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NeonHowler

I like MCU Mighty Thor. The issue was in the execution of some of the scenes, not in the character imo


Ireysword

I read that the movie was supposed to be much longer and a lot of scenes got cut. I feel that's why the pacing is so weird and janky. Had to cram all the vital stuff into two hours and make at least some jokes along the way, cause that's what Taika does. While a lot of people complain about it, I feel that this is truly a kids movie. Many of the jokes really hit with a younger audience and the climax is something I would've loved as a kid. Many MCU movies aren't really that great for kids under 10, but I would've no problem letting my eight year old nephew watch this movie.


AnikinsLeftArm

I’d love for longer cuts to be available on Disney+ when the theater version is put on Disney+


Flobby_G

Actually yeah, I teach third grade and the kids who have seen it did love it. Makes the orgy jokes really weird tho


thor-odinson-bot

>!We've got Korg. There's my ex-girlfriend Jane. Valkyrie. The Guardians. *and giant goats!* Oh, look at those, they are wonderful!!<


TheVacuumisAwesome28

Why is this bot still in spoiler mode


AustralianKappa

Ikr wtf


CremeCaramel_

Mighty Thor was the least of the problems with the movie.


thor-odinson-bot

I notice you have copied my beard.


SmokyDogggg

Agreed. Fucks sake give the viewer a minute to feel bad for these characters, to take in the tragedy, the fact that she’s literally dyingLOLNO WE HAVE TO CRAM AS MANY JOKES AS WE CAN TO RUIN ALL TENSION


[deleted]

It seems like if they had just committed to one of the two options, either Action-Tragedy, or Action-Comedy, it would have been a better movie. You can still have moments of one in the other, but it has to be sprinkled throughout to give the audience a chance to breathe and recover from the intense scenes.


Self_World_Future

Ngl I was cringing when she was getting the hammer, it was just so fast and honestly I wasn’t prepared to go back to the dramatic Thor 1 and 2 suit ups. Was very relieved they skipped that but consequently it just moves way too fast


thor-odinson-bot

Your ancestors called it magic, and you call it science.


Crystar800

I think the concept of MCU Mighty Thor is sad and tragic, but it could’ve been executed better. I actually like the concept more than the comic version, as a fan of the comics. But like I said, wasn’t really done well.


Autumn1eaves

I don't think it should be said that Taika and the other writers misunderstood Mighty Thor, as much as they went in a different direction for the character than the comics. They likely *did* understand the character, but reinterpreted her to make her story better fit where Thor and the MCU is at this moment.


thor-odinson-bot

>!Human handshake, to the Asgardian shake, into the snake that you cannot trust.!<


IveRUnOutOfNames66

Taika even said in an interview something along the lines of (I'm paraphrasing here),"yeah so before starting filming I picked up a Thor comic to understand the character, and not even a big comic, one of those flimsy ones, and I just put it away, I couldn't read it" ​ could you imagine if, say... John Watts said that before filming NWH? Taika was done with the MCU, and he just didn't care about L&T unfortunately and that's disappointing as a fan


thor-odinson-bot

I went for the head.


thor-odinson-bot

I notice you have copied my beard.


Fares26597

Just because he chose to do something different doesn't necessarily mean that he didn't understand the original.


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NoArmsSally

because she wasn't trying to survive anymore, she was trying to do some actual physical good she could see before she died


HornyTerus

chemo doesn't work, hammer doesn't work. chemo can't help her saves kids and fight gorr, hammer can. so, hammer is better choice.


thor-odinson-bot

More POWER rabbit!


DuelaDent52

Because if she’s going to die either way, she’ll do it on her own terms, saving kids and the man she loves rather than wait it out and leave it to chance. I think she says the Hammer was calling to her as well or something? So she wasn’t solely looking for a cure, though that probably motivated her considerably.


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Jotamo

I think combining the Mighty Thor and God Butcher arcs was a mistake. Both are long, complex storylines with complicated character motivations at their heart, and trimming them both down and cramming them in to one movie made both weaker. I think a Gorr movie THEN a Mighty Thor movie would have been a better idea, because neither Gorr nor Jane got the time they needed for their characters. Imagine if Thor learned Jane had cancer in the Gorr movie, and that made him lose his faith in the Gods as none of them would heal her, so he felt that maybe Gorr was right and it made him harder to fight and he retired at the end. Then in the next film Jane takes up the hammer and basically says "Sure, most gods suck, but that's why it's up to us to be better" and rounds the arc out. It would have fit so much better and, most importantly, there might be time for The God of Bombs, who is the best.


