#thor: love and thunder movie review

[claypotz]

the movie came out awhile ago but I was thinking about it again and man I’m disappointed so many people hated on renfield it was such a fun movie

[solarisflims]

8/10

Was pretty good if you skip like 10(or 9) minutes of the beginning because that was a little too weird/disturbing for me,but its a super fun movie and I liked it alot I just had to skip past a few lgbtq moments & unnecessary inappropriate jokes in zeus scenes & the villain guy scaring the kids,but its not that bad overall. Also seeing Thor & Starlord interacting was so funny I loved it. Dont know why some people were saying it didnt seem finished/was all over the place/wasnt good. It seemed very finished & was just another good marvel movie end of story & I would watch it again for sure.

[the-haunted-star]

Quick take on

[legion1227]

Movies watched in 2022: Ranked!

128. Firestarter (2022) (1/5)

127. They/Them (1/5)

126. The Car: Road to Revenge (1/5)

125. Mulan 2 (1/5)

124. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) (1/5)

123. The Incredible Hulk (1.5/5)

122. Checkered Ninja (1.5/5)

121. Anger Management (1.5/5)

120. Dear Evan Hansen (1.5/5)

119. Fruit Basket: Prelude (1.5/5)

118. Heathers (2/5)

117. Remember Me (2/5)

116. Me Time (2/5)

115. Eyes Wide Shut (2/5)

114. Adam Project (2/5)

113. Hellraiser (2022) (2/5)

112. Don't Worry Darling (2/5)

111. Vacation (2/5)

110. Home Team (2/5)

109. Free Guy (2/5)

108. Fullmetal Alchemist: The Revenge of Scar (2/5)

107. Morbius (2/5)

106. Pinocchio (2022) (2/5)

105. Dynasty Warriors (2/5)

104. Black Adam (2.5/5)

103. Nomadland (2.5/5)

102. Crouching Tiger: Sword of Destiny (2.5/5)

101. Teacher of the Year (2.5/5)

100. Halloween Ends (2.5/5)

99. Clerks 2 (2.5/5)

98. Hocus Pocus 2 (2.5/5)

97. Old (2.5/5)

96. Dazed and Confused (2.5/5)

95. The Kings' Man (2.5/5)

94. The Butterfly Effect (2.5/5)

93. Beast (2.5/5)

92. Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons (3/5)

91. A Christmas Story: Christmas (3/5)

90. Disenchanted (3/5)

89. Green Street Hooligans (3/5)

88. Sing 2 (3/5)

87. Ticket to Paradise (3/5)

86. Willow (3/5)

85. War Dogs (3/5)

84. Enchanted (3/5)

83. Think Like A Man (3/5)

82. Frankenweenie (3/5)

81. Cinderella 2 (3/5)

80. West Side Story (2021) (3/5)

79. Shrek the Third (3/5)

78. Eternals (3/5)

77. Uncharted (3/5)

76. Bee Movie (3/5)

75. Zombieland: Double Tap (3/5)

74. This is Where I Leave You (3/5)

73. Paddington (3/5)

72. Hot Tub Time Machine (3/5)

71. The Cursed (3/5)

70. Liar Liar (3/5)

69. Inception (3/5)

68. Thor: Love and Thunder (3.5/5)

67. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (3.5/5)

66. Zombieland (3.5/5)

65. DC League of Superpets (3.5/5)

64. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (3.5/5)

63. Jackass 4.5 (3.5/5)

62. Chip N Dale: Rescue Rangers (3.5/5)

61. The Barbarian (3.5/5)

60. Turning Red (3.5/5)

59. Coda (3.5/5)

58. Jackass 2 (3.5/5)

57. Jackass The Movie (3.5/5)

56. One Piece: Strong World (3.5/5)

55. Rango (3.5/5)

54. Dumb and Dumber (3.5/5)

53. Airplane (3.5/5)

52. The Bad Guys (3.5/5)

51. How to Train Your Dragon (3.5/5)

50. The Batman (3.5/5)

49. Bruno (3.5/5)

48. Scream (2022) (3.5/5)

47. The Social Network (3.5/5)

46. Smile (3.5/5)

45. The Terminal (3.5/5)

44. Bullet Train (3.5/5)

43. Encanto (3.5/5)

42. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (3.5/5)

41. Austin Powers: Goldmember  (4/5)

40. Entergalactic  (4/5)

39. Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Plantasm  (4/5)

