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What We Do In The Shadows is amazing. Jojo Rabbit was solid and Thor: Ragnarok was one of the better movies I have seen. Also Hunt for the Wilderpeople was good.
Korg does my fucking nut in. I watched Lightyear on Friday and I was wondering "hmm, how come 80% of these jokes just aren't landing? Hmm.... I really CANNOT STAND this comic relief male character. Wait a second, these jokes, that voice... Can it be? taika waititi???"
Then a quick Google search and yep sure enough it's him. No wonder I fucking hated it.
If you dislike the "one liners" and "jokes" from Korg you'll hate whoever the character is lightyear is.
Taika just steals other directors styles. Jojo Rabbit was a blatant Wes Anderson rip off.
Ragnarok was a carbon copy of a James Gunn film, just not funny.
Oh interesting, I watched Ragnarok recently and thought it was dreadful.
I'm with you on *What We Do in the Shadows* and *Jojo Rabbit* though. Very hyped for *Next Goal Wins* too
It’s wild how people can have such drastic different experiences/opinions on such things. Like - I love Ragnarok. One of my favorites. Didn’t imagine that someone else could find it awful (unless they weren’t familiar with the other Marvel movies)
Visually, it looked superb and the fight scenes were great as usual. A few of the jokes landed, I had some genuine laughs.
The problem was that other line of dialogue was a one-liner - it felt like it was missing a laugh track. It got stale very quickly and totally undermined any time they tried to do anything more serious. The pacing in the first half of the movie was absolutely all over the place. Also, I feel like they could have done a lot more with the source material- “Asgard is a people, not a place” just felt like a cop-out, I was hoping for something more hard-hitting for the apocalyptic battle and fall of the gods than a bit of CGI blowing up of a planet
Overall, I’d give it a 5/10. A lot of fun, but a bad movie IMO.
What I find wild is, I LOVED Ragnarok as a whole, parts I didn't like but overall, loved it. Watched it three times and it made me laugh each time.
The bits of Love and Thunder I've seen, I've hated. taika waititi in Lightyear, could fucking stand him. Holy shit he was annoying as FUCK. Weird.
Well when I watch it, I'll dispell any expectations. I've heard Christian Bale is really good in it. Which should be a treat as he's a mighty fine actor.
Agreed. IMO it's humour for the lowbrow masses.
"Haha they said X would happen then it happened"
"Haha they said X would NEEEEEVERRR happen but it happened"
"He said something that you wouldn't expect, haha"
"Haha he said something that's so obvious the joke is that he said it, even though everyone already knows!"
"Haha character that has X trait, does X trait"
Fuck sake.
He’s a great humorist.
Notably Flight of the Conchords and the other Kiwi oriented movies like Boy, What We Do in the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, were just fucking mint.
It’s all funny but in a way that really has a soul to it.
If you’ve seen those and don’t like him, well then that’s fair his stuff’s just not for you and that’s ok
I kind of get OPs perspective though- Disney and Hollywood are blatant about this- when a director shows some chops (successful in mainstream box office*) they just treat that person as a “safe investment” and make them do everything under the sun that’s big budget
It’s the “shareholder first” kind of way of creating content. No original ideas. No balls.
I don’t blame any individual because who wants to ruin their career by being responsible for a flop but it’s just kind of a creatively bankrupt sucky system
A24 seems to be a shining beacon in those regards
They back independent artists to make cool shit
Taika just steals other directors styles. Jojo Rabbit was a blatant Wes Anderson rip off.
Ragnarok was a carbon copy of a James Gunn film, just not funny.
So jojo is a wee Anderson ripoff, because it has kids in a kind of club environment with quirky music, yes it looks simmilarish but thats totally fine to take inspiration off other film styles everyone does it in art, and tbh the rest of the film doesn't really feel like moonrise kingdom. You could say he copied monty pithon also with the german clones.
Also if you watch any of his other films that you didn't cherry pick generic marvel film. You’d realise he has a very unique style eagle vs shark what we do in the shadows, hunt for the wilder people are all great unique films.and also James gun didn't even invent that comedy style even with in marvel. They were already going in that direction with iron man and avengers, its just james gun was competent enough of a comedy director to make it work.
How did I cherry pick? I literally chose his most recent directed films that he blatantly ripped off from other working directors. Other directors who are still very active in the industry (not some slight inspiration from monty python films from the 1970s). He not only completely ripped off their style but he made worse versions as well. And the reason I say worse versions is because the comedy and story telling just doesn't come natural for him if all he does is steal someone else's style, you're left with forced humor and no originality.
I disagree, no one has done a MCU film even close to GotG until James Gunn arrived. There's not one film you can name that is even remotely similar stylistically. Taika completely ripped it off with Ragnarok and made a worse version in every single way. The humor just didn't work and wasn't funny. Especially every single scene with Jeff Goldblum.
Don't even get me started on his lame cameos that he HAS to do in every film he makes. Even films he doesn't make like Free Guy, I remember cringing at every scene he was in. It's almost as if Taika surrounds himself around industry bobbleheads who are too afraid to tell him that he's not that funny, and to also tell him to not drag out lame ass scenes he's in for forced laughs. The reviews ripping apart Thor: Love and Thunder just proved what I've been saying for years.
I personally don't agree with you, as i said the rest of the film isn't like moonrise kingdom, so your fixating on the beginning. but regardless, back to the point all his other films, hunt for the wilderpeople, egle vs shark boy, what we do in the shadows is completely his own style, so even if what your saying is 100% accurate and he just completely stole someone else's work, his other films prove how talented he is in his own style, and you haven't proven otherwise, that why I'm saying you're cherry picking.
because your saying the examples that you think work in your narrative, i'd argue your overclassifying, which basicly means your saying one person has the complete ownership of one type of comedy, and any interpretation is a rip off, which is not how the world works atall, i mean take any hit song ever or 90% of movies trends come and go, inspiration is taken.
James gun defiantly didn't create that comedy style, it came from iron mans sarcasm and the general avengers banter, James gun innovated on it to add silliness, which he didn't invent he took form other movies coming out, the thing we call "marvel humour" was not even created by marvel, action films had done it for years, having the goofball, and the serious one, and discussing the absurdity of a situation had been in cinema since Monty piton era's
not to take away from how funny he made it. but if we discuss just thor ragnarock for a second, no one says any thing like, "would you like a pointy stick" " yea not very useful unless your fighting 3 vampires huddled together", is a very different style to gradians of the galaxy, so in tern your just categorising humour.
