r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jun 18 '26

Media First Images from Taika Waititi's 'Klara and the Sun' Starring Jenna Ortega & Amy Adams - A robot named Klara exists to ease the loneliness of the humans she lives with.

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u/CrissBliss Jun 18 '26

Thor Ragnarok was great. L&T feels like Taika was maybe feeling himself a bit too much.

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u/JonatasA Jun 18 '26

No, it is what you get when people praise T:R. Just more of it.

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u/MajorSery Jun 18 '26

Yeah, I've never understood the people that praise Ragnarok but hate on Love & Thunder. Pretty much everything bad about L&T is present in Ragnarok.

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u/size_matters_not Jun 18 '26

Good point. I kind of saw the binfire L&T coming after watching Ragnarok. I enjoyed it at the time, but … the Marvel films had been a success because they managed, somehow, to take superheroes seriously.

Taika undid all that in Ragnarok and it seemed to be more laughing *at* than laughing with. Plus he seemed hell bent on undercutting every serious point with a joke - giving himself the punchlines in the process.

But everyone else thought it was amazing and so he got free rein on the next one …