38. Regular Show: The Movie   (4/5)

37. Pearl   (4/5)

36. The Northman   (4/5)

35. The Tindler Swindler  (4/5)

34. One Piece: Film Z   (4/5)

33. White Men can't Jump   (4/5)

32. Dog   (4/5)

31. Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent   (4/5)

30. Jarhead   (4/5)

29. Lightyear   (4/5)

28. Palm Springs   (4/5)

27. Shutter Island   (4/5)

26. Dr. Strange: Multiverse of Madness   (4/5)

25. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch   (4/5)

24. Batman: The Long Halloween   (4/5)

23. Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio   (4/5)

22. Prey   (4/5)

21. Nope   (4/5)

20. Blindspotting  (4/5)

19. There Will Be Blood   (4/5)

18. La La Land   (4/5)

17. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story   (4/5)

16. True Romance   (4/5)

15. Cast Away   (4/5)

14. Shrek 2   (4/5)

13. Whiplash   (4/5)

12. Batman Begins   (4/5)

11. Glass Onion   (4/5)

10. American Psycho   (4/5)

9. Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero   (4/5)

8. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever   (4/5)

7. The Last Duel  (4.5/5)

6. Jujitsu Kaisen 0   (4.5/5)

5. City of God   (4.5/5)

4. Training Day   (4.5/5)

3. Everything, Everywhere, All At Once   (4.5/5)

2. I Like it Like That   (4.5/5)

Mitchells vs The Machines   (4.5/5)

[samasmith23]

My brief thoughts on Thor: Love & Thunder

So I saw Thor: Love & Thunder for the first time last night and it was just... meh?

I mean don't get me wrong, the acting from Natalie Portman & Christian Bale was pretty solid, but as a huge fan of the original Jason Aaron Thor run that the film is based on, I feel like their characterization could have been a lot stronger. I especially wasn't a fan of how Gorr's story concluded since him having a last minute heel-turn and allowing Thor Odinson to raise his resurrected dead daughter felt very at odds with Gorr's arc of being a self-defeating hypocrite like in the comics.

Plus, Jane's death felt rather vague and anti-climatic, like it lacked the grandiosity that her sacrifice did in the comics.

However, I think my biggest problem with the movie was the tone, as it was too over-stuffed with jokey-jokes which detracted from what should have been an incredibly serious and thematically rich narrative.

Despite my misgivings, there were quite a few positive elements to the movie. Like I said previously, the acting was very solid all-around. I also really loved how the film portrayed Gorr's shadow-powers with the Necrosword, and Jane's ability to turn the shards of Mjolnir into shrapnel bullets and immediately reconstruct them was incredibly badass! It was also incredibly satisfying to see Odinson kill Zeus with his own thunderbolt because when it comes to the gods of Greek mythology, Zeus is the absolute worst! Plus, that whole scene where Jane, Odinson, Valkyrie & Kong are trapped in Gorr's dimension and the film briefly goes all black-&-white was effectively chilling and creepy. And seeing Jane & Gorr on-screen together was pretty awesome since despite the two being mirror reflections of each other ideologically, the two never actually encountered each other in the comics!

But overall, Thor: Love & Thunder was sadly mediocre IMO, which is a bit of a disappointment since the original "God Butcher" and "Jane Foster, the Mighty Thor" storylines from the comics are incredibly compelling narratives which ask very interesting theological questions on a grand cosmic-fantasy scale.

I give the film 3 out of 5 stars...

[edenhasfeelings]

The Multiverse Saga (1/2)

I gonna need everyone who’s saying MCU Phase 4 was shit to shut the fuck up like actually. It was an experimental phase. It was an intro phase to a new saga. The only projects in my opinion that were actually pretty ass were Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and She-Hulk. If Phase 1 of the MCU were to come out now as it did back then, people would be saying the same thing. Phase 1 was an intro phase, mostly origin stories. “Phase 1 all pointed to Thanos!”  The Iron Man movies didn’t at all? and we didn’t see Thanos until the very end credit scene of The Avengers. “We didn’t even get to see the big bad in any of these!” Um, maybe if you’re blind or didn’t watch all of the projects like you’re acting like you did. Also, instead of their being a singular greater plot, there are several; Kang and the Multiverse, Intros and Origins, what I’m calling Interdimensionality and Space Stuff, Street Level/Classic Avengers heroes, and introducing Mutants and the X-Men. Let me explain (yes, this is my special interest, leave me alone).

