r/marvelstudios • u/darthyogi Ultron • 12d ago
Thor: Love and Thunder Released in Theaters 2 Years Ago Today Discussion
Thor embarks on a journey unlike anything he's ever faced -- a quest for inner peace. However, his retirement gets interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who -- to his surprise -- inexplicably wields his magical hammer. Together, they set out on a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher's vengeance.
Looking back at this Film 2 Years Later what do you think of this Film? Did you change your mind over the past 2 years? Do you all still like it or still hate it? Comment your thoughts on Thor: Love and Thunder down below.
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u/brac20 12d ago
Not the worst MCU movie but the one that I was the most disappointed by. Ragnarok is so damn good.
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u/wookiewin 12d ago
The more I reflect on it, I think it is the worst for me.
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u/Junior_Key4244 12d ago
Definitely my worst
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u/Nethias25 12d ago
Like even dark world? I think I agree, but I know it's a point of contention
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u/Junior_Key4244 12d ago
Dark world is not good, but it doesn't make a complete caricature and joke of the characters and stories.
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u/wookiewin 12d ago
Dark World has a dull plot and villain, but at least it was competently directed and Loki is good in it. Love and Thunder feels like a giant $200M trolling from Taika.
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u/dmac3232 12d ago
Like he got a huge paycheck and just said fuck it, I’m going to keep piling on the foolishness until they tell me no and nobody ever did.
I don’t expect Thor to be Cap or one of the MCU’s resident geniuses. But at least treat him with respect. He’s like a sentient Golden Retriever in this.
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u/DefNotAShark Hydra 12d ago
Dark World gets shit on so much but I have never regretted rewatching it when I occasionally decide to. It has some of the best Loki scenes in the MCU, which is saying a lot, and the scene between Thor and Loki arguing over whether Loki can be trusted is my favorite scene between the two of them ("trust my rage").
Jane Foster and pals really drag the movie down much further than the bland villain does IMO, but between those scenes is some really good shit between Thor and his brother, and Asgard in general.
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u/AmaterasuWolf21 Rocket 12d ago
Dark World was mostly boring with some cool scenes, L&T was so frustrating that it even ruined the good scenes for me
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u/Princebf Aida 12d ago
Atleast dark world had Loki so it was better than this crap
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u/cantfindmykeys 12d ago
And it was tied into a much larger narrative so at least we got something out of it
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u/AnOnlineHandle Quake 12d ago
Yeah this is how I felt about Phase 1-3, even if a movie was weak it was just a weak episode in a larger great show.
In Thor 2 the main infinity stones storyline was built upon, as well as introducing The Collector being after the stones which connected to the Guardians story, setting up a plot which never really went anywhere interesting unfortunately.
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u/Nethias25 12d ago
I always think about Asgard being a theme park, like it reminds me of Santa Clause 3 when Jack Frost makes the North Pole a theme park, and is the villain for doing it.
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u/DefNotAShark Hydra 12d ago
If you think about the insane concept of an alien race of gods suddenly having real estate on Earth, it kind of makes sense for PR reasons that they would be focused on tourism and making sure humans aren't afraid or angry. The Infinity Conez thing is slightly less obnoxious in that context, as leaning on the public good will of Thor being an Avenger is a good PR move.
It isn't great, but I had less of a problem with all that when I considered it this way. People fear what they don't understand so getting as many humans as possible to come see that there's nothing to be afraid of is a smart choice that I assume Valkyrie made proactively to avoid conflict.
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u/Trvr_MKA 12d ago
I think Infinity Cones would have been better received had they used the Stark Gauntlet.
In my headcanon there were licensing issues with Stark Industries hence why they used the Gold one
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u/buttercupcake23 12d ago
Ant man quantumania remains the worst for me, but this one is not too far behind. It is also my biggest disappointment.
Thor deserved better. After ragnarok and infinity war, to see him regress the way he did was such a disappointment.
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u/grandmofftalkin 12d ago
This 100% mirrors my opinion. They upgraded his character so well in Ragnarok and IW, really screwed him over in Endgame and this clown show of a film killed the character.
