Looks like Justice League ...

Oct 19, 2017 23:22:12 GMT damngumby said:

... has a very high bar to hurdle.

Thor Ragnarok is currently at 98% with 41 critics weighing in. Holy Cow!

If a Marvel movie from its third tier superhero series manages to beat out DC's historic team-up of A-listers, by gum, it may usher in the Apocalypse! Rivers will flood (with tears) and the heavens will be filled with the wailing of countless despondent souls.

... or it's going to get vewy vewy quiet around here.

And just to give you a little perspective on those reviews, here are some excerpts from within those reviews...

From Entertainment Weekly:

What neither Hemsworth nor his director can overcome, though, is Ragnarok’s meandering and narcoleptic story. It’s the sort of rote, paint-by-numbers slog (occasionally broken up by numbing, pro forma smashy-smashy smackdowns) that makes so many Marvel movies feel like Xeroxes of other Marvel movies. I get the why-mess-with-success impulse. Especially when there’s so much money to be made in movies like this. But even the most diehard comic-book fan has to be getting a bit exhausted by a narrative formula that’s become as thin and watered down as skim milk.

There’s a lot more to the bloated story, but honestly, none of it is very interesting. In fact, it’s endless. You don’t care what’s happening or what’s going to happen next. We’re just led from place to place for a hash of foggy reasons that no one will ever remember 10 minutes after leaving the theater.

Doesn't actually sound that glowing as a review. Here's another...

From USAToday:

The adventure leans hard into the campy Flash Gordon vibe and slapstick humor, so much so that when the third act save-the-world stuff comes, it doesn’t feel completely earned. The Guardians of the Galaxy movies, Spider-Man: Homecoming and even Ant-Man struck an enjoyable balance between the absurd and the serious that Ragnarok just doesn’t quite nail.

And another...

From Associated Press:

The bones of the story are preposterous as ever. Poor Blanchett, who has gone full vamp as Hela, is good as always but how lame it must be to be in the “fun” Thor movie and have to play one of the most blandly written villains ever. it’s a fairly flawed movie on the whole with egregious tonal shifts. Some of the gags go on too long with the Hulk with too little payoff and sometimes it seems as though there’s a mandate that every 25 minutes there will be a big fight no matter what. One particular army of the dead sequence seemed like it could have been lifted from a “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie — which is not the most flattering comparison. While Waititi’s energy and wit is apparent in the film, it still feels as though he had to operate from the same Marvel “base flavor” and was allowed on occasion to sprinkle a few of his own original toppings on. “Thor: Ragnarok” is the most fun of the Thor movies by a long shot, but it is still very much a Thor movie for better or worse.

So... not actually as glowing as it seems on the face of it, huh? I can go on, but I wont bore you. I wonder how these are adding up to such high numbers? Could it mean that the numbers are just shit after all? Something to think about...

Personally I hope the movie is a huge success because I want to see a good movie. And I hope JL is great too. But I don't put much stock in tomato meters.

Oct 25, 2017 20:34:58 GMT formersamhmd said:

It could mean that the whole is good enough to make up for parts they didn't like.

Anyways, people who say that Ragnarok is supposed to be a dark story about the destruction of the Gods don't know the original myth...even in the original myth there are surviving Gods who go elsewhere and start over. It's a cyclical thing where civilization ends temporarily but ends on the note that they WILL rebuild and start again.

You're probably right, and I hope that's the case, because like I said before, I want to see a good movie regardless of whether its Marvel or DC.

But as to Ragnarok being a dark story, you're right and your wrong. Some gods may survive it depending on which telling you're going for, but it is the ending of the gods and the end of a cycle of all the nine worlds so its not supposed to be lite. Still, this movie isn't about the TRUE Ragnarok, clearly. I think they should have saved that title for another Thor movie where they they do the real Ragnarok End of the Gods story. IF they do it.

Oct 25, 2017 21:39:09 GMT damngumby said:

Even YOU are already starting with it: Calling Thor "third tier" and Justice League "DC's historic team-up of A-listers". That's the rhetoric right there! Its already started!

I’m afraid I can’t claim credit for that rhetoric. That was from some DC fan crowing about how awesome Justice League was going to be in comparison to another Thor movie.

BTW, Thor has climbed to 99%.
67 to 1.
Will Thor Ragnarok become the best reviewed superhero movie of the year, beating Logan and Spider-Man Homecoming?

Well if you mean specifically DC FAN that guy does go overboard. Then there's WEIRDRAPTOR who goes overboard in the other direction. They both go so overboard in their extremes that sometimes I wonder if they're actually not the same guy posting under two different names just to stir shit up on the boards! lol

Thor Ragnarok: best reviewed comic book movie of the year? We'll see. It looks that way so far. I just want to see a good movie. But regardless, I'm seeing both Thor and JL so they both get my money. Then Disney wins again because I'm also going to see Star Wars!

They got me! They got me!!!