Black Widow The amount of bitch fits I heard about this movie, mostly from cishet white men. This movie felt out of place in Phase 4 because it was supposed to be released earlier than it was. The entirety of Phase 4 was a lot more crammed together because of, well, idk, maybe the fucking GLOBAL PANDEMIC. But it stood on its own as a great movie and a great intro to Yelena. 

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings An origin story for a new hero, never mind the mind blowing graphics and digital effects, made this a great movie. And here we have a hint at a major plot point, mostly highlighted in the end credit scene with Wong, Bruce Banner, and Captain Marvel. The Ten Rings are the Infinity Stones of this saga. It also fits into the Multiverse/Interdimensional aspects of this Saga by introducing Ta Lo (unsure whether that’s space stuff, multiverse stuff, or both).

Eternals If Marvel kept consistently making movies in the same exact way with the same exact directors, people would be bitching about how nothing changes. But them adding a new director and film style sent everyone into an outcry about how out of place it is and shitty. I had a couple of problems with this movie, the main one being the awkward extended sex scene in a Marvel movie, but overall I thought it was a really cool and interesting way to introduce Black Knight and this new element of the Space MCU genre. Also, I loved Makkari and Druig  This movie also got a lot of hate because of Phastos having a husband and 2 second gay kiss scene that occurred. “They’re poisoning our children and forcing things down our throat!” some people cried in ignorance. So the awkward unnecessary straight sex scene was perfectly ok, but the 2 second gay kiss wasn’t? As other representation goes, the POC representation was phenomenal, as well as Makkari being deaf and using sign language.

Spider-Man: No Way Home This movie is self-explanatory. I don’t think anyone had a problem with this movie and if they did, then why. It literally fit right into the theme of the Multiverse Saga in the most mind-blowing, perfect way I didn’t actually expect them to attempt, was a wonderful closing to the MCU Spider-Man trilogy, and also gave a perfect explanation as to why we wouldn’t be seeing Spider-Man as much anymore (thanks Sony). Also a mild set up to Multiverse of Madness.

 Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness Ok, I will die mad about how shitty this movie was. I was severely disappointed. I’ve not seen this movie getting as much criticism as it deserves, but people will rail on all the other female directed movies. Sam Raimi was not the man for this movie. They peddled it as “the MCU’s first horror movie”, but The New Mutants did a better job of superhero horror than this did. The special effects were unusually shit (and ik that quality suffers because of how Marvel is run and their artists are treated), but it was unusually bad. The “horror” aspect was weak jump-scares and overused horror tropes (Wanda coming out of the mirror all bendy, for example). Speaking of Wanda, they absolutely butchered her character and story in my opinion. We don’t see her corruption at all, we just see the end credits scene of WandaVision and now all of a sudden she’s evil. The “Wanda turns evil to get her kids that never existed back” was so much more compelling and fucked up in the comics. Her killing herself at the end felt really gross in my opinion. “There is no way possible to get my kids back so let me just kill myself.” They crammed way too much plot in, and the emotional scenes fell flat. Despite their plot cramming, they didn’t deliver the “mind-bending multiverse” aspects that were promised. And while killing off Black Bolt and Reed Richards in 5 seconds was yes, a terrifying display of her abilities, it completely undermined the power of this crossover and the respective formidability and intelligence of these characters. The last scene of the movie was weird and made no sense, and the end credit scene felt out of place and thrown in there just to introduce Clea. It leaves audiences with no specific adventure or movie to look forward to, just that something is going to happen. The MCU timeline being dubbed as Dimension 616 pissed me off, because, hello, main comic time-stream is 616, the MCU has to be different. Also, one more thing, at the end of the first Doctor Strange, they made it seem like main timeline Karl Mordo was going to be the next villain, but instead we got this weird Multiverse version of him. On a more positive note, the whole Monica Rambeau as Captain Marvel, fancast John Krasinski playing Reed Richards, live action Captain Carter, and Professor Charles fucking Xavier was really, really cool. Professor Xavier’s presence was the first hint at the Mutant storyline, and the whole thing obviously prioritized the Multiverse Saga. It was also a great intro for America Chavez, and I loved that they didn’t at all try to erase the queerness of her character. 

