Thor: Love & Thunder "Almost" Shouldn't Be Made, Director Taika Waititi Says

For starters, Thor should become the embodiment of brute strength… no more constantly getting his ass kicked by lesser deities. After some cinematic build up and steadily paced anticipation, he should be smiting everything his path. Secondly, Loki shouldn’t be so soft. Of course, he’s an obnoxious child at times but where the maniacal jester who inspired modern agents of chaos such as DC’s Joker or FF6’s Kefka. Third, Odin should be a strategic genius, using Loki and Thor to his advantage. Fourth thing I would like rectified are the events or Ragnarök. Why stray away from the original epic to create something so much weaker, softer and so much less imaginative and just a whole lot worse than actual Ragnarök. My fifth point: Where was Frey? Where was Freja? Where were Loki’s children? Where were Thor’s sons?

I keep telling myself I'm done with the Gamespot comments. Like I train wreck, I always have to look.

Ragnarok was terrible, probably pass on Thor: Love and Thunder.

My expectations for this are low after the mess that is Ragnarok. Worst MCU movie yet

After the garbage that was The Dark World, Ragnorrok shouldn't have been made either, but Marvel continues to churn out these garbage Thor movies as they did with two garbage Iron Man sequels...

@shogunswitcher: The MCU didn't do this, Marvel did, and they did it decades ago. So did DC, who also adapted mythological figures into comic book characters. The MCU is just adapting these characters into their films. Also consider, the worship of these mythological figures died down a long time ago. There may be some who still worship these figures, but the majority of the world does not, unlike, say, Muhammed and Allah (who is really just God anyway).

@shogunswitcher: To be fair. MCU did not turn them into goofy cartoon characters. Marvel comics did that 60 years ago.

And I think it's more comparable to the way popculture use Greek and Romans gods then if they used Allah. But I get what you mean.

@shogunswitcher: "I'm not some christian with a persecution complex" he says, behaving like a norse with a persecution complex.

I've been saying that Ragnarok should have been the end of the line for a few reasons:

* The other phase 3's stopped at the third movie.

* Thor should end on a high note with a very successful last film.

* Natalie Portman has often been confused with a 2 x 4 from Home Depot while acting.

* Movies as a whole shouldn't be made to simply appease one specific group of society.

* As mentioned before, you had a hit with the third film, don't screw things up with this proposed train wreck. Phase 4 will have many disasters to choose from.

So, in conclusion. Stop...just stop.

It almost shouldn’t be made? I wholeheartedly agree with you, bro. 👊

Thor is literally a man’s name. It’s not a mantle. It’s his name. You wouldn’t name your daughter Barry or Gordon.

This gives me the feeling that this guy made it better than expected by accident xD

First off - I have read a lot of comics....... a LOT OF COMICS, way ..... too many.

When it comes to comic stories, the art form, the powerful literature that is in any form!!- then the 100 + yrs of and tens of thousands of comic IPs written -is some of mankind's greatest works. THOR however.... is not really one of them. But when Thor is at its best, it is wild and fun. Graphics novels like the Sandman, Marvels, Sin City, and 300 explore the human condition and expand the mind through their amazing plots. Thor was never one of them, but dang were they ever fun. Like Conan the Barbarian, and Hulk, a serious expansive plot was not as interesting as Thor standing on an alien ship smiling up at the sky with his hammer held high, while raindrops came down at the speed of bullets.

Was Thor: Ragnarok an Oscar winning movie... NO, but it was a great fun movie movie. And hopefully love and thunder has that 70s Bowie, rock and roll, heavy metal, balls to the walls, fun action movie that we, that everyone, could use post pandemic.

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I got to read a wealth of comics from my uncle and cousin who were avid collectors as well. I also read the almanacs (large novels that contained 3-4 years worth of comics in one large book) like F4, Batmans, X-Men, etc starting at their very first 1. We were not allowed any new tv shows, but if we made good grades, at least I was allowed to go through milkcrate after milkcrates of comics.

"Natalie Portman willonce again appear as Jane Foster, who will ultimately wield Mjolnir and become Thor herself." Uh spoilers?

This movie should be a lot of fun. Ragnarok was one of the best MCU movies. James Gunn and Waititi are Marvel's best writers, they make delightful movies.