Good Stuff I Watched, Read, Heard, Or Played

I watched a few movies this weekend.

Thor: Ragnarok - First off, I did like this movie. That's why I'm writing about it.

Things I likes

Thor - the lighter tone to his character. I would argue Thor always had comedic elements that combated with the more regal nature of who he was.

Hulk/Thor battle - Lived up to my imagination

Valkyrie whose name I forget - Clearly a love interest since Sif has disappeared from the movie

Hela - Kate Blanchett is awesome, as is often the case, and I wish they sent more time on her

Jeff Goldblum - It's always nice to see him loopy.

Things I dislikes

The Marvel hordes - I truly despise this now. Way too many of their movies requires an army of mindless clones to disintegrate and blow up. Hela is powerful enough to kill a whole army by herself and yet she still needs an army of the undead? A Marvel movie is automatically going to be knocked a full point if I see them. They add nothing to the story.

Story - The story was fairly inconhesive. I must have blocked Avengers 2 & Thor 2 out of my memory because it took me way to long to wonder how Hulk got there or why Odin all of a sudden felt the need to die

Comedy - It was very TV show like humor. I could feel the pacing. There were very few surprises.

Loki - No really necessary. I get the impression Loki exists merely to give Hiddleston a reliable paycheck.

Overall, I liked it, but it did not live up to the praise it's been receiving that now seems to be largely based on how different it is from previous Thors.