Thor: Love and Thunder Phenomenal. A work of art. Taika Waititi hit it out of the ballpark once again with the same hilarious vibes as Thor: Ragnarok. This was very clearly a Space MCU  movie, as most all of Thor’s movies have been.  I especially loved the comic accuracy of Jane Foster’s Might Thor, and the ending her character deserved. Getting to see Heimdall in Valhalla was awesome. Gorr was a truly fearsome villain that we hadn’t seen in awhile, and he really made you feel for him, especially at the end. His character redemption made perfect sense. Love’s presence in the end was a little confusing to me, as she is a solely MCU character, but I am excited to see what they do with her character.  The representation hit home for me with Valkyrie being King, her blatant bisexuality, Korg’s comic accurate homosexuality, Heimdall’s son being seemingly transgender, and, something I noticed but didn’t see mentioned by anyone, was that Meik’s pronouns had changed from Ragnarok and Endgame.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever “They shouldn’t have given the Black Panther title to Shuri! They’re turning all the men into women to be woke!” Shut the fuck up please and thank you and pick up a goddamn comic book. Aside from No Way Home, this was the best fucking MCU Phase 4 movie, and is up there with the best MCU movies ever in my opinion. It was raw, and emotional, and gorgeously cinematic in every way possible. Surprisingly, we get a tie in to our Street Level/Classic Avengers characters by the presence of Valentina de Fontaine, who had only previously appeared in the The Falcon and The Winter Soldier and Hawkeye. This was also a set up for Mutants. Namor states that he is mutated and different from his people, hence why he is more powerful, has different physical quirks, is essentially immortal, and is treated like a god amongst them.

I will be going into more detail about the TV shows and specials later in another post.

[reviewsbycinemafreak]

My Thor: Love And Thunder (2022) movie review!

[hyena-woodie]

So, Thor: Love and Thunder, it was fine. Not the best Marvel movie (certainly not the cgi, Marvel please pay your vfx people!) but it wasn't as bad as people said.

Of course another phase 1 marvel woman had to die. Of course.

Valkyrie is gay, hell yeah. Korg has a husband, epic.

Zeus was a little underwhelming, like I know that was done for comedic perposses, but I love gods depicted as these huge celestial beings.

That little girl Thor adopted, cool I guess. And they are sure going to milk another thor movie out of this...

6.5/10

[thebunsquad]

It's time for us to recap all the Disney films of 2022, although considering how bad this year was, I prefer to call it more of a re-crap. This is the Top 14 Disney Films of 2022 (Part 1).

[drowzeeking]

So last week I saw Thor: Love and Thunder, and...

I think all these movies are owed apologies...

I never thought the MCU could make a superhero movie worse than Batman & Robin, and yet... here we are...

[average-guy-reviews]

The Subjective Nature of Movies.

Movies are, by and large, made by studios to make money. They do this by trying to make films that appeal to the largest number of people possible. It's a simple practice and, for the most part, it works. But it's never that simple...

Watching movies is one of the single most subjective things any people can do. Despite the studios trying to make movies for the masses, it's often difficult for those masses to agree on what they do and don't like.

I'm not going to go into the toxicity of specific fandoms, that's a whole other post, this is simply about how wildly varied people's views of the same films can be. My own personal experience of this is the 2022 MCU movie Thor: Love And Thunder. I read reviews, and I talked to people, who absolutely loved it. They thought it was witty, and brilliant, and up there with some of the top MCU films. I thought it was a nonsensical pile of mostly irredeemable farce, with very few positive moments. I ranked it lower than Thor: The Dark World, which says a lot.

That being said I still gave it a 5/10, which is not a really bad score. It probably could have been considerably worse, as films go. It's this kind of disparity, from fans of the same types of film, that has made me write this piece, but it's not this minor level of difference that's the star of this post.

I recently watched, and reviewed, The Whale starring Brendan Fraser and directed by Darren Aronofsky. This is a film I cannot say enough good things about it. I called it a cinematic masterpiece that was a perfect character driven movie. Now I am fully aware that not every person that watches it will see it, or be affected by it, the way I did or was, but some of the responses blew my mind.

I have attached a screenshot from Rotten Tomatoes below. Other than covering the usernames this is unedited. I haven't found two reviews to make my point and joined them together. Nope. These two reviews literally followed on from each other as I scrolled through the site. The massive disparity between these two reviews is the biggest I think I've ever seen, and it is staggering.

To paraphrase the the first: it says "incredibly moving and probably the best film I've (the reviewer) seen in ten years". I don't need to paraphrase the second, just check the image, as it says: "Cheesy and paper thin. Felt like a high school play written by a 14 year old."

