Thor: Ragnarok The Official News and Speculation Thread - Part 5

[jaqua99]

I think worry is used as a figure of speech.

Why ease someone's "humor drama?". People have opinions, there isnt drama dude, people are just expressing a bias. There's no issue with that.

Being too funny is a worry of mine as well. I have personal expectations about Thor, and Ragnarok and a personal idealized tone that recent comments certainly challenge. Doesn't mean it's an ACTUAL worry of mine, I'd just be expressing a thought, reptitively, there's nothing dramatic about an opinion.

There are two posts on this page that use a curse word and these posts are in response to posts about humor.
all this is, is a conflict of biases.

Why can't the posts about different opnions be ignored or respected as an individual's opinion? The ones who agree can discuss among themselves. If two sides discuss it, they can agree to disagree.
Where's the love !?

This post is, in a way, rhetorical

 

[Pennywise]

I'm cautiously optimistic about Ragnarok ATM. Hope things turn out okay in the end for the film.

 

[2kt09]

I doubt they'll make the mistake that other studios make and try to copy one of their successful movies.

 

[InCali]

That's not entirely untrue. While I wasn't part of the making of any movie, I think that studios try to mimic something that's successful. Sometimes the result is a muddled mess and sometimes it isn't. My take is that you should generally try to do what you do well. It never hurts to improve upon anything by using the ideas of others, but changing your focus because some other movie made a lot of money doesn't seem to work very well. Marvel has an approach that works for them and they seem to know what they are doing. That isn't to say (as I've heard others say) that all of their movies are the same because they are NOT. Further, I think TR will be very different and that Taika is going to give us a terrific product......so I'm not "worried" about it.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

When are we expecting the first teaser to drop? Ballpark estimate.

 

[HammerDown]

When are we expecting the first teaser to drop? Ballpark estimate.

Around the 20th of April.

 

[Bren]

.........This post is, in a way, rhetorical

Rhetorical or not, nice post.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Around the 20th of April.

Thanks.

 

[HunBoy]

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Wow. Just... Wow. That gets the juices flowing. Valkyrie looks a bit plain but she looks confident and Cate and Chris are rocking those costumes like a couple of bosses.

 

[paulogonza]

oh god i dont like this new thor visual and the comedy tone this might be

 

[TeeKay]

Thor!!!!!!!! They did cut his hair Lol Deffo looks and feels different. Hela looks okay and Valkyrie is a bit plain.

 

[StarLord]

I don't care about the haircut, but damn Tessa looking FINE as always.

 

[harlequinade]

I'm surprised at Cate's hair! I thought it's gonna be some elaborate crazy hairstyle or really short hair when I saw small image of this cover on my twitter feed I thought it was Loki

 

[BatsDC]

Some details:

Sometimes even superheroes need makeovers. And let’s face it: Thor’s hair was always a little too Nelson-circa-1990. So in Thor: Ragnarok, out Nov. 3, audiences will see the Norse god get his signature blond locks shorn. “It was nice not to have to sit in the makeup chair for that hour each morning,” Chris Hemsworth says. “It felt like a rebirth for me as the actor but also as the character.”

Marvel’s third solo outing for Thor is a fresh start in more than just follicular ways. “I have a belief that if you’re lucky enough to get to part 3 of a franchise, it is your obligation not to fall to threequel-itis,” says Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. The latest entry finds Thor battling not only the Goddess of Death, Hela (Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett), but also his frenemy the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) when the pair find themselves on a desolate planet called Sakaar.




When Hela is accidentally unleashed from her prison, she is not psyched. “She’s been locked away for millennia getting more and more cross, and then, with a mistake, she gets unleashed and she ain’t getting back in that box,” says Blanchett, who worked with legendary stuntwoman Zoë Bell (Grindhouse) and learned the Brazilian martial art capoeira to prep for the role. Her attack on Thor sends him to Sakaar where he is forced to become a gladiator and realizes he’s no longer super special. “[Sakaar is] basically where every wormhole across the universe dumps out its trash, so you get people from all walks of life with all sorts of incredible abilities and powers,” Hemsworth explains. “No one cares what prince or king Thor may have been in another world. Also, his strength is pretty easily matched with those he finds himself amongst.” Case in point: Sakaar’s most successful (and popular) fighter is The Hulk.

Still, despite a title that references an end-of-days-type battle in Norse mythology, Ragnarok marks a decidedly more comedic installment for the series, thanks in large part to director Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows). “Taika has such a quirky, left-of-field sense of humor, which forced all the characters and the tone of the whole story to head in a new direction,” says Hemsworth. “Each day we were like, ‘Are we pushing it too far? Are we allowed to have this much fun?’”

Now the Ragnarok team just has to see if the Marvel audience is open to such a recalibration. “I think sometimes people mistake a tonal shift as ‘We’re just going to make some ridiculous broad comedy where no one gives a s— what happens and everyone gets stoned and sits around talking about saving the universe,’ ” Waititi says. “We want people to care what happens and care that the hero succeeds. I think tonally it’s like a slight shift. I don’t feel nervous — I feel good about it.”

 

[HammerDown]

 

[Web-Head]

Nice! I'm sure after Guardians the Thor marketing will really pick up

 

[Dr. Evil]

the good news about the movie is that the only human characters who show up in this movie are ones a majority of us actually like such as Bruce Banner and Dr. Strange. No more Jane, Darcy or that other guy. Also no more Selvig.

 

[Filmfan93]

Really like Thor's new look and Valkyrie... she is just fine!

P.S So Thor cuts his hair after meeting with Strange, then?

 

[Iceman]

Good to see the new guys. Thor's new hair will take a bit of getting used to!

 

[Web-Head]

Really like Thor's new look and Valkyrie... she is just fine!

P.S So Thor cuts his hair after meeting with Strange, then?

I believe it gets shaved in Sakaar during the fights.

 

[BatsDC]

Really like Thor's new look and Valkyrie... she is just fine!

P.S So Thor cuts his hair after meeting with Strange, then?

Looks like it.

If I had to guess, given we now know that Hela is accidentally unleashed, I suspect whatever they do to find / restore Odin also causes Hela's release, and after this she launches her siege on Asgard and banishes Thor to Sakaar, where his head is shaved.

 

[NotNickFury]

I see that Hela and Rita from the new Power Rangers film have the same taste in aesthetics.

 

[legendkillin]

Y'all certainly spend a lot of time worrying over things you have no control over.

I'm not worried either.
I don't get a dime from this movie so I have nothing to worry about.

 

[MbJ]

I LOVE IT. Is there a text-free version of that image anywhere?