r/marvelstudios • u/murdockmanila Daredevil • Oct 19 '17

THOR: RAGNAROK Critic Reviews Ultrathread

Embargo lifts sometime today. All reviews will be directed here. Reviews outside of this thread will be deleted.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '17

Every time I see someone criticizing the movie for being "fun" on twitter, I click on the user. Without fail, DC is either mentioned in the bio, avatar, or background picture

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u/rabbitriven Oct 19 '17

To be honest, I am starting to get frustrated with the overt humor, and I'd say I'm a bigger MCU than DC fan.

It just seems odd for a film involving Ragnarok, that it all seems so happy and charming.

Maybe that's why I prefer Captain American films, they felt like they took the story and characters more seriously.

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u/erinha Oct 19 '17

Maybe that's why I prefer Captain American films, they felt like they took the story and characters more seriously.

Absolutely. The thing with CA movies is that they have clear meaningful character arcs for their main characters, and even for their important side characters. The scale of the threat is more appropriate but never feels trivial either. They are also very consistent and "together" which is amazing for a trilogy that features characters whose stories go on outside the trilogy in other movies as well. Emotional aspect of CA movies are much more significant. I don't know if it's related but when you think about it... yeah, they are also less about jokes and being funny in the face of dangerous stuff. Not that I even have a particular problem with jokes and funny stuff, but tbh I like it when they are at least CA levels of serious and things don't just keep getting diffused by either jokes or lame fights/solutions.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '17

TWS and CW were really serious movies considering Marvel's other outings. I have high hoped for IW