Thor: Ragnarok

You got your Guardians of the Galaxy in my Thor. Your got your Thor in my Guardians of the Galaxy. Hmmm... This works!

It definitely feels like Guardians (and perhaps Deadpool to some extent) opened the superhero movie genre up to more comedic influences. The Thor movies thus far have been pretty straight and standard hero stuff. This one had a much more fun and funny bent to it. There are still stakes (Ragnarok) and such, but Thor is more self-depreciating than he used to be and everything around him flows in a more amusing way unshackled from Earth. It works so very well.

So we get a larger-than-life superhero movie with cameos, conflicts, bright colors and awesome characters. It's got lots of action and lots of things to laugh at. It's fuuuun.

I feel like if I'm going to see Justice League (which I'm undecided on), it's going to be partly to compare and contrast... but I don't think JL can measure up.

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  1. LegionNovember 14, 2017 at 9:51 AM

    It was an awesome, strange, fun movie. So do you think the eternal flame was one of the infinity stones?

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    1. RedwolfNovember 14, 2017 at 10:15 AM

      Not really.
      Hmm. The Soul Stone is unaccounted for. I could see the argument maybe that flames are somehow soul-like and maybe how it interacts with Surtur, but... that seems like a stretch to me. I also feel like, at this point in the MCU, it would have gotten more attention from Hela and/or Loki if that were the case.

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