Thor: Love and Thunder made its streaming debut for Disney Plus Day, bringing with it an attempt to fix one of Marvel film’s most derided VFX moments.
The fourth entry in Marvel Studios Thor The series received mixed reactions from fans, with Taika Waititi’s comedic take on Chris Hemsworth’s God of Thunder debate. However, one of the other aspects of the film that irritated some fans was a particular visual effect.
Taking the opportunity to accommodate fan feedback, Marvel apparently changed the scene to Thor: Love and Thunderfrom Disney Plus, but some fans are less than convinced by the results.
In the Disney Plus version of Thor: Love and Thunderthe scene involving Axl contacting Thor was reworked to enhance a much-derided visual effect.
Axl is Heimdall’s son of Idris Elba, who died in Avengers: Infinity War. A scene in love and thunder sees the young Asgardian reaching out to contact Thor after he and the other children of Asgard are kidnapped. When he does, he appears before Thor as a disembodied floating head.
The visual effect in the film’s original cut was criticized by fans online, who claimed it looked surprisingly cheap for a film by love and thunderthe budget of. Now, the reworked version has faced similar criticism.
It comes after Taika Waititi was previously slammed for criticizing love and thunder‘s VFX in a shot of the CGI character Korg. Following previous reports of the stressful and unforgiving working conditions imposed on VFX artists working on Marvel productions, it’s surprising to see fans now partake in this same criticism.
Here is the synopsis of Thor: Love and Thunder:
The film finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on an unprecedented journey – a quest for inner peace. But his retreat is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Korg (Taika Waititi), and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), who – to Thor’s surprise – inexplicably wields his magic hammer, Mjolnir, as Mighty. Thor. Together they embark on a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s revenge and stop him before it’s too late.
Directed by Taika Waititi and produced by Kevin Feige and Brad Winderbaum, the Thor the sequel stars Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson, Jaimie Alexander, Taika Waititi, Russell Crowe, Natalie Portman, Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper.
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