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Marvel 'fixed' the CGI for the floating head in Thor: Love and Thunder but people think it's now even worse

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Published 19:19 9 Sep 2022 GMT+1

Marvel 'fixed' the CGI for the floating head in Thor: Love and Thunder but people think it's now even worse

Thor: Love and Thunder viewers felt slightly baffled by the floating head scene with Axl when the film first dropped

Jess Hardiman

Jess Hardiman

Marvel has ‘fixed’ the infamous CGI floating head in Thor: Love and Thunder for its release on streaming site Disney+... but the change has left some people wondering if it’s now even worse. 

When Love and Thunder was released earlier this year, many fans felt slightly baffled as they watched the floating head of Heimdall's son Axl (Keiron L. Dyer) contacting Thor telepathically - although we should point out that reviews were generally positive.

The scene saw Axl's glowing head manifest virtually in the room to communicate with Thor and co, asking them: "Can you see me?"

Korg, voiced by Taika Waititi, then says : "Uh, floating head alert."

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The conversation proves to be a surreal one, with the youngster telling the others that he no longer went by the name of Astrid, and was 'now known as Axl'.

"He's a singer from a popular band I heard on Earth," he explained.

But it isn't the stiff dialogue that Marvel has supposedly fixed; it was the CGI involved in creating the ethereal child's head suspended in the air.

Pointing out the change on Twitter, one person wrote: "They patched Thor: Love and thunder for the Disney+ version and it looks even worse now."

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Another exasperated fan said: “Never thought we'd be at the stage of patching movies like they're video games.” 

A third wrote: "Dude... this is some Kingdom Hearts 3 levels of cringe."

When someone diplomatically suggested it might look ‘better in motion’, many pointed out this was sadly not the case. 

“It also looks terrible in motion btw,” the original poster wrote, sharing a short clip of the altered talking head in action. 

Others remained a little more diplomatic, saying ‘a hologram projected by a preteen’ was never ‘meant to look good’, with one person writing dryly: “I don’t know what how y’all expected a whole a** floating head to not look goofy.” 

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Another said: “Oh it was kinda bad in the cinema (I watched the movie 3 times btw), but I actually like the new update? "It's supposed to look weird because he doesn't have control of his powers, but the first version was too weird imo.” 

Someone else, meanwhile, pointed out that patching segments of films is something cinema has been doing for decades. 

“Kubrick patched The Shining after its premiere by removing the original ending, and then patched it further for European audiences by removing several scenes,” they pointed out. 

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Featured Image Credit: Disney

Topics: Marvel, Disney, Film and TV

Jess Hardiman
Jess Hardiman

Jess is Entertainment Desk Lead at LADbible Group. She graduated from Manchester University with a degree in Film Studies, English Language and Linguistics. You can contact Jess at [email protected].

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