Road to Avengers Doomsday: Thor: The Dark World This is…
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Road to Avengers Doomsday: Thor: The Dark World
This is another MCU film I was dreading to watch. Thor The Dark World has so many problems that you could write a book on them. From intense studio interference to just an overall lack of vision for the film itself, Thor The Dark World takes its place comfortably among the worst MCU films so far as I am concerned.
I mentioned before that the MCU has what I like to call “set up” films. And I would categorize this film as a “set up” film, but to be honest it’s messier and more directionless. It only exists to establish another Infinity Stone (and introduce the stones themselves properly in a post-credit scene). Christopher Eccleston is wasted as Malekith. The character himself is also wasted as a one-dimensional villain who is chasing after a MacGuffin. The plot is forgettable. The tone is all over the place: grim (Dark Elf genocide, Frigga’s death) vs sitcom humor (Darcy, Selvig and Earth humor). Thor himself seems rather passive and is almost a background character. Loki and even Jane are far more relevant to this story and actually have stuff going on. There are zero emotional stakes in this film for me. I don’t really care about Frigga so her death is devoid of any legitimate emotion, as well as Loki’s obvious fake death, and Thor and Jane’s romance is just so surface level. I also hate the way this movie looks. Colors are dull and kind of muted. There are also notable reshoots and editing which goes back to the studio interference. The comic book cosmic aesthetics are suppressed. All of that is abandoned for more of a Lord of the Rings/Game of Thrones sci-fi aesthetic. Which I’m not a fan of.
I suppose the actors are still doing work here and giving relatively competent performances despite what they are given to work with. And there are small glimpses of a larger scale and future stories here (the Aether, and the Convergence). But those are the only good things I can really bring myself to say about the film.
I think Marvel needs to go back and seal this movie away in the same place Odin sealed the Aether away in....which we never even got to know where that was, did we?
Rating: 2/5
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This is another MCU film I was dreading to watch. Thor The Dark World has so many problems that you could write a book on them. From intense studio interference to just an overall lack of vision for the film itself, Thor The Dark World takes its place comfortably among the worst MCU films so far as I am concerned.
I mentioned before that the MCU has what I like to call “set up” films. And I would categorize this film as a “set up” film, but to be honest it’s messier and more directionless. It only exists to establish another Infinity Stone (and introduce the stones themselves properly in a post-credit scene). Christopher Eccleston is wasted as Malekith. The character himself is also wasted as a one-dimensional villain who is chasing after a MacGuffin. The plot is forgettable. The tone is all over the place: grim (Dark Elf genocide, Frigga’s death) vs sitcom humor (Darcy, Selvig and Earth humor). Thor himself seems rather passive and is almost a background character. Loki and even Jane are far more relevant to this story and actually have stuff going on. There are zero emotional stakes in this film for me. I don’t really care about Frigga so her death is devoid of any legitimate emotion, as well as Loki’s obvious fake death, and Thor and Jane’s romance is just so surface level. I also hate the way this movie looks. Colors are dull and kind of muted. There are also notable reshoots and editing which goes back to the studio interference. The comic book cosmic aesthetics are suppressed. All of that is abandoned for more of a Lord of the Rings/Game of Thrones sci-fi aesthetic. Which I’m not a fan of.
I suppose the actors are still doing work here and giving relatively competent performances despite what they are given to work with. And there are small glimpses of a larger scale and future stories here (the Aether, and the Convergence). But those are the only good things I can really bring myself to say about the film.
I think Marvel needs to go back and seal this movie away in the same place Odin sealed the Aether away in....which we never even got to know where that was, did we?
Rating: 2/5
#video #movies
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