Natalie Portman | A Screenwriters Perspective: Current and Past Movies.

The new movie “May December” from the movie poster gives a very misleading message about what this film might be about. This film is a fictional story about a “Mary Kay Letourneau” – like couple, played by Julianne Moore as Gracie and Charles Melton as Joe and a famous movie actress Elizabeth played by Natalie Portman who is doing research for a movie role about their life after Gracie is released from prison. What follows in this story is nothing more than a series of different vignettes and scenes that sometimes seem connected, other scenes not connected with several different characters, and a mostly disjointed story that can put any viewer into a deep coma inside of 45 minutes.

This is another example of trying to be so different at the expense of an enjoyable and understandable story. This entire film is so intent on being so different that, most of what happens is boring and has no satisfying conclusions anywhere, especially with the abrupt and strange ending.

At the end, I thought about why this movie was even made. What was the point of these two hours of an extremely forgettable story. Then while reading and seeing the 90%+ ratings on Rotten Tomatoes I wondered what movie these critics were watching? This movie is a big-time miss, with my rating around 50% only for some of the acting.

It is a fact that the movie industry is a multi-billion dollar financial monopoly with huge amounts of investment money that may be lost or made, high level decision makers, screenwriters, actors, lawyers, producers and when mistakes are made, the effects are far reaching, just like any other industry in the world. Considering all of this, It is hard to imagine any group of smart and wealthy people could greenlight a script as bad as the one for “Thor: Love and Thunder”, especially considering that a new bad Thor film might ruin the entire franchise.

Time time around the director Taika Waititi, tried to introduce some humor within various scenes, most of which completely failed. The story is all over the place, fragmented, boring and just seemed to be (once again) just a disconnected attempt to throw special effects at the audience, with no flow or continuity. It was a challenge getting through a mess this bad and I almost dosed off several times, even despite the routine level of explosions and action scenes.

This movie once again stars Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman as the two main characters from the original Thor movie, released in 2011. Christian Bale is unrecognizable as the evil Gorr with Tessa Thompson and Russel Crowe who both seem misplaced in this very big and mostly boring film.

This time around the critics on Rotten Tomatoes are correct with their low 68% ratings – with mine around 55% due to the poor quality of the story. This Marvel movie is one of the worst and a solid pass.