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an adult beverage posted:Korg might be the funniest character I've seen in a movie all year. I want a Korg solo movie ASAP. Very Monty Pythonesque
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I had no idea the director and a few actors were from New Zealand. I'm terrible with accents and thought the rock dude was just this really chipper guy with some vaguely English accent. I also found it funny that he was weirdly trusting toward strangers. He tells Loki's illusion "Piss off, ghost!" but then later when he sees the same 'ghost' that looks identical to the one in the holding area but this time its being zapped in the hangar bay he's just all  "Hey fella you reckon you want to join us on our violent overthrow of our opressors yah?"Are there some stereotypes about New Zealanders I'm not familiar with?
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Nov 7, 2017 08:00
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Sir Nose posted:Anyone see it in 3D? Comments? I know that 3D isn't popular around here, but I rather enjoyed it for the spacey scenes in GOTG and Dr. Strange. There were some early moments where it really annoyed me because it made some bird's eye view shots look like I was looking down on a miniature set. But something like the POV from behind Mjolnir as it flew around was pretty rad.
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Panfilo posted:Are there some stereotypes about New Zealanders I'm not familiar with? Apparently "Giant nightclub bouncer with a tiny soft voice" was the stereotype they were riffing off with Korg 
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Panfilo posted:Are there some stereotypes about New Zealanders I'm not familiar with? These should help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtWirGxV7Q8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESD3mlgpSwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Xvsjy57X0
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The fat kid in that movie will be co-starring in Deadpool 2. Kiwis are taking over the superhero film genre. Edit: https://twitter.com/TaikaWaititi/status/879957239653580800 Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Nov 7, 2017 |
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Nov 7, 2017 09:14
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Movie was pretty crazy, fun and colourful. Thor was more of a smartass then ever, but I guess that;'s because hes been around humans. I thought Loki could have done more Loki-stuff, he kept getting his rear end kicked in fights. Also Odin's death was genuinely terrible. He's just chilling on a cliff and his two sons come, he says some cryptic poo poo and floats off in gold sparkles.
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henpod posted:Movie was pretty crazy, fun and colourful. Thor was more of a smartass then ever, but I guess that;'s because hes been around humans. I thought Loki could have done more Loki-stuff, he kept getting his rear end kicked in fights. Also Odin's death was genuinely terrible. He's just chilling on a cliff and his two sons come, he says some cryptic poo poo and floats off in gold sparkles. I doubt your commitment to sparkle-Odin.
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Nov 7, 2017 14:48
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I think I really like that this movie established that space being very silly is an actual thing in the MCU instead of just an artifact of GotG being a silly movie. Like everything in space was very stupid and wacky in GotG but you could just accept that was just because the tone of the movie was that. But now someone from another series went to space and found it equally silly that establishes that is just what space is in this series.
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~'tis A Silly Place~henpod posted:Movie was pretty crazy, fun and colourful. Thor was more of a smartass then ever, but I guess that;'s because hes been around humans. I thought Loki could have done more Loki-stuff, he kept getting his rear end kicked in fights. Also Odin's death was genuinely terrible. He's just chilling on a cliff and his two sons come, he says some cryptic poo poo and floats off in gold sparkles. It was pretty anticlimactic but I liked the vague impression that Odin was pretty much a meaty blob of nanomachines at that point.
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Accretionist posted:~'tis A Silly Place~ Yeah, exactly that. Like it wasn't just that GotG was silly so it was showing space in a silly lens, thor also went to space and it actually is just that silly. Like it's canonical that space is just wacky and that is a really funny concept to me.
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Snak posted:yeah, for being a big goofy doofus, they imparted a good amount of character on Hulk in this movie. Like, obviously he likes being in a world where he's loved for being destructive instead of hated for it, but you can tell he's also lonely. Valkerie is his only friend, and she's got her own problems. They're both self-destructive and unhappy people. Yeah there's a lot happening that is said visually. Second go around watching Ragnorak, I spent a lot of time noticing how amazing the production was, the sets, the costumes, the colors. This movie has some of the most rad and over the top imagery since I don't know, Enter the Void. e: nice subtle and entirely visual thing, Hela powering up the longer she is in Asgard. She gets greener and greener (kinda Hulk-like), and at times evinces straight up green veins when she's changing her visual age based on who she is talking to.
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Shageletic posted:straight up green veins Did someone at marvel invent new SFX software to color people's veins or something? There wasn't a power or attack in the whole movie that didn't recolor someone's veins.
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I know when the Immigrant Song kicked in at the end it recolored a few of mine
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PantsBandit posted:Jeff Goldblum is a goddamn national treasure. At multiple points he would come onscreen and I'd be laughing before he even said anything due to his mannerisms, facial movements. I don't know a heck of a lot about comic book Thor outside the films, but this was the first time that I saw Thor as being accurate to the actual Norse mythology he springs from. Thor's supposed to be the fun guy that you can have a beer with and who's like the only God who really gives a crap about humans, so this really, really resonated with that.
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Strange Matter posted:The shot where Thor is on the chair being shown the Grandmaster's, like, club or whatever and the Grandmaster is playing some kind of space Casio/turntable machine is still cracking me up days after seeing it. It was like for seven seconds the film had been taken over by Wes Anderson. Norse mythology Thor is also a complete oaf. He's always more brawn then brain and would rather smash things than think about things.
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Nov 7, 2017 19:44
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The ships being straight up inspired by Chris Foss was amazing. Holy gently caress this movie is so beautiful!  
