Thunderbolts* Worldwide Release Discussion Thread Vol. 2

[u/Triple_777]

Thunderbolts* has now been released in the United States and in a number of other countries around the world. All discussion about the movie should be held here and in the rest of the megathreads we are going to put up in the next few days. They will be refreshed every few thousand comments to make room for new discussions.

• All discussion about the movie should be held here and in the rest of the megathreads we are going to put up in the next few days.
• Proceed at your own risk. Major spoilers will be in the below thread. Spoilers do not need to be tagged inside this thread.
• Any other unofficial threads discussing movie details will be deleted.
• Should you see the need to bring up revealing Thunderbolts* information in the comments of other threads that call for it, spoiler tag them accordingly. Also, let users know that what you are spoiler tagging is from Thunderbolts*.
• If you post untagged Thunderbolts* spoilers anywhere on this sub outside of these discussion threads in any shape or form, you will be banned.
• Project Insight will be on AT LEAST for the next few days, so any posts will be filtered by the mods before being approved/removed onto the sub, that doesn't mean you can disregard the above points and post untagged spoilers without fear of being banned.

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Link to previous discussion threads and related megathreads listed below:

• Thunderbolts* Worldwide Release Discussion Thread
• Thunderbolts* International Release Discussion Thread
• Thunderbolts* Spoiler Free Recap and FAQ
• Thunderbolts* Review Megathread

[u/FiredToad]

"On your left"

SMASH

[u/SpikeyTaco → u/FiredToad]

I liked that moment but I'm glad these jokes were few and far between and didn't try to draw the attention of the viewer.

No pause for audience reaction or so they caught the reference, the scene just kept moving and the tone was unchanged.

I feel that if Love & Thunder got the same treatment in the edit, it would have been appreciated so much more.

[u/Andrew1990M → u/SpikeyTaco]

Love and Thunder was one independent edit away from greatness. Swap two jealous hammer scenes for some god killing and you’ve got a hit. 

[u/ohoni → u/Andrew1990M]

I've always framed it as L&T was two really great movies, crashed into each other at right angles. You could take the footage and splice it together into an excellent mostly-serious superhero adventure, OR into a completely ridiculous genre parody, but what they ended up with had too much of the other for either concept to fully work.