Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20170411234907/@comment-29908830-20171105060623

LoveWaffle wrote: Nurdboy42 wrote: It was just so awesome you guys. Why couldn't the first two have been like this? Perlmutter, probably?

Nah, Perlmutter's... Perlmutter, but I'd actually blame Feige not knowing what exactly to do with the character, as well as Marvel not settling on its policy of "get a very unknown director that shares our vision despite never having made such movies before" until around Winter Soldier. They tried to play with the European roots in the first movie by hiring perhaps the best Shakespearean filmmaker in the business, and that worked out just barely (my #11 MCU film). They then tried to play with the fantasy roots in the second movie by hiring a director whose only other worthwhile contribution to the medium has been Game of Thrones episodes (not to rag too much on Alan Taylor, but he DID direct Genisys, so...), and that played out worse (my #15 movie). But here, they played with the bombastic, epic concepts of the character and the goofy eccentricity of the Norse god, and went with a director whose sense of humor is very specific to himself, and the result is Ragnarok (will finally see it tomorrow!).