Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to a spoiler edition of Thor, Love
Speaker 1: and Thunder. The movie review. I am your host movie Mike.
Speaker 1: I like doing these because I get to talk freely,
Speaker 1: because if you're here, that means you've seen Thor, Love
Speaker 1: and Thunder and want to know about the spoiler parts
Speaker 1: about it. And if you're here and haven't seen Thor
Speaker 1: and Love and Thunder, maybe you just want to get
Speaker 1: all the details without having to go and see the movie.
Speaker 1: Either way, we're going to get right into it. The
Speaker 1: most interesting thing I didn't get to talk about in
Speaker 1: the regular review was the fact that Jane Foster played
Speaker 1: by Natalie Portman, got cancer in this movie, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of how they kicked it off. I didn't particularly
Speaker 1: love her entire story with that, but I guess they
Speaker 1: were trying to add some emotional value here taking on
Speaker 1: something so serious, and I think a lot of times
Speaker 1: I go to Marvel movies for a little bit of escapism.
Speaker 1: I don't want to think about real problems, all the
Speaker 1: real things that usually face our fictional, hyper fictional crazy
Speaker 1: things you'd never encounter in your real life. And then
Speaker 1: they gave Jane a real life, hardcore problem. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I wouldn't have given her such a serious disease
Speaker 1: it caused her to die, even though she did die
Speaker 1: a heroic death, I just thought that was a little
Speaker 1: bit sad. And when you talk further down the line
Speaker 1: of them making another one of these movies and her
Speaker 1: not being in that same role now that she's passed away,
Speaker 1: I find that to be a little bit of a bummer.
Speaker 1: I was just happy that she was back in this
Speaker 1: movie to begin with, and it just kind of felt like, Oh,
Speaker 1: you're back, and now you are gone in the most
Speaker 1: saddest way. Aside from that, and the intro of the
Speaker 1: movie feeling a little bit rushed to get through all
Speaker 1: those things, to get through the diagnosis, to get her
Speaker 1: becoming mighty Thor, and it really not finding its footing
Speaker 1: until towards the end of the first act beginning of
Speaker 1: the second act. That's kind of where Thor lost me
Speaker 1: a little bit. And then you get to them having
Speaker 1: this great villain now Gore the god Butcher, And the
Speaker 1: other thing I was talking about is I felt like
Speaker 1: I wanted more of the things that make him such
Speaker 1: a threat in this because Christian Bale is a really
Speaker 1: great actor, I thought he was really the perfect pick
Speaker 1: to play this villain, and as part of the reason
Speaker 1: that I was so excited going into this movie. But
Speaker 1: I didn't see a whole lot of him killing people.
Speaker 1: You get it a little bit there in that first
Speaker 1: fight scene where he comes to New Aascard and is,
Speaker 1: you know, unleashing all his monsters, but you never really
Speaker 1: see him take out all the other gods. And maybe
Speaker 1: they didn't want to show too much violence, too much gore,
Speaker 1: blood and guts to keep that PG. Thirteen rating. But
Speaker 1: I thought they had such a great villain here who
Speaker 1: could have really done a whole lot more, and you
Speaker 1: have such a great actor like Christian bale use a more.
Speaker 1: It just took a little bit out of the whole
Speaker 1: final battle where he hasn't done anything that devious, hasn't
Speaker 1: done anything that brutal to really make you fear him
Speaker 1: as a villain. I just never felt like he at
Speaker 1: any point was going to defeat Thor. I thought Thor
Speaker 1: throughout the entire movie had a pretty good grasp on
Speaker 1: how he was going to take him down, and the
Speaker 1: whole final fight scene was a little sub part of me.
Speaker 1: Except for the fact that Thora was able to finally
Speaker 1: get to the kids and then give the kids his
Speaker 1: powers to take out Gore, the god butcher. I think
Speaker 1: that was the best part of the entire movie, and
Speaker 1: that would have had just so much more of an
Speaker 1: impact if there would have been a little bit more
Speaker 1: struggle between him and Gore. But those kids with Thor's
Speaker 1: powers having no idea how to use them was amazing.
Speaker 1: And then you have Natalie Portman coming in and knowing
Speaker 1: that if she uses her powers again she's going to die,
Speaker 1: still go in there. Do it for the love, do
Speaker 1: it to die a glorious death in battle. I thought
Speaker 1: that was a cool moment, but I also kind of
Speaker 1: saw it coming to and maybe that was the other thing.