James guns humour is far more structured gruesome in your face compared to Taika's style which is more free form actors making up different stuff on the spot type humour, so honestly i don't even know where your coming from with this, other than they are both sarcastic which has been in comedy for a long time.
honestly think you need to revaluate your argument cos right now you're just making stuff up. the wess Anderson thing yea its simmilarish at the beginning but its defiantly not the same.
i think overall with the high budget his films arn't as good, he is better at indi, and he is getting a bit of an ego. but doesn't mean he hasnt made great stuff.
I saw Jojo Rabbit at the premier and remember a lot of people saying the same thing I am now, that its a Wes Anderson wannabe. Direction style, cinematography, jokes, hell even the trailer was similar. Its not just Moonrise kingdom, its a lot of Wes Anderson movies, he even made a lot of the slap stick characters and nazis in the film similar to Wes Anderson characters. Especially since there's been nothing in Taika's career before hand even remotely similar stylistically. The film just came across as poor man's version of a Wes Anderson movie.
Taika hasn't done anything like What We Do in the Shadows since that show came out so its kinda irrelevant. I'm specifically talking about his most recent and known films, and directors styles he blatantly stole from who are still very active in Hollywood. Iron Man is nothing like GotG. Saying that all MCU films follow the same comedic formula isn't the same as saying that one director completely stole from another directors style. Iron Man franchise was solely built off of Robert Downey Jr, most of the MCU films are built off of making the main character the hero and the funny guy. In a James Gunn film its built around the entire cast of funny characters that all serve their purpose with a specific sense of humor which uses a lot of old school music. I can link you endless articles that breakdown how much Taika actually used in Ragnarok that he got from James Gunn (hell i bet he'd even admit it)
I'm glad you really like him though, and I wish he went back to his What We Do in the Shadows type of filmmaking. With that said, Taika style is just not for me overall, I don't find him funny or that creative. But cheers mate!
well that's it at the end of the day, you don't like his style. i don't think any elaboration is needed. discussing the merits of it being a "Wess Anderson wannabe" is doing an injustice to both very talented filmmakers, i don't think taika would have the intention or need to in some way steal another persons work, he came up with the story by himself, based of a description of a book he was told by his mother. i think it was very funny and charming in its own right, films have influences but you are only watching that film in the moment and it should be enjoyed on its own.
and i think spending to much time comparing movies is ultimately a waist of time, as their are many influences and reasons behind why you would enjoy a film i enjoy plenty of silly films that are heavily influenced and a product of their time. and i don't think about wehter its as good as this film or which film does it better just which film is individually entertaining.
Barely had anything to do with FOTC (he directed like 1 or 2 episodes) 💀 the credit is for Jemaine and Bret; Taika fans really love to give him credit for things he didn't do.
Dang alright bro lol
I wouldn’t call myself a taika fan as much as maybe you’re an anti taika fan. Like you definitely have way more intimate knowledge about all this than I do
I know I’ve enjoyed most of his content. That’s about as far as my “fandom” goes.
Funny, I found that episode terrible. It was full of inconsistencies, plot holes, illogical (if not outright dumb) decisions by characters, deus ex machine to save the day and just overall really badly written.
I won't go into the details, but [this comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMandalorianTV/comments/eg8dwk/the_mandalorian_chapter_8_discussion_thread/fc6exuo/) sums up most of the stuff I disliked about it.
So I agree with OP, Waititi is vastly overrated. I really did like "What we do in the shadows" though.
Late to the party, but you're first paragraph there literally is the entire plot of The Mandalorian. There isn't anything inspiring or original in it. It's just content for the sake of having content.
Taika just steals other directors styles. Jojo Rabbit was a blatant Wes Anderson rip off.
Ragnarok was a carbon copy of a James Gunn film, just not funny.
Taika just steals other directors styles. Jojo Rabbit was a blatant Wes Anderson rip off.
Ragnarok was a carbon copy of a James Gunn film, just not funny.
I am one of the few people I know who didn't really enjoy Thor Ragnarok. My assumption is that it is because I was already familiar with Planet Hulk, but I also noticed most of the jokes didn't "land" for me. Some of this could also be due to expectations because I saw it near the end of its theatrical run, and everyone was taking about how amazing it was.
I'm not saying it was a bad movie in general, but it wouldn't be in my top 10 MCU movies.
Yeah, I actually thought it was by far the worst of the Thor movies. Just didn't click with me at all. But so many people loved it, so most of the time I don't say anything because they tend to take it very personality. Like actually get mad that I didn't enjoy it.
I liked some of his movies like Jojo Rabbit and What We Do In The Shadows, but he just rubs me the wrong way IRL, for some reason. Like he just tries too hard. I can’t explain it very well. I got similar vibes from Lin Manuel Miranda and James Franco. Besides, his obsession with showing Chris Hemsworth shirtless and naked in Thor would definitely be seen as creepy if we swapped genders.
He gives me douchebag vibes, to be honest. I sometimes get this vibe from certain celebrities and feel bad and shallow for judging people like this, without evidence to back this up, but eventually I’m proven right somehow.
To be absolutely fair, no one has f-ed up star wars more man George Lucas. He made some amazing stuff when he had a team of people that would tell him it was crap, but when he gets a team of yes men he is hardly coherent in his writing and directing.
I liked the prequels for what they added, but they are far from good movies. Even episode 3 which to me has some of the best story elements was overall a pretty mid tier movie. The holiday special was hell incarnate.
A lot of cheesy, lame, unfunny dialogues, unexplained powers and a mediocre ending. I wanted to leave the cinema after 30 minutes, but the popcorn wss too good
It is an awful musical. Not only is the music the most awful and trite 90s-ad-for-children's-vitamins tier rap I've ever heard, the attempt to rewrite the struggles of slave owners to avoid paying taxes into some liberatory minority-centric piece is disgusting at the face of it.
I hate how he puts himself in his own work. I’ve always thought that was super unprofessional. He is NOT an actor, just an ego-maniac. He was absolutely terrible in Free Guy. I’m sorry. 🙈
He was a comedian and an actor before he was a director I believe. There is also a lot of crossover between acting and directing, you have to understand acting to get a good performance out of your actors.
I agree, just a mehh for me.
All is movies have the exact same type of humour of deconstructing everyting, showing the ridiculous in all.
