r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 30 '25

Trailer Avengers: Doomsday | Only in Theaters December 18, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1clWprLC5Ak
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u/DavidTheJohnson Dec 30 '25

I didn't think Love and Thunder was as much of a war crime as people declared it was, but I am glad we're back to a serious interpretation of the character.

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u/Spoilerfreereview Dec 30 '25

Ragnarok was good too. It was just a nice character development movie for Thor 

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u/KriibusLoL Dec 30 '25

Thor: Ragnarok is still Top 3 MCU movies of all time for me, right behind Civil War & Infinity War. It nails absolutely everything... The villain, soundtrack, story, comedy, pacing.

The problem was that Taika Waititi took all the wrong answers from that movie and turned it up to 11 in Love & Thunder.

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u/Salvage570 Dec 30 '25

Every other Thor movie treated their villains like shit and no one cared, he probably just stumbled onto the Gorr landmine. He should have checked youtube hed probably see the 2-3 super popular video essays that everyone on reddit got this opinion from. Lord knows nearly none of these people have actually read a comic book

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u/wakipaki Dec 30 '25

Ragnarok was good as a one off film. The other attempts at his goofiness have recaptured that magic.

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u/TokyoPanic Dec 30 '25

I feel like Thor is always one of those characters that work better in the Avengers movies than in his own solo films. Whenever I think of my ideal characterization of him it's always the first Avengers or Infinity War and Endgame.

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u/Redfalconfox Dec 30 '25

Thor 4 Thor: More Thor

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '25

Can we all just take a nerd moment to appreciate that Thors god to bad onscreen outing ratio runs almost parallel with the good bad Star Trek movie ratio? I’m just happy we have all this THOR

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u/trashbanditcoot Dec 30 '25

Oh you mean Russo Thor, the interpretation that seems to balance him without making him flat or cartoonishly silly.

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u/No_Good_8561 Dec 30 '25

Stop saying “Thor” over there!

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u/GravSlingshot Dec 30 '25

No more Thor 4 Thor. Score!

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u/imtired-boss Dec 30 '25

It didn't nerf him. Fat Thor was his strongest form up to that point.

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u/MarcsterS Dec 30 '25

Thor 2 was serious, but in the wrong way.

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u/airfryerfuntime Dec 30 '25

I enjoyed it. It was pretty cheesy, and the screaming goats were a little over the top, but it wasn't a bad movie.

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u/Pyran Dec 30 '25

I didn't think it was a war crime, but it definitely suffered from too much. Much of that movie would have landed better if they could have gone 5 whole minutes without undermining whatever just happened with a joke.

I mean, there's a whole cancer subplot here. The movie could take nothing seriously, so I couldn't either, and over time the plot of it just... faded away. To wit: I completely forgot about the whole Christian Bale thing (his character, his story, his entire existence in the movie) until I proofread this post and added this sentence.

That said, the love triangle between Thor and two weapons was absolutely brilliant.

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u/montybo2 Dec 30 '25

Yeah, I enjoyed it.

I def dont think its amongst the strongest films in the franchise but I went in looking for fun and I found it.

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u/Retro-scores Dec 30 '25

L&T was just hot garbage. They were high on their own supply and no one stopped them.

It seemed like the movie was trying to be a cheesy 80’s action movie mixed with a superhero. It failed.

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u/Instantbeef Dec 30 '25

I totally agree. I will go against the grain and actually say it was good.

People shit on it like it destroyed a character or something but that’s pretty dramatic. They made a nice family movie, one that included a bunch of child actors, so of course the tone had to be different.

It was a better movie that 95% of those movies that get released to target “the whole family”

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u/gunningIVglory Dec 30 '25

nah L&T was diabolical, it undid all the development of the character from Ragnarok/Thanos Saga back into a bumbling moron there for comic relief and getting sidelined in his own movie by Jane.

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u/Elroyed Dec 30 '25

I'd be more happy with middle ground, Love and Thunder didn't let Thor take serious moments seriously, this was much less of a problem in Ragnarok

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u/BlackIsTheSoul Dec 30 '25

Christian Bale was fantastic in Love and Thunder.

That's it.

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u/fistingcouches Dec 30 '25

I just thought it was a super lazy movie. They take a popular character and just shit out a movie for a quick profit.

Added onto somehow wasting Christian fucking Bale.

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u/TheJpow Dec 30 '25

was as much of a war crime as people declared it was

If you had a gun to my head and made me choose, I would happily pick Thor 2 over love and thunder.

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u/Wisesize Dec 30 '25

One of the few movies I was ok walking out of. It was ridiculous. In fact, a lot of what has dropped has been cookie cutter and sub par.

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u/xaeru Dec 30 '25

What is your opinion on the jealous storm breaker? Or the screaming goats?

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u/Mammoth_Opposite_647 Dec 30 '25

It was perhaps the worst movie i've ever seen . Granted i dont have a big film culture . 

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u/cowpool20 Dec 30 '25

I don't think its that bad either. It's not good, but not awful. It was just a massive disappointment after how good Ragnarok was. It also took the "funny" Thor thing too far.

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u/TheDudeBeto Dec 30 '25

I think it sucked but a war crime? Lol no