Speaker 1: Some of the elements were a little bit predictable. But
Speaker 1: even with that, it was still a really fun, entertaining,
Speaker 1: wayd romantic comedy and met all my expectations going into it.
Speaker 1: There were very few things I could really say bad
Speaker 1: about it, and was kind of surprised when I shared
Speaker 1: my review and saw a lot of other people not
Speaker 1: feel the same way. This was a movie that I
Speaker 1: really thought delivered in the action, in the comedy, but
Speaker 1: maybe some people just aren't the biggest fan of Thor
Speaker 1: and the jokes fall flat or some of the comedy
Speaker 1: kind of is on the line of the cheesiness and
Speaker 1: just the fun, so you can kind of take it
Speaker 1: either way. But for me, I was all in. I'm
Speaker 1: really still enjoying Marvel Phase four, and I know I've
Speaker 1: been kind of back and forth on that with my feelings,
Speaker 1: and I've been thinking about it a lot recently seeing
Speaker 1: other people talk about Phase four, and I'm actually gonna
Speaker 1: do a whole Marvel episode next week breaking down all
Speaker 1: the announcements they made a comic con and how Phase
Speaker 1: four is wrapping up, and how five and six are
Speaker 1: gonna come into play there for so many big announcements.
Speaker 1: I've been doing my research and getting all my notes
Speaker 1: together for that episode. But the thing I will share
Speaker 1: now is that I think for a while there, I
Speaker 1: just kind of got tired of the post credit scenes
Speaker 1: and that whole like shock value of oh, this person
Speaker 1: is going to be the next movie. And maybe that's
Speaker 1: just because I've been seeing them in every single movie.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they don't pay off, and sometimes they just introduced
Speaker 1: like a minor character or the villain in the next movie.
Speaker 1: So I just felt like those started to be a
Speaker 1: little bit cliche. And then once the launch of Disney
Speaker 1: Plus came and all these Disney Plus shows started rolling
Speaker 1: out too, it felt like a lot to keep up
Speaker 1: with to watch all the Marvel shows because they're all
Speaker 1: connected into the movies, kind of like my things separate,
Speaker 1: And maybe that's a weird thing for me. I enjoy
Speaker 1: it when all the movies are connected, but when I'm
Speaker 1: having to watch every single other show to know the
Speaker 1: origin stories of all these other characters, it feels less
Speaker 1: like I'm doing some of these things for entertainment and
Speaker 1: more like I'm doing homework. But also, Marvel has just
Speaker 1: changed so much from two thousand and eight to now.
Speaker 1: It's just funny to see that at one point we
Speaker 1: were always dying to see the next Marvel movie in
Speaker 1: the next project and having to wait, And now the
Speaker 1: argument is that we have too much all at once.
Speaker 1: So I feel like they've just been trying to make
Speaker 1: all of us happy with the content, and we still
Speaker 1: find ways to complain. So I'm trying to find that
Speaker 1: happy medium of being irritated and also being overjoyed as
Speaker 1: a fan. But we'll get into more of that next week.
Speaker 1: Back to Thor. They did mention at the end of
Speaker 1: the movie that Thor will return, even though he wasn't
Speaker 1: in any of the announcements. They made a comic con
Speaker 1: which usually those change a little bit, even sometimes the
Speaker 1: movies they announced don't end up getting made, where something
Speaker 1: happens gets postponed. But it looks like he will come back,
Speaker 1: and probably now with the daughter of Gore, the god Butcher,
Speaker 1: which I really loved that little tie in at the
Speaker 1: end of Thor adopting her. It went from Gore trying
Speaker 1: to kill Thor the entire movie to him adopting his
Speaker 1: daughter and trusting him with her life to take care
Speaker 1: of her, and then that whole little final end scene
Speaker 1: of him making her breakfast and then going off into
Speaker 1: New Asgard. That just seems like an entirely different, fun
Speaker 1: plot line to explore like that itself. I feel like
Speaker 1: it could almost be like an old school sitcom. So
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how that would translate into the
Speaker 1: next movie if they decide to explore that plot line more.
Speaker 1: And then maybe you have Natalie Portman living her afterlife
Speaker 1: kind of separately. You get a little bit in that
Speaker 1: post credit scene her being greeted by Heimdahl played by
Speaker 1: Address Elba, who, if you remember, he was killed in
Speaker 1: Infinity War by Thanos. So they meet and are reunited
Speaker 1: there he thanks her for helping protect his son, and
Speaker 1: then she gets to celebrate after dying as a warrior
Speaker 1: and gets to live in that godly afterlife that they've
Speaker 1: been referencing the entire movie, So they were kind of
Speaker 1: setting that up the entire time. Again a little predictable,
Speaker 1: but I'm okay with it. And then the biggest thing
Speaker 1: in the post credit scene was Brett Goldstein a k a.