Everybody is allowed an opinion, and I would never ever tell you your opinion on a piece of entertainment is wrong, but how is it so huge? I am squarely in the camp of review one, but this threw me. I always knew people saw films differently, that no two people are going to like the same films, or even the same bits within specific films, but I guess I'll never really understand how two people can see a film like The Whale, and see it so massively differently.......

Anyway, I don't have an answer to the question of why this occurs, but i would love to sit down and discuss it with these two people and see if I could work it out in this case......

Movies are subjective and people are contrary. This is the only conclusion I have, and sadly it's obvious and not revolutionary, but it's simply all I can come up with.....

[tailsrevane]

[movie review] thor: love and thunder (2022)

(cn: spoilers, horny)

i gotta say, i really don’t get the hate. this is like a tweak away from being pretty easily my favorite marvel movie ever. basically if mighty thor and valkyrie hadn’t been sidelined for the final battle it would have been.

this is exactly the kind of weird space shit and weird mythology shit i love from this franchise. the fights were fantastic. the penultimate fight where thor, mighty thor, and valkyrie are teaming up to fight gorr and his shadow minions was definitely better than the final fight, but oh well.

i’ve seen a lot on twitter about queerbaiting in relation to this movie, and like… yeah, okay, it’s not a super gay movie or anything, but there are explicitly gay characters in it? korg literally has two dads, and literally marries another guy at the end of the movie? valkyrie is explicitly primarily interested in other women? i’m going to be pretty upset if they don’t give her a girlfriend soon, and also if she doesn’t get a spinoff solo movie at some point that’s much gayer than this. i mean, not really upset because this is the mcu i expect literally nothing from them, but i’m just saying.

there is, uh, quite a lot of extremely good bondage in this. i just. yeah. i just felt i needed to mention that.

they kill zeus for being a big, dumb idiot. (yeah okay fine he ends up being not dead in the midcredits scene, whatever.) they fly around on a boat that’s pulled by giant goats. the goats yell. the goats are extremely good. i love the goats. and hey wait a second wasn’t i complaining during earlier movies that the bifrost was really boring when other versions have flying horses and flying boats and shit? well, wish granted!

i liked literally every part of this movie except the last fight, and even then there are things i liked about it? i mean, the fight itself was fine, i just didn’t like valkyrie being abruptly sidelined. and ultimately the conflict is literally solved by thor talking the bad guy into… not being a bad guy anymore. and he gets there through empathy, not browbeating. i’m sorry, but that’s way better than everyone having a big stupid fight while a giant blue beam shoots into the sky.

i don’t know. i’m being pretty uncritical here, but i just don’t know, guys. this was almost exactly what i wanted. it’s possible i’ll like it even more when i rewatch it and have time to digest it.

b-rank

[agentnico]

Top 10 Worst Movies of 2022

Merry Christmas Eve-Eve! The festive holiday is under way and seems only appropriate that during this time of positivity, thanksgiving and celebration I talk about all the crap that cinema had to offer this year. Look, I really do appreciate all the work and effort that filmmakers put into their projects, and it’s always admirable, however sometimes it’s hard to defend a pile of garbage. 2022 offered a lot of fun movies, but yep, just like any other year there were also a bunch of stinkers, and I am here to call them out. Of course this is sorely my opinion, so I do apologise if you actually like one of the poops on this list - that’s is your human right to do so. You enjoy that poop good sir or madam - I salute you! You just have to admit that its a pile of poop and we’ll call it even.  Anyway, without much further ado, we count down my top 10 most disliked films of 2022...

10) LIGHTYEAR - There’s a lack of, dare I say, buzz on this one. I’ll see myself out. But seriously, for a Toy Story spin-off what does this actually have to do with Toy Story? Aside of the plot holes, and original cast members Tim Allen and Tom Hanks publicly disapproving of this cinematic venture, Pixar has made a visually good looking animation, but with hardly any narrative heft. It’s highly unoriginal (still awaiting on creators of Interstellar to sue for copyright infringement) and pointless. A typical Disney cash grab. Full review: https://agentnico.tumblr.com/post/691647113819570176/lightyear-2022-review

9) THE LOST CITY - A wannabe Romancing the Stone, this is the rehash movie-making Hollywood is known for. Brad Pitt pops in, does some obviously choreographed fight sequences then leaves to allow Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock space to stand awkwardly talking surrounded by the obvious green-screened jungle trees. And it does the biggest sin a comedy can do - not be funny. Full review: https://agentnico.tumblr.com/post/686050953333522432/the-lost-city-2022-review