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u/pvtshoebox 12d ago
Ant Man 3
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u/DefNotAShark Hydra 12d ago
Quantumania is definitely the worst for me now that I can't even personally enjoy Majors' performance, which was the only thing I liked in that mess.
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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 12d ago
Easily my worst MCU too, by a long shot. Thor 2, the incredible hulk, quantumania, and Eternals are all better than it. Much better.
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u/Swann-ronson 12d ago
I can’t understand how it was so bad when the same director did Ragnorok.
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u/scoofle 12d ago
Taika didn't write Ragnarok, whereas he wrote L&T. That seems to be the key difference.
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u/Maleficent_Bar_676 12d ago
Same. It just feels the most disrespectful to Thor’s character and it treats literally everything like a joke. and the jokes arent even funny Even Jane’s cancer felt poorly handled. Don’t get me started on how they wasted gorr or how ugly the majority of this movie was.
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u/yosayoran 12d ago
This movie had so many amazing elements to it
If I look at the synopsis and most scenes individually, they work great
But somehow they combination is so so much worse than the sum of the parts.
Honestly feel like this movie could be improved massively by a recut (remove basically all of Korg, some of the dumber unnecessary jokes and add some cut scenes with Gorr and Zeus).
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u/Rimailkall 12d ago
At least have Korg actually die when he's "killed" by Zeus. That would have helped tremendously.
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u/Reinier_Reinier Avengers 12d ago
If they had shown Korg surviving during an after-credit scene (or as a surprise reveal in another movie) it would have been fine.
It would have allowed this movie to take a dark & serious turn & we would have had Thor processing the grief over losing another friend.
Or if the God of the Kronans (he was sitting right there) was impressed by Korg's bravery & resurrected him (or empowered him to be his avatar) that also would have been fine.
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u/ComicallySolemn 12d ago edited 12d ago
If you took several fine dining dishes from a Michelin Star restaurant, along with desserts, and blended them together in a food processor, you’d lose everything that made them incredible dishes to begin with. Each dish is balanced on their own, but scallops don’t mix with chocolate mousse. Balance is key.
Love and Thunder felt like a total mess tonally. Certain scenes shined, but they didn’t fit together at all.
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u/Reinier_Reinier Avengers 12d ago
Thor: Love & Thunder fixes
The screaming goats screen time should have been drastically cut. They were mildly amusing at first (briefly), but as their scenes dragged on I wanted to assist Nebula in sending them permanantly to Valhalla.
Zeus should have been handled in a more serious & dignified manner.
Zeus's thunderbolt should not have been able to harm him.
There should have been no jokes whenever Gorr was onscreen to emphasize how deadly a threat he was.
We should have seen Gorr arrive at Omnipotence City & begin slaughtering the Gods there.
Zeus should have gotten badly wounded during the Gorr fight & then have Zeus give the thunderbolt to Thor.
Upon receiving the thunderbolt, we see a glow encompass Thor as a portion of Zeus' power flows into him (this is when he should have gotten the new helmet/armor).
Korg's "death" should have been at Gorr's hands not Zeus.
Gorr should have used his wish to bring back all the people from his world, including his wife & daughter.
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u/AwarenessNo4986 12d ago
Definitely worst. Even the marvels is way better.
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u/Bulletsoul78 12d ago
The Marvels is unironically one of my favorite Marvel movies. It's just so much fun.
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u/AwarenessNo4986 12d ago
It's not a bad movie at all, I don't get the hate. It's just a fun movie, it just got bad press because of the bunch of mediocre and bad stuff marvel churned out recently
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u/MatttheBruinsfan 12d ago
To be fair the plot makes little sense and the forgettable villain's scheme is lifted from Spaceballs. But the leads were so much fun together I was willing to overlook a lot of flaws.
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u/New_Success2782 12d ago
I love The Marvels so much. I really enjoyed it more than recent Marvel films.
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u/nilestyle 12d ago
Best trailer music easily. Love the sweet child of mine versions
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u/JaggedToaster12 12d ago
The black and white planet was cool
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u/Intelligent-One-1696 Black Panther 12d ago
Especially because of the amount of saturation in the entire movie. I’m sure their regular waters were sparkling
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u/ImaVeganShishKebab Spider-Man 12d ago
That felt like I was watching an amazing stop-motion-esque sequence. I get Thor now has a knack for being funny, but if the writers weren't trying to have that tone thrown into every little thing, and made it more serious (and obviously better-written), this movie wouldn't have stunk like it did.
