ronniereyes:

ok so that post i made earlier actually got more agreement than i thought it would (aka it got more than zero) so here’s a list of things i didn’t like:

• JANE FOSTER. i love jane foster, she is one of the very few women in the mcu who has never ever had any physical prowess. she was SUCH a focus of thor’s introduction to earth and the fact that they wrote her off is gross. they basically told everyone, “hey, as a girl, you’re not worth anything unless you can physically take down an army.” as a female aerospace engineer (and someone who heavily considered going into the field of astrophysics like jane), that hurts. jane is intelligent and that is enough. additionally, they wrote her out with a throwaway line. not any actual emotion.

• the murders of the warriors three. thor’s best friends. gone. murdered without so much as the camera zooming in on him. these people have committed treason multiple times for thor and he loves them, and they were done away with in a way similar to jane, with no acknowledgement that they were ever important.

• sif was also not present. like i know jamie has other work now on blindspot, but she’s also an important person in thor’s life and it’s SO out of character for her to not be there if asgard and its people are in danger. like god, i know frigga died, but that doesn’t mean that every other woman in thor’s life (jane, darcy, sif) is gone now too. honestly i know the director got “woke points” for valkyrie and hela but it’s still misogynistic if you write out the three established female characters.

• it felt empty. the whole film just lacked a heart and soul. i didn’t care about any of the characters because the new ones were never developed and the old ones ignored previous characterization in favor of whatever the director wanted to do. it was like man of steel in the sense that any of the characters could’ve dropped dead and i really wouldn’t have cared. (i don’t hate dc films btw haha. but this is a problem that ragnarok shared with man of steel.)

• it was very tell-y, not show-y. so in the beginning, valkyrie doesn’t want to help thor, right? so the movie proceeds and she’s standing her ground. then all of a sudden: “i decided sakaar was the best place to drink and die. but i don’t feel that way anymore. i want to help you.” like?? what in the world motivated that change of heart? WHY do you feel this way? and hey, maybe instead of just straight up having the character say those lines, SHOW THAT ON SCREEN. show me valkyrie starting to sympathize with thor. show me when she makes the decision to join them. show me that she overcame her past. i don’t need it verbally said to me; i’m not stupid.

• this is a continuation of my last point, but when thor was like “i choose to run towards my problems and not away from them, because that’s what heroes do.” like just SHOW me this!! having the character come out and say “HEY LOOK AT THIS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT” is poor characterization and lazy storytelling.

• i can’t stress enough how empty it felt. the characters are the soul of the mcu and making the characters puppets is cheap. i just didn’t care. every other mcu movie, i cared deeply about the characters. yes, i wanted peter parker to beat the vulture! my heart broke when tony stark watched his parents die! god, i wanted scott lang to be able to see cassie so bad! but honestly? none of these characters made me care about them.

• as much as i hate to say this, i hated the humor. and i love mcu humor! humor is one of the core values of marvel comics that separates it from other publishers! there are people running around and fighting each other in spandex and it’s funny! but this movie felt like it was built around the humor, and that’s what took away the soul of the movie. movies can be full of humor and still have heart—look at guardians, look at deadpool, look at the first thor movie—but this one was more of a “hey, what jokes do we wanna tell? okay, lets build plot and characters around that!” as much as i love marvel’s humor, i hated how it was used in this film.

there’s probably more reasons, but these are the biggest ones lmao