Speaker 1: Roy Kent from ted Lasso being introduced as Hercules. He
Speaker 1: looks entirely like the part, and I feel like he
Speaker 1: is the perfect person that I didn't know we needed
Speaker 1: to counter Chris Hemsworth and be a possible villain in
Speaker 1: the next movie. I did like the way they tied
Speaker 1: in these other famous gods like Hercules and Zeus. I
Speaker 1: think that entire scene where they go to Zeus to
Speaker 1: try to get him to help them and then taking
Speaker 1: his thunderbolt, I think that was this movie at its
Speaker 1: comedic best. The other part of it that I loved
Speaker 1: is that the Guardians of the Galaxy didn't have that
Speaker 1: much of screen time in this Their whole part in
Speaker 1: this movie was pretty minimal, which going into it, I
Speaker 1: thought maybe they were going to be a bigger part
Speaker 1: of it. So overall, I'm looking pretty hopeful at the
Speaker 1: future of Thor because underneath all the jokes, there was
Speaker 1: just a really good story about him growing as a person,
Speaker 1: going from not wanting to be Thor anymore, not wanting
Speaker 1: to do anything heroic, to him wanting that life of
Speaker 1: settling down and finding love and then being reunited with Jane.
Speaker 1: It felt like everything was kind of all coming back
Speaker 1: and he was going to have his entire world that
Speaker 1: he never knew he could have. And I love that
Speaker 1: they recap their entire love story to make you remember
Speaker 1: all those things, and even adding more details to that
Speaker 1: really fleshed out his character and her character and showed
Speaker 1: how important it was for them to be reunited. It
Speaker 1: seems like they're about to fall in love, they have
Speaker 1: that kiss, but then the whole time he knows now
Speaker 1: that she has cancer and it is probably not going
Speaker 1: to live, so you can get that taken away from him.
Speaker 1: So now he's really this whole new person after he
Speaker 1: went from regretting losing the love of his life because
Speaker 1: he was so busy with being an Avenger and being
Speaker 1: there than being gone and just losing her by not
Speaker 1: being there. Like I thought that was a pretty powerful
Speaker 1: message for a Marvel movie. I felt that was one
Speaker 1: of the most relatable lessons that they've taught in a while.
Speaker 1: And now here he is, he's lost her. He helped
Speaker 1: out somebody who was trying to kill him, this utterly
Speaker 1: evil person, and is now taking care of his daughter.
Speaker 1: And for the first time it was a reference to
Speaker 1: him wanting to be a father, and now he has that.
Speaker 1: You get to see Thor through fatherhood, so it's a
Speaker 1: more mature Thor. It's adult four, it's dad Thor. And
Speaker 1: I think that's a really fun plot line to follow.
Speaker 1: I think it sets up for a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: comedic moments of him trying to teach a kid who
Speaker 1: has superpowers to be a normal kid, but also doing
Speaker 1: it in a very unconventional way. I think that sets
Speaker 1: up the next film perfectly. When that one will be here,
Speaker 1: we don't know yet. Hopefully they'll figure that out soon
Speaker 1: and let us know when we can expect it, probably
Speaker 1: another three or four years. Down the line. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been waiting for this movie for a very long time.
Speaker 1: I remember this one being part of the last big
Speaker 1: announcement they did. But I'm here for it. I'm ready
Speaker 1: for it. I would easily put this one in the
Speaker 1: top three of Phase four, and we found out that
Speaker 1: Phase four will end later this year with a Black Panther,
Speaker 1: So once that movie comes out, I'll do my entire
Speaker 1: ranking and break down Phase four, which has probably had
Speaker 1: the most criticism so far, but I think it's just
Speaker 1: us getting used to what Marvel is going to become. Anyway.
Speaker 1: That is the spoiler review of four. Love and Thunder
Speaker 1: come back on next week's episode. I have a lot
Speaker 1: more things Marvel to discuss. I got to talk about
Speaker 1: the Black Panther trailer. You got to talk about all
Speaker 1: the new movies they announced, I mean, not one, but
Speaker 1: two Avengers movies, Daredevil's coming back, there's yet another attempt
Speaker 1: at the Fantastic four, which could be glorious. There could
Speaker 1: be another disaster. So I hope to talk to you
Speaker 1: next week. Until then, later