"We" is the people I went to the movie with, and no, I'm not kidding.
When your villain is the ancient and terrible Goddess Of Death you don't try to flesh her out, that would make her more like a human and therefore less awe-inspiring. Instead, you hire an actor who can dominate the screen and your best CGI people, and make something unstoppable, mysterious, and totally fun to watch.
I don't mean that all villains shouldn't be fleshed out, Loki certainly needs to be, Vildemirt does, etc. But Sauron and Hela do not, they're Godlike beings and humans cannot understand their nature.
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TwistedAcrobat (1725)
7 years ago
Fleshing out a main character doesn't equate to make it human. Hella had a sort of fleshing out, but it could be helped with actual footage of Odin banishing her. We see bits of the Valkyries fighting her, but not the actual resolve of that fight [we only hear about it] and we see the paintings on the ceiling too [and this is where I'd put scenes of Odin and Hella fighting side by side and then Odin banishing her]. We also never see her as a child the way we did with Thor and Loki. We didn't see her becoming the way she is, and that would be important.
They are nbot gods. They are aliens. And your argument of humans not understanding their nature fails as soon as you realize the main characters are all fleshed out [Thor, Odin, Loki, etc], so I can not agree with you.
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Otter (24464)
7 years ago
I don't know, what I saw worked for me. I certainly wouldn't have minded seeing a bit more flashback mayhem, but when I saw those scenes on film my mind filled in everything I know about the history of the Vikings and the grim religion of the old Norse, and filled in the differences between that and the Asgard we've been shown on screen. I understood that Hela represented the veneration of blood lust and death without redemption, you know, the difference between civilization and brutal pointless war. I thought that was clear enough.
If they didn't show more flashback mayhem, it might have been because the special effects budget didn't cover it. Or they just wanted the first part of the film to move faster, which was certainly a valid concern. The second half of the film was definitely better than the first.
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TwistedAcrobat (1725)
7 years ago
nothing wrong with how it was presented. Just some things were missing to make it that extra bit more interesting. Some bits on the trailers were also missing from the actual movie and they looked pretty good [when it comes to Hella].
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