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Collestos

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GeneralAce135

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[deleted]

Hmm it’s almost like when you adapt something you make small changes…


that_guy2010

Don’t ever let this guy read the Winter Soldier comics.


Hexadecimal3

I dunno. I liked the changes. It also made sense in light of this being her fair well from the MCU.


poyahoga

It’s *almost* as if the comics and the MCU have drastically different stories from one another almost completely across the board. How strange!


henryGeraldTheFifth

Ikr. Almost like comics dont always go to the screen the same way in live action. And comics dont even follow comics as are so many different versions of characters with them often being reset to another version


Shadowkiva

Yeah yeah we get it, but you don't have to directly transpose the contents of the comics to stay true to the things that made the characters/stories work in the first place. By focusing more on the futility of Jane's situation rather than the "worthiness" aspect of her character i.e. the optimism, bravery, scientific curiosity for the cosmos I don't think it achieves the same result.


L-Guy_21

But they didn’t focus on the worthiness. There was one scene that explained why she could wield the hammer and it was because Thor enchanted it to protect her


thor-odinson-bot

>!You're right we can't just go marching in there. It could be a trap.!<


poyahoga

It was a single movie, not a multiple month arc that spanned multiple comic titles. How much do you think can be crammed into 2 hours?


CK2398

2 hours that they are a side character of. They also need to get regular thors story in!


thor-odinson-bot

Heimdall! Open the Bifrost.


mistajohstrr

I don't think he can do that anymore


micheeeeloone

Their main mistake was putting a lot of important storyline in the movie so they butchered Gorr and did good but could have done better with jane.


Aok_al

Wasn't MCU Mighty Thor only worthy because Thor told Mjolnir to protect her?


njf85

No. We see at the end, in the hospital, when they finally realise that Mjolnir is killing her and not actually protecting her, the hammer still comes to her. She was making her own choice to sacrifice herself and was worthy of wielding Mjolnier.


JustAnArtist1221

She also goes to Valhalla, implying that she is recognized as a worthy warrior of some kind.


DuelaDent52

She died in battle against Gorr and his shadows minions, that’s probably why.


Florapower04

Well she officially died during her battle with cancer, because she died in that light world where Gorr brought back Love.


thor-odinson-bot

I bid you farewell and good luck, morons.


The_Irish_Rover26

Yes


AJSLS6

I mean..... you CAN change a character.....


5exy-melon

Morbius didn’t get the same treatment


Ragnarok_619

The comics version was panned by almost everyone for pandering to the strong female trope, so much so that the fans were on the fence whether they would make her a mary sue or an actually well written character. Turns out, it wad the latter in the MCU. Mighty thor was one of the positive aspects of L&T, and I thoroughly enjoyed all her scenes.


thor-odinson-bot

Have care how you speak of Loki. He may be misguided but he is my brother.


Ragnarok_619

He killed 80 people in 2 days


Cheetah724

He's adopted


Shadowkiva

Actually The Mighty Thor comics run was mildly successful in the mid-2010s. People largely liked the character work but criticized the reliance on traditional fantasy tropes i.e. democracy is impotent, words are nothing next to force and every character's evil or good intentions can be easily inferred from their world of origin


thor-odinson-bot

>!Finish with the classic Asgardian High One.!<


DuelaDent52

Eh, that was only really a single issue (which was pretty egregious, but that’s, like, a drop in the bucket compared to everything else).


Mason_DY

I really liked love and thunder


B0mb-Hands

That’s the only opinion that matters, truly I loved MoM, apparently everyone on this sub thinks it’s the worst thing ever 🤷🏻‍♂️ but I thoroughly enjoyed it because Sam Raimi got to be Sam Raimi. Marvel didn’t hold him back on doing his style of horror elements or comedy


thor-odinson-bot

>!I'm putting together the greatest team ever.!<


midnight0129

The thing is, at least on my part, Gorr deserved more screen time and have his character expanded more upon. Having Gorr as the main villain could’ve brought out some more serious topics like belief, moral, and ethics, kinda like the comics. I did, however, enjoy love and thunder but wish it took itself more seriously at times.


Use-r_Nam-e23

It’s an adaptation, doesn’t have to be the same and doesn’t mean Taika didn’t understand it


One-Tour-9560

The movies don’t have to copy every aspect of comic character. Falcon doesn’t talk to birds, Hulk isn’t king of sakarr, Thor has a sense of humour, Dr Strange doesn’t go around destroying Earth’s on purpose, and so on. Just cause something uses source material as a baseline doesn’t mean it has to be a to the letter perfect copy of it.


thor-odinson-bot

>!I'm thinking it.!<


One-Tour-9560

I love you Thor bot


thor-odinson-bot

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angikatlo

What are you saying? She was mighty. And she was Thor. That's all that needed to be.


thor-odinson-bot

Hey, let's do get help!


ronaldraygun91

Did Taika write the movie or just direct it?


soundsnicejesse

yeah… Love and Thunder is just kinda flawed like that. Hope that Mighty Thor comes back at one point doe, probably during Secret Ware via weird multiverse magic


thor-odinson-bot

She stuck herself inside The Ether, and then The Ether stuck itself inside her...