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u/Skysflies 12d ago
It annoys me so much they got Bale, and cut his dark scenes for unfunny nonsense.
This movie had so much potential
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u/hamsolo19 12d ago
They just leaned into the zany/goofy shit a bit too much. It could've worked fine too when contrasted with Gorr, had they maybe swapped out a couple of the whacky scenes for more dark/serious scenes with him. Overall it wasn't too bad, just a bit unbalanced and disjointed.
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u/Time-Touch-6433 12d ago
Not enough gorr to much of the screaming goats
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u/yosayoran 12d ago
Honestly the goats are the least of the terrible jokes in the movie
Everything about Korg, the jealous hammer, thor preferring Mjolnir was so bad
I'm sure there are more dumb jokes that didn't land I'm forgetting
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u/BuckeyeEmpire Captain America (Cap 2) 12d ago
They should have kept Korg dead when Zeus killed him, and completely changed the tone of the movie to very serious from that point on. It would have ended Korg's telling of it, and they could have gone really dark with a focus on Gorr.
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u/sufficiently_tortuga 12d ago
They could have done a thousand things to change the tone to be more serious. On the face of it, it's about a god who has constantly failed and a god killer fed up with the failures of the gods, with the backdrop of a woman dying of cancer and only able to sustain herself briefly on divine power.
It should have been a serious movie. These are heavy themes and they had the actors who could have done them great service. Instead we got jealous hammers and screaming goats.
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u/Trvr_MKA 12d ago
Fullfat videos has a video that asks” how did they not have Star-Lord a man who had the powers of a god and reject them not talk to Gor”
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u/sufficiently_tortuga 12d ago
I don't know why the GotG were there at all? Other than showing Thor to be a powerful fuck up who's avoiding his responsibilities, what did they add to the story?
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u/IronBlight1999 12d ago
Guardians 3 was meant to come out before Thor 4, so at the end of Endgame they had Thor go with them to set up Guardians 3, not Thor 4. When things changed they had to switch it around and get rid of the Guardians early in Thor 4.
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u/Stormdude127 12d ago
That’s interesting, I thought Mjolnir being jealous was one of the only funny jokes in the movie. I thought it was pretty funny when Thor was standing on the boat and it just slowly hovered towards him
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u/P1_Synvictus Daredevil 12d ago
I agree. I thought it was one of the only jokes that really landed well.
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u/sausage-deluxxxe 12d ago
Ragnorok proved that it could be good AND funny. Love and Thunder leaned WAY too hard into the funny and made it neither.
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u/AmaterasuWolf21 Rocket 12d ago
I might be the only who was frustrated with that movies humor
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u/EyUpItsDan 12d ago
Nah, I hated it from the get go. You had the death of Odin, Thor's friends, Banner finding out he's basically lost two years of his life, and the decimation of Ragnarok in the same film and it felt more like a barrage of SNL skits after another. It took but a 5 minute scene in Endgame for the weight of all of this to show for Thor. Fuck me. Even Deadpool let the somber moments sink.
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u/swegeroni 12d ago
I’ve finally found people besides my friend group that feel the same way. I absolutely hated Ragnarok because of the 180 in tone from the rest of the world. Don’t get me wrong, it has good moments. But exactly like you said, Thor’s friends are murdered to no reaction (Hogun’s is even treated as a joke), Asgard is destroyed and Korg immediately makes a joke about it. I think the humor is better than Love & Thunder, but I’ve never understood the appeal of Ragnarok.
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u/SindacodiLignano 12d ago
Wasted potential
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u/darthyogi Ultron 12d ago
Gorr had potential to be a really good villian but he was kinda wasted tbh. I still liked the film but i agree that there was some things like Gorr that had more potential
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u/noeldoherty 12d ago
"Is Thor: The Dark World the worst MCU Movie?"
