[mikestew]

My wife rented it for the plane on a solo trip. She got back, but the Apple TV progress bar in "Watch Now" indicated she'd only watched about 30 minutes of it. "Sucked bad", she said, "but maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it." We paid for it, I like Portman, I like Hemsworth, I liked the previous installments. I decided to watch the trailer to see if I wanted to watch the whole thing.

I just barely made it to the end of the trailer. I can only imagine the steaming pile that was the whole movie.

[all2]

This makes me sad. Thor: Ragnorak was hysterical and probably my favorite Marvel movie so far. Maybe the old adage about the third movie being better than the second will hold true.

[tedunangst]

L&T is the fourth Thor movie. Definitely the worst according to Lucas logic.

[aidenn0]

Really? I thought TPM was the strongest of the prequels; AotC was by far the worst.

[all2]

The original StarWars trilogy flipped this, too. In my mind Empire Strikes Back was literally the best of the originals.

[ubermonkey]

That's a widely held POV. Lucas hired a decent director in Irving Kershner and had outsiders do the actual screenplay, including Lawrence Kasdan. Kasdan went on to become a genuine heavyweight writer (Raiders, Jedi) and writer/director (Body Heat, The Big Chill, The Accidental Tourist, Grand Canyon). He also wrote TFA and Solo.

So, honestly, no surprise it was better executed than the first film. I maintain to this day that TESB is still the only one of the 9 "Skywalker Saga" movies that is genuinely a good film from an objective filmmaking perspective.

[aidenn0]

I think there is broad agreement that Empire is the best of the originals. The other two trillogies seem to have a much wider variety of opinions.

[HWR_14]

You already paid for it. Might as well try and watch it.

Trailers seem to have only a loose connection to the movie itself. They're made by different teams, sometimes with different (unused) footage.

[mikestew]

Your point is well taken, but the trailer would have to be pretty disconnected from the actual movie for it to be worth the time, IMO. :-)

[HWR_14]

You could also check out reviews. But I think I recall Ragnorak having a very disconnected trailer from the actual movie. Like the MCU uses the same trailer people for each one and they never got that the Thor storyline was supposed to be funny.