far, the best character for me; my favourite scene being when Loki discovers he's adopted and has a breakdown and yells at Odin. Odin then falls into what's called "The Odin Sleep (I shall explain more later.)". It's not really explained in the film. I wish it was; in fact, I wish it focused more on the Asgard story. It's not like Thor's tale isn't good, I like it, I just find his story less interesting than Asgard's or Loki's one. I feel I'm being too critical of this film despite me giving it 4 out of 5 stars. I guess I should tell you what I liked about the film. The cast was great, Tom Hiddleston being a personal favourite and Sir. Anthony Hopkins being a second, if he didn't go into that DAMN COMA! Simply put, I felt that the Odin Sleep plotline, was an interesting idea but it just made Odin a meaningful but fleeting and useless character. I suppose that's all I have to say about Thor.