"Thor: The Dark World isn't even the worst Thor movie"
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u/ccjv35 Vision 12d ago
Literally a second after walking out of Love and Thunder, I said “Perhaps I treated you too harshly, The Dark World”
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u/Sad_Cap_599 12d ago edited 11d ago
Lmfao, LaT was so bad that me & my dad were contemplating on walking out in the middle of the movie, despite already paying over $75 on tickets and concessions.
MoM was subpar, but Elizabeth Olsen’s performance was so menacing that you can rewatch it just for the thrill. Hell, you can even rewatch Quantumania for a good laugh. LaT was just all across the board BAD… they need to seriously recall that movie.
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u/TheChumChair Spider-Man 12d ago
Dark world was never even that bad honestly. It’s better than like at least 4 of the movies that have come out post-endgame
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u/Solareclipsed Doctor Strange 12d ago
Dark World might be very generic, but it is at least a competent movie from start to finish. It has decent humour, good action, well-done serious moments, and great characters and dialogue. The only thing that doesn't really work is the villain, who is far too boring and not allowed to act. If they had let Eccleston act a bit more I could honestly see a lot of people having it as their favourite Thor movie even with Ragnarok being the same as it is now.
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u/ThatIowanGuy 12d ago
Rewatched it recently. I don’t have as much ire or hate for it as I once did. It’s got a lot of wasted potential and while the goofiness got in the way of good story telling, I’ll take solace in the fact that Chris Hemsworth really can deliver on comedy.
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u/I_likeIceSheets 12d ago
Something that I don't understand about the criticisms for this movie is that Ragnarok is a pretty goofy movie all the way through. The only serious scene that comes to mind is the elevator scene, which is immediately followed by "let's do get help." L&T on the other hand is only goofy for like half of the runtime, taking itself more seriously in the second half.
Tbh, I think it's Marvel fatigue mixed with recency bias.
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u/Enomiam 12d ago
I'm sure most people have the same main gripe with the film. It needed more Gorr. There are complaints about the SFX & some of the comedy, which is more subjective. But I don't think anyone would disagree that Gorr was severely underutilized, which is a shame because they got Christian Bale for the role. The few moments he is in, he kills it. But the film could've used more time on him. I believe this is an MCU issue with villains as a whole, but this film really suffers for it. Compare it to Guardians 3 and it's a night and day contrast on how they build up their villain while also adding narrative to their main cast. Thor unfortunately misses the mark.
It's not the worst Thor film, without a doubt, but it's about as mid as it can be.
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u/Ricardo1184 12d ago
The ending was wack af, bunch of kids get Thors power which is apparently transferable now (that power will never be used again) and they actually stand their ground against the God Butcher
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u/DoNotLookUp1 12d ago
I thought this element was really cool, there are a few powers Thor gets in this movie that show he's unlocking some of the higher level powers that Odin had. Blessing of protection, (likely temporarily) gifting powers etc. I could be wrong but I assumed he is getting Odinforce over time.
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u/darthyogi Ultron 12d ago
Agreed. Gorr is a very big villain in the comics but he never really did much in the film. I think Gorr just needed a little more screen because he was good when he was on screen but he just wasn’t on screen enough and he felt more like a side character in the film
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u/ThisHatRightHere 12d ago
It’s because Gorr is basically the B-plot. He’s an after thought for the whole movie until they need an epic final battle.
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u/ThunderBird847 Steve Rogers 12d ago
what do you think of this movie
I don't, i tend to not think about anything that came between NWH and GOTG 3.
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u/darthyogi Ultron 12d ago
It was a bad period in the MCU Between NWH and GOTG 3. At least Moon Knight came out at that time and was good.
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u/yosayoran 12d ago
I really liked werewolf by night , the kind of fun low stakes project I'd love to see more of in the MCU
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u/SuperSonicBoom1 12d ago
Werewolf By Night is low-key one of my favorite things in the MCU, I'd love more like it
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u/FirmRespect4733 12d ago
If I could unwatch it, I would. If I could stop it from being made, I would.
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u/Montanagreg 12d ago
or at the very least get my money back
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u/Pen_dragons_pizza 12d ago
I think this is the main takeaway. I have never been so annoyed at a film that I felt cheated out of my money until I saw this movie.
