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[Thor: Ragnarok] Asgardian road trip [TAG SPOILERS]
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My biggest laugh:
Killed me.
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So basically, the MCU should be the Adam West Batman?
But the first one was ok at best, and the second is a strong contender for Worst MCU Movie.
So making the third starkly different is a good thing.
And yeah, it shouldn't be all serious dramatic darkness, it's just some of the jokes, and again this is personal taste, undermined the moment instead of adding to it. It totally needs some or even most of the comedy and it worked well in the balance. Just tipped a tad too far.
Thor:Ragnarok was great, but the action still uses the Marvel Cutting Technique that takes a lot of the impact away from most of the action.
Please don't cut a shot right when the hit connects. Please don't do it.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
I haven't been doing comic movies lately, but the only part I'd give a shit about (as a reader of Thor back in the late 80s) is that they got Skurge and his little story right.
A friend who does like the MCU and sees them all seemed a little conflicted, he obviously liked it as he told me about it, but he apparently felt like they played the comedy hand a little too hard. I would guess that course correction is due to Guardians' success.
Zooming in to show a reaction will create dissonance when you see what looks like a normal hit produce a much larger effect. Better to zoom out and show the whole thing.
The non-godlike fight scenes with just the mooks did a better job in general of the ideal kung fu style i think. But would have to see again to check
They've never really been clear on what Odins powers are in the comics, they're basically "everything", since he's one of the All-Fathers.
Wait.
Trailer, for those who haven't already seen it linked in like 4 other threads;
The MCU just needed more deviation from the "MCU style" that was so heavily put into place during the tail end of phase one/phase two.
Thor having a light tone (for dark events) is a great sign since he's one of the current big three and not an "offshoot" like the first Guardians movie.
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That's such a good character moment, too, because
It's played for laughs, and it is funny. But at the same time, there's some major fucking catharsis happening for him in that moment.
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@Nosf I would strongly recommend seeing it for yourself.
Yeah it mashes up a bunch of comic storylines, but the movie keeps coming back around to things from earlier parts, so it all ties together very neatly. In practice it feels more like Indianna Jones & the Last Crusade (where they keep jumping from one scene in a locale to a different scene somewhere else, all without losing the narrative) moreso than one of those movies that tries to juggle too many different plot threads and ends up dropping them all.
As for the 'too much comedy' complaints, I have to say I've been really surprised by them, because I loved this movie and I usually am that guy. I'm a big believer in entertainment being fun, and not trying to be 'grimdark' all the time, but I also have a strong aversion to works that try too hard to be wacky or zany unless they want to be full-fledged comedy (and often even then). I don't like Adam West Batman, I'm ambivalent about the Batman The Brave & The Bold cartoon (although the episode with Wonderwoman and Batman being jealous of her douchey boyfriend was great), and I don't like the Lego Batman and Lego Star Wars stuff (well, the games are fun). But I enjoyed the heck out of Thor: Ragnarok.
Personally, I want him in the Mephisto role to Thanos.
Me too, but I don't like his odds
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Even if Loki surrenders the Tesseract, it's gonna be in a scenario where he has no choice, and likely after doing something to warn others to prepare for impending attack, it's gonna be tough for him to ingratiate himself to Thanos in doing so. He literally did not deliver, the dude had to come collect.
Basically, if they have Hela be Death, Loki can use that angle to get an "in."
Especially since
I don't see a way Loki survives this encounter with Thanos, which is a goddamn shame and a waste of a brilliant character.
My hope is that
But I'm much less confident in that hope than I am in the first part of the theory.
I don't think Thanos really gives a shit about smooth talkers.
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the gauntlet hole is round, its gonna take thanos some time to find a cosmic jeweler to make that fit
The Aether is a trickier one. Gonna have to scoop it all up and smush it into stone form.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...