Saturday, November 11, 2017

Thor: Ragnarok

A Marvel production

Thor trapped in a hopeless situation, tied up in chains. He banters with Fire god and tricks Fire into revealing his weak point, which is his crown of two horns. Thor succeeds in subduing Fire and brings home his prize. His friend the gate keeper has been exiled and the reserve, Skurge, is busy flirting with girls. He does not heed Thor's call to be sent back. 

Finally gatekeeper hears Thor through the girls. Upon Thor's return, he sees a re-enactment of Loki dying in "Thor's" arms in a play while "Odin" enjoys this with wine and finery. Turns out that is Loki in disguise and their dad is exiled to Earth. Brothers go to Earth and meets Dr Strange who told them their dad is in Norway. At Norway their dad tells the brothers they have a sister, a first born and a god of death. She was too powerful and dad kept her locked away. Odin's death would unleash her and he dies. Dissipates into air as gold dust.

Their sister Hela (Cate Blanchett) walks through this death portal and crushes Thor's hammer like it was made of glass. Loki shouts to be sent back which all three promptly got thrown into. Sister thrashes the brothers out of the way to return to Asgard.

Brothers lands in the land of trash, Sakaar, where the first unwanted person is ruler and sets up fighting competition. It's a land that is a pit of wits, strength and lies for survival. It's very sad. So anyway Thor was captured by a former Valkyrie and sent as a candidate for fights. Her battles the scariest which no one had ever survived. That is Thor his friend.

Thor won but before he could outbeat the Hulk, he was zapped by the Taser, because the Grandmaster cannot bear to have his "prize", Thor, defeated. Who knows? Maybe he might lose the bet. Anyway this world reminds me of hunger games where almost everything is dystopian and everyone is out pitting for survival.

They are trapped in a room where Thor plans an escape to the storm machine, the plane which the Hulk came from. He reminded Hulk of his former self as Bruce Banner by showing him a last recording from Black Widow his lover, after they managed to escape with the help of the former Valkyrie, 142.

142 and Loki are tasked to bring back Thor and the Hulk. Loki rehashes 142's memories of the last fight with Hela, which looks like a scene from Revelations. 142 is pissed and decides to help Thor by enslaving Loki. Loki buys his way out by saying he knows all the codes to the planes by winning Grandmaster's trust. He can help them escape which Thor agreed to. They liberate Korg and Miek, stoneman and purple squid respectively, to start a revolution.

Loki wanted to betray Thor by splitting himself up before going to the plane. Thor anticipated that and placed Taser on Loki, zaps him forever. Thor, Banner and 142 go back through the wormhole's ass, the rainbow tunnel, to Asgard. Korg and Miek and gang want to escape and sees Loki being zapped. They stops the tape and escape on a ship.

The people are hiding thanks to gatekeep Heimdall. But they are found by Hela because Heimdall safeguarded the sword so Hela cannot leave Asgard. She pursues the people. Thor and gang arrives in their spaceship. Banner changes back to Hulk to defeat Hela's wolf, Fenris along the bridge. Hulk now blinded in one eye by Hela, sees through his father's eyes and realises he must defeat Hela with the same prophesy of Asgard on fire.

Loki, Korg and Miek arrive on this gigantic balloon ship. Asgardians board the ship but the death soldiers climb onto it. Skurge seeks redemption by fighting them off and sacrificing himself. It is the moment he has been waiting for - only in death can he see victory and achievement.

Loki locates the Fire god crown and revives him from the Eternal Flame. Fire god sets Asgard on fire, and kills Hela, goddess of death.

Thor is crowned King on board the ship. They head for Earth.

First post-show scene: they are confronted by a large spacecraft which is 1000x theirs. In final post-show credits, Grandmaster emerges from a spaceship to pretend he is one of them, when confronted by trash cannibals.


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