Post by formersamhmd on Oct 24, 2017 12:37:58 GMT
It was considered brilliant for the 80s when the idea was thought up, now it's banal and exploitative. Even Ricky Gervais pointed out how using the Holocaust is just a cry for attention and "See how DEEP we are? We're referencing the Holocaust!"
Compare this to Cap 1 where we have laser gun battles during holocaust but no character arcs and Hail Hydra shouting Tomatohead villains.
So true to the comics and not going for the creatively bankrupt "grounded" approach. Cap 1 was basically Indiana Jones if the Nazis DID get their hands on ancient relics and use them. More inventive than anything else.
Or take GotG dying-cancer-mom which just serves as sentimental tear-jerker plot device for funky pop song dancing (a scene later)
If your mom dies when you're eight, you're not going to spend the rest of your life doing absolutely nothing but being weepy.
dance offs and ultimately for commercial soundtrack selling.
The music is a gift his mom gave him, fits.
Compare this to the film "Chronicle" a few years before
I liked Chronicle more when it was called Akira.
All characters have sound motivations and background stories.
Not in X-Men.
If that does not spell character change, maybe you should watch movies about sensitive nipples and putting squishy raccoon turds in pillows.
It's starting to get amusing how you cling to that and ignore stuff like Drax's talk about the nature of beauty. But then again, you like slop like "Love can save the world".
Even if so, not the point, sam.
It is.