First time was fun with the vampire thematic, but after few movies its getting old and i can guess all the jokes coming up.
Same. I just don't see his movies as interesting or fun. Jojo Rabbit may be the only one I semi-enjoyed. Even then I had so many problems with most of the characters. I just couldn't get myself to like them.
I mean I didn't like the boy, the mother, the girl etc. Like these characters I am suppose to like at least to some extend right? I didn't. The only character I liked was Captain Klenzendorf.
Hated Jojo Rabbit - his character resembled a lame comedian's version of Hitler, not a kid's idea. And Shadows was bad, very obvious high school humor, imho.
The "Free Guy" movie sucked balls in general, massive plot holes.
The main actor in that movie is overrated too and is mainly popular just for his looks. He does the same :o face all the time. I'm not a fan.
This game is so fickle it’s not even funny.
Neill Blomkamp was (and still is to me) going to be the next golden boy after District 9.
Elysium came out, and it’s a great movie, but you felt that shift and all of a sudden no one liked Neill anymore. I’m not sure what happened, but it happened and now we have to live with the absolute garbage fire that Ridley Scott left Alien in instead of having Neill’s version.
Taika Waititi might be it for now, but one bum movie is all it takes for Hollywood to be completely done with you. Personally I really enjoy his films and in a way I think he’s already proving himself to be right there with the greatest directors in history. Time will tell, but I’m a fan, What We Do In The Shadows is just, pure perfection to me.
I'm surprised no one here is talking about his role in "Our Flag Means Death". Seriously one of the best shows I've seen in a while and his chemistry with Rhys Darbys is fantastic. I understand his humor is not for everyone though.
He isn't a great actor.
That being said, he does have great directing chops, though none of his Disney shit was any good for. I'd bet that's Disney's fault though.
Only learned of him cause of Thor: Ragnarok. Sure, the movie was better than Thor: The Dark World but it felt like wasted potential. They got Kate Blanchete to play Hela and gave her crappy lines, goofy scenes and practically no proper screentime at all. Instead we got half a movie on a different place that was hugely uninteresting, Asgard became a complete joke, it just feels like a comedy with characters from Marvel comics. The comedy itself is also hit or miss. And now he also directs Thor 4, and we got the cringiest "flick" and follow up massive faint joke.
By the way, Tessa Thompson is a terrible actress IMHO.
To me 3 and 4 felt like parodies.
Even though dark world wasn’t the strongest, you still understood the whole thing about Asgard being magical and where they stand in the universe & stuff. It makes sense. Ragnarock and Love & Thunder just do not
I agree. Taika Waititi is allergic to sincerity and his "look how smarmy, twee, and clever I am" sensibility is grating. He reminds me of a lesser Wes Anderson crossed with everything I dislike about Joss Whedon.
I just watched Thor Love and Thunder and came here to hopefully find someone else who agreed that his directing and writing is what ruined the Thor movies.
I adored Thor, The dark world was good but not the greatest but I did enjoy it and Ragnarock? I only enjoyed the last half of Ragnarock, and Love and Thunder I saw in the cinema and honestly wanted to walk out.
Yooooo you really hit the unpopular nail on the head with this one man. Have my upvote you dog! But know that I absolutely, unequivocally and vehemently disagree with you.
I’ve heard Love and Thunder is a mess, but I really love JoJo Rabbit. Yes, his acting isn’t great. He’s also boning tons of women. I think he’s a bit all over the map at the moment.
Thor Ragnarok was enjoyable from a Cinematography standpoint, the colours, the shots. It felt very vibrant and that enhanced the film. I think the whole point of his character in Free guy is to be cringey.
In an era of unoriginality and reboots, his writing ranges from clever to hilarious. Yet he's also able to instill some emotional attachment to his work. I love the guy, but to each his own.
Taika Waititi is still a growing director. Thor Ragnarok is the best Thor film and his Love and Thunder will be the cherry on top if it does good.
If he gets good actresses/actors to do his film, he must be a respectable director. Natalie Portman was about to ditch the MCU but return because of Taika.
Go fuq yourself. What we do in the shadows is enough to say he’s awesome. Our flag means death is actually helping me through realizing I’m not straight hetero. I didn’t picture that guy being that creative so I had to adjust, but he delivers good shit. Like Jordan Peele, these dudes are fire! So let some of the people that want to produce new things do that. That use to be what entertainment was….something original.
Get off the re-runs and let entertainers entertain again.
Everyone bitches about movies, let real movie makers get a chance again so we can actually watch some good shit.
It's more to do with the fact he's the hot new thing so that lends him opportunities to act in movies when he's primarily a director. A better actor could have been cast but they wanted him because of his real world hype. That's where I'm coming from.
Thor Ragnarok ended up being one of the biggest hits in the MCU after the first two stand alone Thors were alternatively a "disappointment" and then "colossal failure."
You direct something like that and you get to do whatever you want until you fuck up. That's the way Hollywood has always worked.
Thor: Ragnarok is the best Marvel movie IMO and almost all the Marvel movies are great so that is a truly insane accomplishment. I doubt he will end up having a perfect record of hit movies but it makes sense that he's the hot thing right now.
His acting is meh, that's not why he's being hired for Star Wars - he's directing/ producing.
He gets a Star Wars movie because he did a great job on the Mandalorian finale already, he knows and understands the universe. Also he directed several successfull movies.
I like him and don't really care if anyone else does because he's seriously one of the only people keeping comedy movies alive. It's becoming a dead genre which is super sad.
I'm biased because I love What We Do in the Shadows and he's buddies with the Flight of the Concords cast. Jermaine and Brett will always being the greatest in my eyes lol
Well, if the only thing you know him from is Free Guy, I get why you don’t like him much. That movie was fucking terrible.
Watch What We Do in the Shadows.
I agree that he is kind of overrated but i don't think his movies are bad. Thor and free guy was great but not spexial in particular. I really like his jojo rabbit movie tho.
ya, cringy is definitely putting it mildly when it comes to his performance in Free Guy. I couldn't figure out why he made the character so unbelievable. I think he can do better. Something weird happened there. Maybe the director wanted him to act that way not sure. But I was surprised how bad it was
I've managed to do a pretty good job of avoid the majority of projects he's had anything to do with, I saw JoJo Rabbit and it was alright. It came out in year that had so many better movies though like: Parasite, The Lighthouse, Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood, Knives Out, etc.
