One more thing… Marilyn Manson should be pretty pissed not to be credited…
For what? Looking like the villain?
Yes, it was a joke but I definitely noticed a similarity.
Don’t hold it against them either, but also think that if Hemsworth, Portman, Bale & Waititi have their families on-set, that’s pulling away from their focus. Although I do love that India Hemsworth played sassy space child Love, that last scene was probably quite natural for them. And totally agree that Floppy Rabbit Girl needs to join the Young Avengers.
Anybody else think Bale was sometimes imitating Heath Ledger’s Joker? Also, I loved that Korg’s god’s throne had scissors, because that’s what rock beats!
AKA the Adam Sandler school of film-making.
No no, she was in the Prequels. The ponderous films are the sequels.
She was perfectly fine in those, except for the last one, when most of her role was cut.
(As an aside she is truly the most inconsistent actress today, she has done some top tier work, but in other films she has been abysmal.)
The film was a fine little flick which passed away two hours. It, felt safe and by the numbers.
Ragnarök was a risky film, introducing a lot of irreverence and light heartedness to what had previously been a brooding character was a major gamble in 2017 and it paid off handsomely.
In 2022 it seems, almost conservative.
Has Taika Waititi become mainstream in 5 years.
Finally saw it…or, am seeing it. My worst fears that too much has been stuffed into it are realized. I mean, I like what I see. But slow the eff down. Five minutes and we get Gorr…Jane to Asgard wham bam Mjoliner. Mannnn
There was definitely something off about the pacing. But if they did slow everything down, it would have been half an hour too long and we’d all be saying “cut out all the fluff!”.
Too many jokes…ffs…gawd and the painful exposition dumps. I’m trying to figure out why this worked in Ragnarok and isnt working here. No Hopkins or Goldblum maybe? Maybe cause no one is being serious so how can i take it seriously?
My only solution to pacing would have been to give Jane and Gorr and Valkyrie their own Disney Plus one-shot prior to the movie.
Drawbacks: complaints you need Disney Plus to understand the movie. Rightfully so, I admit. And the tone shift from Gorr and Janes trauma to the movie would have very jarring.
Just watched it - I couldn’t quite put my finger on exactly why it wasn’t that good - it had some humor - I definitely laughed at different bits, it was fun in some ways - but it just wasn’t what it could be. It just didn’t have that element that made it all work
Then it dawned on me -
Loki was not in it.
Just saw it. No complaints. Not quite as good as Ragnarok but that’s a high bar. I really liked Russell Crow’s Zeus.
K. I finished it.
Am I wrong that it had a great third act?? I thought Marvel movies were supposed to have weak third acts, but pretty much from the point Gorr got Stormbreaker it all worked well and pulled together.
And as people said above, the visuals were amazing. Kid fight scenes were…what they were…but the Gorr/Thor/Odinson stuff was really well done.
IMHO.
Oh…and my kid had to explain the ‘Dwayne the Rock’ joke…gawd im thick.
Just finished it and I thought it was very good – almost but not quite as good as Thor Ragnarok. I love the jokes and silly stuff, and it’s one of the main reasons Marvel movies don’t get stale, IMO.
I agree that it was fractured. Some parts of it I really enjoyed, some I just couldn’t get into at all.
I didn’t like Russel Crowe as Zeus at all. He just seemed like someone non-threatening doing a silly accent. Didn’t seem scary or divine at all.
One thing I wish had been explored more was the idea of Gods just not caring at all. Like, the very first god we met (who Gorr was praying to) was a total dick, just laughing at his suffering. Are all gods like that? Zeus and pretty much everyone there kind of seemed that way. But if there are actual Gods who are prayed to by actual populations, don’t some of them actual care and take their God-ing seriously? Like, we spent a fair bit of time with the Asgardian gods and we never really saw them just plain “answering a prayer”. But they certainly weren’t callous the way that first God was. Lots of opportunity for world-building there that wasn’t left by the wayside.
I think my biggest complaint was the jarring tonal shifts. It worked in Ragnarok where Jeff Goldblum was such a campy over-the-top villain that jumping from him being genuinely villainous to big laughs made total sense. That’s very different from “an evil shadow monster just kidnapped all of our entire communities children… ok, back to the jokes”.
That said, I basically had fun throughout, so… not super-disappointed or anything.
Goldblum’s counterpart in this film was Zeus. The real villains in both films (Hela and the God Butcher) were equally grim.
Watched it Friday night. Honestly, I thought it was a bit of a mess. Plenty of enjoyable moments, but they didn’t add up to a whole that was very interesting to me. Probably one that I won’t go back to again.
OTOH - I laughed out loud every time the goats screamed. I don’t know exactly what it was - maybe it was the obviously human voice that wasn’t even attempting to sound like a goat. It was utterly ridiculous, but doled out just sparingly enough that it really tickled me.
And, just to be completely shallow for a minute, Natalie Portman looked stunningly gorgeous in Mighty Thor mode.
I watched it the other night. I thought the comedy was forced.
I liked the movie. Though, but I doubt I’d watch it a second time or recommend if to a friend.
Love the goats!
I kept waiting for them to eat the goats, like in the Prose Edda.
No such luck.