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I doubt your commitment to sparkle-Odin. I thought it was a really funny scene myself. 'Oh, hey boys. Fancy meeting you here. I guess I should say sorry for all the lies... Nah, I decided to die just now. By the way you have a vengeful sister who's vastly more powerful than you, and I'm the only thing that has kept her from murdering everyone. Well, good luck, boys. ×turns into fireflies×
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Nov 7, 2017 20:13
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Renoistic posted:I thought it was a really funny scene myself. 'Oh, hey boys. Fancy meeting you here. I guess I should say sorry for all the lies... Nah, I decided to die just now. By the way you have a vengeful sister who's vastly more powerful than you, and I'm the only thing that has kept her from murdering everyone. Well, good luck, boys. ×turns into fireflies× Odin is seriously competing with Ego for the "Worst Dad in the MCU" award
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Nov 7, 2017 20:28
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Jonny_Rocket posted:Odin is seriously competing with Ego for the "Worst Dad in the MCU" award Again, very fitting for the mythological Odin. The thing about the mythological Norse gods is that they're all tremendous assholes and are always willing to take what is not there and screw everyone else over and never learn any lessons from their actions.
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Nov 7, 2017 20:38
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loved the movie, and the end shot of eyepatch thor with his motley crew makes for a space opera I didnt know I wanted. Give me space pirate thor. Goldblum was obviously aces, but Valkyrie & Korg were the standouts for me. Tessa was really fun as Valkyrie and the flashback scene was as good as the trailer sold it to be. I also really liked Karl Urban's character even if his arc was weak. He sold the comedy bits in the beginning amazingly well.
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Everyone seems to love Korg and for me he was just ok at best. I honestly could have gone without him.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Taika Waititi has mentioned in several interviews that he's really interested in taking these bizarre characters in bizarre situations in bizarre locations and just making them sit down and talk about their feelings which lead to scenes like Thor talking with Korg about his feelings over losing his hammer, and Thor and Hulk just sitting and arguing which one was more like fire which were some of the more hilarious scenes in the movie. Taika is really really aware that all the clichéd dramatic/climactic scenes in comicbook movies are inherently ridiculous and he went after them like a terrier after a rat, it was extremely deliberate. This is a good thing in the right dose for this genre.
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It's pretty great that of the four remaining Asgardians who matter, two are black and one's actually blue.
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Yeah, Odin "God of the Gallows" is an rear end in a top hat.
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Movie fun, Hel was great and I approve wholeheartedly if the rumors are true and she's been merged with Death for the MCU and so will be back in Infinity War. Best gags for me were with Doctor Strange.
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I'm kind of amazed at the different scenes between the Trailer and the actual movie. Rogue One did this last year too. Is this a Disney thing?
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Duey posted:I'm kind of amazed at the different scenes between the Trailer and the actual movie. Rogue One did this last year too. Is this a Disney thing? The big ones I noticed were Hela crushing the hammer in the city in the trailer instead of on that blue screened Norwegian cliff. Taika Waititi said this was a reshoot as he didn't like having Odin and Hela in the city. And Thor uppercutting Hulk without his super saiyan lightning effects may have been because they wanted to save the reveal for the movie or maybe they hadn't finished the effects yet for the trailer. Rogue One also had a shitload of reshoots to the point where they had Tony Gilroy pretty much ghost directing the final act of the movie.
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Another big difference from the trailers I noticed was that in the trailers where Thor confronts Hel on the Bifrost, he has both eyes.
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Movie is very good. I like the irreverence and wish that it had even more jokes, to be honest. Doctor Strange was better characterized than in the entirety of his movie, Jeff Goldblum is a magical alien gift from the heavens, and while I hated the first two Thor movies and Avengers, Loki was a cool and good character. The serious moments (Odin's death, Skurge's last stand) didn't really work with the exception of Hulk transforming back to Banner, and they should have just straight up gone for comedy. It was a loving beautiful movie though, there were some incredibly awesome shots that almost made the rest of the action being kinda samey work. The Hulk/Thor battle was very awesome too. edit: also it is unfair that chris hemsworth is as funny and handsome as he is. like, everyone should only get one. I want to see him do more comedy because he was good at the physical stuff as well as delivering the writing. Thor is like an overgrown 12-year-old boy and Hemsworth really makes that character work. DC Murderverse fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Nov 8, 2017 |
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swickles posted:I am totally fine with misleading trailers that give the feel of a movie without giving away spoilers.
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Thor seems very subtly Space Australian in this movie. Maybe a Kiwi director helped there. Weirdly enough, Thor's basically in the position that Beta Ray Bill is usually introduced as by the end of the movie.
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Also, the implication of Marvel space being very silly is that Earth is actually the strange place because people there are so serious all the time.
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Mordiceius posted:Again, very fitting for the mythological Odin. They seem to have much better rep than Greco-Roman Gods though. Is that right, or do they just have a better PR team?
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Duey posted:I'm kind of amazed at the different scenes between the Trailer and the actual movie. Rogue One did this last year too. Is this a Disney thing? People get so mental about being 'spoiled' (viewing trailers is spoilers, you see) that movies are starting to mock up fake scenes/alter trailers deliberately to get around it.
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It's probably also making use of reshoots and cut or altered scenes before the movie is finalised. I think it's a nice middle ground between trailers that basically spell out the movie's entire plot (see Beavis) vs trailers that completely misrepresent the movie. (and I'm sure some somehow manage to do both)
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Inescapable Duck posted:Thor seems very subtly Space Australian in this movie. Maybe a Kiwi director helped there. I thought Valkyrie's accent sounded more Kiwi than British (like all other Asgardians) too, I was surprised to find Thompson's American.
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"We need to save our planet!" (Shoves 200 people onto a boat)
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