If you thought a brand new year would see the backlash towards Thor: Love and Thunder either slow down or disappear into the ether, then we can do nothing but admire your unbridled optimism. If anything, the vocal opposition towards Taika Waititi’s polarizing sequel has only increased, leaving us concerned about where things could head over the next 12 months.
We only went and rung in 2023 with Love and Thunder being compared to a war crime, which was then swiftly followed by a brand new conspiracy theory sweeping the internet, which at least tried to shift the blame away from Waititi for a change. Continuing on in that vein, a bizarre opinion on Reddit has outed a new candidate to explain why Chris Hemsworth’s fourth solo outing split opinion so deeply down the middle… and it’s Shane Black’s Iron Man 3.