As I mentioned previously, the fact that Love And Thunder ensures that all of its characters get their emotional moments makes it the antithesis of this. Take The Eternals, for instance, where there are so many characters to introduce, and yet even in two and a half hours the film struggles to make us care for any of them. Writing is also an issue in other long Marvel instalments. It’s understandable that a huge franchise would want to tease further movies, but in Multiverse Of Madness and Love And Thunder this is successfully saved for the mid credits scenes. In other words, there were places in which the film could have been slimmed down without compromising on what made it great. Many parts of the time travel plot weren’t necessary to the tale being told – a lot of scenes were designed simply as fan service, or to set up future stories (we’re looking at you, Loki). However, for me, Avengers: Endgame became a bit of a slog – especially in the middle section. A three hour runtime could be excused for a film that’s tightly-written, where every scene feels necessary. We’ve written before about the foreknowledge problem of modern franchise blockbusters, and no franchise seems to suffer from this more than Marvel. It’s no wonder it struggled to last under three hours. Avengers: Endgame was the culmination of over a decade of worldbuilding, and was obliged to feature all of the main characters in the series. Building a shared universe requires a lot of attention to detail, and a lot of recurring characters and cameos. This might be part of Marvel’s problem when it comes to long runtimes. In fact, it uses Korg’s role as narrator to swiftly (and amusingly) summarise the important stuff. Despite being in the fourth phase of films in the Marvel cinematic universe, it doesn’t get bogged down in everything that’s come before it. In that two hours there’s time for playful asides, running jokes about screaming goats, and for Russell Crowe to steal the spotlight with an outrageous Zeus performance. It doesn’t just hurtle towards a conclusion, either. Every member of the main cast is given plenty of time to shine, each of their characters gets a complete and emotionally moving arc, and it’s done without the need to drag things out. Not one character or plot point is neglected in this movie. With Thor: Love And Thunder, director Taika Waititi continues that trend and shows that you can craft a well-written story in a way that’s enjoyable and concise. In just over two hours he told a wacky, visually interesting, and largely self contained story, though admittedly the film also had its flaws.
Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness put a stop to that. This isn’t unheard of in the Marvel film franchise – it last happened with 2016’s Doctor Strange. Nonetheless, we’re used most of these superhero movies lasting for around two and a half hours, even if they don’t usually need to be that long. Above all, though, it’s just under two hours long. It’s also colourful, comedic, and immensely fun. It has a sympathetic, but still creepy antagonist in Christian Bale’s Gorr the God Butcher, and well-written storylines for all of its major characters. Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love And Thunder is refreshing in many ways.
Starring Chris Hemsworth as Thor Odinson, Natalie Portman as Jane Foster, Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher, Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie, Taika Waititi as Korg, Russell Crowe as Zeus, Jaimie Alexander as Sif, and Chris Pratt, Karen Gillan, Dave Bautista, Pom Klementieff, Sean Gunn, Vin Diesel, and Bradley Cooper as the Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel Studios' Thor: Love and Thunder is now playing in theaters.2019’s Avengers: Endgame clocked in at 182 minutes, The Batman at 179, but Thor: Love And Thunder proves that superhero films don’t need to be excessively long. Marvel Studios has not yet announced Thor 5 or when Thor might return.
' I'd like to exit before people tell me to exit." 1 comments It always comes down to: 'Is this script different to the last one? Are we repeating something?' And when it becomes too familiar, I think that's when I'd have to say, 'Yeah, no. "But I love playing the character, I really do. "Each time, if the opportunity comes up and presents itself, I'm just open to whatever creative exploration can happen, thanks to different writers and directors and so on," added Hemsworth, who had grown bored of his god of thunder before his dramatic reinvention in Ragnarok.
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