Thread by @HappyWarriorP

Ta-Da!🎇

My delicious @BleedingFool review of
THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER⛈️🪓

bleedingfool.com/reviews/thor-4… #Thor #ThorLoveAndThunderspoilers #ThorLoveAndThunder #mcu #marvel @MCU_Direct @rkylesmith #movies #film #twitter @BoundingComics #MsMarvel #disney #disneyplus

Watching Thor: Love and Thunder is like guzzling down a raw hamburger and strawberry smoothie that hasn’t been thoroughly puréed yet, but much less satisfying. 🧋🐮

How could the newest and most anticipated entry in phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe go so sideways?🤔

This undercooked action comedy pork cutlet stars Thor as he rescues some kidnapped children from the evil Gore the God-Butcher,

With help from his ex-girlfriend Natalie Portman who now is also a Thor. #ThorLoveAndThunder #Thor

Oh, & Lady Thor has cancer
Plus, there’s Russel Crowe as Zeus

a badly CGI'd magical kid & his child soldiers,
some gay rocks, & a couple of screaming goats

All handled less subtlety than an episode of Captain Planet🌎🦸

#mcu #marvel #thor4 #ThorLoveAndThunderID #movies #comics

If that sounds like a confusing movie,

that is because Thor: Love and Thunder
is a confusing movie

https://twitter.com/ybtoren/status/1545674192628203522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1545674192628203522%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwegotthiscovered.com%2Fmovies%2Fmcu-fans-just-cant-stop-roasting-the-cgi-in-thor-love-and-thunder%2F

Love & Thunder is essentially a sequel to the wonderfully metal Thor Ragnorak, a fantastic Thor film & one of the best of phase 3 of the MCU.

That film kicked butt & made almost $900 million at the box office. so it made sense for Kevin Feige to hire Taika Waititi to do a sequel

However, from the very start of the announcement of Love and Thunder, cracks started to emerge.

The film had been announced as an adaptation of the controversial Mighty Thor comics, where Thor is a toxic white male that gets replaced by a righteous white karen named Jane Foster.

while that comic received awards & media attention
it remains a highly divisive comic to the fandom

didnt help when Waititi announced the project

he knelt in front of Portman to give her a prop Mjolnir like an unworthy peasant before a queen
#mcu #marvel

Then the film synopsis got leaked & rumors started to flow,

The gist is that the focus of the post-Endgame MCU would be about diversity & replacing the traditional heroes like Hawkeye with younger, more equitable versions,

which, if you’ve paid attention, is what’s happened.

the rumors said Thor would be replaced by Portman.

The story would involve helping the new female King of Asgard find her Queen -which didn’t make it to the final cut- and much virtue signaling would be had by all.

boundingintocomics.com/2022/01/25/tho… #thor #mcu #marvel #disney #comics

When fans complained about Thor’s mythos being ruined

Waititi mocked him: “I’ll ruin your mythos in a minute, baby.”

Followed by tsk-tsking fans that wrote “female Thor” instead of “Mighty Thor”
@GeeksGamersCom @thatstarwarsgrl
@EricDJuly @YellowFlashGuy @EthanVanSciver

Disney nor Waititi were doing anything to pump fans up for the Thor: Love & Thunder

& it seemed based on the buzz that this would be a subversive sequel in the way of Last Jedi instead of another Thor Ragnorak #mcu #marvel #comics

But then COVID happened,

Disney's stock crashed, Gov Ron Desantis, called Disney's bluff & the Eternals bombed,

Suddenly the success of a marvel movie was no longer guaranteed.

bleedingfool.com/reviews/thor-4… #mcu #ThorLoveAndThunder #thor #ThorAmorYTrueno #comics #woke #review

So, according to my theory,

Disney took what was likely to be a controversial and divisive film; and tried to make it as bland and appealing to a general global audience as possible.

If you've seen the movie u might know what I mean.

Love & Thunder is on paper the wokest entry in the MCU,

w/ every possible social justice element but toned down from an 11 to a 3

So pushed down that unless U pay attention,

U will miss what was supposed to be the gayest MCU film ever
bleedingfool.com/reviews/thor-4… @Kneon @HAWTToys

Why does this matter,

Thor 4 as a loud & proud “in-your-face-slay-qween,”
it had a direction & strong flavor,

This flavorless version that we got is as generic Walmart toilet paper. #marvel #Thor #boring #meme

besides Christian Bale's intense Gore nothing works

a demur Lady Thor that cannot deliver a joke to save her life, an emasculated Thor & some poorly placed CGI monsters

even Valkyrie's acting is so poor its the definition of “phoning it in”
thedirect.com/article/thor-l… @ThatUmbrella

What hurts the most about this film is that all the pieces for a grand MCU entry are here.

Watch the Trailer for Thor Love and Thunder;

real potential for a cool kick A$$ film
& what we got is so disappointing.

@DDayCobra @TheCriticalDri2 @Wes_from_TC

The funny Waititi, a god-killer, the gosh-darn Guardians of the Galaxy, pantheons of gods, & giant ink monsters.

A superhero dying from cancer & another re-learning how to connect.

Thor 4 should have worked, & yet it didnt🤔
bleedingfool.com/reviews/thor-4… @SonnyBunch @HacktheMovies

So, is the MCU played out? Maybe.🤷

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