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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

That was the other one! I was waiting for that one the whole damn movie.

There wasn't even a location that matched that scene.

Maybe there'll be a director's cut with those scenes in.