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Jon Watts did things right. Made 3 good marvel movies to get the money and credit, leaves to work on his passion project “The Old Man.”, his passion project gets hugely Positive critical and fan reviews.
 
Calzaghe said:
Jon Watts did things right. Made 3 good marvel movies to get the money and credit, leaves to work on his passion project “The Old Man.”, his passion project gets hugely Positive critical and fan reviews.
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I'm sure people would fight you on that second movie, but I liked it a lot.
 
Calzaghe said:
Jon Watts did things right. Made 3 good marvel movies to get the money and credit, leaves to work on his passion project “The Old Man.”, his passion project gets hugely Positive critical and fan reviews.
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Homecoming was a bit mid, but the Far From Home was really fun to me. No Way Homo was great to me.

Basically, John Watts made his semi-kinos & fucked off as soon as he can before people somewhat got the enlightenment that MCU is kinda shit.
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The one with mysterio? I had waited so long for mysterio that I was worried they would screw it up, but loved it.
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One thing I love about FFM is that it's the one time no-one can call out MCU for overuse of CGI, the villain is literally a VFX expert gone full lolcow.
 
When Phase 1 was happening, I never would have guessed that Thor would be the one to make it to four standalone entries, but here we are.

Not that Thor 1 was bad, but compared to Cap and Iron Man, he was on the lower tier.
 
Not a fan of any of the MCU Spider-Man movies. To me, they fail to capture what's great about the character, and Watts' directing is really pedestrian.
 
RumblyTumbly said:
When Phase 1 was happening, I never would have guessed that Thor would be the one to make it to four standalone entries, but here we are.

Not that Thor 1 was bad, but compared to Cap and Iron Man, he was on the lower tier.
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Thor also had the most diverse films. The first one was pretty light-hearted with grandiose sets, second had darker aesthetic and I wouldn't surprised it was one of the main reasons MCU became way too generic in response. Third was very silly. And fourth looks like more of an 80's thing.
 
Saw Thor: Love & Thunder today, it was better than Dr Strange in the sense of it didn't feel as all over the place, and the villain at least had a better reason for going on a murder spree, although it is funny to think about how similar they are in a sense, just with different outcomes: Wanda loses her kids and instead of making them again, or finding ones without a parent, decides to kill many and have a tantrum about being the 'bad guy', whereas Gorr also loses his child, but instead of harming complete innocents, he targets those who, tbh, have it coming for being absolute assholes.
The soundtrack and humor was good (although for certain scenes, the jokes were out of place, but that's typical Marvel now) and the weird twist at the end which explains the movies title was unexpected, for me anyway: 'Love & Thunder' refers to Thor (Thunder) and the unnamed girl he looks after (Love), who is Gorr's daughter that he wishes back to life at the end of the movie. She goes on battles with Thor and uses Stormbreaker, while he goes back to using his hammer.
Not the best movie I have seen, but one of the better marvel ones that wasn't a Spiderman entry. Probably one of the last ones I will see though, until Guardians 3 comes out, then I will be done with Marvel stuff (I still fear what they will do to Blade, the OG movies were some of my favorites as a kid).
 
Lensherr said:
Not a fan of any of the MCU Spider-Man movies. To me, they fail to capture what's great about the character, and Watts' directing is really pedestrian.
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Not a fault of his movies directly but I find it weird you had people arguing MCU Spider-Man was the most modern when Watts is pretty open about his trilogy being inspired by 80s John Hughs flicks which ironically makes it the most dated of all of them. Not to mention the previous two Spider-Men are still recent enough to be "Spider-Man the zoomers grew up with". As one myself, most of them gravitate towards Raimi and the Watts fans tend to either be MCU-only fans or older guys who think they're still young.

Kinda reminds me of the silliness of people who claimed sequel trilogy Star Was was "for a new generation" and ignore the prequel/clone wars stuff still had legs and was recent. It could only possibly apply to toddlers.
 
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Thor shit.

They’re pulling a Mandalorian at the end. Christian Bale dies, doesn’t do anything. Jane dies of cancer. Bale wishes his daughter back to life so Thor, Thor adopts her to groom her like Genji. The humor is the same as Ragnorok, but stagnates because everyone already saw it.

If you like this shit I have some jingly keys that will change your life. PM me if you want them.
 
Milwaukee Macho Man said:
So it was all just to make Thor a dad?

Who does Valkyrie end up scissoring? Wasn't that supposed to be a thing in this movie?
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Don't actually expect gay shit in the MCU besides them claiming so in interviews. The best you get is them making their version of Phastos gay in the Eternals but not much more than that. The rare chance they do use one or create one, it's just a trivia point for wikis.

Edit: To answer your question, no one but if you want more detail then apparently they establish that Ragnarok traumatized her enough that romance isn't something on her mind currently
 
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Thor really fucking feels like the Marvel: 25 or whatever. 20 years ago, 'Thor 4' would be something you'd see on the shelf at blockbuster and be surprised the studio was still making them. I think James Bond is the only major franchise I know that made it roughly this far, and even whatever studio makes those movies knows the series gets tired and has to go away for a decade every now and then.

Every second scene in the new Thor movie is bringing up some new plot point or character element or video game quest that's at best, loosely tied to something already established, and every other scene is reminding the audience why the characters have to go do that quest they were given five scenes ago. Every tenth scene is some video game cutscene action fight, with the same video game logic that the only way you'll see the rest of the story is succeeding in the Quick Time Events that make up the action. And then, also every tenth scene, but (offset +/-1 w.r.t the action scenes) is a 2-character intimate dialogue scene.

My favourite character was the black guy who puts the sports, cricket, casino, poker, and slots into the blender and then cash explodes out. He's been the highlight of the last few MCU films and I'm excited to see what they do next with this character.
 
Kramer on the phone said:
but it seems more like its going to barely hit if Word of mouth fucks it.
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It will be fine. every normie Ive mentioned it getting bad reviews has been like "When critics say something is bad that means it's good!"

Disney got they claws in deep with enough peoples.

To answer your question, no one but if you want more detail then apparently they establish that Ragnarok traumatized her enough that romance isn't something on her mind currently
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lmfao wasnt that the fucking plot they first announced along with lady thor? jesus christ it was all just to get helmsworth to stick to his pricepoint wasnt it?
 
xXx: State of the Union said:
lmfao wasnt that the fucking plot they first announced along with lady thor? jesus christ it was all just to get helmsworth to stick to his pricepoint wasnt it?
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To be fair, it's just her actress and news sites that pushed "Valkyrie's getting a female love interest next time". Nobody actually in charge of Marvel Studios ever said anything about it iirc. There's been a handful of cases like that in Phase 4 where fans ended up writing up storylines in their heads with some winks by actors and getting disappointed when it's not actually in the movies or shows.
 
RockVolnutt said:
Edit: To answer your question, no one but if you want more detail then apparently they establish that Ragnarok traumatized her enough that romance isn't something on her mind currently
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traumatised enough that in the town shes king of theres a icecream shop themed around the dude who ran around and personally murdered half of the entire population?
 
Gede labah said:
My favourite character was the black guy who puts the sports, cricket, casino, poker, and slots into the blender and then cash explodes out. He's been the highlight of the last few MCU films and I'm excited to see what they do next with this character.
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They've been foreshadowing that black guy for some time now. Very reminiscent of what happened with Thanos. I suppose his power is transforming abstract concepts into physical matter, though it is somewhat perplexing that they keep using the same exact scene. What could be the meaning of that?
 
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