I just want to take a moment to appreciate that while Thor was fucking around like a bloodthirsty maniac, it was Loki who protected Thor’s friends and made sure everyone got out of there alive.
I don’t believe there’s an absolute future. I don’t believe we can’t change anything. I don’t believe Loki can’t change. But I do know he won’t change if you stick him in a big box marked “Loki” and nail the lid down. – Verity Willis
I usually say very little when it comes to things like this, but come on, Hemsworth! This is so unprofessional. He literally calls it “meh”
I’m just so mindblown that he would do that. Like I can have respect for him not caring for it. Every actor probably has a piece of work that they regret, but to go out and trash it. Why is that necessary??
Hiddleston doesn’t trash Ragnorak despite having every reason to.
Hemsworth has to right to speak down about this film
He almost sounds like he has no idea what he’s talking about. I would take TDW over Ragnarok any day. In my personal opinion the worst movie is Ragnarok, because it’s essentially just him wandering around a set in a costume being him. At least before it felt like a movie instead of some weird skit that just felt fake and plastic and… bad. I honestly can’t believe that the cinematic industry is devolving this much to call Ragnarok good moviemaking and TDW bad moviemaking.
I’ve seen bad movies. I actually just watched three of them on netflix today, and TDW in no way compares to them. This is just sad, the only reason he’s saying TDW is bad is because that’s what other people are saying, and the only reason he’s saying Ragnarok is good is because that’s what the majority is screaming. If it was the other way, his tune would be sounding way different.
He’s just really, really lucky people seem to now have no concept of what makes good movies and what makes bad movies.
I think the reason he’s saying TDW was bad is because he was “bored” of actually trying to act in dramatic roles instead of just dicking around in expensive costumes on expensive sets with expensive visual effects to distract from his non-acting.
And TDW may have been a classic archetype of masculinity, but I’ll definitely take that over the frat boy pseudo-humor we get from every Seth MacFarlane movie and “Thor: Ragnarok.” It was not progressive. It was not deflating the guy who’s trying to act cool, the way everyone who says it’s a distinctively Maori kind of humor claims it is – unless the “guy trying to act cool” is Loki, because it definitely put *him* in his place. Thor took a couple of pratfalls, but otherwise succeeded at everything he did, or if he didn’t it was always someone else’s fault. So Thor came out looking fine… unless we were actually *supposed* to perceive his behavior as deeply unpleasant, which I very much doubt. I thought the point of this (purported) Maori style of humor was to make your “cool” hero look foolish or incompetent, not like a narcissistic bully.
This was in my Google news too, and in the write up it also calls Thor 1 “that Shakespearean nonsense that Kenneth Branagh created”. Throwing away Shakespeare for dick and anus jokes isn’t anything to brag about. They dumbed down Thor so much he’s like a cheap, cheesy cartoon character. It also quotes CH as saying that the Thor in Gagnarok is truer to his own spirit, which says alot about how he really feels about Loki, and Loki and Thor’s relationship. It’s not nice. And maybe also his relationship with Tom H. Alot of things (character development, character growth, character history, character consistancy, character integrity) got shot to hell for Gagnarok so that CH wouldn’t have to whine about being bored.
It honestly makes me laugh that someone would call Thor “that shakespearean nonsense that Kenneth Branagh created” and call TW the savior of Thor franchise. It just speaks volumes about their taste in art and movies and their lack of understanding about good characterization, world building and story telling. If it wasn’t for what KB did in Thor, those characters wouldn’t have this much depth. The Avengers wouldn’t have worked without a sympathetic villain that the audiance rooted for in the previous movie. Because your hero is only as good as your villain. Just look at the Avengers comic con. Most of the questions were directed toward Tom while Captain America was also there! This shows that what KB did payed off even in the next movies. Now CH is titled to his opinion but it seems to me that the reason he so unprofessionally calls TDW “meh” is because he as the lead actor couldn’t shine and attract audiance attention and interest. What Tom was very successful at with less screen time. It seems to me that he is bitter that TDW shows how his acting abilities pale in comparison with Tom. What CH did in TR wasn’t acting. He was just cosplaying as Thor. TDW may not be a cinematic masterpiece or as good as some other MCU movies but at least it got the characterizations right and it was consistant with previous canon. Also saying that TR Thor is more true to his own spirit shows that he as an actor failed to really understand Thor, the character he played for four films.
Taika Waititi has even openly stated that Chris’s is his favourite performance in TR because, in his own words, he could just let Chris be himself.
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