8) MORBIUS - The movie that was the cause for all those “It’s Morbin’ time!” memes and for that I will forever love and cherish the beauty of social media, however the film itself is morbidly bland and generic. Not even bad in a fun way. Just boring. Morbius-shmorbius. Full review: https://agentnico.tumblr.com/post/686132073448275968/morbius-2022-review

7) JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION - Oh how the mighty have fallen!... Well I say that, but in reality is this really a surprise? The Jurassic franchise has always suffered from having terrible sequels. Dominion proudly continues that trend, with eye-rolling bad dialogue, overloaded plot, the unnecessary return of the OG cast and overall makes you stare at the screen with the constant wonderment of “why Chris Pratt why??!”. Hey, at least the dino-dinos are cool. Full review: https://agentnico.tumblr.com/post/690858302008147968/jurassic-world-dominion-2022-review

6) VIOLENT NIGHT - Uh oh, a bit of a controversial one. I’m aware a lot of audiences enjoyed this one, however I am of the opposed opinion. This film has such wasted potential by having David Harbour play a run-down drunk Santa Claus who is done with everything, however he’s stuck in a movie that doesn’t know what to do with itself, other than aspire to be part-Home Alone part-Die Hard, only failing at both. So a great Harbour, but a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Christmas movie. Full review: https://agentnico.tumblr.com/post/702797589238743040/violent-night-2022-review

5) THE ADAM PROJECT - It took me five sittings to get through this film. Constant distractions and chores kept stopping me from finishing it. Did I choose to watch this movie on a very busy week? Yes. Should I have picked a better time? Yes. Does that change anything now? Not really. For The Adam Project is a forgettable science fiction (with a suspiciously many comparisons to the Terminator) that features Ryan Reynolds playing Ryan Reynolds only now its especially noticeable. Full review: https://agentnico.tumblr.com/post/679187085979238400/the-adam-project-2022-review

4) SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 - Evidently I am not the target audience for this, as at the screening I was in the kids seemed to be loving it, as I heard them gasp and laugh and you could definitely feel the excitement from them whenever Sonic did Soniccy things and Knuckles used his… knuckles. However in my humblest of opinions Sonic 2 is a load of randomness mixed in together in a nonsensical adventure that is filled with convenient coincidences, cheesy one-liners, an abundance of terrible pop culture references and a very annoying Ben Schwartz voicing the titular character. Full review: https://agentnico.tumblr.com/post/681597887855165440/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-2022-review

3) STRANGE WORLD -  My dear fiancée put it best: recent Disney animations are like when you get a book as a kid and you think “wow, this looks awesome, I cannot wait to read it!” and then you get home and 10 pages in you’re awkward smiling and regretting everything. Strange World should have been a fun Jules-Verne-inspired explorer adventure romp, however is instead a movie that ticks off all the Disney cliches and offers a very dull and uninspired world, instead of the promised strange world. Full review: https://agentnico.tumblr.com/post/704992106786242560/strange-world-2022-review

2) THE BUBBLE - The fact I still to this day haven’t written a full review on this one shows I have nothing to say about it. A COVID-themed comedy that is so desperate to force jokes that are so unfunny. An ensemble cast that all must have been blackmailed to make appearances. From director Judd Apatow who has previously made many comedy classics such as The 40-Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up and yet now has succumbed to this. There’s only one thing I can say about this: f*** The Bubble!

1) THOR: LOVE & THUNDER - It’s been evident that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been going downhill after Endgame, and its most prevalent in Thor: Love & Thunder. The movie comes off as a big fat joke. It’s a self parody of itself, essentially opting to act as a 2 hour long stand-up show, only that the comedian didn’t bring any decent material to the stage. Speaking of the comedian - Taika Waititi. What happened to the chap? He used to be a wonderful indie director and now you can see the fame (and banging Rita Ora) must have gotten to his head. He thinks he can do no wrong. He needs to get back to his roots. As for Thor and the entire Marvel universe, it needs an urgent shake up. Thor: Love & Thunder should have been so much more, and as such it’s the biggest film disappointment of 2022 for me. Full review: https://agentnico.tumblr.com/post/689235941036113921/thor-love-and-thunder-2022-review

[ghostlightreviews]

If Ragnarok was a breath of fresh, fun, and colourful air into the mouth of a grey and boring franchise of films, then Love & Thunder is a shell-shocked medic relentlessly compressing the chest of the corpse of the previous film until their hands eventually give through the rib cage, seeing this they wipe their brow, and pronounce the time of their death 7 hours later at dinner with their young family, making their children cry.

