Highlights are:
*The Odd Couple feel between the roomies Thor and Hulk
*Great post-credit scene with the Grandmaster. Goldblum cracks me up.
*Hulk
*An Asgardian play with
Sadly, no Sif or Selvig.
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Lighthearted as opposed to what? The only MCU film I wouldn't quite describe as lighthearted were Winter Soldier and Civil War but even they aren't too far off. All the other MCU films are colorful and lighthearted with (sometimes) deeper issues for people who care to look beyond the surface without spoiling the fun in the moment.OP Tipping wrote:It's fair to say that all three MCU films this year have been lighthearted. I don't mind it: it's nice that they can vary the tone.
maybeagnostic wrote:Lighthearted as opposed to what? The only MCU film I wouldn't quite describe as lighthearted were Winter Soldier and Civil War but even they aren't too far off. All the other MCU films are colorful and lighthearted with (sometimes) deeper issues for people who care to look beyond the surface without spoiling the fun in the moment.OP Tipping wrote:It's fair to say that all three MCU films this year have been lighthearted. I don't mind it: it's nice that they can vary the tone.
Zohar wrote:Also rename this thread to Thor: Reykjavik.
Roosevelt wrote:I wrote:Does Space Teddy Roosevelt wrestle Space Bears and fight the Space Spanish-American War with his band of Space-volunteers the Space Rough Riders?
Yes.
pollywog wrote:I want to learn this smile, perfect it, and then go around smiling at lesbians and freaking them out.Wikihow wrote:* Smile a lot! Give a gay girl a knowing "Hey, I'm a lesbian too!" smile.
Pfhorrest wrote:Yeah my general impression of the movie was "Guardians of the Galaxy, if it were a Thor movie".
Maybe there weren't as many but there were still some. The best ones were (weirdly?) about The Hulk like when hermsgrey wrote:The Guardians movies have genuine emotion to them too - Ragnarok kept feeling like there were moments that should have carried emotional weight but didn't.
SDK wrote:"Trying too hard" doesn't count if you succeed at being a comedy! It felt to me a lot like Guardians of the Galaxy in flavor. Which isn't really a bad thing.
The scene with Dr. Strange was... strange. Pretty pointless. Apart from that, this was a pretty great movie.
heuristically_alone wrote:I want to write a DnD campaign and play it by myself and DM it myself.
heuristically_alone wrote:I have been informed that this is called writing a book.
SecondTalon wrote:Part of Strange's job is "Don't let the universal order fuck itself".
Hela is attempting to fuck said universal order. Better for Strange to get involved early.
SDK wrote:SecondTalon wrote:Part of Strange's job is "Don't let the universal order fuck itself".
Hela is attempting to fuck said universal order. Better for Strange to get involved early.
I understand Strange's motivations, but he didn't have anything to do with Hela. He didn't have anything to do with this movie. I know they're trying to remind us that he exists so they can tie it all together, but they should have done a better job making me care that he was there. Or at least have Strange wrap up the conversation with a "Great, you've convinced me that you're not going to let the universal order fuck itself, now I'm a busy man, so off you go!" I found the (amusing) five-minute scene pretty jarring in that respect.
SDK wrote:Yep... but the movie would have been exactly the same if Odin hadn't disappeared at all. He could have been sitting in the retirement home where Loki left him and nothing would have changed, except for the out-of-nowhere cameo. Lazy.
cephalopod9 wrote:It's also weird that AsgardSpoiler:
cephalopod9 wrote:It's also weird that AsgardSpoiler:
There's too much fun stuff for me to really mind the plot is a little shaky. It has four or five intersecting heroes' journeys.
Themyscira was an island pocket dimension, that existed just to home a specific immortal, cloistered army. It made sense for it to be between a summer camp and a small coastal town in scale.Soupspoon wrote:The DC's universe island of Themyscira also seems a little uncluttered and steady-state.
Um, like who? I am pretty sure every time we've seen an Asgardian other than Thor* fight, they've had their ass handed to them by just about everything they tried to fight. That random security droid from the first movie kicked the asses of the Warriors Three who are supposed to be the toughest Asgard has to offer, the dark elves from the second movie just crushed Asgardian defenses effortlessly and Hela straight up took over the place by herself in a direct attack without breaking a sweat. Aside from being tiny/underpopulated, Asgard has felt ridiculously weak to me. Thor was by far their best warrior and he isn't even the strongest Avenger.Tyndmyr wrote:It seems probable that, given what we know, Asguardians enjoy a ridiculous advantage over their enemies. Pretty much every one we've seen is obscenely overpowered.
maybeagnostic wrote:Um, like who? I am pretty sure every time we've seen an Asgardian other than Thor* fight, they've had their ass handed to them by just about everything they tried to fight. That random security droid from the first movie kicked the asses of the Warriors Three who are supposed to be the toughest Asgard has to offer, the dark elves from the second movie just crushed Asgardian defenses effortlessly and Hela straight up took over the place by herself in a direct attack without breaking a sweat. Aside from being tiny/underpopulated, Asgard has felt ridiculously weak to me. Thor was by far their best warrior and he isn't even the strongest Avenger.Tyndmyr wrote:It seems probable that, given what we know, Asguardians enjoy a ridiculous advantage over their enemies. Pretty much every one we've seen is obscenely overpowered.
maybeagnostic wrote:Um, like who? I am pretty sure every time we've seen an Asgardian other than Thor* fight, they've had their ass handed to them by just about everything they tried to fight. That random security droid from the first movie kicked the asses of the Warriors Three who are supposed to be the toughest Asgard has to offer, the dark elves from the second movie just crushed Asgardian defenses effortlessly and Hela straight up took over the place by herself in a direct attack without breaking a sweat. Aside from being tiny/underpopulated, Asgard has felt ridiculously weak to me. Thor was by far their best warrior and he isn't even the strongest Avenger.Tyndmyr wrote:It seems probable that, given what we know, Asguardians enjoy a ridiculous advantage over their enemies. Pretty much every one we've seen is obscenely overpowered.
The thing about tiny places is a problem with Marvel movies though. I found it particularly grating in Black Panther because Wakanda felt more like a tiny cheap amusement park than the majestic nation it was supposed to be.
* I think technically Peter McNicol was stronger than the Agents of SHIELD vanilla human team but he still got killed by the end of the episode.
cephalopod9 wrote:NO!
It's not their fault if someone in real life sounds more like a comic book villain than a comic book villain.
The only pop-culture / contemporary reference, outside of the adapted source material obviously, is.. I think Tony's ship calls Thor "Point Break", and that might be a throw-back, I don't remember.
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