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I see you've read Infinity War ;)
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I watched all of it. The whitewashing was IMMENSE and the token references to the civil rights movements were pathetic in a Trump-deluded white rich man's world kind of way. fucking shit shit shit show. sick of tv shows that are essentially rich white people problems, easily solved by vast amounts of money and the good white looks. |
all films are unnecessary.
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you know what I meant. Ant-Man (the standalone movie) was unnecessary in progressing the overall MCU series of films. |
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Yup. It's not my favorite, but I think Ryan Reynolds' depiction of Wade/Deadpool was one of the best ever for a comic book character. Maybe THE best. It nailed Deadpool so well that now when I read Deadpool comics, I just plain hear Ryan Reynolds' voice. Seriously. And I don't dislike it, in fact, it feels like I finally know exactly how to read Deadpool so he doesn't sound like crazy Spider-Man! If that's not the mark of a great superhero performance, I'm not sure what is. When I read the Joker after seeing Heath's version, I'm sad that the version in the comics is so much less textured and less genuinely threatening than Heath's undeniably god-fan-damn-tactic and definitive Joker. That was an example of the performance possibly being so unique that it kinda messes with the way you read the story, even though it was so fucking good. Reynolds just nailed it. Nailed the hell out of it. You can tell he really loves the character, and you can tell he has read the fuck out of some Deadpool. |
dude - yes. 100%. Since the movie came out, I have done the same thing when reading the comics. Deadpool totally has Reynolds' voice in my head. But yeah, that really means something about how well RR understood that character.
Regardless if someone likes the movie (or its source material), Deadpool was a labor of love and it really shows. Everyone involved really CARED about that character. |
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If I wrote off everything I liked as I child as being "childish" I'd only listen to high brow minimalist electronic compositions and read theorhetcial physics books or something. I'd never watch Blade Runner (or read PKD), and I'd watch documentaries all the time and sniff my own farts. I didn't even fully know why Nirvana was great until I was probably 20 years old. Rap music? That was really a later development with the exception of a handful of artists. My appreciation of comic books inspired my academic interest in religion, philosophy, anthropology, mythology and sociology. Oh, and history. If your maturation has made Nirvana sound worse to you, I think you might be doing it wrong. |
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I thought ant man was an awesome flick because it kept the true spirit of a monthly superhero comic book alive. It told a story that was not earth-shattering, aliens/gods will destroy all of existence. It was awesome because of that. I hate that whole "the world is threatened by a huge insurmountable monster" nonsense that, in the comics, happened maybe once a year, if that. In the films, every hero seems described in mythic status. that is bullshit. only superman is a mythic hero. batman is a HUMAN being with no powers. The Flash is a scientist who got powers to be very fast. aquaman is a merman. the xmen are mutations, some cool, some not. the movies all try to posit each and every superhero as some sort of demigod entity, when they are NOT.
of all the recent DC/Marvel films, the ones that most got the character right were antman, dr. strange, OG Iron Man. |
Another good non-comic book movie, Wild Tales, it's really great
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You missed the point of the performance, dude. Heath's Joker isn't angry. Nicholson's Joker is just campy. Panache my ass. |
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That doesn't even make sense. I barely listen to any rock music, as you probably well know. I don't even listen to Nirvana, but their awesomeness does not diminish with my age. If it does for you, well, it's not my fault your face is a butt that shits stupid words. :D |
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Nuh-uh. What about intangibles? Does time diminish age or decay? Totally staying on point this thread. :cool: |
dammit, i wanted to say that liver damage, like compound interest, is cummulative, but "intangibles" took me out of the race
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time diminishes the hacks, and aggrandizes the true artists.
Sonic Youth never had a gold record. I used to dream that something like SY would become so awesome that the mainstream would have to recognize, but it never happened with them. It DID happen with Nirvana, although I attribute that to the appeal of Kurt. If he looked and acted like Gene Simmons, but with all of Kurt's guitar, vocals, etc., Nirvana would not have been the pop darlings they became. everyone loves the brooding star who is burdened by their stardom. it makes you feel like they are one of "us." but they are most definitely NOT. |
more films are made and released now than anytime since the heyday of the studio system in hollywood, yet most do not get any distribution.
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one of the main points the show made (see the washington post's alyssa rosenberg's columns on it) was how in spite of all the upheavals etc only few people benefitted from social changes and how slowly things percolated through the world at large. shit that was rampant and damnable in the 60s *still happens today*. to me, that's exactly why the show was compelling-- it wasn't really saying "look at them". it was saying "look at us". yesterday's tobacco is today's sugar. racism, sexism and consumerism live on. people are more than ever manipulated by advertising, which has become more pervasive, subtle, and omnipresent. i get from your comment that the existence of "rich white people" fills you with hate and rage and it ultimately distorts your reading of the whole story. i would venture that you'd rather see them portrayed as one-note nazi supervillains rather than as complicated people with some good qualities and some terrible defects who operate embedded in a dysfunctional social system that no one person can control. and that's exactly the problem with the superhero comic book morality you seem to enjoy instead-- it operates as a simplistic black-or-white system of individual choices to indoctrinate children. but while children need a clearly defined moral code, real life in the adult world is messy, difficult, ambiguous and rife with tradeoffs, where cultures and classes clash, and always with more questions than clear answers. this is exactly what good writing for adults illustrates, and what i'm referring to when i complain about a lack of adult subjects in fiction. to read about fictional complexity and social systems helps us to grapple with real complexity and social systems. to read only simplicities... i think it makes us simple, and not in a good way. too much simplicity gives us puritans and torquemadas and all manner of absolutists, #MAGAs, science-as-religionists, creationists and bible literalists, and reduces all judgments to "this rules" and "this sucks". nature doesn't work that way. nature is an explosion of complexity-- and that goes for ecosystems and social systems and individual lives--and we have to learn to deal with it. |
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