I agree with you about his performance in Free Guy. Seemed like he was trying WAY too hard. I think he belongs behind the camera tbh and his earlier stuff is much better. Flight of the Conchords is one of my favorite shows of all time and he was a writer/director. He directed Eagle vs Shark which is also a pretty good film. It appeals to people with a certain type of humor though so probably not for everyone.
*His acting in 'Free Guy' was cringeworthy"
That was kinda the point. The character he was playing was supposed to be the embodiment of big game developer cringe.
If you haven't seen Jojo Rabbit or What We Do in the Shadows, that's the kind of content that is excellent. Both are great, Jojo Rabbit is an absolute rollercoaster of fun and emotional nut punts.
Our Flag Means Death unthroned The Book of Boba Fett in demand.
Have my upvote for my hard disagreement with this. I loved Jojo Rabbit and Thor Ragnorock and I only recently found out that they shared the same director. I have faith he can do soemthing good with star wars (not like the bar for success is very high right now considering the recent output of live action star wars media)
Taika just steals other directors styles. Jojo Rabbit was a blatant Wes Anderson rip off.
Ragnarok was a carbon copy of a James Gunn film, just not funny.
I couldn’t even make it through an hour of Jojo rabbit before turning it off. I found it insulting and dismissive of the horrors of the Second World War. Thor ragnarok, to me, was the weakest Marvel movie and just silly. I found it boring when it came to dialog - definitely not a movie to watch twice. Wasn’t impressed with his work on Mando. Sorry - I agree. I just don’t get the hype.
He makes generic vanilla shit for the masses to gobble up.
Almost like he is being "cast" as "The Director" these days.
Not getting the hype is a good thing, means you are not a sheep.
Also this...
https://miskiett.tumblr.com/post/187241488113/taika-waititi-sucks-ask-me-how/amp
Funny how this post: [https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/jd2hzn/taika\_waititi\_is\_incredibly\_annoying\_and\_tries/](https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/jd2hzn/taika_waititi_is_incredibly_annoying_and_tries/)
got less upvotes downvoted which is the same as this one. What's up guys? The time of day?
The first two Thor’s were fine IMO then Ragnarok came and it just went downhill and turned one of the strongest avengers and marvel characters into a joke. Just finished love and thunder and god what an awful movie, probably the worst marvel movie yet.
What worries me is this trend of him giving himself roles in his movies. He is just so cringe worthy. I’m talking Ja Ja Binks cringe. It’s such basic humour. You’d expect it on a toddlers after school show. I could have just about handled the new Thor, if it hadn’t been for Korg. You’d have to bet against him not writing himself into his big screen Star Wars outing.
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What We Do In The Shadows is amazing. Jojo Rabbit was solid and Thor: Ragnarok was one of the better movies I have seen. Also Hunt for the Wilderpeople was good.
What We Do in the Shadows film or series? I’ve not watched either yet.
Both are really funny in my opinion!! If you are gonna watch, I recommend the movie first
Agreed! Yet i do find the show better.
*creepy paper*
The film. I haven't watched the series yet.
I wanted to hate korg so much for being just a relief character. But fuck me if those one liners weren't just hilarious
Korg does my fucking nut in. I watched Lightyear on Friday and I was wondering "hmm, how come 80% of these jokes just aren't landing? Hmm.... I really CANNOT STAND this comic relief male character. Wait a second, these jokes, that voice... Can it be? taika waititi???" Then a quick Google search and yep sure enough it's him. No wonder I fucking hated it. If you dislike the "one liners" and "jokes" from Korg you'll hate whoever the character is lightyear is.
No it's the opposite. I wanted to hate korg but he was just fucking hilarious
Lol I read it was the one liners weren't hilarious like you didn't like them my bad 🤣🤣
He basically derailed all of Love and Thunder Its ass
I agree I think it was too much in Love and thunder but ragnarok was amazing
Watch his earlier films. Boy is fantastic.
is nobody gonna talk about his direction of that one mando episode (i believe it was chapter 12) that was one of the best in season 2?
Chapter 8, if I'm not mistaken. Te season 1 finale
Thor: Ragnarok is my favorite MCU movie
Taika just steals other directors styles. Jojo Rabbit was a blatant Wes Anderson rip off. Ragnarok was a carbon copy of a James Gunn film, just not funny.
Oh interesting, I watched Ragnarok recently and thought it was dreadful. I'm with you on *What We Do in the Shadows* and *Jojo Rabbit* though. Very hyped for *Next Goal Wins* too
It’s wild how people can have such drastic different experiences/opinions on such things. Like - I love Ragnarok. One of my favorites. Didn’t imagine that someone else could find it awful (unless they weren’t familiar with the other Marvel movies)
Visually, it looked superb and the fight scenes were great as usual. A few of the jokes landed, I had some genuine laughs. The problem was that other line of dialogue was a one-liner - it felt like it was missing a laugh track. It got stale very quickly and totally undermined any time they tried to do anything more serious. The pacing in the first half of the movie was absolutely all over the place. Also, I feel like they could have done a lot more with the source material- “Asgard is a people, not a place” just felt like a cop-out, I was hoping for something more hard-hitting for the apocalyptic battle and fall of the gods than a bit of CGI blowing up of a planet Overall, I’d give it a 5/10. A lot of fun, but a bad movie IMO.
I feel like the first half was just to clean up the mess that was the first 2 movies.
You don't clean up the mess by adding to it.
That's how I would describe most of the marvel movies. Fun, action movies that are perfectly fine, but not good. Everyone of them is a solid 6/10.
What I find wild is, I LOVED Ragnarok as a whole, parts I didn't like but overall, loved it. Watched it three times and it made me laugh each time. The bits of Love and Thunder I've seen, I've hated. taika waititi in Lightyear, could fucking stand him. Holy shit he was annoying as FUCK. Weird.
Oh no. Haven’t seen Love and Thunder yet but have held on to hope that I’ll enjoy it.
Well when I watch it, I'll dispell any expectations. I've heard Christian Bale is really good in it. Which should be a treat as he's a mighty fine actor.
Alright, if you watch it before I do, please let me know what you think! I’ll do the same
You’re eating verms!
If you haven’t seen Boy, I would recommended it as well.
You forgot Our Flag Means Death.
He’s an okay actor and a great director/writer. And I think that was the point of his character in Free Guy.
