Well I went to see Thor Ragnarok at the weekend.
It is a bloody superb movie, its got a lot of humor in it (although perhaps they do overplay it a bit too much at times), the action is very good, the story, whilst simple was well done. And oh lord the sound track! "Yeah this is typical Marvel faire..." *SUDDENLY SYNTHWAVE* Its got the usual Marvel polish and attention to detail but they were clearly going for a somewhat campy, tongue in cheek action/road trip movie. The side characters are brilliant, Loki is superbly trollish and we get a nice cameo from another Marvel hero too.
With Mr Goldblum I think they just said "be the meme yourself" for his acting and Cate Blanchette clearly had a lot of fun being a somewhat hammy villain. There's lot of 'dawww...' moments too and the fight between Thor and Hulk is superbly done as are the scenes with big green.
If you do go and see it, see if you can spot 3 very famous actors doing lil bit parts that will make you giggle when you spot them.
If I was forced to give this a rating out of say 10, i'd say its a good solid 8. Its up there with the other very good Marvels like Winter Soldier or Guardians and Iron Man 1 as the ones that stand head and shoulders above the others. Not that the other movies are bad, but these ones, including Ragnarok are damn good.
Oh and there are 2 post credit scenes, one at the end of the initial title scrawl, one at the very end.
And whilst its not from the OST (which I will be getting when its out) here have some celabratry synthwave!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gklcix_pvMo(what is it with this big 80's Operation REVIVAL thing going on at the moment, seeing a lot of 80's nostalgia on TV, Stranger Things, and in adverts like the He-man/Skeletor one and movies with things like Guardians soundtrack and the extensive use of Synthwave in Ragnarok).
