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Thor: Love and Thunder | Film Review

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  Like a lot of Marvel/MCU fans, I loved the Thor film before this one, Thor: Ragnarok, and I liked the direction that Thor went in after that movie. So I was excited to see how the Thor storyline would continue in this movie. To battle a galactic killer, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) teams up with King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Korg (Taika Waititi) and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), now 'The Mighty Thor'. I didn't like this film. Maybe I need to watch it again, but on the first watch, it wasn't for me. It kind of felt like the filmmakers saw that jokes, recognisable songs and action scenes worked really well in Ragnarok, so they filled the beginning of Love & Thunder with them with no set-up (particularly the action scene), and it didn't work for me at all. Everything that happened, up to and including Jane becoming The Mighty Thor, felt really insignificant. Nothing felt impactful, and it doesn't feel like anything in the MCU will be changed becaus...

Thor: Ragnarok | Film Review

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Hey Guys x I am a huge superhero movie fan, but in particular, a huge Marvel fan. So of course when this film came out I was so excited to see it. Other then the trailer, I was going in blind. I haven't read the comic books, so I didn't know what 'Ragnarok' meant and was just expecting to see a slightly better than average film that could complete the 'Thor' trilogy and then leave it alone. Boy was I wrong! In the last Thor film, we saw Loki pretending to be his father Odin. So when we return to Asgard in this film, that's what we come back to - Asgard as run by Loki. Of course, this doesn't last long! But then the real threat makes itself known. Hela, the goddess of death, has come to destroy Asgard. But to defeat her, Thor must find a way off of a new planet (Sakaar), and put together a team of people that will be able to destroy Hela for good. To be honest, for how good this film is, that's a really bad explanation. Tru...