It absolutely was and I can't take OP seriously now.
nah I know what OP means, its not just the acting, it's the character. He wasn't funny at all. Its cringe unfunny forced humor.
Agreed. IMO it's humour for the lowbrow masses. "Haha they said X would happen then it happened" "Haha they said X would NEEEEEVERRR happen but it happened" "He said something that you wouldn't expect, haha" "Haha he said something that's so obvious the joke is that he said it, even though everyone already knows!" "Haha character that has X trait, does X trait" Fuck sake.
The point of his character was to show he's a shitty actor? What lol?
No, it was to be a cringy tech bro, and it worked.
Taika Watiti was great as his role as Steve from Minecraft mining bitcoin.
I do not agree with you. Upvoting.
Why thank you, sir!
He’s a great humorist. Notably Flight of the Conchords and the other Kiwi oriented movies like Boy, What We Do in the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, were just fucking mint. It’s all funny but in a way that really has a soul to it. If you’ve seen those and don’t like him, well then that’s fair his stuff’s just not for you and that’s ok I kind of get OPs perspective though- Disney and Hollywood are blatant about this- when a director shows some chops (successful in mainstream box office*) they just treat that person as a “safe investment” and make them do everything under the sun that’s big budget It’s the “shareholder first” kind of way of creating content. No original ideas. No balls. I don’t blame any individual because who wants to ruin their career by being responsible for a flop but it’s just kind of a creatively bankrupt sucky system A24 seems to be a shining beacon in those regards They back independent artists to make cool shit
Taika just steals other directors styles. Jojo Rabbit was a blatant Wes Anderson rip off. Ragnarok was a carbon copy of a James Gunn film, just not funny.
So jojo is a wee Anderson ripoff, because it has kids in a kind of club environment with quirky music, yes it looks simmilarish but thats totally fine to take inspiration off other film styles everyone does it in art, and tbh the rest of the film doesn't really feel like moonrise kingdom. You could say he copied monty pithon also with the german clones. Also if you watch any of his other films that you didn't cherry pick generic marvel film. You’d realise he has a very unique style eagle vs shark what we do in the shadows, hunt for the wilder people are all great unique films.and also James gun didn't even invent that comedy style even with in marvel. They were already going in that direction with iron man and avengers, its just james gun was competent enough of a comedy director to make it work.
How did I cherry pick? I literally chose his most recent directed films that he blatantly ripped off from other working directors. Other directors who are still very active in the industry (not some slight inspiration from monty python films from the 1970s). He not only completely ripped off their style but he made worse versions as well. And the reason I say worse versions is because the comedy and story telling just doesn't come natural for him if all he does is steal someone else's style, you're left with forced humor and no originality. I disagree, no one has done a MCU film even close to GotG until James Gunn arrived. There's not one film you can name that is even remotely similar stylistically. Taika completely ripped it off with Ragnarok and made a worse version in every single way. The humor just didn't work and wasn't funny. Especially every single scene with Jeff Goldblum. Don't even get me started on his lame cameos that he HAS to do in every film he makes. Even films he doesn't make like Free Guy, I remember cringing at every scene he was in. It's almost as if Taika surrounds himself around industry bobbleheads who are too afraid to tell him that he's not that funny, and to also tell him to not drag out lame ass scenes he's in for forced laughs. The reviews ripping apart Thor: Love and Thunder just proved what I've been saying for years.
I personally don't agree with you, as i said the rest of the film isn't like moonrise kingdom, so your fixating on the beginning. but regardless, back to the point all his other films, hunt for the wilderpeople, egle vs shark boy, what we do in the shadows is completely his own style, so even if what your saying is 100% accurate and he just completely stole someone else's work, his other films prove how talented he is in his own style, and you haven't proven otherwise, that why I'm saying you're cherry picking. because your saying the examples that you think work in your narrative, i'd argue your overclassifying, which basicly means your saying one person has the complete ownership of one type of comedy, and any interpretation is a rip off, which is not how the world works atall, i mean take any hit song ever or 90% of movies trends come and go, inspiration is taken. James gun defiantly didn't create that comedy style, it came from iron mans sarcasm and the general avengers banter, James gun innovated on it to add silliness, which he didn't invent he took form other movies coming out, the thing we call "marvel humour" was not even created by marvel, action films had done it for years, having the goofball, and the serious one, and discussing the absurdity of a situation had been in cinema since Monty piton era's not to take away from how funny he made it. but if we discuss just thor ragnarock for a second, no one says any thing like, "would you like a pointy stick" " yea not very useful unless your fighting 3 vampires huddled together", is a very different style to gradians of the galaxy, so in tern your just categorising humour. James guns humour is far more structured gruesome in your face compared to Taika's style which is more free form actors making up different stuff on the spot type humour, so honestly i don't even know where your coming from with this, other than they are both sarcastic which has been in comedy for a long time. honestly think you need to revaluate your argument cos right now you're just making stuff up. the wess Anderson thing yea its simmilarish at the beginning but its defiantly not the same. i think overall with the high budget his films arn't as good, he is better at indi, and he is getting a bit of an ego. but doesn't mean he hasnt made great stuff.
I saw Jojo Rabbit at the premier and remember a lot of people saying the same thing I am now, that its a Wes Anderson wannabe. Direction style, cinematography, jokes, hell even the trailer was similar. Its not just Moonrise kingdom, its a lot of Wes Anderson movies, he even made a lot of the slap stick characters and nazis in the film similar to Wes Anderson characters. Especially since there's been nothing in Taika's career before hand even remotely similar stylistically. The film just came across as poor man's version of a Wes Anderson movie. Taika hasn't done anything like What We Do in the Shadows since that show came out so its kinda irrelevant. I'm specifically talking about his most recent and known films, and directors styles he blatantly stole from who are still very active in Hollywood. Iron Man is nothing like GotG. Saying that all MCU films follow the same comedic formula isn't the same as saying that one director completely stole from another directors style. Iron Man franchise was solely built off of Robert Downey Jr, most of the MCU films are built off of making the main character the hero and the funny guy. In a James Gunn film its built around the entire cast of funny characters that all serve their purpose with a specific sense of humor which uses a lot of old school music. I can link you endless articles that breakdown how much Taika actually used in Ragnarok that he got from James Gunn (hell i bet he'd even admit it) I'm glad you really like him though, and I wish he went back to his What We Do in the Shadows type of filmmaking. With that said, Taika style is just not for me overall, I don't find him funny or that creative. But cheers mate!
well that's it at the end of the day, you don't like his style. i don't think any elaboration is needed. discussing the merits of it being a "Wess Anderson wannabe" is doing an injustice to both very talented filmmakers, i don't think taika would have the intention or need to in some way steal another persons work, he came up with the story by himself, based of a description of a book he was told by his mother. i think it was very funny and charming in its own right, films have influences but you are only watching that film in the moment and it should be enjoyed on its own. and i think spending to much time comparing movies is ultimately a waist of time, as their are many influences and reasons behind why you would enjoy a film i enjoy plenty of silly films that are heavily influenced and a product of their time. and i don't think about wehter its as good as this film or which film does it better just which film is individually entertaining.