An utterly bizarre movie. Just top to tail weird vibes emanating from every crevice. An absolute nothing film, where things are constantly happening but nothing ever happens. Like subbing in a middle school classroom on a Friday afternoon.

Full review here:

2/4

[legion1227]

Thor: Love and Thunder Review

A superhero movie dropped this past weekend about a protagonist with godlike powers. I don't plan on viewing it until it reaches digital or a streaming service. So let's talk about the other superhero movie with a protagonist with godlike powers that dropped earlier this year: "Thor: Love and Thunder"!

"Thor: Love and Thunder" is the 29th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The MCU has been running for about fourteen years now, and it doesn't seem like slowing down any time soon. Along with the nine Marvel shows on Disney+, I understand how some people are experiencing Marvel fatigue. Personally, I'm not. I've enjoyed most of the projects they put out, some more than others. "Thor: Love and Thunder" is a movie I liked, but I understand how some are not fans of it.

"Love and Thunder" follows Thor on a quest for inner peace. While trying to find himself, his journey gets interrupted by Gorr, the God Butcher, who's wandering around and murdering gods. With the help of King Valkyrie, Korg, and his ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, they look to combat the threat of Gorr. It was nice to see Korg, Valkyrie, and Thor again since Avengers: Endgame. Korg and Valkyrie were some of the best parts in the last Thor movie, Ragnarok, and while their roles were smaller in Endgame, they were still enjoyable. Meanwhile, Thor's been coming off the heels of a fascinating character arc that started with Ragnarok. The directions Thor could go were seemingly limitless at the end of Endgame. And the return of Jane Foster after not seeing her on-screen since "Thor: The Dark World" provided intrigue. Almost a decade since Natalie Portman starred in a Marvel movie. She finally made a grand return.

And for the most part, I liked Jane in this film. One of my favorite scenes in the movie has to be when Korg narrates Thor and Jane's relationship, showing how close they were before drifting apart and eventually breaking up. I thought the execution was well done, from showing the gradual separation to Korg's endearing narration. She had some corny dialogue, like telling Gorr to "Eat my hammer" in the climactic fight, but I don't believe that completely derailed her character, though corniness seems prevalent throughout the movie. Comedy can be subjective, of course. Some will find "Love and Thunder" hilarious, but I feel it falls flat in that aspect. In the beginning, Thor saves an alien race, and in return, they gift him two goats that are always screaming. Screaming goats were uproariously funny to me ten years ago when mixed with songs like Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble," but not as much these days. The jealousy Thor's Stormbreaker feels over Thor fawning over Mjolnir or Jane doesn't do much for me, either.

But to focus on a positive, Christian Bale's performance as Gorr is an entertaining romp! The opening scene is an emotional and exciting start. Bale is excellent in the shadow realm as well. In general, everything that happens in the shadow realm is a plus. Thor, Valkyrie, and Jane infiltrate the world before engaging the antagonist in a duel head-on in black and white, contrasting all the pretty colors that pop out in the numerous scenes that came out beforehand, providing the best setpiece in the film. What the movie lacks in comedy, it does make up for in engaging fight scenes. The climax is another exercise in corniness, what with the children joining the fight, but it's a cute watch nonetheless. By the end of the film, Thor is in an intriguing place, just like he was in "Endgame," and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with Thor in the future.

It's better than the first two Thor movies, but I definitely wouldn't put it above "Ragnarok." They knocked it out of the park with "Ragnarok," and maybe we put expectations too high for "Love and Thunder" to be just as good, if not better. It's not. But it's still pretty good. 3.5/5

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Thor: Love and Thunder | 2022 | 1h58m | PG-13

This Taika Waititi action/comedy romcom literally rocks, with excellent music, hilarious moments, screaming goats and one of the best villains in the MCU with a great motive, played by Christian Bale. It gets a bit silly sometimes, but the type of comedy for Thor movies was already set it previous movies, so there's nothing to complain there. Bringing back Natalie Portman, was a good move and I would like to see more of her in Marvel movies.

Directed by: Taika Waititi

Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson, Russell Crowe

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy