Rangnarok Blu Ray’s best ‘extras’
Physical media may have fallen out of favour with many, but Kiwi director Taika Waititi has offered up a load of special features for the hotly anticipated release of Thor: Ragnarok on Blu Ray.
The extras also bear the former New Zealander of the Year’s trademark cheek and chutzpah, as they run the gamut of everything from a director’s commentary to deleted scenes and featurettes on the making of the film.
Stuff had the opportunity to look through all the additional content and here are our five favourites from the Blu Ray disc, which was released on March 6:
Taika’s Intro
Waititi sets the tone with a hilarious short introduction to the movie in which he introduces himself and gives the reasons why he wanted to make the movie: ‘‘I just wanted to impress Mum and Dad’’ and ‘‘For kudos and the folks on Twitter’’.
He also reveals the ‘‘inspirations’’ for Ragnarok, everything from Peter Pan, Terminator 2 and Independence Day ,to On Golden Pond, Beaches and My Fair Lady.
Team Darryl
One of the favourite pieces of prereleased promotion is back, with ordinary Aussie Darryl getting a new flatmate to replace Thor.
This time around it’s Jeff Goldblum’s Grandmaster, which offers the popular actor the opportunity to really let his character (and toast obsession) run wild.
Finding Korg
Taika Waititi plays ‘‘Taika Waititi’’ in this featurette about the director and his scene-stealing stone creation Korg. While he explains that ‘‘what the world needs now is Korg’’, his more highprofile Hollywood co-stars riff on what makes the Kiwi helmer so special.
Extended scenes
Of the range of extra footage left on the cutting-room floor, two pieces stand-out – more minutes with Goldblum’s Grandmaster meeting Chris Hemsworth’s Thor and a bit more banter between the former and his henchwoman Topaz (played by Kiwi actress Rachel House). Cousin Carlo’s death scene is so much funnier as he attempts to explain that his crime wasn’t, as the Grandmaster hears it, ‘‘camping with a camel’’.
8-bit battles
No doubt inspired by website JoBlo’s 8-bit trailer for the movie, the Blu Ray claims Waititi and co. used 8-bit sequences to storyboard two of Ragnarok’s most-epic battles. The results are gloriously garish and beautifully awfully rendered.