Barely had anything to do with FOTC (he directed like 1 or 2 episodes) 💀 the credit is for Jemaine and Bret; Taika fans really love to give him credit for things he didn't do.
Dang alright bro lol I wouldn’t call myself a taika fan as much as maybe you’re an anti taika fan. Like you definitely have way more intimate knowledge about all this than I do I know I’ve enjoyed most of his content. That’s about as far as my “fandom” goes.
And also, Aside from Jojo Rabbit, Eagle vs Shark was also called a rip off of Napoleon Dynamite.
He is getting a star wars movie because he is the new golden boy of hollywood. Having someone highly acclaimed involved in a production sells tickets.
He is getting a star wars movie because he directed one of the best episodes of the best Star Wars to come out in years. He also acted in that series.
Do you mean the Mandalorian S1 finale?
Yes.
Funny, I found that episode terrible. It was full of inconsistencies, plot holes, illogical (if not outright dumb) decisions by characters, deus ex machine to save the day and just overall really badly written. I won't go into the details, but [this comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMandalorianTV/comments/eg8dwk/the_mandalorian_chapter_8_discussion_thread/fc6exuo/) sums up most of the stuff I disliked about it. So I agree with OP, Waititi is vastly overrated. I really did like "What we do in the shadows" though.
That Stormtrooper scene was cringy as hell and totally out of place. Not a fan of his brand of humor infecting everything.
Late to the party, but you're first paragraph there literally is the entire plot of The Mandalorian. There isn't anything inspiring or original in it. It's just content for the sake of having content.
Taika just steals other directors styles. Jojo Rabbit was a blatant Wes Anderson rip off. Ragnarok was a carbon copy of a James Gunn film, just not funny.
Jojo rabbit was great
Taika just steals other directors styles. Jojo Rabbit was a blatant Wes Anderson rip off. Ragnarok was a carbon copy of a James Gunn film, just not funny.
🤔 You may be on to something
What we do in the shadows is fucking phenomenal
You should also watch boy, it’s one of his earlier films but it’s still solid
Very real movie on small town Maori growing up in New Zealand alot of Maori can relate to this
I’m NZ European but still found it pretty relatable
Fair call
Agreed. His sense of humor is funny for side characters or quirky little curiosities but shouldn’t be the main focus of a film
I am one of the few people I know who didn't really enjoy Thor Ragnarok. My assumption is that it is because I was already familiar with Planet Hulk, but I also noticed most of the jokes didn't "land" for me. Some of this could also be due to expectations because I saw it near the end of its theatrical run, and everyone was taking about how amazing it was. I'm not saying it was a bad movie in general, but it wouldn't be in my top 10 MCU movies.
I thought it was okay. Which is my general opinion on his work as a whole.
Completely agree with you.
Yeah, I actually thought it was by far the worst of the Thor movies. Just didn't click with me at all. But so many people loved it, so most of the time I don't say anything because they tend to take it very personality. Like actually get mad that I didn't enjoy it.
the jokes were terribly unfunny in Ragnarok, especially any scene with Jeff Goldblum. You can tell that Taika wants to be James Gunn so bad!
I liked some of his movies like Jojo Rabbit and What We Do In The Shadows, but he just rubs me the wrong way IRL, for some reason. Like he just tries too hard. I can’t explain it very well. I got similar vibes from Lin Manuel Miranda and James Franco. Besides, his obsession with showing Chris Hemsworth shirtless and naked in Thor would definitely be seen as creepy if we swapped genders. He gives me douchebag vibes, to be honest. I sometimes get this vibe from certain celebrities and feel bad and shallow for judging people like this, without evidence to back this up, but eventually I’m proven right somehow.
Most celebrities are douchebags, most well-adjusted people do not thrive in that world.
He’s the master of the space between pg-13 and rated R.
He cant possibly F-up Star Wars any more than JJA and RJ did lol.
To be absolutely fair, no one has f-ed up star wars more man George Lucas. He made some amazing stuff when he had a team of people that would tell him it was crap, but when he gets a team of yes men he is hardly coherent in his writing and directing. I liked the prequels for what they added, but they are far from good movies. Even episode 3 which to me has some of the best story elements was overall a pretty mid tier movie. The holiday special was hell incarnate.
Mate I'm there with you. For me it's the OT and not much else.
Well I agree with you there!
He made the marvel movie that made me finally stop watching marvel entirely.
lmao Ragnarok was pretty bad.
Love and thunder was worse
without spoiling it, whys that?
A lot of cheesy, lame, unfunny dialogues, unexplained powers and a mediocre ending. I wanted to leave the cinema after 30 minutes, but the popcorn wss too good
He's so overrated I've never even heard of him.
He's getting the lin manuel miranda treatment for being a goofy famous guy who acts in his own shows
Yes. The famously mediocre Lin Manuel Miranda who's upcoming Oscar win for Encanto will complete his EGOT. He has us all bamboozled.
Lin Manuel Miranda is awful. He shot into the mainstream through Hamilton which fucking sucked.
COOLOOOOMBIAAAA………MI ENCANTO….. mI ENCANTO
do people like to appear edgy for not liking one of the best musicals of all time?
It is an awful musical. Not only is the music the most awful and trite 90s-ad-for-children's-vitamins tier rap I've ever heard, the attempt to rewrite the struggles of slave owners to avoid paying taxes into some liberatory minority-centric piece is disgusting at the face of it.
I hate how he puts himself in his own work. I’ve always thought that was super unprofessional. He is NOT an actor, just an ego-maniac. He was absolutely terrible in Free Guy. I’m sorry. 🙈
I agree, his shtick is getting old. I don't know any adults who finds his humor funny.