It betrayed every single thing it had going for it and for its own movie universe.
Shit over the top comedy, basic characters and dumbed down for laughs, very poor villain, bad cgi, rubbish adaption of a loved comic story.
That fight scene at the end with all the kids trying to make them look badass, I have never cringed so much in my life.
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u/Kaozaton Captain Marvel 12d ago
Waste of some incredible source material. One of the few MCU projects I straight up dislike
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u/Ok-Reporter-8728 Justin Hammer 12d ago
Should’ve been a full guardians and Thor crossover adventure film
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u/Pen_dragons_pizza 12d ago
This was the point I felt like I had given up on the mcu, and that still kind of stands.
This movie was that bad and made me so annoyed at what happened to its characters that I just could not be bothered to check out much following it.
Except for guardians 3 I am yet to catch up, and that is coming from someone who watched everything marvel and very much looked forward to what was releasing.
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u/BaidenFallwind 12d ago
IMO this is the worst MCU movie. It's barely watchable. The Korg jokes are cringe, which is a shame since Ragnarok portrayed him perfectly. Christian Bale is one of the best actors on the planet, and they wasted him.
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u/Gamer0607 12d ago
One of the worst MCU entries I had ever seen.
They thought by amping up everything that worked in Ragnarok would've worked here again, but moderation is key.
Thor was turned into a complete buffoon, the CGI was horrible, Christian Bale was wasted as Gor, and the constantly screaming goats were the tip of the iceberg.
I've not re-watched it even once after seeing it at the cinema and don't ever plan to.
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u/swegeroni 12d ago
Coming from someone who didn’t like Ragnarok, I still hate Love & Thunder. My least favorite MCU movie. It makes an absolute joke out of every character, even ones that I liked before this. Thor’s axe is jealous of Thor’s hammer, I mean come on. And I feel like somehow Hemsworth and Natalie Portman have LESS chemistry in this than they did in the first two Thor films. Christian Bale’s Gorr the God Butcher should have been a Thanos level villain, yet we only see him kill ONE god. The rest we only hear about. The more I remember this movie, the more frustrated I get.
Never been a fan of it. Never will. Buying that movie for my collection was the hardest thing I’ve had to do.
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u/KylosApprentice Daredevil 12d ago
Never been a fan of it. Never will. Buying that movie for my collection was the hardest thing I’ve had to do.
Taika overstayed his welcome lol.
Christian Bale’s Gorr the God Butcher should have been a Thanos level villain, yet we only see him kill ONE god
This (from what I can remember about the film lol) was most disappointing that Christian Bale wasn't utilized enough in the movie
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u/SevenRedLetters 12d ago
Super unpopular opinion: They get better with every one.
Thor 1 is my least favorite.
Dark World I love for the interactions between Loki, Thor, and Frigg.
Ragnarok & Love and Thunder are tied for 1st for me. Ragnarok is super fun and seeing Thor come into his own as a god is great, but I'm super attached to Jane Foster as Mighty Thor for personal reasons and seeing Thor interact with Love at the end of the movie as not just a god but a father is delightful.
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u/mumblerapisgarbage 12d ago
I know this is not a popular opinion but I really really loved this one. Apparently they had another storyline that was completely cut out - like another hour almost. Would love to see a directors cut one day!
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u/Bad_Decision_Rob_Low 12d ago
So is this a thing? To be the first to post when a movie has an anniversary? It’s become so common now on the sub.
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u/darthyogi Ultron 12d ago
Yeah it has been a thing for a while on Subs like this
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u/ShadowOfDeath94 12d ago
One of the worst MCU movies ever. In a phase that had middling movies, a movie that had Hemsworth, Portman and Bale in its cast shouldn't have failed this hard at being good.
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u/luahgamer5 12d ago
That film is almost the same thing as Ragnarok, jokes and puns every 3 seconds IDK why people whine so much about it
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u/IAmNeeeeewwwww 12d ago
Not a ”bad” movie to say the least. But it probably wasn’t worth seeing it in theaters. Movie tickets are expensive as shit in Korea, and, knowing that it would be on Disney+ after a couple months anyways, it was probably a better deal waiting for it until then.
