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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
And in the next scene (well not THE next, but you get the point) there is the drunken actor who can't stay focused while being interrogated because there is a soccer game in the background.
And other things. It was just too inconsistent. They should gone for whacky or serious, but not a mixture, not with themes like that.
Edited by Forenperser on May 31st 2020 at 10:33:28 AM
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianI think Tony’s actions in movies after 3 can be read in the light of that ptsd characterization
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThey don’t call it out by name after 3 but it drives a lot of what Tony does
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAnd all because he flew a nuke through a wormhole.
Whoops.
Wanda got inside the wrong person's head.
One Strip! One Strip!Tony's character arc in the MCU is mostly driven by the events of The Avengers, Iron Man 3 introduces that direction but is more of a coda to his redemption arc started in the first Iron Man (it's hard to feel guilty for arms dealing when you successfully turn that technology into fending off an alien invasion).
The tonal issues of the MCU is what always holds me back from unilateral praise. Ragnarok shows the massacre of the Asgardian army and several recurring characters, and cuts it together like it was a music video. That makes it "fun" to watch, but I kind of want to feel the impact of the loss of life.
These tonal shifts may be why I actually like the MCU movies. Having funny moments in a dark story (or serious moments in an overall funny story) is a good way to balance things and avoid for instance ending up with a bleak and hopeless story.
Although Ragnarok's did kill a lot of people too quickly. I'm still bummed out about Thor's friends.
Edited by C105 on May 31st 2020 at 11:10:20 AM
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.> Ragnarok shows the massacre of the Asgardian army and several recurring characters, and cuts it together like it was a music video. That makes it "fun" to watch, but I kind of want to feel the impact of the loss of life.
I think to fully explore the impact of Helena's invasion across the nine realms you'd need at least a Lord of the rings styled trilogy,or a TV show following a plucky band of survivors..
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverRagnarok is probably the most disonant in tone, is one part buddy cop movie between thor, valkire and hulk while also being a movie about colonialism.
Is also funny thing is the marvel movie with the biggest changes outside of a avenger movie.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"Maybe I'm taking it too seriously, but that attitude is not helpful. That's what gives birth to some of the more annoying memes that screw over characters because fans just spout said memes at any attempt to actually do anything with the character, which results in creators just getting rid of them instead of fixing them.
One Strip! One Strip!I always remember Volstagg, but that's because I have this reputation of being a big eater myself.
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.At least Hogun got a decent final stand.
I'm still hoping Sif will return at some point in the future. The last we saw of her was in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., so who knows where she's been since then.
This is baby galaxy brain but Thor 2 should have reversed Thor 1 a little by dropping Jane into Asgard and have her be the fish out of water.
Which does happen a little but the way plot happens doesn't really let them lean into it.
I'd suggest having Jane make her Einstein Rosen bridge and accidentally strand herself somewhere in the 8 realms
Edited by Bocaj on May 31st 2020 at 6:43:19 AM
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Volstagg, Fandral, and Hogun, respectively, are the guys. Lady Sif was the girl, and the only one of the four who had any importance to the MCU beyond the first half of the first Thor film.
This was brought up when discussing Stuffed into the Fridge and Sacrificial Lamb and Sacrificial Lion: they can't be an important character death if they never mattered in the first place. In The Dark World, one of the guys was recast, and I think the other two were written out? Sif, at least, was portrayed as being a more compatible and interesting love interest for Thor, who clearly cared about him both as a friend and in possible romantic love.
The guys all died in Ragnarok, but they were never important, and were just being written off. Sif only didn't appear in Ragnarok (and thus the subsequent Avengers films) because she had a scheduling conflict for filming, but she was wanted in some capacity, at least. She also appeared in at least one episode of Agents of Shield set shortly after The Dark World.
By the time of Infinity War, Thor has long since begun to consider Heimdall his best friend
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Though now that I'm rewatching a(n edited for copyright) video of their death scenes
, Hogun at the very least actually mattered, at least in that he got to be the character to get The Worf Effect, contrast Hela's stated position as leader of Asgard's troops as their actual leader against her, and be Defiant to the End.
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@Ultimatum: Thor fought the Destroyer "robot" armor. Sif and the Warriors 3 got wrecked by it until Thor got his powers back. But Sif was also the one who convinced the other three to even go to try to rescue Thor.
Oh, now that I'm reading Fandral's MCU wiki page
, I guess he did more than I thought. Man, if that movie was so unmemorable I forgot literally everything that happened on Asgard aside from Frigga dying and the Cap cameo, maybe that was the worst of the MCU films. At least I remember most of what happened in Hulk, Avengers 1, Avengers 2, and Iron Man 3.
Edited by wanderlustwarrior on May 31st 2020 at 5:58:07 AM

They had the Hiroshima-esque burnt shadow corpses of the explosion victims, which I'd rank up as one of the darkest moments in an MCU film yet.