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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2017 21:11:18 GMT -5
Saw it. Really enjoyed it. Thor vs Hulk was fun. Hela was awesome. Thor/Loki dynamics were great. Another Stan Lee cameo that made me smile.
My only quibble? At times it felt like they were trying too hard to add humor.
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Post by spoon on Nov 4, 2017 8:46:31 GMT -5
Saw it. Really enjoyed it. Thor vs Hulk was fun. Hela was awesome. Thor/Loki dynamics were great. Another Stan Lee cameo that made me smile. My only quibble? At times it felt like they were trying too hard to add humor. I was underwhelmed by the movie. It didn't feel like an action/drama film spiced with bits of humor. It felt more like a comedy seasoned with bits of drama. I'm not averse to humor in Marvel Cinematic Universe films. I have Ant-Man on blu-ray and it's one of my favorite MCU films. It's more a matter of tone, character, and consistency. In Ant-Man, Scott Lang is a reforming small-time thief and a bit of a rogue. It fits to have him joking, and he can switch to dramatic moments. People like Hank Pym are more serious in the movie and it feels real, because the humor comes out moments that feel real. In contrast, in Thor: Ragnarok, it feels like Taiki Watiti thinks this whole thing is really dumb, so he might as well mock it. It's the opposite of suspension of disbelief. It's not a matter of funny people in a real world, but rather a whole world that's ridiculous. Thor is one of the biggest clowns, and his brand of humor doesn't fit as well as in prior films. In other films, Thor's ego is used as the main driver of humor. It's fish-out-of-water stuff. But in T:R, Thor is a source in any way possible. He cracks jokes all over the place. He's a slapstick clutz, and so on. I might have been more receptive to this if it would part of a standalone movie, but it's part of a shared universe with an established personality for Thor. By analogy, The Lego Batman Movie is actually my favorite recent Batman movie, but I would hate it if was made as a live-action sequel to the Nolan Batman films. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2017 20:28:42 GMT -5
Amy and I saw it this afternoon before the tornados and storms hit. Loved it. By far my favorite of the Thor movies and perhaps once I have had time to digest it and possibly see it again challenge for my favorite Marvel movie. It was just sheer pure fun from the get go, thrills, chills, laughs, oohs, ahhs, Easter eggs, and the 2+ hours past without me once thinking about time passing or feeling a lull in my attention of feeling of contented entertainment.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2017 21:54:06 GMT -5
Walt Simonson's reaction (from his FB page)...
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Post by brutalis on Nov 6, 2017 8:09:01 GMT -5
Enjoyed the movie. Great Fun. Bit too much comedy and no real tension/drama but was a truly wonderful Popcorn/Saturday entertainment. Very much like the old black and white movie serials of my yesterdays. Thor can work and play on so many levels and with the guaranteed money gold of the Guardian's template it is no doubt they went this way with Thor for the current movie. Good tone and quality continuing on as they build to Thanos and the Infinity War pair of movies.
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 6, 2017 8:28:41 GMT -5
I liked it quite a lot, though it's far from my favorite Marvel movie (or even my favorite Thor movie). The only things that bothered me were the absence of Sif (not even a mention), presumably because Jaime Alexander was tied up with her TV series, and the quick and ignominious deaths of the Warriors Three (Volstagg and Fandral didn't even get lines, for goodness sake!). Cei-U! I summon the capsule review! |
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Post by Warmonger on Nov 6, 2017 8:40:51 GMT -5
I loved it
My only complaint is that they should’ve focused even more on the weird and wacky stuff on Sakaar. I like Cate Blanchett as Hela, but every time they went back to the Asgard scenes it pulled me out of the movie.
It also needed more Goldblum. Was great as always in his limited screen time.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 6, 2017 10:24:33 GMT -5
I liked it quite a lot, though it's far from my favorite Marvel movie (or even my favorite Thor movie). The only things that bothered me were the absence of Sif (not even a mention), presumably because Jaime Alexander was tied up with her TV series, and the quick and ignominious deaths of the Warriors Three (Volstagg and Fandral didn't even get lines, for goodness sake!). Cei-U! I summon the capsule review! The second of your spoilers bugged the heck out of me as well. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 6, 2017 13:36:27 GMT -5
(...) The only things that bothered me were {Spoiler: Click to show}
the absence of Sif (not even a mention), presumably because Jaime Alexander was tied up with her TV series, and the quick and ignominious deaths of the Warriors Three (Volstagg and Fandral didn't even get lines, for goodness sake!). Cei-U! I summon the capsule review! Well, $#%... That's a major bummer. A large part of my huge enjoyment of Thor: the dark world was that {Spoiler: Click to show}
every supporting character had an opportunity to shine, if only briefly. They all showed what great and selfless friends they were, and that gave the whole adventure a breath of optimism.
