MCU: Thor: Love and Thunder

[Covert Rain]

But honestly I wish it would have been a half hour longer. I would have loved a longer treatment of Gor because Bale was phenomenal

Yeah…Gor didn’t do much God killing which was a waste.

 

[Stout]

Yeah…Gor didn’t do much God killing which was a waste.

They've been good at wasting good villains in the last two Thor movies.

 

[Finito]

I really liked this. Just a flat out comedy at this point with Thor.

Russel Crow was hilarious

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Apparently there were two hours of deleted scenes. Many Gor stuff got cut.

 

[UncleChris]

I rank Ragnarok #1 and Love and Thunder #2 so I am on Chap's side.

It was fun and really relatable at the end as a dad. An absolute ton of 80s Thor comics especially the damn goats.

My main concern going in was without Loki, who would be the banter fobile to Thor but the Korg / Valkyrie combo was good.

I was also worried it would be Guardians of the Galaxy 2.5 but Taika impressively transitioned past that quickly.

Any movie with Cate Blanchett in it is an automatic favorite for me....

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[MadCardDisease]

So I rewatched the original and Ragnarok again this weekend with my son. Didn't think #2 was worth a rewatch.

So I really enjoyed the original Thor. I thought it was a solid introduction to Thor and Loki. It's still up there as my favorite.

I was still disappointed in Ragnarok. I just couldn't get into the whole slave planet scenes / Jeff Goldblum character. It just felt off to me and seemed unnecessary and it was such a big portion of the movie. Like others have said they failed to develop the Villain like they have in so many other MCU movies. I'd rather had that time spent on learning about Hela than some silly Jeff Goldblum character/Slave Planet that had nothing to do with the main plot.

 

[Chaplin]

So I rewatched the original and Ragnarok again this weekend with my son. Didn't think #2 was worth a rewatch.

So I really enjoyed the original Thor. I thought it was a solid introduction to Thor and Loki. It's still up there as my favorite.

I was still disappointed in Ragnarok. I just couldn't get into the whole slave planet scenes / Jeff Goldblum character. It just felt off to me and seemed unnecessary and it was such a big portion of the movie. Like others have said they failed to develop the Villain like they have in so many other MCU movies. I'd rather had that time spent on learning about Hela than some silly Jeff Goldblum character/Slave Planet that had nothing to do with the main plot.

The problem with the first two Thor movies (and to an extent, Avengers 1) is that Thor was pretty bland as a personality. We already have that with Steve Rogers, but one of the most endearing things about Tony Stark is how Robert Downey Jr plays him. Heck, even Mark Ruffalo's short screentime in Avengers showed more interesting traits than Thor up to that point.

I just wanted Avengers again, and you could see where they decided to start taking advantage of Chris Hemsworth's comedic chops. His interactions with Hulk and "He's adopted" as the standouts. They were moving in the direction of Ragnarok, and when they decided to turn him into kind of a self-absorbed idiot, it started opening up possibilities for the character.

 

[Covert Rain]

I have a diehard friend who HATES MCU Thor. Thinks they have made a completely joke out of him. I never agreed with him until now. I thought up until this movie it had the perfect balance taking advantage of CH's comedic chops. For me? It's just gone way over the top now. Looking forward to a return in balance.

 

[dscher]

Never take a super hero movie that serious...

Thanos and all the villains seem to show that maybe, just maybe, the good guys really aren't the "good" guys after all...

So when it comes to the laid back nature of Thor and others it really rings true to the whole not giving a damn vibe as of late in all these movies... I love it. It will be what it will be. The same Free Guy vibe I loved, is occuring in the guardians and now Thor series.

 

[Stout]

I have a diehard friend who HATES MCU Thor. Thinks they have made a completely joke out of him. I never agreed with him until now. I thought up until this movie it had the perfect balance taking advantage of CH's comedic chops. For me? It's just gone way over the top now. Looking forward to a return in balance.

I was about to strongly react here, but I get what you're saying, that you didn't like the style of humor in this one. I thought you were saying there was more humor period in L+T, which would have been quite false--Waititi very much injected more humor into Ragnarok--but that wasn't what you were saying. I still 100 percent disagree, but that's okay.

 

[Stout]

Any movie with Cate Blanchett in it is an automatic favorite for me....

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Kate Blanchett as a goth villain...what could go wrong? Oh yeah, by largely benching her in favor of yuk yuk jokes. Yeah, she was absolutely criminally underused.

 

[Covert Rain]

I was about to strongly react here, but I get what you're saying, that you didn't like the style of humor in this one. I thought you were saying there was more humor period in L+T, which would have been quite false--Waititi very much injected more humor into Ragnarok--but that wasn't what you were saying. I still 100 percent disagree, but that's okay.

