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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivIpzW8UFk
It's nice to see Portman look like she's actually enjoying one of these movies. Also Valkyrie is King Valkyrie, which is neat.
The film is currently playing in 17 overseas markets, including Germany, Italy, Australia and Korea, and it will debut in North America and several other major territories on Friday.
Overall ticket sales are pacing 39% ahead of "Thor: Ragnarok" (which ultimately collected $122 million during its opening weekend) and 24% behind "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" (which scored a massive $265 million in its international box office debut).
... For now, "Love and Thunder" is not playing in China, Russia or France.
this is unfortunately not high praise...
"I've been thinking about director's cuts," Waititi told New Musical Express. "I watch director's cuts of a lot of other directors. They suck. Director's cuts are not good. Directors need to be controlled sometimes and if I was to say, 'Ah you wanna watch my director's cut? It's four and a half hours long!' It's not good at four and a half hours. There's a lot of cup-of-tea breaks in there, you don't even have to pause it."
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"I'd say my cut would probably have a few more jokes in there," he explained. "There might be a couple of deleted scenes but as I always say, a scene is deleted because it's not good enough to be in the film. I think the deleted scenes section on the DVD, not that they use them anymore, should just be a list of the scenes and no links so you can't click on them!"
The pic opened in line with expectations in North America, where it scored the third-best opening of the pandemic era behind Spider-Man: No Way Home ($260 million) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ($187.4 million).
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The Thor films have never been known for mega-openings. Ragnorok fared the best at $122.7 million in 2017. The first Thor debuted to $65.7 million in 2011, followed by $85.7 million for Thor: The Dark World in 2013.
Audiences gave Thor: Love and Thunder a B+ CinemaScore, compared to an A for Ragnorak.
by next month i guess the only person not allowed to go "yeah these movies are kinda shitty aren't they" will be martin scorsese, who still must repent
Taika Waititi left a ton of surprises in "Thor: Love and Thunder" on the cutting room floor, including buzzy appearances by Lena Headey, Jeff Goldblum and Peter Dinklage. The latter two shot scenes in the film as their pre-existing Marvel characters the Grandmaster and Eitri, respectively, while "Game of Thrones" favorite Headey was set to make her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut. All of their scenes got deleted.
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Waititi would not reveal anything about the scenes in which Headey, Goldblum or Dinklage appeared, adding, "I'm not going to give you a moment because this is my way of telling you, like, people say, 'I can't wait for the deleted scenes with those actors.' I don't want people to see the deleted scenes because they're deleted for a reason: They aren't good enough. The scenes were not in the movie and that's it."
Headey's cut role in "Thor: Love and Thunder" resulted in a $1.5 million lawsuit against her by her former U.K. agency Troika over unpaid commission fees. Troika, which re-branded as YMU in 2020, claims Headey owes the agency at least $500,000 — equivalent to 7% of her fee — for her earnings on the Marvel movie. Headey disputes that Troika has any claim to commission on "Thor: Love and Thunder," which she says came about after director Waititi approached her directly.
The people of New Asgard have completely foreclosed not only on restoring any semblance of their own society, but on any semblance of a society better than that of Earth — of 'Midgard'. The society in which Thor's mother once passed away on a luxurious wooden bed surrounded by silks being waited on hand and foot can no longer even provide a complementary bag of crisps in the hospital waiting room. And they aren't even unhappy about it — they aren't unhappy about anything.
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In the final post-credits scene, Jane Foster reaches the Halls of Valhalla, where the greatest heroes who fell in battle live on. Foster and Gorr suffer identical deaths. Foster is present, the Gorr is not. Valhalla doesn't really believe in the cosmic resonance of individual valour — it's just a place some people end up.
You could continue in this vein; the people Thor assists with the help of the Guardians of the Galaxy at the start of the film see Thor destroy, through carelessness, their greatest city and holy site, but they don't really care. They still like him. They didn't really believe in it at all.
A good piece centered around the idea that noone in Thor 4 really believes in anything - and that nothing in it means anything - at all.
You could continue in this vein; the people Thor assists with the help of the Guardians of the Galaxy at the start of the film see Thor destroy, through carelessness, their greatest city and holy site, but they don't really care. They still like him. They didn't really believe in it at all
They didn't seem especially pleased with Thor
and why would Gorr end up in Valhalla, they've already established there are different afterlives for different people based on which gods they're caught up in. It's not clear how that would work out for Gorr, but it's unlikely he'd end up in Valhalla
Thor 4 thundered to first at the domestic box office at 4,375 locations, a drop of 68 percent from its first weekend. This is on par with the last Marvel installment, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, which dipped to 67 percent in its second weekend at the U.S. box office. Other pandemic MCU titles like Shang-Chi fared better, with the historic Marvel entry seeing just a 52 percent drop.
The domestic total for the fourth installment in the Thor standalone franchise stands at $233 million, while global ticket sales at $498 million.
Thor: Love and Thunder, which cost a mammoth $250 million to produce, opened this weekend in France with $8.1 million. Like most Hollywood movies today, it's not playing in Russia or China. Among holdover markets, the movie is performing the strongest in the United Kingdom ($24.9 million to date), followed by Australia ($21.8 million), Korea ($21 million), Mexico ($19 million) and India ($14.5 million). It debuts next weekend in Ukraine.
Because she was Thor and pretty associated with the Asgardians at that point?
So does she believe in Norse warrior heaven? Is that a place she desires to go to? Like is that a thing in the movie's text?
My point in asking this is to say this is more of an after the fact justification for the film making a thoughtless choice, rather than being anything coherent and considered communicated to the audience.