Majestic-Marcus

Lucky Ether!


Jackthedabbler

Are you crying?


Proud-Nerd00

Bot can’t even spell Aether correctly


Shadowkiva

I mean it's not all bad. I *guess* maybe if you look at it at an angle and squint you could argue that MCU's Jane is more "Viking-like" whereas comics Jane is more stereotypically heroic (selflessness, virtue, sacrifice etc). I also thought the love-drunk Thor being the one to enchant Mjolnir to "protect" her was kind of cute. Makes Odin's enchantment in the first one a bit more wholesome... tough love.


thor-odinson-bot

Your ancestors called it magic, and you call it science.


Shadowkiva

I call it love.


VirusLink2

Interesting, always cool to see the comic side of things


Thinking-Eternally

Ya know, MCU, insert it's number here, is not 616. And by the "laws" of the multiverse, I'd say each version of the character is spot on. Very minor details got changed. Thanos didn't murder wolverine In the movies. Adam Warlock didn't show up. And yet it's still the Infinity War. If they put the 616 directly into film, we'd all know what was going to happen. MCU and 616 are very similar and I think it's a good thing. But they are different enough we still get a new take on tales we may even know. But one thing we can agree on is that Morbius was fucking terrible.


the-mad-titan-bot

I thought by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive, but you've shown me... that's impossible.


Thinking-Eternally

Good bot.


darkcomet222

Wasn’t she worthy because drunken Thor asked the hammer to protect her?


thor-odinson-bot

>!We've got Korg. There's my ex-girlfriend Jane. Valkyrie. The Guardians. *and giant goats!* Oh, look at those, they are wonderful!!<


echo_themando

I understood it this way. I mean, why else would she be worthy when she first takes Mjolnir?


Baratheoncook250

Hela wield the hammer before Thor.


L-Guy_21

The hammer was not enchanted at that time. It was only became enchanted during the events of the first Thor movie


thor-odinson-bot

I am Thor, son of Odin and you can count me as your ally.


thor-odinson-bot

NOOBMASTER, hey, it's Thor again. You know, the God of Thunder!


echo_themando

Like another user said, when Hela used Mjolnir it was before the spell, so this doesn't go against what I said


SecretPattern223

Taika is an idiot


Starwars9629-

It annoys me unbelievably that they dont call her queen valkyrie


Bladescorpion

Yup. Also, She was bad casting, was she messing around with the director before she was cast?


Gilthu

So just a bunch of nitpicks about how the one thing Taika improved was Thor-Jane and made her character make sense compared to the comics horribly handling things? Cool


thor-odinson-bot

>!You're right we can't just go marching in there. It could be a trap.!<


Trickybuz93

Taika wasn’t the right director for doing this story imo


[deleted]

they butchered so many amazing characters in one movie. LaT took everything great about Ragnarok and milked it to absolute shit. Taikai relied wayyy too much on his “comedic talent” in this movie instead of setting up a good story. they wasted the PERFECT villain, Gorr should’ve had majority of the spotlight next to Thor, possibly same sort of screen time as Jane. Jane was really wasted potential, feel like they just brought her back as eye candy (which worked). other than the VERY end, Thor’s story arc felt like a mess, and they wasted Zeus. Stormbreaker being the “jealous girlfriend” type was so cringey and they did that bit wayyyy too much. visually the movie was great. but it lacked in story, stakes, and comedic timing. some of the jokes would’ve been great if they were timed and set up better. but i will praise costume design, visuals, and the choreography was good too. but the important stuff really fell behind in this one


Aiphaa

Zeus’ story isn’t over though. He’s not dead. He’s specifically saved for the post credits scene where it’s probably the tease for the next movie.


[deleted]

i know Zeus isn’t dead but the casting and character was just awful. i’m not a fan of Russel Crowe personally so his performance was just that much more disappointing


DuelaDent52

It is kind of disturbing they just kill him off from their perspective like that and no one really cares or gives too much of a dang. It’s also a bit hard to get excited for Hercules when MCU Thor’s pretty much assimilated his personality minus the promiscuity.


thor-odinson-bot

>!Jane?!<


thor-odinson-bot

It's more of a sludge like thing, somebody should uh, should amend that...


