Thor: Love & Thunder has a lot on its mind. It’s not a great movie. I feel I should point that out up front—for some reason, sigh, looking at you internet—but it is a fascinating movie. I love it. My mind keeps wandering back to it, or more specifically, the notion that people don’t like it haunts the misbegotten depths of my mind. I can’t let it go, and I am fixated on one possible reason why the movie gets a bad rap even when I never actually hear this as a reason.
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Suck the marrow out of life. It’s a good quote, vivid, visceral, wild. I don’t even know if I’m remembering it right, but I remember the moment from Dead Poet’s Society. The kids excited, savoring the words, sucking the marrow, and they don’t understand what it means, but it sounds great, sounds full of passion, full of life. They want strong feelings. They desire intensity. They will shake the thunder from the sky.
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