It might be good, but hard to fill the shoes belonging to Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings...

I’m with you. Plug this directly into my eyeballs. 

Bunch of whining about CGI like Fury Road wasn’t draped in it. This is gonna own my ass, your ass, everybody’s ass.

The timeline doesn’t work. It makes more sense to look at Fury Road as a reboot or that the Max in FR is a different person than Mel Gibson’s Max, who either doesn’t exist in this version or Hardy’s Max is inspired by or impersonating. Miller admits that it’s not clear, and I’d say it’s not particularly important.…

Sure, but when do we get the epic story of how a young Furiosa navigates the bureaucracy of her local council to get a road named after her?

Considering Miller’s age, I’m just happy he had one more of these left in him.

people also forget ‘oh wicked hulk in this one, how did he get to that planet?’ was a big selling point.

*golf clap*

I had no idea they were even married!

I totally agree with you that you need to see the God Butcher butchering gods, but one things that stands out is that we largely didn’t. We see Gorr kill a god in his introductory scene. There’s apparently a campaign of butchering that’s been going on, but it mostly occurs offscreen.

What a mercenary weirdo, I always take all my jobs because I fucking love Thor so much.

Respectfully, how is that different than any other art form apart from the special name? He wants to make prestigious art. Lots of artists do. It’s not particularly pretentious.  It's putting the cart before the horse, sure, but not in a pretentious way.

I don’t think anyone’s complaint about Love and Thunder was that it was too “by the numbers”. Most of the issues I saw expressed by folks were based on how much it went full Taika Waititi, without having ENOUGH to rein it in.

Good point! The Russo’s are an interesting case. I don’t know if you can argue that Marvel wasted years of their lives, and they’ve been given opportunities to work on multiple big projects with no existing IP attached. For example, their project for Amazon had an enormous price tag. I’m not sure they have anyone to…

the russo’s themselves are even a great example. they were an interesting choice and had done good work on tv, obviously elevated the mcu, and everything they’ve made since has been the worst stuff of their career.

It felt out of his wheelhouse even at the time. His earlier films were SO indie that it felt like he was only taking Ragnarok for the paycheck. The fact that it was actually good proved he’s an adept storyteller no matter the size of his budget. I’ve always rooted for him - he seems like a decent fellow.

Marvel’s habit of poaching talented young writer-directors for their films has gone from something largely positive (cultivating diverse up-and-coming artists) to something seen as negative (wasting years of the lives of potential new auteurs on paint-by-the-numbers franchise filmmaking).

I generally agree with you. On the other hand, the world can always use more openly queer role models. The press and public just need to chill a little and not try to pry it out of everyone.

“Like, oh yeah, that’s everyone else’s business, right? No. Where’s that energy with men?”

My only hope for this show is that it stays popular enough that we get the whole story but it doesn’t turn into another Walking Dead that has gone on way too long.  The fact that this sounds like we are getting four slow episodes after years and it’s only part of season 2 doesn’t give me much hope