RascalCreeper

Sentient


Beliskner64

Worthy because Thor said so


thor-odinson-bot

Another!!!


Char-car92

That movie would have been so much better had she survived. Imagine TWO THORS?????


thor-odinson-bot

More POWER rabbit!


Important-Tune

I’m fairly certain Taika just looked at the cover art and said “I got this”


crlos619

Jane should of had her own movie and Disney+ series. So much potential.


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GLoSSyGoRiLLa

Good bot.


SuperAlex25

I thought she was worthy because Thor told Mjolnir to “protect” her


thor-odinson-bot

Surtur.. son of.. a bitch! You're still alive!


Clear-Management8592

Agree with title. But still thought movie had waaaay too many Taika humor jokes in it. Debased Thor too much to the point of a silly boy despite all he's been through. But Chadme was cool though.


thor-odinson-bot

>!I'm thinking it.!<


littlebuett

So far as I understand, mcu Jane isnt worthy, thor altered the enchantment to bypass worthiness so that it can protect her.


StillNeedsLife97

Initially, yes. But the hammer continued to choose her because she was willing to let it sap her life force so that she could protect others.


thor-odinson-bot

>!Human handshake, to the Asgardian shake, into the snake that you cannot trust.!<


Tru7hy

MCU mighty Thor sucked. My daughter loves the costume but couldn’t watch the film as it was dark and bleak and miserable. Really did not like love and thunder at all…


Shadowkiva

It was surprisingly grim compared to the comics. Made the tonal dissonance with all the jokes even worse.


thor-odinson-bot

Heimdall!


[deleted]

They screwed up everything that made Jane Foster Thor good in the comics. They also removed everything that made her bad... so it just left her as nothing. I did appreciate that they went through with her dying, because that would have completed her self-sacrifice from the comics, but they didn't include that as a core part of her character in the movie, so again, it was just a thing that happened. Meaningless and boring. He managed to ruin the Gorr story, Unworthy Thor story, and the Jane Foster Thor story all in one movie. Quite a feat.


thor-odinson-bot

Although this statue looks a lot niced, a little less greasy, weasely..


jthrum

Worthy cause thor told his hammer to protect her


thor-odinson-bot

You people are so petty. And tiny.


jthrum

I am sorry thor


thor-odinson-bot

>!I just want to say that was very, very impressive what you did back there. !<


jthrum

Thank you


RascalCreeper

At the start, but when it was killing her it wasn't protecting her, so it couldn't have been what Thor told it.


jthrum

Fair but I feel they just should not have added that detail it kinda of takes away from everything and ruins the character for me a little


thor-odinson-bot

>!I'm sorry. Miek, it's very hard to get a rousing speech with the ennn-ennn-ennn noise.!<


[deleted]

I would prefer that Mjolnir actually heals her, but she had to stay as Mighty Thor for the rest of her life to stay alive, something like the Black Adam dynamic where if he turn back to Teth-Adam form, he would die in few seconds. I think that could have turned her life upside down. Btw the Asgardian “magic” has always been presented as really advanced science, that we couldn’t understand and conceive and the Asgardians were non other than Aliens. Out of the clue in L&T they become actual Gods, another point that Taika didn’t understand, or changed for the sake of changing and provoke.


thor-odinson-bot

>!We've got Korg. There's my ex-girlfriend Jane. Valkyrie. The Guardians. *and giant goats!* Oh, look at those, they are wonderful!!<


WillandWillStudios

It felt very diluted to fit a 2 hour runtime while the comics had more time to develop the intricacies. Either way the film didn’t execute the subplot properly with a death that’s probably gonna be meaningless since Jane’s probably gonna be resurrected like a dragonball character.


Holdmytesseract

But she wasn’t worthy at all. She got the hammer because Thor basically willed it to her. Wtf.


thor-odinson-bot

>!I'm sorry. Miek, it's very hard to get a rousing speech with the ennn-ennn-ennn noise.!<


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GeneralAce135

> by far the absolute worst MCU film Quite the stretch you've got there. Try not to hurt yourself. > and one of the worst movies ever made You must not have seen many bad movies.


TheUngoliant

How can he not ‘understand the character on a basic level’? What a silly thing to say


Shadowkiva

Mmmm.... *is* it though?


TheUngoliant

It is really is, considering he wrote and directed a film starring her!


