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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Thor: Ragnorak (2017)

I do have trouble keeping these straight, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, who can tell.  The Marvel Studios has so successfully cranked out what seems like dozens of movies, to the point where I at least recognize some of the characters (Dr. Strange makes and appearance in this which helps me to link him with the studio, and so on).  
Thor, God of Thunder, is in kind of a tight spot. He is ably played by Chris Hensworth, who has the physicality to play Thor, but got more of the personal side across this time.  He finds out that his father, Odin (played by Anthony Hopkins) is dead, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is alive, and his sister Hela (Cate Blanchett) is back to recapture Asgard.  He knows that none of this bodes well for him, and he is right about that.  He gets captured and there meets a Valkyrie who faced Hela once and barely escaped and the Hulk is also in the mix.  They hatch a plan, which involves the escape fight scene and then the final battle, a CGI riddled landscape that is for me hard to follow.  None the less, this is the most charming Thor movie yet.  This is a movie that will make you wonder when the next Thor movie is coming out.  Two minor glitches, from my perspective.  The film has so many heavy hitters acting wise that it they are bound to be under utilized, which happened.  Idris Elba barely had a chance to act at all.  Finally, the fight scenes are just too much of the movie. 

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