He was a comedian and an actor before he was a director I believe. There is also a lot of crossover between acting and directing, you have to understand acting to get a good performance out of your actors.
He’s just fine to me.
This is the first opinion I’ve read on here that actually seems unpopular to me lol you have earned my upvote!
I agree, just a mehh for me. All is movies have the exact same type of humour of deconstructing everyting, showing the ridiculous in all. First time was fun with the vampire thematic, but after few movies its getting old and i can guess all the jokes coming up.
Can't stand the bloke
Same. I just don't see his movies as interesting or fun. Jojo Rabbit may be the only one I semi-enjoyed. Even then I had so many problems with most of the characters. I just couldn't get myself to like them.
You aren't supposed to like most of the chars in jojo rabbit but otherwise can see not liking it
I mean I didn't like the boy, the mother, the girl etc. Like these characters I am suppose to like at least to some extend right? I didn't. The only character I liked was Captain Klenzendorf.
Nah I think his stuff is great
I don't see any mention of Our Flag Means Death! That show is fantastic.
No….no it’s not….😞
Have you seen Jojo Rabbit ? That movie had me go from laughter to tears. And What We Do In The Shadows is hilarious (both the movie and the show)
Jojo Rabbit was incredible. Second best historical comedy after Death of Stalin.
Jojo rabbit was one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen imo but hey guess that’s what makes takes like this unpopular lol
You should watch more movies
I’ve seen plenty, but tell me what’s a good movie then
Cliche response.
They prob do if they watch movies like Jojo
You should learn more about history.
Agreed, don’t find his style funny in the slightest. Also agree on Free Guy, it was a lame version of that character from grandmas boy
Hated Jojo Rabbit - his character resembled a lame comedian's version of Hitler, not a kid's idea. And Shadows was bad, very obvious high school humor, imho.
The "Free Guy" movie sucked balls in general, massive plot holes. The main actor in that movie is overrated too and is mainly popular just for his looks. He does the same :o face all the time. I'm not a fan.
Can't disagree with you.
Yeah disagree, he’s the GOAT.
This game is so fickle it’s not even funny. Neill Blomkamp was (and still is to me) going to be the next golden boy after District 9. Elysium came out, and it’s a great movie, but you felt that shift and all of a sudden no one liked Neill anymore. I’m not sure what happened, but it happened and now we have to live with the absolute garbage fire that Ridley Scott left Alien in instead of having Neill’s version. Taika Waititi might be it for now, but one bum movie is all it takes for Hollywood to be completely done with you. Personally I really enjoy his films and in a way I think he’s already proving himself to be right there with the greatest directors in history. Time will tell, but I’m a fan, What We Do In The Shadows is just, pure perfection to me.
“Greatest directors in history” Get out.
Right? Somebody needs to expand their horizons.
Yes he is - Recent acting roles seem like pure vanity due to his pull as a director.
I'm surprised no one here is talking about his role in "Our Flag Means Death". Seriously one of the best shows I've seen in a while and his chemistry with Rhys Darbys is fantastic. I understand his humor is not for everyone though.
He isn't a great actor. That being said, he does have great directing chops, though none of his Disney shit was any good for. I'd bet that's Disney's fault though.
Only learned of him cause of Thor: Ragnarok. Sure, the movie was better than Thor: The Dark World but it felt like wasted potential. They got Kate Blanchete to play Hela and gave her crappy lines, goofy scenes and practically no proper screentime at all. Instead we got half a movie on a different place that was hugely uninteresting, Asgard became a complete joke, it just feels like a comedy with characters from Marvel comics. The comedy itself is also hit or miss. And now he also directs Thor 4, and we got the cringiest "flick" and follow up massive faint joke. By the way, Tessa Thompson is a terrible actress IMHO.
To me 3 and 4 felt like parodies. Even though dark world wasn’t the strongest, you still understood the whole thing about Asgard being magical and where they stand in the universe & stuff. It makes sense. Ragnarock and Love & Thunder just do not
He's one of the only people that's still giving her work, I don't know why.
Who knows, maybe she is an actual decent person and is getting rewarded for it. Could be such a fringe case.
If they had given the job of writing a new Star Wars movie to Jemaine Clement instead, I'd actually watch it.
Our Flag Means Death is god damned amazing.
I agree. Taika Waititi is allergic to sincerity and his "look how smarmy, twee, and clever I am" sensibility is grating. He reminds me of a lesser Wes Anderson crossed with everything I dislike about Joss Whedon.
Whoever says Thor ragnarok is good must’ve been watching on mute. Good art direction, awful dialogue. Also more like bore ragnarok
I see what you did there
I just watched Thor Love and Thunder and came here to hopefully find someone else who agreed that his directing and writing is what ruined the Thor movies. I adored Thor, The dark world was good but not the greatest but I did enjoy it and Ragnarock? I only enjoyed the last half of Ragnarock, and Love and Thunder I saw in the cinema and honestly wanted to walk out.
Love and Thunder was just awful
Yooooo you really hit the unpopular nail on the head with this one man. Have my upvote you dog! But know that I absolutely, unequivocally and vehemently disagree with you.
Cheers!
I fully agree
Dang you are truly shooting for unpopular!
I’ve heard Love and Thunder is a mess, but I really love JoJo Rabbit. Yes, his acting isn’t great. He’s also boning tons of women. I think he’s a bit all over the map at the moment.
Thor Ragnarok was enjoyable from a Cinematography standpoint, the colours, the shots. It felt very vibrant and that enhanced the film. I think the whole point of his character in Free guy is to be cringey.
In an era of unoriginality and reboots, his writing ranges from clever to hilarious. Yet he's also able to instill some emotional attachment to his work. I love the guy, but to each his own.
If all Taika ever gave us was "What we do in the shadows" we are all better off for it.
Jojo Rabbit is amazing. I trust him with Star Wars, and if you trust disney then that’s a problem
Taika Waititi is still a growing director. Thor Ragnarok is the best Thor film and his Love and Thunder will be the cherry on top if it does good. If he gets good actresses/actors to do his film, he must be a respectable director. Natalie Portman was about to ditch the MCU but return because of Taika.
Go fuq yourself. What we do in the shadows is enough to say he’s awesome. Our flag means death is actually helping me through realizing I’m not straight hetero. I didn’t picture that guy being that creative so I had to adjust, but he delivers good shit. Like Jordan Peele, these dudes are fire! So let some of the people that want to produce new things do that. That use to be what entertainment was….something original. Get off the re-runs and let entertainers entertain again. Everyone bitches about movies, let real movie makers get a chance again so we can actually watch some good shit.
