I remember really enjoying ragnarok. Like I left that theater entertained. I took the tone seriously and remember it being funny. This new movie felt like it was trying to be funny the whole time. And the fucking children and their acting and that one scene oh my goddddd I wanted to walk out.

I’m surprised you liked it as much as you did, since you guys are critical of marvel movies and their bottled formulas. (Which I understand) This movie was empty of heart and purpose. It felt like a kids movie with adult jokes. I will shit on this movie any chance I can. It made me question my hobbies and interests.

lol considering

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the girl at the end is Hemsworth's irl daughter, I wouldn't be surprised if most of those kids were related to production members

and idk, did Ragnarok take itself much more seriously tho? The movie even opens with Thor being imprisoned by a demon and the entire scene is him bantering with it. And the main plot was about the fall of Asgard which COULD be a heavy plotline but they were constantly cracking jokes at it, like Korg even cracks one AS it's being blown up

I seem to be in the minority on this one tho so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Regarding your comment in the spoiler - I had no idea. Ew is that why that’s even a thing? Because I absolutely hated that at the end of the film.

I don’t remember Ragnarok but like with GOTG I feel I took it seriously despite it being a comical movie. The character of Hela actually meant something. She was Thor’s long lost sister and a threat to Asgard. This new villain was like a random villain of the week

Shadow @ 10/7/2022 10:19

I’m surprised you liked it as much as you did, since you guys are critical of marvel movies and their bottled formulas. (Which I understand) This movie was empty of heart and purpose. It felt like a kids movie with adult jokes. I will shit on this movie any chance I can. It made me question my hobbies and interests.

I think you just described part of why this one actually hit for me weirdly enough lol. While the usual formula has grown stale I appreciated that this movie dropped all pretense of being serious and veered almost into parody at times. Which would've been very easy to hate if the comedy didn't work, but Taika's humor does (mostly) work for me

That's why the Guardians movies are the only ones I'd consider GREAT in the MCU, because they're actually funny and don't take themselves too seriously. Those do have a leg up though because they do actually nail their dramatic beats unlike Taika's movies

It had its funny moments but when a joke failed it sucked me out of it. Like what am I watching. Lady Thor trying her catch phrases? Oooooooof

I liked it a lot
My girlfriend said what shadow said and absolutely fucking despised it lol

So shadow is your girlfriend

Yaw

Finally got around to watching this. I enjoyed it. It's not a movie I'd be itching to rewatch but it was a funny, kooky ride. Definitely could have had less focus on the kidnapped kids but meh. It wasn't enough to ruin the rest of the fun bits for me.

This was….dogshit. A genuinely embarrassing time

I’m always team Taika but woof, this script was brutal. I didn’t so much as snicker at one single joke. Not ONE! And boy were there plenty. This felt like they just shot their rough draft without revisiting it at all. Just a messy pile of scenes and jokes they wanted to be sure to include

Bale was good but horribly wasted. Crowe barely did anything either. Portman and Thompson seemed to very clearly not care or wanna be there to me? It was so weird. Hemsworth plays this newer version of the character really well but didn’t have the material for this one at all. Even KORG was bad! He’s up there with Drax as the funniest MCU character for me but nothing worked in this one

Big yikes all around. Thankfully I’ll never remember a single moment from this movie starting tomorrow

4/10
23rd out of 26 seen D:

https://boxd.it/1xoBm

lol what movie did you watch

must've been the wrong cut

just another Taika hater nothing to see here 🥱

YEP