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smonster - Nov 06, 2017 10:59:19 am PST #1687 of 4006
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

No, it was when they were leaving on said ship and he was giving the speech about Asgard's foundations because it was so clearly telegraphed what was going to happen . And the the bit with Meek being dead was just gross .

IMHO, YWaititiMV.


Connie Neil - Nov 06, 2017 11:33:46 am PST #1688 of 4006
brillig

I agree. It was very disconcerting and cartoony.


billytea - Nov 06, 2017 11:51:14 am PST #1689 of 4006
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I enjoyed Goldblum's performance and the whole 80's video game/pro wrestler aesthetic of that world.

I swear Goldblum at one point had just gone to the director and said "So this scene, love it, just one thing: can you make sure that every time the camera comes back to me I'm doing something weirder. No, I'm open to suggestions, just - weirder."

I loved Korg, but agree about that foundations crack. (So to speak.) It was too obvious a joke, and I'm not sure Korg would've been in for the lofty inspirational speech in the first place.


Dana - Nov 06, 2017 12:05:57 pm PST #1690 of 4006
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Yeah, the bits I had problems with were those bits, where it was really obvious where the joke would land.

I thought the bit with his dead friend was hilarious, though.


Steph L. - Nov 06, 2017 12:17:45 pm PST #1691 of 4006
I look more rad than Lutheranism

One of my favorite moments is a little thing, but when the not-Revengers were fleeing in the Grandmaster's orgy spaceship and Valkyrie was already on top of the ship kicking ass and Thor decided to go out there, too. Because Valkyrie was doing just fine on her own and didn't actually NEED help, but I think Thor really just wanted to fuck some stuff up, too, so out he went. I am sticking with my headcanon on that one.


Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 06, 2017 1:24:26 pm PST #1692 of 4006
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I enjoyed that, but it was another instance that really underlined how much Thor's power and competence varied from scene to scene depending on whether the director wanted it to be dramatic or comedic. The Thor who can take down Surtur singlehandedly, wreck half a giant arena using the Hulk as a croquet ball, and knock spaceships out of the sky by leaping from one to the next is not the same Thor who can be dropped by an electrified net, restrained against his will like the various non-superpowered gladiator mooks, or terrorized by Stan Lee with bionic barber scissors.


Connie Neil - Nov 06, 2017 1:46:24 pm PST #1693 of 4006
brillig

I really liked "Are you the god of hammers?" Though being able to fly was very handy. I don't know if jumping far is the same thing.

The bit in the trailers where Hela says "What were you the god of again?" was diluted quite a bit with Thor reclaiming his powers in the arena. I think the trailers deflated a lot of cool bits.

In Dr. Strange, just before the car crash, Steven's finder-of-cool-cases (very Dr. House) was going over possibilities, and the first one was an Air Force Colonel with spinal damage from an accident with "some kind of experimental armor." Steven Strange turned down helping Rhodey! Which is just as well, I guess, because he wasn't going to be helping anybody.


Tom Scola - Nov 06, 2017 2:28:34 pm PST #1694 of 4006
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

If a film director is a comedian, they're acting in their own film, then there's nobody on set to let them know when they need to dial it back.


Steph L. - Nov 06, 2017 2:49:39 pm PST #1695 of 4006
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I think the trailers deflated a lot of cool bits.

Did Hela actually even say "Asgard is dead" in the movie? It was in the trailer, but I don't remember it in the movie.


Connie Neil - Nov 06, 2017 3:11:36 pm PST #1696 of 4006
brillig

Loki's double knife flip wasn't in there either. Maybe they didn't want to show him being a badass .