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Daredevil can dodge bullets.
Let me ask you a question, if your child or loved one was sexually abused, would a simple money settlement be enough to quell your fury, or would you want to see the bastard hanged? Especially knowing 20 million dollars is hardly a slap on the wrist for a guy that rich. Seems odd that all 20 cases were settled that way.
I find it much easier to swallow that Michael was being crazy and stubborn and just kept paying them all off hoping it would go away eventually.
Your argument is just an attack on Cap's character, not a deconstruction of his arguments or policies. If we're going there than Stark will lose, because he was practically the main villain of the movie.
You can argue about rules and practices and authority till the sun rises, but at the end of the day, these aren't normal people and their circumstances aren't normal. They've proven themselves time and time again to be responsible with their power. Yes, they're human too. They can be as bias and hubristic and stupid as any other human, so are the people making the rules. Their hurbis however, will get in the way of thousands of lives being saved. Nobody is perfect, but power has to go somewhere.
Tony's creation of Ultron had nothing to do with being an enhanced human or super-hero. He could have done that without becoming Iron Man. The fact people think that should be a factor in the Sokovia Accords drama is bizzare.
Sigh. Michael is a passive, non confrontational man who didn't want his genitals aired in public for the world to see, so he caved in and decided to settle. It was a weak, spineless stupid decision that even he regretted. But it's not evidence he's a peadophile.
Marlon Brando isn't Italian. But Vito is. That's called acting. If they're African in the movie, they're African, not American, or British, African. What they are in real life is not a factor, because that's the point of pretending the film you're watching is real.
And Black Panther aimed its politics towards black people in general. Which is good. American blacks have been hogging the spotlight for black identity for too long. Fact is, slavery and hatred and bigotry has been thrown on the race in England, Canada, Brazil etc. and still does, but Americans have a way of thinking this sort of thing only happens to them. So I'm glad the Brits get to have some cake too.
Nothing for acting, directing or writing. Without those, you don't have a good film.
Are. You. Kidding. Me. This movie was literally overrun with stupid jokes. There was no room to let tone and mood breed.
I'm starting to think Marvel fans have an OCD obsession with jokes if this literal poster child of over done humor was described as "dour."
It was girl power, Whedon's leftist stink and bad writing that made her that strong. There is zero in universe reasons why she's that powerful.
"Whether it's an objectively good show or not is beside the point."
No, it's not. It's the point. Everything else is ideologue fluff.
"This isn't like the Punisher comics at all."
Gene Hackman wasn't pre-crisis Lex Luthor, Hugh Jackman didn't wear gaudy spandex. Jon Berntahl wasn't a one dimensional killing machine. Good. If accuracy hinders quality, it is to be disregarded.
"The three movies, whatever their other flaws, were closer to the comics than this was (yes even the Dolph Lundgren one). The Punisher has a compulsive, pathological need to kill criminals, regardless of whether they were involved in his family's death or not."
Which means nothing if your writing, direction and performances are dogshit.
"He can't be rehabilitated like this show seems to think. We had as many scenes of him bonding with Micro's family as we did of him punishing anyone!"
Delightful. The writers knew that would be trite, boring and stupid to watch over a 13 hour stretch and rightfully ignored purists. Besides, it's not like he got reformed in any way, those scenes were meant to show his desire to return to a normal life, not his capacity to do so.
Jessica Jones
Daredevil S1
Daredevil S2
Luke Cage
The Defenders
Iron Fist
None of them are bad. But nothing so far has reached the peak of the first two. Those were incredible television.
I agree with you except the weed part. Get over it--there is zero scientific evidence to support the notion that weed is anything more than a harmless plant. The stigma is cultural nonsense that puritanical simpletons got brainwashed into believing.
But yeah, the moment the mother let an invisible entity grab her kid, I was officially done. I have zero reason to feel sorry for characters this stupid.
Jane? He ruined Jane's life?
Okay people, this is very simple. There shouldn't be any reason to confuse the two but for some reason, people are confused...