I am appalled that the Warriors Three would end up as cannon fodder to dramatically balance a surfeit of jokes. |
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Post by The Captain on Nov 6, 2017 15:48:10 GMT -5
Saw the movie today, and I enjoyed it but didn't love it, for many of the reasons that others have mentioned here. The comedy was too much, the dramatic moments nonexistent, and the {Spoiler: Click to show}total absence of Sif and quick deaths of the Warriors Three were letdowns. As well, while I really liked the actress who played Valkyrie, it was a little bit of a bummer to see {Spoiler: Click to show}Brunhilda die in her flashback during the original assault on Hela that caused her to flee Asgard. Couldn't we have gotten the Valkyrie that we, the hardcore fans, all know and love? As well, the Doctor Strange scene/cameo was really not necessary. Cute, but not essential. Final result: probably my favorite Thor movie, but still lower-half among all Marvel movies on my list. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 2:18:23 GMT -5
Just seen it, and I'm with the "well it was OK, but..." reviews. It's a decent film, and the best of the Thors, but it had set the bar really high with that first trailer, and it really didn't live up to it (something I was a little worried about in the run up, as each trailer had been worse than the last) - the balance was just a bit too far into the jokiness, and I would have liked some of the valiant deaths to be a bit more fought, rather than being throwaways to show how bad-ass Hela is. I also had real flashbacks to Star Trek: Insurrection with the crowds of feeble weepy Asgardians being shepherded about by Heimdall. Hugely disliked Skurge's cockney accent - there are many ways I've imagined Skurge sounding, but that certainly wasn't one of them. In fairness, they did a good job of misdirection in the trailers, with events in completely different order to what they seemed to be. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 8, 2017 10:23:30 GMT -5
(...) and I would have liked some of the valiant deaths to be a bit more fought, rather than being throwawaus to show how bad-ass Hela is. I haven't seen the movie so I can't comment on this, but the absolute laziest technique of comic-book writers new to a book, in my opinion, is to summarily kill important supporting characters to establish how bad-ass the story's villain is. I'd hate to see that flaw carried over to the movies. |
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Post by spoon on Nov 8, 2017 19:59:18 GMT -5
I liked it quite a lot, though it's far from my favorite Marvel movie (or even my favorite Thor movie). The only things that bothered me were the absence of Sif (not even a mention), presumably because Jaime Alexander was tied up with her TV series, and the quick and ignominious deaths of the Warriors Three (Volstagg and Fandral didn't even get lines, for goodness sake!). Cei-U! I summon the capsule review! The second of your spoilers bugged the heck out of me as well. It seemed like that was done in suck a dismissively casual way, like they were worthless and not worth much effort. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 9, 2017 6:38:51 GMT -5
I really enjoyed it and was also bummed a bit about the Warriors three. I liked the galaxy spanning locales and all the main characters really shine on screen. About the humor- Thor has always been a casual warrior laughing his way through every movie.It was just out of place few times given the gravity of what was happening to Asgard. I give it a 8/10.
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Post by rberman on Nov 13, 2017 14:02:12 GMT -5
Spoilers!
I liked goofy Thor. Befuddled Bruce was OK; I blame 2 years stuck as Hulk. Seeing the Kirby armor designs on Grandmaster's soldiers was a hoot. So many Simonson callbacks, from the bust of Beta Ray Bill to the frog to Kurst and his machine guns. Playing Surtur for laughs at the beginning was not so good, though he certainly made up for it by the end.
I liked Doctor Strange better in this movie than I did in his own, but I am trying to understand the continuity. At the end of the DS movie, Volstagg came to say that they needed his help finding Odin, which implied that Loki's ruse (from the end of The Dark World) of impersonating Odin had somehow ended. So I guess that scene with Volstagg and Strange took place in the five minutes that Thor and Loki went from Asgard to the demolished retirement home? And then Volstagg went back to Asgard before Thor could get to Strange's sanctum?
Hela was cool, though comics Hela already has a vast realm to rule. They powered her down; her touch didn't make Thor instantly wither.
One thing that's still missing from the movies is the complex of Asgardian intrigue that results when Loki, Enchantress, Karnilla, and the various monsters/giants all step on each other's feet while trying to defeat Thor et al. Given the movie's ending, I wonder whether a sequal is moving into the JMS run on Thor.
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