For Christmas, I got Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger on DVD:
Thor has got quite a few positive reviews, mainly because Kenneth Branagh has directed it, but there's nothing particularly exceptional about it, for a Marvel movie.
I thought it was well done, in particular the special effects, but seemed a bit one-dimentional (yeah, okay, it's Marvel, but Iron Man 1 wasn't like that). Saying this, it could have been really, really bad and maybe Kenny was just the right guy to do it?
More fun, perhaps, was Captain America: The First Avenger:
This is getting back to what the super hero comics were all about in the first place, kicking seven bells out of the bad guys. It's worth remembering that a lot of the early super heroes were created by Jewish cartoonists (Jacob Kurtzberg = Jack Kirby; Stanley Lieber = Stan Lee; Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who created Superman; Bob Kane, or Kahn, who created Batman) so Nazi's are a natural enemy for super heroes.
As an aside, the flying wing used at the end of the movie by the Crimson Skull is based on real designs for an "Amerika Bomber" by the Horten brothers and others.
A Budgie for Christmas
And someone bought me a little budgie:
Made from resin, but a nice little addition to the menagerie.
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