Posted on 06/16/2019 8:42:18 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Remake...check
Womanized...check
Liam Neeson...check
Nope...won’t be seeing it.
Go woke, go broke. And this chick’s liberal elitism was especially bad.
Sophie Turner didn’t help X-Men Phoenix by saying she won’t work in Georgia because of their abortion law, offending half the audience in some way. Hypocrisy was working in Northern Ireland on Game of Thrones when all abortion was illegal there.
The Men in Black female star is especially egregious. Gets the titled role, then BASHES THE NAME OF THE VERY FRANCHISE. Too stupid to be the titular character.
He seems to be making a trend of that, since the last Avengers had Fat, emasculated Thor.
#13 Chris Hemsworth was also emasculated as Thor in the last Marvel movie. He best check his pants when the next role comes along.
“Chris Hemsworth was also emasculated as Thor in the last Marvel movie. He best check his pants when the next role comes along.”
Thor will be back, and he will kick butt!
I was a collector long ago (starting c. 1962, just after Atlas, formerly Timely, became Marvel), and enjoyed much of the MCU before now.
To each his own: Thor: Ragnarok was my least favorite of Phases 1-3, behind even Captain Marvel.
It was the prelude to Endgame: They turned the God of Thunder into the God of Blunder.
It was a chance for petty, vindictive, self-righteous Social (In-)Justice Warriors to turn a handsome, noble, mighty white male into a blubberous, blubbering buffoon.
They would suffer torture en masse before doing that to non-white T’Challa or non-male Carol Danvers.
Journey Into Mystery with The Mighty Thor was one of my favorites as a boy, because I already knew Norse Mythology, and because Thor was portrayed as majestic, not pathetic.
The idea that a 1,500-year-old paragon would quickly transform into a 30-year-old couch potato was a transparent plot device of profound absurdity.
Twelve Angry Trans-Women.
I started collecting comics with The Incredible Hulk #1. I read a lot of the pre-superhero monster comics published by Marvel. I have a collection of at least 20,000 (have to catalog them one of these days) and stopped buying and reading them when I was in my early 40’s (I’m 66 now).
One of my favorite Thor stories was when Walt Simonson (who both wrote and illustrated it) was Thor, The Frog of Thunder. It may have demeaned the “god of thunder” is some eyes, but I thought it was clever and quite entertaining.
“It was a chance for petty, vindictive, self-righteous Social (In-)Justice Warriors to turn a handsome, noble, mighty white male into a blubberous, blubbering buffoon.”
I think people are getting carried away with SJW BS and reading it into stories where it doesn’t exist. I admit I didn’t like seeing a fat and drunken Thor, but I still found it humorous. He came back, didn’t he?
Having the character (with Hemsworth) showing his comic (as in funny, not books) side probably will keep the character going for a couple of more movies. I’m all for it. Hemsworth as Thor was almost as good casting as Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.
#74 his brother likes Miley Virus..... why? I guess he likes freaks.
#85 Thor will be back, and he will kick butt!
If he does that then it better not be a female villain or he will end up in HR!!
That was epic, FRiend.
Journey Into Mystery/Thor was always one of my favorite mags. I still re-read them. I particularly liked it when they started having Thor speak in pseudo-Shakespearean English ("Thor says thee nay!"). The Thor part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been one of my least favorites. Hemsworth has always played him like sort of a dumb jock. By not showing his Earthly alter-ego of gifted surgeon Dr. Blake, he just never seems to be very intelligent. And Loki keeps "doing the right thing" in at least two of the movies, whereas in the comics he was 100% dick.
I knew there would be problems with Ragnarok when I read that Hemsworth suggested adding more humor like Guardians of the Galaxy. The humor came off exactly as if they were imitating another (and better) movie. One thing I did like about Ragnarok was that Hela's costume looked a great deal like the comic book version drawn by Jack Kirby and John Buscema.
Of course, I get that part of the problem is that the plan all along was to link the solo movies into a grand Avengers saga in which the individual characters suffered a bit by not getting fleshed out.
To be fair regarding the first film, K and Z actually saved a border patrol agent from the main guy they were targeting, Mikey, who was a literal illegal alien (and who was not treated sympathetically, and if anything, they specifically added in Mikey trying to kill the border patrol agent specifically to avoid Mikey being slightly sympathetic), and it’s also implied that Zed was deeply considering failing James for that stunt and only let him on because K requested it. Plus, it does have a very good slam against the New York Times at one point.
As far as the MIBI, eh, not fond of the woke elements from what I heard. If there’s any silver lining, though, they did tackle Middle Eastern terrorism and had the main alien be a Middle Eastern terrorist, so it at least condemns that bit (and make no mistake, I’ve seen plenty of woke materials that if anything try to paint the Middle Eastern terrorists as sympathetic, heck, anyone who’s muslim for that matter.).
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