Thor: The Dark World

So rather than try to make a coherent and cohesive post about Thor, I'm just going to use the trusty bullet list:

• I love Tom Hiddleston.  I think he is great actor and never takes himself to seriously (which is fun).  And he is clearly having a good time play Loki, which is unsurprising because he gets to be completely bananas in this part. 
• I enjoyed the dichotomy of the uber-muscular Chris Hemworth fighting next to the slight Tom Hiddleston.  
• It is hard to go wrong when you cast Christopher Eccleston as the villain (who I recognized almost immediately by he voice, even though he was speaking an alien language).  
• Apparently, there are no barbers in Asgard, since both Thor and Loki have much longer hair compared to the first Thor movie (maybe they were too busy).  
• They recast one of the minor characters with a more famous actor (Zachary Levi).  I kept looking at the actor and saying, "Is that a different guy? I think so."
• Clearly, the writers realized what they had and expanded the role of Idris Elba.  And made him even more awesome, he takes down a spaceship single-handedly. 
• Like the first Thor movie, there were so many helmets.