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nostalgia-tblr · 1 year ago

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Thor: Ragnarok is the best Thor movie and you can tell because nobody ever tries to make a desperate claim for prestige and reflected quality by calling it "Shakespearean," they just say they enjoyed it and they liked the jokes.

#thor ragnarok #“oh but ragnarok made the characters look silly” jan. jan. JAN. look at what they're wearing jan. look at the sets. recalibrate the sensors #i don't WANT to start sentences with “so with your vast experience and knowledge of Elizabethan/Jacobean English drama -”#or rather i do WANT i just DON'T (because one of them probably CAN name another early modern dramatist and i'd get that one for sure)#i KNOW they don't talk like the 16th century because i can actually understand the shite they're attempting to convey #also maybe you could look up when “the Viking Age” was and then when Will S was writing his dialogues. (i'll wait.)#“oh but they're in 21st century movies so they wouldn't -” YES EXACTLY.#they talk like characters from low-accuracy historical novels WHICH IS FINE but the genre-blindness on here bugs me :|#they talk more 'normal' in ragnarok and that's a good decision which i support fully (and also i enjoyed it and i liked the jokes)#and something about class and education and Literature and what we're 'allowed' to like and how SF is generally looked down upon #to the point where people who should know better insist on saying a film they like is actually more like a thing with much more prestige #i wouldn't put MUCH money on “i bet these film-makers explained how It's Not Reallly Science Fiction Though” but i'd put a wee bit on it #thor movies

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