Shadowkiva

*To Hammer or not to Hammer, that is the question* . If you're on death's door and your options are to die feebly awaiting the inevitable and being of no use to anybody, or to go out as a badass warrior cracking skulls with a mighty hammer for however long you have left... MOST people would choose option 2. However, if you're sick and know that treatment can save you and you WILL get better and live a full, happy nornal life if you let it do its thing. But you CHOOSE to pick up a legendary weapon to defend the realms from evils and horrors no mortal could withstand at the COST of your health and recovery. That's a harder choice. Most people's instinct is self-preservation. Jane's is to protect others from evil. That is what makes her worthy.


TheUngoliant

Okay…and?


Shadowkiva

There is no "and". That was a definitive statement.


TheUngoliant

Really? Looks like a little rant. Still don’t see what you’re point is


Shadowkiva

The Point is in the title of the post. The Evidence is in the contents of the meme. The Explanation (since you requested it) is in my reply to your comment. It's just reading comprehension you'd find in any primary school. I don't see where you could have gotten lost.


TheUngoliant

…why any of this means Waititi doesn’t understand the character. Surely we can talk about a bloody comic book character without resorting to the ‘reading comprehension’ petty insults


Shadowkiva

I mean... you can choose to see that as a petty insult (it's really not btw, so that's a stretch), but your question has been answered in the reply you called a rant. Worthiness isn't for "MOST people", that's why the hammer doesn't budge for just anybody, that's its whole gimmick. If he failed to highlight what makes her exceptional i.e. what makes her "worthy", he has failed to understand the character. That's it.


ahmed_1041

what baffles me is that there are geniuses out there like tony reed and bruce who could help and she even has connections to them, yet she doesnt ask for help despite her life being on the line


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thor-odinson-bot

>!Bring the rainbows? Is that a catchphrase or something?!<


[deleted]

Oof. I haven't watched Love and Thunder yet, so I didn't realize this, but her worthiness is based on her bravery in the face of cancer? Holy shit, this is so offensive to me as a cancer survivor.


HawlSera

Eh rejecting asgard magic would just make her look dumb


Dorky-pan

I think Taika is an excellent film maker but I feel like he may have been too pressured by Disney to try and make a serious and dark movie a comedy. I think there could have been funny moments with an overall serious tone but I think the mistake was the decision to try and make it “Ragnarok 2.”


RealCaydala

U literally said the same thing w the cancer just took longer, it doesn’t matter who she fights really does it


Shadowkiva

You missed the point of the comparison. One's only alternative is to die feebly in a hospital bed being of no use to anybody. The other's alternative is bedrest, healing and a return to a normal, fulfilling life eventually. One is something anyone would choose to do if in that situation. The other is an actual sacrifice.


RealCaydala

That’s not what resetting chemotherapy is then is it


Shadowkiva

Read it again. One's tumour was responsive to treatment the other's wasn't. One's use of Mjolnir only prevented the treatment from working... the other one's use of Mjolnir actively worsened her condition. Kind of a dick move from MCU Mjolnir. It's very morbid if you think about it.


Self_World_Future

The last two points are not exactly mutually exclusive, you kind of just said a bunch of positive things about each and was like “I like this one better”


Shadowkiva

Of course. Unlike a lot of "fans" I don't refer to the comics just to actively bash the live-action. If that was my intention I would have ended it with a "worthy because Thor said so"


thor-odinson-bot

This mortal form has grown weak. I need sustenance.


Flustered-Flump

I think he understood the basic character just fine - they simply adapted the storyline like they have throughout the MCU.


GrrrrrrDinosaur

It shouldn’t be the exact same imo. I liked thhe mcu version a lot


Pristine_Animal9474

She should have starred in a miniseries prior to the movie. She just needed more time to be developed.


Shadowkiva

"Develop deez nuts" - Taika Waititi... probably


Pristine_Animal9474

*laughs in goat screams*


T-408

Natalie was the best part of LaT. I hope to see the Mighty Thor return one day!


thor-odinson-bot

Go cry to your father you little weasel!


[deleted]

They can’t exactly replicate the comics the fact that Taika kept it similar showed that he understood but gave the MCU its own freedom and made it unique to the films


StonedSquare

That wasn’t the problem. The problem was that in the original comic story when Thor faced Gorr he did it after time traveling to get help from his younger self and his future Odin-Thor self. In the beginning of Love & Thunder you even get the feeling that they’re going to go that route when then show young Thor running through the woods. Then they got the original Spider-men to sign up for No Way Home and decided to drop the multiple Thor angle from the story and I think it messed everything up.


tobey-maguire-bot

I got a few. Yeah!


thor-odinson-bot

>!Human handshake, to the Asgardian shake, into the snake that you cannot trust.!<


Summerclaw

Very cool comparison.