Yes and no. This style of humor was over way over the top but I also 100% disagree you on L&T doesn't have more "humor". It does. L&T is almost wall to wall setup scenes with gags. Ragnarök is a story with humor where L&T seems like it was attempting to be written as a nyuk nyuk comedy. I even rewatched Ragnarök with my daughter last night and there is no question which one was written as a comedy. It's L&T. Even my 10 year old last night looked at me and said this one had a better story. LOL.

I get it though...it's the same director and with some of the same "tone" in both films. One just went way further than the other. We simply disagree there but as you stated that's OK.

 

[Stout]

Yes and no. This style of humor was over way over the top but I also 100% disagree you on L&T doesn't have more "humor". It does. L&T is almost wall to wall setup scenes with gags. Ragnarök is a story with humor where L&T seems like it was attempting to be written as a nyuk nyuk comedy. I even rewatched Ragnarök with my daughter last night and there is no question which one was written as a comedy. It's L&T. Even my 10 year old last night looked at me and said this one had a better story. LOL.

I get it though...it's the same director and with some of the same "tone" in both films. One just went way further than the other. We simply disagree there but as you stated that's OK.

Complete disagreement. The humor didn't stop in Ragnarok--it was legion. Much less humor in L+T. We just won't agree on anything, I suppose

 

[Covert Rain]

Complete disagreement. The humor didn't stop in Ragnarok--it was legion. Much less humor in L+T. We just won't agree on anything, I suppose

Didn't see anything close to Teddy Bears shooting bolts of lighting, kids rushing into battle, Thor doing Van Damme splits, girls fainting because Thor was naked (Nyuk, Nyuk) in Ragnarök. It's cool though. To each his own.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Complete disagreement. The humor didn't stop in Ragnarok--it was legion. Much less humor in L+T. We just won't agree on anything, I suppose

I think you guys agree on this part.

 

[Covert Rain]

I think you guys agree on this part.

Maybe when it comes to this movie. I actually agree with Stout sometimes on other movie/TV takes.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Maybe when it comes to this movie. I actually agree with Stout sometimes on other movie/TV takes.

Yeah I didn't think he meant everything, just the Thor conversation.

 

[thirty-two]

Liked it, didn’t love it. It was definitely funny at times, if a bit “try-hard” at times. Ragnarok is still my fave, I think.

Fave scene was

Spoiler

the colorless scene, where everything was black and white, until the axe/hammer brought the color. Bale did an excellent job. Loved the hammer all put back together like that.

 

[Absolute Zero]

As I was sitting in the theater ton watching this tonight, I kept asking myself, is this the worst movie I have ever seen?

 

[MadCardDisease]

Liked it, didn’t love it. It was definitely funny at times, if a bit “try-hard” at times. Ragnarok is still my fave, I think.

Fave scene was

Spoiler

the colorless scene, where everything was black and white, until the axe/hammer brought the color. Bale did an excellent job. Loved the hammer all put back together like that.

Ironically you said the same thing about Ragnarok:

Movie #17 - Thor: Ragnarok

Initial reaction: Mixed feelings - was funny for sure but felt kinda disjointed/forced at times

Marvel movie marathon for newbies thread

This one is part of the group including Iron Man 2 and Avengers 2. Extremely disappointing. Some good stuff in it but it suffered from an overly busy climax. Holy cow, really?

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[thirty-two]

Ironically you said the same thing about Ragnarok:

Marvel movie marathon for newbies thread

This one is part of the group including Iron Man 2 and Avengers 2. Extremely disappointing. Some good stuff in it but it suffered from an overly busy climax. Holy cow, really?

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Lol nice find with that thread! That was a fun time watching all those movies!

I guess watching Ragnarok multiple times made me like it more and more!

 

[Cheesebeef]

Ouchie and I started watching this last night. I was pretty out of it after drinking all day at a postponement of a wedding party, but the hazy bits I do remember left me thinking it was going to be pretty bad.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

I thought it got better. But they’ve gone weird places with Thor for sure.

 

[GatorAZ]

Never take a super hero movie that serious...

Thanos and all the villains seem to show that maybe, just maybe, the good guys really aren't the "good" guys after all...

So when it comes to the laid back nature of Thor and others it really rings true to the whole not giving a damn vibe as of late in all these movies... I love it. It will be what it will be. The same Free Guy vibe I loved, is occuring in the guardians and now Thor series.

The MCU is best comedy series where millions of innocent people are constantly dying lol.

 

[Russ Smith]

I was going to watch this weekend I guess i still will. Lucy's sister and family saw it in the theater and liked it so I'm hoping I like it.

I do really like the humor aspect of Thor in the MCU so far but it sounds like they went over the top on this one so I guess we'll see.