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.
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.
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.