OH WOW OK wow. I find myself wishing for in-line comment ability because this is just too much react to in one comment?? Your post and also the entire movie ahhhh so much.
First YES, the tonal shifts! I was laughing so hard throughout all the humorous parts, and they were done so well that the dark parts didn't really hit while I was watching? Like, Hela was murdering Volstaag and Hogun and people (ALSO WHERE WAS SIF UM????) and I was like "wait what they can't REALLY be dead" but SURPRISE THEY VERY WERE. Not that I would want the tone to change, though! The light, character driven buddy banter quest thing really really worked for me. It was exactly what the trailer promised and I was the MOST into it. If anything I'd have wanted the stakes to be lower, instead of the movie balancing the tones so the actual stakes felt higher.
Also, briefly: thor's haircut? it looks so good? Those diagonal lines in the short part were the perfect touch, idk I want one.
THE LINE ABOUT WHERE DO YOU THINK ALL THIS GOLD CAME FROM!!! [infinite line of fire emojis] Yesssssss so good. And there's a line between the grandmaster and his assistant where he's like "Ugh don't use that word" "What, mainframe?" "No, the.....s....word" "Ok, the prisoners...with jobs..." "better!" I NEARLY GASPED ALOUD. Taika Waititi calling out every evil institution via neon action movies 2017.
Also the grandmaster's assistant (does she have a name that I missed?) was PERFECT, I love her. She and Skurge should get an entire featurette where they just complain about being the unwilling henchmen to an evil ruler for 20 minutes straight and also she tells him to stop being such a creep (he was such a creep in the beginning uuuhghgh my skin crawled. Honestly after that intro I'm surprised he was as reluctant to embrace Hela's regime as he was.)
So yes I also! have so many emotions! But I've got to get back to work so I'll cut it off at just these ones for now. (THOR/LOKI THO this movie has renewed my zeal for this ship. That scene at the end! I WOULD HUG YOU IF YOU WERE ACTUALLY HERE. Literally a fic prompt. I am going to need about five million timestamp fics for what happens after the cut.)
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First YES, the tonal shifts! I was laughing so hard throughout all the humorous parts, and they were done so well that the dark parts didn't really hit while I was watching? Like, Hela was murdering Volstaag and Hogun and people (ALSO WHERE WAS SIF UM????) and I was like "wait what they can't REALLY be dead" but SURPRISE THEY VERY WERE. Not that I would want the tone to change, though! The light, character driven buddy banter quest thing really really worked for me. It was exactly what the trailer promised and I was the MOST into it. If anything I'd have wanted the stakes to be lower, instead of the movie balancing the tones so the actual stakes felt higher.
Also, briefly: thor's haircut? it looks so good? Those diagonal lines in the short part were the perfect touch, idk I want one.
THE LINE ABOUT WHERE DO YOU THINK ALL THIS GOLD CAME FROM!!! [infinite line of fire emojis] Yesssssss so good. And there's a line between the grandmaster and his assistant where he's like "Ugh don't use that word" "What, mainframe?" "No, the.....s....word" "Ok, the prisoners...with jobs..." "better!" I NEARLY GASPED ALOUD. Taika Waititi calling out every evil institution via neon action movies 2017.
Also the grandmaster's assistant (does she have a name that I missed?) was PERFECT, I love her. She and Skurge should get an entire featurette where they just complain about being the unwilling henchmen to an evil ruler for 20 minutes straight and also she tells him to stop being such a creep (he was such a creep in the beginning uuuhghgh my skin crawled. Honestly after that intro I'm surprised he was as reluctant to embrace Hela's regime as he was.)
So yes I also! have so many emotions! But I've got to get back to work so I'll cut it off at just these ones for now. (THOR/LOKI THO this movie has renewed my zeal for this ship. That scene at the end! I WOULD HUG YOU IF YOU WERE ACTUALLY HERE. Literally a fic prompt. I am going to need about five million timestamp fics for what happens after the cut.)