Murder: I take a knife. Stab a man. Cause and effect. I am the creator of his death. Direct link. Murder.
Letting die: The cause that leads to death is not initiated by me. I can stop it, but I don't. I am not responsible for the death. Someone else is.
Murder and letting someone die are vastly different beasts. No reason to confuse the two. The person who killed Jane was Jane. That is all.
Fan4stic was slammed because it was a dour dull plodding mess that refused to make any sense.
"You facebook people from high school and college you have no business being in contact with at your age."
My mother Facebooks people from college and High School all the time. And she's in her fifties. So what? What exactly is wrong with wanting to be re-acquainted with old friends? If it's not their bussines, whose is it exactly?
'90s kids were the ones who ushered in an era of the "adult" video "gamer".'
Video games are just a medium like books, movies, television etc and a common pass time shared by people of all ages. Lawyers, doctors, butchers all over 35 play them. That's not a millenial invention, that's just how things are. It makes about as much sense as saying baby boomers invented the "adult film watcher," which is to say, literally none.
"you guys are still watching television shows and listening to music that you've got no business listening to."
Again with 'business.' Is it up to you what a person watches and listens to? Nah, I'm pretty damn sure it's their business and theirs alone.
"If you guys want to keep your childhood alive or just never want to grow up, then fine."
What a strange poisoning the well fallacy. Every generation has people who watch older shows from their younger days. My parents generation still watches All in the Family, I Love Lucy, Rockford Files etc. They listen to the Beegies. You seem to want to make this strange leap between craving nostalgia and suffering from arrested development, and it doesn't work under any semblence of scrutiny.
"but don't blame the studios for remaking movies when you 90s kids are running up the hit counts on your long-over-due-to-be-forgotten-for-good 90s tv shows, music, and movies."
You ever heard of that thing where something stays popular for many years? Called becoming a classic, happens all the time. And no, I will blame the studios cause they're the ones shilling out these soulles remakes that constantly miss the point.
I'm not trying to defend the film but this is my take. I think we're suppose to infer that his abandonment of his no kill policy is both new and visceral by the time the film starts. He's lost every ounce of youth and vigor in him and is now a tired, jaded old man whose morals are easily compromised. But that doesn't mean he'll actively go out and kill people. Killing is a reflex. Personally for me though, starting your adaptation with a different or changed version of the character is strange story-telling.
A bigger question, if Cavill's Superman is willing to kill, why doesn't he just rip off Lex's head?
You uh, gonna try to refute my arguments instead of throwing vapid knee-jerk misconceptions? When did I ever say anything about critics?
"Gal Gadot cannot act." And you say this on the boards for a movie where she gives evidence for the exact contrary. Logic.
1. Why do Kryptonians and Saiyans speak english? Artistic license. Just roll with it.
2. Because those are composed of flesh and blood humans that don't need high tech weaponry to get killed. If a skilled 140 pound woman fought an unskilled 160 pound man, there's a good chance she'd win no? Even though the heavier individual is technically "better."
3. She's a fish out of water, who spent her whole life isolated from society. Naturally, her view of the world would be naive and under-cooked.
4. She didn't picky ANYONE as the good guys. The first Brit she met was a crusty old sexist, whose moral fibre she considered de0plorable. The whole point of this story is Diana having her child-like diametric view challenged and finding out everyone has the capacity to be a terrible person.
5. Because he's still a bad guy and he's still doing terrible things.
6. The point is that good/bad dichotomy is naive, people are as deplorable as they are beautiful, but love is still worth fighting for.
7. You can put the truth into words, but one does not truly know it until it's experienced first hand. She was trained for war, she was educated on the facts, but nothing could prepare your for the experience of witnessing the sheer breadth of its horror up close. What you're proposing as a flaw is actually the exact opposite of unrealistic.
8. Splain.
9. The movie wasn't bashing men at every turn it was bashing HUMANS at every turn. Key difference. Diana found Dr. Poison every bit as evil and spineless as the rest of them.