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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Taika Waititi Is AWFUL! | 12/1/23

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Taika Waititi claimed that he only directed two “Thor” movies out of desperation rather than any actual interest in them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Someone asked Natalie Portman how gay the new ther movie is.

0:03.6

So good.

0:07.6

So good.

0:08.6

So let's talk about Tycho Y-T-T and why he's he's kind of the worst so you guys are

0:18.5

probably familiar with Tycho Y-T for his work on two Thor movies Thor Ragnarok and Thor Love and Thunder.

0:25.3

Now Thor Ragnarok was very positively received and it also made a ton of money.

0:29.8

Thor Love and Thunder, however, I mean it did end up doing kind of okay at the box office, but overall a lot of people myself included weren't very impressed with it.

0:39.6

And I did do an entire review of Thor Love and Thunder. If you haven't seen it yet, I recommend you check it out. But overall, I thought the movie was just kind of everywhere. And I'm a fan of humor, and I think a lot of people enjoyed the humor that was part of Thoragnor Rock but with love and thunder.

0:54.8

It was almost like Tycho ITT wasn't trying to incorporate humor into the movie.

1:00.4

It was more he was making fun of his own movie.

1:03.0

And now I'm not a huge fan of the Thor comic books, but from people who are, there were also a lot of complaints that with that film,

1:09.0

Tyka Y-T-T was simply disrespecting the source material.

1:12.0

But overall, with that kind of lukewarm reception, was simply disrespecting the source material.

1:12.6

But overall, with that kind of lukewarm reception

1:14.7

attached to Thor Love and Thunder,

1:16.3

it was ultimately decided that Tyka Y-T

1:19.1

would not be returning to direct the next Thor film.

1:22.4

This has been presented to the public as like a

1:24.5

mutual parting of ways but I mean I wouldn't be surprised if I were a Marvel

1:29.5

executive and I was looking at what people were saying about the movie and I was looking at the box office receipts compared to how much that film costs.

1:35.7

Honestly, I would just not give that guy a stab at another film.

1:38.6

And the reason why I bring all of this up is because we now have this piece from Variety

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