Saw it with the fam this afternoon. Enjoyed it, love gotg so that was fun at the beginning.
Christian Bale was good, his arc wasn't spectacular but it gave the other pieces reasons to be doing things.
Wish I could have listened in on the call to Matt Damon et al recruiting them to reprise their roles.
Good to have Jane storyline resolved.
Enjoyed Crowe, LOL when Brett Goldstein showed up. He's here he's there he's every effing where Hercules!

Nothing groundbreaking about it, and no idea how or if it ties into the rest of the MCU phase other than getting thor back on his own away from gotg but we enjoyed it!

2nd half of the movie was epic. Really everything after the god city was as well done as anything in the MCU. The first half is a bit thin, but it is still fun. The 2nd half though, delivers a really solid story.

Honestly thought this was the best looking Marvel film I've seen in some time. The shadow realm scenes were fantastic.

And in case you didn't guess based on her accent at the end, Gorr's daughter is played by Hemsworth's actual daughter

The first 70 minutes of this movie tried way too hard to be funny in every moment and ended up being somewhere between "Batman 66" and "Batman and Robin" in terms of campiness, right up until the last 25 minutes when I thought it actually turned into a very good story. The movie shined when it took itself more seriously. I'm not talking about Thor being played as a campy character, because I think that actually works. To me though it only works well when there's a more serious undertone to the film. The comedy also tends to fall flat when there isn't really a "straightman" character. Apart from Gorr, Thor was never around a serious character for any length of time.

IMO Gorr is such a great no-nonsense villain and he wasn't interspersed in the film enough to properly juxtapose Thor's campy aloofness. The interplay there had a ton of potential.

As an aside, the opening scene with Gorr and whatever god he killed was one of the more cringey sequences of bad acting you'll ever see in a Marvel film. It also made no sense from a story perspective. This dumbass
god and his goofy friends from the local cable access Sesame Street knockoff killed the guy who wielded the necro sword? Without destroying the sword? Really?

t seems like they altered the original story and cut some things out. The part where Thor left the guardians was very jarring. It seems like they pieced together three different conversations to try to make it work. Thor was in the ship, then was out of the ship going his separate way without a real conversation about him deciding to go a separate way. It's like that conversation took place off camera and they were already saying their goodbyes. It was just weird.

Anyone else think perhaps they are setting up Lady Siff (a good surprise by the way) to get a Wakanda arm? I guess she's going to be the female Bucky.

I agree a lot with the above post about the weak first half. The humor was forced and more often than not, fell flat. the second half was an improvement, but there were still things I didn't like. For one, it turned into another super villain and an endless army of monsters/robots/aliens, etc plot that's been done to death in the MCU. Also, the kid army was dumb and a deus ex machina. If Thor always had that ability, why didn't he use it before? All the Avengers with Thor powers sure would have been useful in the past. I would put this ahead of Thor 2, but I think I put it behind the first Thor. It's not bad, but somewhat forgettable.

I don't understand how you put in the god butcher and only have him kill one person on screen during the entire movie.

The kids fighting at the end was so weird.

i enjoyed the black and white sequence and a few other things. Another disappointing phase 4 project for me.

We are big Thor fans and love Ragnarok, one of the best movies and watch all the time. This was meh and just didn't work for us. There are some funny and good parts but overall it just didn't move the needle or move anything forward on our end.

I do think the beginning was very messy. Forceful on the Taika humor and all over the place. Once it settled in, we loved it.

I said it earlier, but the music to go with the fight scenes makes it for me

Agreed that the first half felt like Taika was under too much pressure to re-create Ragnarok and just overloaded it with goofy humor that didn't land well. The second half of the move was much better.

The tone of the movie was weird. It was like two different movies combined. Gorr was really creepy and dark, which was weird with the overall goofy and silly side of the rest of the movie.

Also, did Guns N Roses sponsor this movie? Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, November Rain and Sweet Child of Mine x2. They made an Axle Rose reference, and some kids in Asgard were wearing Guns N Roses shirts. Just kinda random

Christian Bale nailed it though, but agreed we should have seen him kill more of the gods. It was enjoyable and worth seeing but not one I would rush back to see again any time soon

And it was basically a Hemsworth family reunion. They packed in his wife, son, both daughters and brother lol

kerrag06 said:

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Great movie!! Saw it in Imax tonight. We've just become spoiled by the last 10 plus years of Marvel moviemaking and story intertwining. I just keep leaving the movies going "dangit, I thought stuff would start all tying together by now!". Very interested in the direction they are headed and I think deep down I'm satisfied by the fact I have zero clue where that might be! But it was a visually stunning movie and original plot. They are 100% taking their time with the story building just as they did from day 1 with Iron Man. Heck what was it? 8/9 movies before we had Avengers? Kudos to Marvel for not just rushing to another collaboration "Avengers" like movie that would make 100 billion dollars or what not. Meanwhile DC is putting out previews for what looks to be an abysmal Black Adam movie. And that's from someone who loves Rock movies!

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See, this is where everybody is remembering wrong. The first Avengers was only movie #6 in the MCU release order. And from the very first movie, Iron Man, the post credits scene hinted at something bigger, i.e. The Avengers forming.

So, yeah, they're not following the same "script" as Phase 1 with their world building. They're sloooow rolling it, more interested in getting people to tune into their Disney+ shows than the film world building.

I thought it was a pretty good movie. Didn't quite capture the magic of Ragnarok, didn't land as many jokes (ugh, the goats), and was slow at times, but the villain was great and I liked the notes it ended on.

Also.

I'm still working on deciding how I feel.

will type more tomorrow.

I was entertained the whole time, but there were so many times I thought lol this is so dumb.


I laughed out loud literally every time there was a goat. it was so stupid and so fun.

I think people should stop waiting for them to tie everything together for now. They seem content to do loose team ups as opposed to big endgame type fights. I actually don't mind that honestly.

Okay, so my biggest nitpick is that I don't believe Gorr would actually go make a wish from Eternity to kill all of the gods.

and I wish they kinda did more background with him learning stuff. Cause like, he goes from believing in one god and getting the sword to all the sudden understanding travel and dimensional stuff and where/who all the gods are etc.

But him going to Eternity to ask for a boon feels hypocritical. From his perspective, isn't Eternity just another god who will probably deny him his reward anyway? Doesn't seem like Gorr would trust him from what we learn in just the movie.

Does anyone else wish movies would stop casting Natalie? I'm consistently amazed that she's built the career she has with community college theater level acting.

I was expecting eternity to be another empty promise, another false god who doesn't care for its believers.

It's too bad someone couldn't have gone to Eternity to undo the Snap

Very mediocre marvel movie IMO. Tried to cram in way too many jokes. Bale was the best thing in the movie. They could have used more of him and less schtick. The Jane cancer plot was weak. Probably my biggest gripe of this one and the first two Thor films is that Hemsworth and Portman have zero chemistry together. They are both good looking people who don't really seem to be into the other. Hemsworth has more romantic chemistry with Pratt than Portman.

But hey, Roy Kent.