IS THOR SERIOUSLY GOING TO BE THIS AWESOME

Alright, I almost posted about this before, but I didn't do it. And now there are more casting announcements for the Thor movie. Specifically, Anthony Hopkins has been added to the cast. I know what you're saying, "Alex, that's not that big a deal, he's a great actor but he's been in plenty of shitty movies, of course he'd show up in one of the five million comic book adaptations rushing to theaters before this fad blows over." Yeah, you'd be right. What I haven't told you yet is the rest of the cast, which has already been announced.

In Thor, directed by legendary Shakespearean actor/director Kenneth Branagh, the announced cast thus far includes Natalie Portman, Robert DeNiro, Stellan Skarsgaard, Colm Feore, Jude Law, Brian Fucking Blessed, and now Anthony Hopkins, plus the obligatory rumored appearance by Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. Oh, and some guy named Chris Hemsworth is playing the lead role of Thor, but who gives a shit about him?

Altogether among the names I've just mentioned are 18 Academy Award nominations. This is literally the most absurdly star-studded cast of a superhero movie thus far, and it's the movie for one of the silliest characters Marvel has. Nobody's favorite superhero is Thor. That's just ridiculous. I mean, I have to see this movie for the cast alone, but wow. Dude's got a hammer.

I actually wrote a 17-page paper on the reality of comic books once. Thor's the only superhero whose ability of flight is physically possible - his gigantic hammer (called Mjolnir, nerdpoints) has a wrist strap, and he'll just throw it real hard, and the strap catches his wrist and carries him with the force of the thrown hammer. That's how he flies. That shit is seriously just ridiculous, let the motherfucker fly.

I'm sorry, I can't get over the fact that the most oscar-likely superhero movie coming out is Thor. THOR! I'm a lifelong nerd, and I've never even been remotely interested in Thor, not counting his cameo in the seminal 80s film Adventures in Babysitting (there played by Full Metal Jacket's Vincent D'Onofrio. They really should have just given him the lead in this new movie.)