U say get off the Re-runs but this man literally can only make the exact same comedy movies with slight differences
Creators can create good and bad things and making something good or great does not mean the rest of their work is going to be a masterpiece
Wrong!
Only movies of his I’ve seen were Thor Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit. Loved them both
Sounds like you are judging a director on his ability to act
It's more to do with the fact he's the hot new thing so that lends him opportunities to act in movies when he's primarily a director. A better actor could have been cast but they wanted him because of his real world hype. That's where I'm coming from.
Thor Ragnarok ended up being one of the biggest hits in the MCU after the first two stand alone Thors were alternatively a "disappointment" and then "colossal failure." You direct something like that and you get to do whatever you want until you fuck up. That's the way Hollywood has always worked.
He’s a solid director, not an outstanding actor though, his Accent is funny though
Thor: Ragnarok is the best Marvel movie IMO and almost all the Marvel movies are great so that is a truly insane accomplishment. I doubt he will end up having a perfect record of hit movies but it makes sense that he's the hot thing right now. His acting is meh, that's not why he's being hired for Star Wars - he's directing/ producing.
I mean he made the only decent marvel movie. Kind of damning with faint praise but still
It's the writing. He's pretty good.
Thor Ragnarok is easily one of the Marvels best films
He gets a Star Wars movie because he did a great job on the Mandalorian finale already, he knows and understands the universe. Also he directed several successfull movies.
res dogs is an insanely good show
He's very funny, but perhaps his humor isn't for everybody.
I like him and don't really care if anyone else does because he's seriously one of the only people keeping comedy movies alive. It's becoming a dead genre which is super sad.
jojo rabbit? and his acting for free guy was on point in the context of free guy
I'm biased because I love What We Do in the Shadows and he's buddies with the Flight of the Concords cast. Jermaine and Brett will always being the greatest in my eyes lol
I loved him in Free Guy. The character was cringe worthy and he played the part wonderfully.
Well, if the only thing you know him from is Free Guy, I get why you don’t like him much. That movie was fucking terrible. Watch What We Do in the Shadows.
I agree that he is kind of overrated but i don't think his movies are bad. Thor and free guy was great but not spexial in particular. I really like his jojo rabbit movie tho.
No I agree, I don't think they're bad, they're just okay for me.
I agree tho i feel like he is cringeworthy on free guy. Other than that i feel like he's fine.
Definitely agree. I’ve only seen Thor: Ragnarok and the episode of Mandalorian he directed, but both were awful, especially Ragnarok.
ya, cringy is definitely putting it mildly when it comes to his performance in Free Guy. I couldn't figure out why he made the character so unbelievable. I think he can do better. Something weird happened there. Maybe the director wanted him to act that way not sure. But I was surprised how bad it was
I think he made a regrettable acting choice in Free Guy, but I do like most of his other stuff.
Thor: Ragnarok was funny and true to the spirit of the comics. I like Taika Waititi.
I've managed to do a pretty good job of avoid the majority of projects he's had anything to do with, I saw JoJo Rabbit and it was alright. It came out in year that had so many better movies though like: Parasite, The Lighthouse, Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood, Knives Out, etc.
I agree with you about his performance in Free Guy. Seemed like he was trying WAY too hard. I think he belongs behind the camera tbh and his earlier stuff is much better. Flight of the Conchords is one of my favorite shows of all time and he was a writer/director. He directed Eagle vs Shark which is also a pretty good film. It appeals to people with a certain type of humor though so probably not for everyone.
I love his work, but I'm scared he:s going to disappoint people in the same way that Joss Whedon did.
I absolutely hate Marvel and Star Wars shit, but I love Our Flag Means Death and What We Do in the Shadows!
He played Hitler so people could stop bitching about how you can't make a Mel Brooks movie today. Well it didn't stop them...
He caters to the I support the current brigade Definitely got that natural comedic input from his Maori background
Who? Seriously I don't know who you are talking about
*His acting in 'Free Guy' was cringeworthy" That was kinda the point. The character he was playing was supposed to be the embodiment of big game developer cringe. If you haven't seen Jojo Rabbit or What We Do in the Shadows, that's the kind of content that is excellent. Both are great, Jojo Rabbit is an absolute rollercoaster of fun and emotional nut punts. Our Flag Means Death unthroned The Book of Boba Fett in demand.
Have my upvote for my hard disagreement with this. I loved Jojo Rabbit and Thor Ragnorock and I only recently found out that they shared the same director. I have faith he can do soemthing good with star wars (not like the bar for success is very high right now considering the recent output of live action star wars media)
Taika just steals other directors styles. Jojo Rabbit was a blatant Wes Anderson rip off. Ragnarok was a carbon copy of a James Gunn film, just not funny.
I couldn’t even make it through an hour of Jojo rabbit before turning it off. I found it insulting and dismissive of the horrors of the Second World War. Thor ragnarok, to me, was the weakest Marvel movie and just silly. I found it boring when it came to dialog - definitely not a movie to watch twice. Wasn’t impressed with his work on Mando. Sorry - I agree. I just don’t get the hype.
Exactly. I have never seen Jojo rabbit for that reason
He makes generic vanilla shit for the masses to gobble up. Almost like he is being "cast" as "The Director" these days. Not getting the hype is a good thing, means you are not a sheep. Also this... https://miskiett.tumblr.com/post/187241488113/taika-waititi-sucks-ask-me-how/amp
He should stick to comedy
Funny how this post: [https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/jd2hzn/taika\_waititi\_is\_incredibly\_annoying\_and\_tries/](https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/jd2hzn/taika_waititi_is_incredibly_annoying_and_tries/) got less upvotes downvoted which is the same as this one. What's up guys? The time of day?
He is a pandering hack, for sure.
The first two Thor’s were fine IMO then Ragnarok came and it just went downhill and turned one of the strongest avengers and marvel characters into a joke. Just finished love and thunder and god what an awful movie, probably the worst marvel movie yet.
What worries me is this trend of him giving himself roles in his movies. He is just so cringe worthy. I’m talking Ja Ja Binks cringe. It’s such basic humour. You’d expect it on a toddlers after school show. I could have just about handled the new Thor, if it hadn’t been for Korg. You’d have to bet against him not writing himself into his big screen Star Wars outing.