Thor!

[selenay]

OMG, that was such a fun movie! Thor: Ragnarok promised to be ridiculous and silly and over the top, and it totally delivered. It was exactly what I wanted.

I don't even mind that Loki got slightly redeemed during the course of the movie. It made weird sense for his character.

I <3 Valkyrie. Make sure she gets an awesome girlfriend in the next movie, okay?

I adored Jeff Goldblum's over the top character. Loved the Bruce story. I lost count of all the times I laughed out loud. I may need to see it again because there were lines I didn't catch due to the laughter. The rock creature was just priceless, and stole every scene he was in.

It was nothing like previous Thors and I didn't think I was going to like the lack of epic orchestral sound-track. but I actually liked what they did here. The epic orchestral sound-track would have worked, but it would have changed the tone of the movie into something much darker, which wouldn't have worked with all the lovely quirky humour. Who knew Chris Hemsworth was that good at comedy?

It was weird and unconventional and exactly what I needed. Yay!

Comments

[aerianya]

Same here. The first time I laughed out loud I think I was the only one. Everyone else caught up pretty quickly though.
So absolutely over the top and awesome!
...and I just realized I don't have a single Marvel icon.

[selenay]

I'm glad everyone else caught up! It was perfect in its over-the-top-ness :-)

[nrgburst]

Ahhhh I just got back from the theater and it was sooo great! Loved what a fun ride it was and Valkyrie and Hela were fantastic! I want to go again!

[selenay]

Me to! I adored Valkyrie and Hela! They were wonderful!

I kind of want to see Hela in another movie, even though she's evil and I know I shouldn't want that :-) I shall be very very angry if we don't get more Val because she's fantastic. Pretty sure I don't have to worry about that, though :-D

[monanotlisa]

Hey, ever since Ghostbusters we knew This Chris was best at comedy. :)

But yeah, wild ride. The archetype of Hela was problematic on all levels, but God, Cate Blanchett was so incandescent.

[selenay]

Heh, this Chris did get a bit of a comedy masterclass while he was filming Ghostbusters :-)

I ended up not caring about the problematic Hela archetypes because Blanchett sold it so well and there were so many other great things about the film. Which says a lot about how great the film was!

[monanotlisa]

this Chris did get a bit of a comedy masterclass while he was filming Ghostbusters

Such a good point! He was surrounded by excellent comedians of various stripes; he must have taken at least mental notes.

I do love this THOR movie despite the problematic archetypes, but on a meta level it does it make me sad. Within its universe, the film was so great -- and, I feel, true to the other THORs as well. Outside its universe, my hindbrain asks, "Would it have been so incredibly hard to actually have one -- one -- scene of two women with names talking to each other?" I mean, we didn't even get to the second prong of the Bechdel Test ("about something other than a man").

None of which keeps me from devouring Valkyrie fic on the AO3, mind, and thinking Taika Waitit a comedic genius...who merely needs more women on his team to keep him on course.