For me if I had to pick a good contender it would be the UK version of The Office.
I know many tend to debate how Ricky Gervais really fell off and how he repugnantly acts like a whiny centrist edgelord but me personally IMO I actually don’t think he was ever funny not even a little.
His big break through television was just so painful to sit through it’s so charismatically boring the characters are completely generic at best (notably Tim) or straight up insufferably unlikable at worst (especially the protagonist David FUCKING Brent) and most importantly the humour is just embarrassing.
Always seemed like The Thick Of It but without the nuisance tongue in cheek and charming satire.
Mad Men. Everyone on that show is a fucking scumbag and not in a funny or interesting way.
Also Thor Ragnarok. I hate it for the reasons people say they hate the next one but it was the same people that said they liked Ragnarok so Idk what the fuck is going on there. I’m not watching the second one to find out.
I can understand not liking Waiita (sp?) humor/direction. The issue with Thor 4 was the Waiita was even less restrained, I think audiences mostly liked a touch of his humor/direction in 3, but it was way too much in 4.
Essentially, what you probably hated in 3 was dialed up even more in 4.
I always hated Thor Ragnarok. Piece of waste Taika Waititi approach to movies is “let’s make an episode of The Three Stooges,” and that’s not filmmaking, that’s being stupid.
He’s made some movies that I like but his style doesn’t fit Thor, especially when they had 2 movies plus the avengers ones already with a totally different vibe. I don’t know what they were thinking. It’s like Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein but at least with that one you know what you’re getting going into it and it’s actually funny. Taika’s jokes are just shitting on the source material.
$$$. That’s it, that’s what they were thinking. The previous Thors were among the worst performing MCU titles - I could be mistaken, but I believe Thor 2 was the worst. (Maybe outdated? Did eternals surpass it?) They needed to do something different to rake in the $$$, and they did, because the masses are stupid and will fork over $$$ if herded like cows. PS I actually liked Ragnarok, but I was never much of a marvel fan, so I didn’t have a preexisting idea of how the character should be portrayed to get offended by the switch.
I think the same. The humor in Thor movies came from him being an alien who didn’t understand how life on Earth worked, like the famous — and very funny — “another!” secene in the cafeteria, but he was never a clown.
There’s a scene in Love and Thunder pretty on brand with early Thor humor. In a flashback, Thor and Jane are watching a horror movie, Thor gets spooked and points the hammer to the TV. I wish the last two movies embraced this “fish out of water” kinda humor instead of dumb, goofy Thor and sentient axes.