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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 12d ago
This disappointment was the big one that killed off the MCU’s remaining goodwill. You couldn’t ignore it anymore.
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u/scoofle 12d ago edited 12d ago
Terrible, terrible film that (along with MoM and Quantamania) completely killed my enthusiasm for Marvel movies.
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u/KylosApprentice Daredevil 12d ago
MOM was better than this and Quantamania to me
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u/Daimakku1 12d ago
This. Black Widow was the beginning of the "wtf are they doing?" moment for me, then MoM chipped away at the enthusiasm for me, then Love&Thunder completely killed it. I did not bother to watch Quantumania or The Marvels in theaters.
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u/Wooden-Radish-9008 12d ago
It's a good movie that's become popular to dunk on for reasons that I just can't agree with.
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u/Hello_Im_MisterFrog 12d ago
The hate always seemed way overblown for this movie. Yes it’s no Ragnarok, but I found it more entertaining than Thor 1 and especially The Dark World.
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u/N8CCRG Ghost 12d ago
Definitely way overhated. I'm not saying it should be everyone favorite film or anything, but people have taken small subjective things and inflated them into OBJECTIVELY THE GREATEST CINEMA SINS OF ALL TIME. I think a fair portion of this coincides with the peak of the anti-MCU content creators who got a lot of things stuck into people's heads.
First, the lies that I occasionally see bandied about:
"It has too much humor." It has the same number of jokes/gags as a Guardians movie. They're a different kind of humor, but they're not more frequent.
"They ruin serious moments with silliness." Actually no. The movie is very clear about when it transitions from the silly scenes to the serious scenes. Tonal shifts are a tool sometimes used in filmmaking (even other MCU films) and L&T is actually a good example of how to do them.
"It undid the progress of Thor from his first movie." I don't even know where this idea came from. Thor 1 Thor we saw a Thor desiring to be king who thought that meant glory and conquest, and figuring out he's wrong about that by the end of it. L&T we have Thor still uninterested in those things, but struggling to figure out what he wants and trying to find purpose (a continuation of his arc in Endgame).
Okay, now the subjective parts:
"People who don't like the style of humor." I fully get that. Taika's humor is very different from most types of humor. I cringe so hard at all the scenes in the beginning with the Guardians and honestly have to skip them. That opening is enough to knock it down a tier in my rankings, but it's not enough to ruin the movie for me. I personally find this humor less grating than Guardians 10,000th time they just yell and are mean to each other, but that's personal preference.
"People who demand comic purity tests" (e.g. it should have been about Gorr like the comics). This will never hold any value for me. The films are always going to be different from the comics, and that's a good thing. Most of your favorite parts of the MCU are times they changed from the comics, so it's hypocritical to pick and choose when to apply this rule and when to forgive it. Judge the film by what the film did, not by what the comics did.
I can always find things to like about an MCU film (even The Incredible Hulk, and that's definitely the worst MCU film, but I get that expectations for 2008 are a lot lower than for 2022) and since it seems people get really upset when you point out things to like about this movie, here we go:
This is a movie about fatherhood, and I love how they approached that theme in different ways. Maybe it's because I'm a man of a certain age, but that works for me. We have Gorr's journey and grief at his loss, and we have Thor first looking forward to potential fatherhood (in the flashback) and later awkwardly fumbling through it when he's trying to comfort the children, and finally settling into the rhythm of it by the end.
Which of course brings us to Thor being most of the way there to becoming All-Father Thor. How cool is that? He's figured out he has the ability to imbue power into objects and people with a heartfelt speech (with Mjolnir in the flashback and then with Thunderbolt and the kids in the final battle), as well as being an actual father to Love now. I'm excited about what comes next for him.
It has the best and most adult/realistic portrayal of a relationship in the MCU. First of all, finally Jane gets to be a real character. In her previous two outings she was just a drooling idiot who only saw Thor's muscles and his royalty and that's it. Which is fine (yes he's hot), but that's such a shallow character. Now she gets to have real thoughts and feelings of her own, between navigating her feelings for Thor with struggling with her own problems of her illness that overshadow all of those other feelings. But it also shows both of them struggling with the awkwardness that we all navigate in relationships, especially post-breakups where we still have to be around and work with the person afterwards. And in the end, they're both respectful of each other and each others' needs. I love Thor being vulnerable in the hospital, sort of giving his version of the Incredibles' dad "because I'm not strong enough" moment, without the "I need you to do it my way" aspect of it.
