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Just got out of Thor: Ragnarok! An utterly brilliant, barmy and ridiculous film. Loved it! Wouldn't say it is the best of the MCU, but up with the best less serious films like Dr Strange, Guardians 1 and 2. (Searched and couldn't find a Thor thread...) |
Thor Ragnarok
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DakeyrasUK 5,311 posts
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It's a solid film, was surprised at how sneakily the trailer was cut; ended up being surprised that most of the key events I presumed were going to happen either didn't happen, or occurred different.
I felt the writing had some real difficulty balancing death/loss with slapstick comedy, as a result some scenes fell flatter than banner.
Kate Blanchett's Hela made me feel things... deep suppressed things. The film makers insistence on showing her slowly strutting pressed buttons I didn't knew I had.
Loved some of the minor characters, the polite rock chap went from being 'this is stupid' to 'I fucking love this guy!' during the course of the film.
So it's an odd film in a lot of ways, but super enjoyable with a ton of great one-liners and characters. Probably up there with the best Marvel films for me (higher than say, Dr.Strange).
Edited by Pirotic at 16:19:00 24-10-2017 -
DUFFMAN5 26,890 posts
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Registered 17 years agoSeeing this on Friday, loved the first film, the second is still probably the worst Marvel film to date -
mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoPirotic wrote:
That usually happens when the trailer is issued then the film goes through a final round of massive lifesaving editing before release.
It's a solid film, was surprised at how sneakily the trailer was cut; ended up being surprised that most of the key events I presumed were going to happen either didn't happen, or occurred different.
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Bichii 4,672 posts
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Registered 4 years agoYeah I loved it. Absolutely brilliant film. Up there with gotg is my favourite comic film. -
Bichii 4,672 posts
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Registered 4 years agoLoved Kate. -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoAbsolutely loved it, the trailer editing was superb in how it completely misdirects anyone watching it.
I thought Korg was Rhys Darby but was pleasantly surprised that it's Taika Waititi himself.
Could well turn out to be my favourite MCU film and I'll certainly be watching it at the cinema again. -
GloatingSwine 3,916 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI thought it was great, really funny script and fantastic use of slapstick to deflate people when they thought they were being cool, and some super fun action scenes.
Also, I like a more talky Hulk.
Still does't beat Guardians as my favourite Marvel movie, but it's up there. -
HarryB 7,630 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAlso loved it - very funny and found it way better than the disappointing GOTG2 -
Bichii 4,672 posts
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Registered 4 years agoMy son was basically Thor for the six hours after leaving the cinema to going to bed. He role played the final battle on the bridge about fifty times whilst I blasted out immigrant song. .gif)
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Bichii 4,672 posts
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This was a film about very good looking people looking cool while kicking ass. Lots of posing, gazes towards the camera, slow motion shots of people looking sexy and cool while they did cool actions.
I enjoyed it a great deal
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Sounds like you may have watched a different film there mate. -
Bichii 4,672 posts
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Registered 4 years agoYep I'll admit I went a little gooey when Thor was topless. Hot. -
HairyArse 1,476 posts
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Registered 6 years agoMrTomFTW wrote:
Were you looking through my windows while me and Jive played Overwatch?
This was very good looking people looking cool while kicking ass. Lots of posing, gazes towards the camera, slow motion shots of people looking sexy and cool while they did cool actions.
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JiveHound wrote:
Hmmmmm... That would explain the orgy spaceship scene...
Sounds like you may have watched a different film there mate. -
GloatingSwine 3,916 posts
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Registered 14 years agoMrTomFTW wrote:
FTFY
This was a film about very good looking people looking cool while kicking ass. Lots of posing, gazes towards the camera, slow motion shots of people looking sexy and cool while they did cool actions and then immediately looking very silly when slapstick happened to remind them not to push it.
I enjoyed it a great deal
Edited by GloatingSwine at 09:22:08 25-10-2017 -
Garfy 1,558 posts
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Registered 16 years agoJust saw it in 3d, awesome! -
DUFFMAN5 26,890 posts
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Registered 17 years agoBrilliant film, could well be my favourite Marvel one yet.
I didnt get the post credit scene though. -
DakeyrasUK 5,311 posts
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Registered 8 years ago@DUFFMAN5 I think that was a big ship belonging to Thanos, could be wrong mind... -
Scimarad 9,964 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI hope they don't kill off all those Asgardians just so they can give Thor a dramatic entrance in Infinity War. The last section of Ragnarok was all about saving them so that would make it all feel a bit pointless. -
GloatingSwine 3,916 posts
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Registered 14 years ago@Scimarad I suspect Thor will take a kicking so they can escape, with Loki taking them to Earth (leading to Misunderstanding). Given the Significant Glance Loki gave the Tesseract in the vault he's almost certainly pocketed it, so that will put at least three Infinity gems on Earth making sure Thanos takes an interest. (Four if Heimdall makes it there and has the Soul stone letting him see everyone in the nine realms). -
Derblington 35,161 posts
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Registered 17 years agoJust out from it. Liked it a lot but tonally very different to Thor and the Avengers films due to all the humor. It doesn’t quite sit right, IMO, but it’s still very good despite that.
Doesn’t quite earn the big event moments as a result but it sets up some interesting stuff ahead. -
I really enjoyed it. Sure, it's funny, but the action scenes were also well crafted, more visually interesting than the last few Marvel films.
Although the comedy was more pronounced I still think it fits into the Marvel canon very well, they've always had humour.
Quite like that with this and Homecoming, Marvel seem to be doing better with villains. At least, I think so. -
DUFFMAN5 26,890 posts
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Cate Blanchett was excellent, but she always is. -
Bichii 4,672 posts
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Registered 4 years agoDerblington wrote:
For me this was infinity better than avengers and the older Thors for that exact reason.
Just out from it. Liked it a lot but tonally very different to Thor and the Avengers films due to all the humor. It doesn’t quite sit right, IMO, but it’s still very good despite that.
Doesn’t quite earn the big event moments as a result but it sets up some interesting stuff ahead. -
Derblington 35,161 posts
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Registered 17 years agoAs I said, I enjoyed it. The humour doesn't ruin it or anything, and it is funny, but there's a tiny bit too much of it that it becomes a little too distracting from what is actually occurring on screen at times.
85% of the humour was perfect for what the whole franchise is/does. That extra 15%, while still very amusing, just tipped the scales for me, changing characters a little too much or getting in the way of the actual event taking place in that it lost some of the tone required to actually sell them properly.
It surpassed the GotG films in the amount and type of humour, and I don't want/think Thor should have done that, essentially. Quill and team are those characters, we didn't need a second GotG team but that's where this film seems to have ended up, practically character for character when you look at the final crew standing on the deck of the ship.
I also think it'll feel even more out of place once Infinity War is out, in terms of Thor's character and arc.
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Feels like there was a memo to 'make sure there's a joke every 2 minutes, regardless of what else is going on in the scene' at some point -
Weird, it isn't out here in the US until next week!!!!!!
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. Got him an awesome regnarok t shirt as well! 
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