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It's almost Helaween and that means it's time to Ragnarok and Roll. (Out Most Places Now)
Snicketysnick
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Celebrate Helaween this year with a trip to the cinema
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqNn14l7hhA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7MGUNV8MxUTaika Waititi brings us a delightfully colourful adventure set in Spaaaaaace and I for one am looking forward to it almost as much as another space-based film released later this year.
Early reviews are very positive, with particular praise for the streak of humour throughout.
There's no thread yet, but I have seen this and it's very good
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My only real criticism is that A) things jump around a little bit too much, which makes
Did other countries get this before America? The most important country???
(Official release is Thursday I think, but some cinemas are doing limited early screenings starting today)
A week of "International" is par for the course with Marvel these days, but the extra couple of days is new.
Booo Toys, I shall put a US date in the title if I can find one..
But Surtur is Clancy Brown!
Of course, the best “cameo” is Taika Waititi himself :biggrin:
This, if all the Marvel movies, feels the most like a comic book to me.
I really liked how Thor fights in this one, right from the off, it felt more true to the comics, lots of variety compared to previous outings, which were "I bonk it with my hammer" ( :winky: ) plus
*hang on
Major spoilers
- Thor was great. I like his looser personality here. His scenes with Hulk were some of the better scenes in this.
- Tessa as Valkyrie was also entertaining. She gets some solid funny and awesome scenes in.
- Every scene Cate Blanchett was in. I may be biased. But every moment her hair was down was like hnnngh.
- Talking Hulk gave him a whole new dimension not seen in his previous appearances.
- The Soundtrack wailing over Thor kicking ass was excellent.
- Grandmaster was hugely entertaining every time he's in a scene. He's just so weird!
- the end credits and music was perfect 80s electro/synth/idunnowhatitscalled music.
The Bad:
- They kill off Cate Blanchett! C'mon, Marvel! You always kill off your bad guys! (Storywise it make sense to finish her off, but still.)
- They unceremoniously kill off the Warriors Three (But Hogun managed to be more badass, at least)! And where's Sif??
- In the first half of the movie the switching between the two storylines (Thor in Sakaar, Hela in Asgard) were a bit on the rough side. I mean, it's serviceable enough, but you've seen better, ya know?
- the CGI fights. I mean, on the one hand I love Hela just owning a whole army, but on the other, but sometimes the CG gets a bit too obvious?
It's a solid watch, especially if you're already a Marvel fan.
In fact I'll spoil the question just to be double safe
It's pretty sweet
I'd be very curious in seeing how the scene of Mjolnir's destruction went from back alley to that green place. I assume that isn't Broxton(sp?) but I hope that is where the Asgardian's end up.
A pity that the main villianess were a little bit too 1 dimensional though
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I agree completely,the sci stuff was better than GoTG2 and the humour was much funnier.
This is probably my favourite marvel film now, it's amazing.
Yes.
The beginning was a little weird with the pacing and maybe a bit too many funny bits, but everything was so fun and crazy that the good vastly overshadowed the bad
Valkyrie was great, hope she becomes a regular
Biggest laugh
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Odin's death was probably the thing that came furthest out of left field for me; also, the Doctor Strange cameo felt super unnecessary? Especially considering how he actually didn't do very much in this movie.
The fight choreography in this was excellent, especially the Surtur fight at the beginning.
Only other complaint I have is Mark Ruffalo casually dropping a slur related to the Romani people ends up in the final cut of the movie. Really pulled me out of it.
Really liked it! That is all I wanted to say.
My biggest worry going in was that the jokes were going to overpower everything else, but I feel like they struck a nice balance. And! It did a very good job of tying in the MCU continuity without it feeling like an anchor around the movie's neck.
Spoilery thoughts!
I think my favorite thing in this is how they handled Thor and Loki, and how they managed to get them to a place where they were believable allies at the end. They are family, and Thor spurring Loki to actually grow as a person by outsmarting him was a really nice touch. It would have been very easy to play Thor as a large, blundering idiot, and they come right up to the line on it a few times, but one of my favorite running bits is that there are multiple scenes where they set it up like Thor's fucking up, or that he's being kind of an idiot, only to reveal moments later that he was at least one step ahead.
All in all, it was very good, and I'd love to see another Thor movie from Taika Waititi, even though I'm reasonably sure we probably won't get one
Really, really loved it. Everything clicked for me, and most of the jokes landed (and some really well).
I think the tone may be a bit too much for some people.
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It's still far and away the best one on virtue of being the only good one, but I felt like it was 70% a Regular-Ass Marvel Movie and 30% the fun Taika Waititi romp I was sold on it being, which you could see represented in the score, which SOMETIMES sounded like Mark Mothersbaugh and most of the time sounded like a standard action movie score
I don't know whose fault it is, I don't think it's Ruffalo's, whatever needle they needed to thread with the whole production of that, they missed it by a pretty wide margin
Cate Blanchett also didn't really amount to much, she mostly played the same kind of scene over and over and was then, of course, killed off
I thought it was gonna be one of the top tier really really good Marvel movies and instead I got a good one, which is fine
I hope it does very well and Taika Waititi does not return so he can spend his cred on more small movies he has complete direction over
That is not me saying that it didn't have enough Hulk. It is me saying that I fucking loved Hulk in this movie. Way more fleshed out than any previous film adaptation.
The best example of this is Odin says "Look at that" and I feel like I could have blinked and missed the entire shot showing that he was pointing at the sky.
Was not expecting them to just merge Hela with Angela like that, that's a bit of a letdown, but I guess they don't really want to deal with a character that would take a whole movie on her own.
Hulk is great, Valkyrie is great, Hela is chewing the scenery and vamping like mad, Loki is Loki, and Thor is still just a great big lovable doofus.
I was fully expecting Loki to bite it while reigniting Surtur, but I guess they are saving that for Infinity War. I liked talking Hulk, seemed to be the young teenage stage that PAD touched on a bit during his run. Banner wasn't as good though. And Hela should've had more to do. Valk was awesome. And Skurge was great. Goldblum was Goldblum. I'd love to know if anything of his was scripted.
I loved the "Are you the God of Hammers?"
Bring on Black Panther.
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And even if she did die, 50% of her lines in the movie were stating, over and over, that she’s the goddess of death. If Thor has lightning powers, I’d imagine she might have something similar but...with death. Hell, getting blown up could even be a powerup.
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