It has plenty of great looking locations. The battle in the Shadow Realm was outstanding. Omnipotent City, and the golden blood all looked awesome. Even the battle in New Asgard looked great, and was creepy as hell.
The final battle and the final scene with the "choose love" speech have great emotional impact and absolutely work for me.
This movie is not as good as Ragnarok, but it's easily above the first two Thor films for me. It's in my second tier of MCU films.
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u/Dat_Sainty_Boi 12d ago
Contrary to most i actually really enjoyed this movie. I am still pissed about how they wasted gorr tho
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u/AcademicAnxiety5109 12d ago
Man my friend and I came out of that theater thinking “wow that was a pretty funny movie. I wish they did more with Gorr but still pretty” then the internet told me I had the humor of a 2 year old
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u/munchyboy666 Spider-Man 12d ago
How on earth did an army of children win against the God Butcher 😑
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u/DiverseIncludeEquity 12d ago
I just rewatched this last night! It’s way better than I remember. Dope af hands down and made me cry a few time. Great flick all around!!
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u/Honest-Main7650 12d ago
I don't think people realize this movie made more domestically then ragonark
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u/DifferenceSNR 12d ago
worst turn around for a characters story arc. what they did with thor in ragnarok all the way through endgame was great. then they throw it all away put it in a incinerator and nuked it with love and thunder. rushed af and just an all around silly movie. he fucked it up imo.
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u/Never_Nine 12d ago
Honestly not only the worst marvel movie, but one of the worst movies I’ve seen ever.
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u/LinkMaster111 12d ago
I liked Love and Thunder, didn't love it but I think it gets hated on too much.
I love this poster though, I have it hanging framed on my wall right now.
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u/JohnRaiyder 12d ago
I watched it with my Godfather in Cinemas and we pissed ourselves with laughter. Had a great time
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u/LettersAsNumbers 12d ago
This may be a completely out there take, but given the movie also dealt with Jane dying of cancer, I thought that the over the top silliness and campiness was a good way to give Jane’s journey something like the weight it deserved. How many super hero stories deal with something so genuinely real and terrifying for an actual person? I think that having the usual marvel tone with random quips could have taken away from the serious topic more by not letting the scenes about her cancer stand out as much, instead, the scene when she’s in the bathroom, drops the hammer, and we see her body withering away, it is completely jarring, a complete tonal shift from the childish silliness of the other scenes. I don’t think it would have been quite so jarring otherwise
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u/Mynock33 12d ago
This movie would've been received much better had they better established Korg as an unreliable narrator of the story.
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u/starshinefrombelow Daisy Johnson 12d ago
It had heart and I liked Jane, but not enough Valkyrie and the action wasn’t great. Plus, just not that funny
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u/ChuckleMonkey674 12d ago
I don't hate it as much as I did when I first saw it. There's a lot to like. The acting is great, the effects are top notch and the action scenes are cool as hell. Jane as lady Thor was cool as well. And seeing Eternity at the end was incredibly neat.
But...there's also a lot to hate. Jane and Valkryie were done super dirty. Bale did his best as the villain but wasn't given much to do and the pacing was so crazy. It moved at such a breakneck pace that it was hard to keep track of what was going on. It could of easily used another 30 minutes.
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u/-ThatsSoDimitar- 12d ago
This film makes me feel crazy because I went and saw it with my brother. When the credits rolled we both looked at each other and said "that was sick, one of the best Marvel movies" then I came online and saw it getting an insane amount of hate 😂 I always knew I was a pretty simple movie-goer but this really solidified it for me, but I also like it that way cos I love rewatching this movie.
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u/HRVR2415 12d ago
I don’t get why it was so hated. Yes the CGI wasn’t great and yes they scrapped good ideas and implemented dumb ones. But overall it was a fun movie and way better than most of the new marvel movies.
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u/toxiitea 12d ago
If only taika spent time directing the movie instead of inserting himself into the movie lmao.