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I think you're seeing something that isn't there so far as the pc stuff goes. Perhaps you can give an example instead of just some vague reference.
Even though Whitey had all those fancy shooting skills, he'd never been in a real gun battle, and it was that inexperience and his arrogance that got him killed. He just didn't take it seriously enough. I have to say it was a surprising and anticlimactic death though.
Yes the actions of the fundamentalists is sick, perverted, and misogynist; however the show itself is not any of those things. The story is being told almost entirely from Moss' pov. It's not glamorizing the brutality of it in any way.
Many of the things portrayed in the movie are occurring right this very moment all over the world. I think the person who wrote this story would agree wholeheartedly with your outrage.
I was shocked when I learned of it, but not nearly as shocked when I learned Beck was one too.
At the end of the last episode he says something along the lines of: I blame myself too but what somebody did to us when we were young is not our fault and we didn't do anything wrong.
So the way i see it, his oddness was intentional and was meant to portray his damage from some unknown trauma as a kid.
I could also see that unexplored part of the series be the basis for a 2nd season if the network wanted to get another season out of it.
Advertisers want access to a younger audience than the one watching NCIS, or at least the younger audience is far more valuable.
Also, the ncis audience is less likely to contain the type of people who convince others that the thing they are doing or wearing or driving etc ... is cool, although I have no idea if that's either true or important.
The whole problem with him as a villain was the setup. His plan depended on complete incompetence to succeed. That's fine for a shitty 2 hour movie with some good action where the hero saves the day at the end of the 2 hours. There's just too much good tv to bother spending (and wasting) the 6 or so hours the first season would require. Plus, if/when it gets cancelled after the 1st season, there will be a cliffhanger ending that never gets resolved.
If you don't have access to all the good tv, and/or you like being treated like an idiot, this show might be watchable.
It wasn't terrible, although there were aspects of it that were (every scene with iron fist). It has an 8.2 rating on imdb at the moment. That's not accurate even when taking into account the curve US tv shows get rated on. A rating in the 6's would probably be closer to the actual quality. Nothing in the dialogue, the fight scenes, or the plot would suggest it's an above average show that an 8 rating would suggest.
I didn't hate the show, but I did despise the Iron Fist. It's not just the actor, although he's bad too. The writing for his character does him no favors, and the inconsistency with his power is beyond stupid. I imagine most people watching the show do so over a relatively short time frame. In one episode it takes him hours to recuperate after using the fist once. A very short time later he uses the fist extensively over the course of a several minute long fight scene. Were they expecting everyone to forget the recuperation period so soon after?
Daredevil, JJ, and Luke were all more or less ok, but the current Iron Fist needs to die so the show can start over with a new one. It's really the only solution at this point.
I'm through episode 4 now, and I'm glad I continued. After some initial apprehension about the writing of the male characters, which was probably due to reading some others criticisms, I'm glad to say I haven't noticed anything especially egregious since the first episode. I can't think of a single character who isn't in some way effed up, and in a twist, it would seem that the most sane characters are a man and a group of prostitutes.
I do have to agree that there were some incredibly hard to swallow coincidences. Unbelievable and ridiculous are apt descriptors imo, but if you can manage to ignore the one really big one, it's still worth watching.
Just completed episode 1.
I barely made it through the first 15 minutes w/ all the misogynistic men. The scene at the training facility was beyond stupid, and I don't think it would be possible to fill a scene with more cliched or stereotypical characters than the one with the tech guys eating lunch.
I don't see how a modern city police force could or would tolerate the conduct I viewed in the 1st episode. I could certainly see incidents and snide comments but it seems really far fetched that senior officers would tolerate the lack of respect being shown Robin in that training scene.
Having said that, the women are not much better than the men (if at all) so far, and it's entirely possible I'm letting some bias seep through after having read about all the criticism of the show after finishing last season. I don't remember thinking the first season was egregiously misandrist while watching, but it's been so long.
I agree except the comparison should be flipped (Ringo and not McCartney).
I enjoyed watching Krist's part of the film. Him and the Tracy appeared to me to be the most genuine of all the interviews. I thought everyone else was putting on a show, including the director. Having said that, I really enjoyed the movie, and think they gave a detailed accounting of the darkness in Cobain's life.
Actually many of the white male alt-right crowd does feel disenfranchised and is to some degree actually disenfranchised. Just b/c they're less disenfranchised than some other groups doesn't make their reality any less true for them. Their ignorance is easy to mock, but it's still mostly down to ignorance and not due to them just being bad or evil.
I'm saying that gods don't need to have great physiques to be strong, and this movie was consistent in that presentation. I don't think it was a bad decision.
It can be hard to accept movies and tv where waifish women (who aren't gods or don't have some superpower) can easily beat up multiple men in close combat, even when those men are well trained and much bigger. I feel like those kinds of criticisms have merit even if I'm ok ignoring them.
The problem with the antiheroes in this movie is they attacked a women, who was not part of their world (not a criminal), and they were not being forced or coerced in any way to commit the act. After doing that they then laughed about it and felt no remorse or at least no remorse was portrayed on screen.
I think being a movie didn't allow enough time to show their situation and how desperate it may (or may not) have been. TV shows like Breaking Bad or The Wire have that time and b/c of that people have an easier time rooting for the characters portrayed (even the criminal ones).
As for Keylo Ren he was coerced into helping with the threat of the death of his family and even then only helped once he realized it would be completed regardless, at which point he used his position to create a way to destroy it. So yeah completely different scenario.
I don't disagree; however in this particular movie the only other god looked like a 60 year old man who would struggle to run a mile or lift 50 pounds of "weights".
Most of these types of movies sexualize their characters (both male and female), otherwise they wouldn't cast such good looking actors with virtually perfect bodies.
Those were made in a different era. I suspect if the same movies were released in the present, they would not be so widely mocked and have such low ratings.
I never saw catwomen. I thought Elektra was pretty good, but I had low expectations and I had zero prior exposure to the character. Also, I like watching movies where women kick ass.
This is some batshit crazy level stuff right here. Whedon is known for featuring strong female characters in his shows and movies. He's the last person who should be criticized or mocked for that kind of crap.
The actor who played Ares in this movie did not have a strong physique. They are gods. They don't need weights to be strong.
Some of your criticisms have merit, but then you went off on a rant about women directors, SJW, and men hating.
Basically your criticisms lacked focus.