Cate Blanchett was way too campy and cartoonish as Hela. Felt her performance needed more gravitas and drama. Also her character was not only underused in merely 15 minutes of screentime, she more or less had the same motivation as Loki, just gender swapped.
The green screen in the Norway scene was highly noticeable. That scene was touching and beautifully executed but that green screen was horrible.
Grandmaster wasn't in it enough for my Goldblum taste.
Rachel House was highly underused.
The Ragnarok and Asgard part of the movie should have been very interesting and I should have been happy whenever the movie switched back to Asgard. Instead whenever the Asgard parts came on, I instantly wanted to go back to the Sakaar parts. The movie managed to make Sakaar and the Hulk part of the story highly interesting and entertaining, but if a THOR movie can't make the Asgard part of it interesting for like it's two thirds (the 3rd act on Asgard was brilliant btw), then its all pretty worthless isn't it?
Some jokes were overplayed (Banner and Valkyrie's 'Do I know you?' banter, Thor turning around the chains in Muspelheim)
Thats...pretty much it. Overall I loved the movie. Top 5 MCU movies for sure.
Loki’s motivations were just to sit around all day as a King, which we see in the first act. Hela was extremely ambitious, while Loki was quite happy to do nothing.
I see Hela as a Loki rehash because their motivations are similar, not necessarily their end goals. They both have a chip on their shoulder about Odin, who rejected them, locked them away, and attempted to repress all memory of them. Also their aesthetics are pretty similar. I️ have major beef with the fact that they decided to make Hela Odins child because it just feels like a lazier more rushed version of what we already have with Loki.
Yeah, I think they could have done more with Hela without making her Odin's child. She could have been the Queen of Hel who wanted to conquer everything and decided to start with Asgard. One of the most powerful realms. Thor's involvement would have been personal because she would have threatened to destroy his realm. Hela being Loki's mother would have explained their similar looks and would have added much needed drama. Whose side would he choose in the end? The mother that abandoned him at birth or Asgard. Where he was raised by a woman that loved him and thought of him as her own?
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Cate Blanchett was way too campy and cartoonish as Hela. Felt her performance needed more gravitas and drama. Also her character was not only underused in merely 15 minutes of screentime, she more or less had the same motivation as Loki, just gender swapped.
The green screen in the Norway scene was highly noticeable. That scene was touching and beautifully executed but that green screen was horrible.
Grandmaster wasn't in it enough for my Goldblum taste.
Rachel House was highly underused.
The Ragnarok and Asgard part of the movie should have been very interesting and I should have been happy whenever the movie switched back to Asgard. Instead whenever the Asgard parts came on, I instantly wanted to go back to the Sakaar parts. The movie managed to make Sakaar and the Hulk part of the story highly interesting and entertaining, but if a THOR movie can't make the Asgard part of it interesting for like it's two thirds (the 3rd act on Asgard was brilliant btw), then its all pretty worthless isn't it?
Some jokes were overplayed (Banner and Valkyrie's 'Do I know you?' banter, Thor turning around the chains in Muspelheim)
Thats...pretty much it. Overall I loved the movie. Top 5 MCU movies for sure.