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Member Since 05 Oct 2016
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In Topic: Happy New Year 2020

13 January 2020 - 03:38 AM

Happy new year, I know we're a few days in and it doesn't feel like things are going very well, but I sincerely hope this new year and this new decade brings everyone here success in whatever they're looking to accomplish

In Topic: Black Widow

04 December 2019 - 02:14 AM

Hey so randomly thought to pop back in here after who knows how long. Sorry things have been happening. To start off after Endgame the burnout I was feeling from mcu movies every year hit me like whiplash, and as I think back on pretty much most of phase 2 and 3, I've gotten increasingly critical because I notice stuff that I never did before, so admittedly I'm a bit biased. But even in my cynicism I still love the first Avengers movie, GOTG and GOTG 2, Iron Man 3, Black Panther, and Winter Soldier, I got a kick out of Infinity War, and Thor Ragnarok is unironically one of my favorite comedies. So I can complain about how much I'm not happy with the new movies, and criticize Disney's business practices and how they're monopolizing the market, but then again I pre-ordered tickets to Rise Of Skywalker immediately, so I'm not immune to propaganda

 

But Black Widow...Black Widow...I agree that she should have gotten her own movie long ago, and doing so now of all times is weird timing. Yeah it may seem like too little too late, but on the other hand putting a spotlight on an old face and setting the clocks back might bring back old fans who have grown away from the mcu. But here's my main issue: Black Widow-as she is in the mcu-is a boring and dull character. She just is. Not that there's nothing to her, but besides Avengers and Winter Soldier, there's nothing in her portrayal that makes me want to care about her as an individual. And if I'm not interested in the characters, then I have no reason to watch. Like this movie from what it's showing in the trailer, looks like nothing more than Russian femme fatale movie complete with "sister finding her forcing her to confront the past", and as played out and tired as that is, I could get with it if I cared about the character. And quite frankly I don't, and if I don't care why should I watch?

 

Also Taskmaster looks like crap. Sidenote I know, but jesus he looks cool in every other iteration of the character, why just a generic military esque suit?

In Topic: Most hated tropes?

31 March 2019 - 01:51 AM

None. I honestly don't even like the concept of tropes because even if a story element is overused, it can still be good if done properly. Plus, it's gotten to the point that even if someone creates something that isn't a trope, it will now become a trope.

 

No offense to anyone in this thread, but when I see people complain about tropes, it's usually them trying to act pretentious by naming off tropes to slam someone's writing when they couldn't write themselves out of a paper bag. 

 

That's not what I'm trying to do. I mean yeah, people complain about stupid stuff acting like it's criticism, it happens all the time. (CinemaSins, quite a bit of Doug Walker's stuff, dudebros, anyone who says something that involves minorities/women/LGBT people is "SJW propaganda", etc). And like Commander said, they exist for a reason: they've been proven to be effective, and more often then not they work. But there are honestly things that are done that you personally just don't like for whatever reason. Or even things that you may like, or not take issue with that you get burned out on. That's what I'm trying to say.

 

And yeah even stuff that falls under that has and can be done effectively. Like I said when talking about the twist in horror that the supernatural turns out to just be in the protagonist's head, I've seen it in things I like and done well, I just personally don't like that twist

In Topic: Kakashi should have actually trained Sakura.

28 March 2019 - 12:16 AM

With all of this, I definitely feel that in many ways Kakashi not only failed Sakura, but Sakura being on Team 7 was detrimental to her already challenged self-esteem. And it could have easily been the exact opposite, which is the most frustrating thing about not only this case but many of the series' low points. There's a choice being made to write things a certain way, and it's one thing when you write yourself in a corner and you don't know what to do, so you come up with whatever, but if a scenario can easily be written better and go down a different path why not do that instead of making a huge creative misstep?

In Topic: Alita: Battle Angel

03 March 2019 - 02:01 PM

So I saw it, and I really loved it. It had a lot of good action, and likable characters with well-written dialogue, and the acting was top notch. Especially between Christoph Waltz and Rosa Salazar; like I could really believe that these two could have a familial type bond in real life. Rosa herself was really good in the movie, and although at first I was kind of thrown off by her being Robert Zemeckis style CGI motion capture, but I warmed up to it pretty quickly. A lot of critics didn't like the screenplay, and while I didn't have any major problems with the writing for the most part I can definitely see why someone wouldn't like it. I was listening to a podcast and someone on it said that it was very much like putting in a DVD of an anime and hitting play all, which it is. It's structured like an arc of an anime series, which is a bit creative in terms of playing with the three-act structure, but when translating that to a movie it has some pacing issues. And yeah, it also means that it sequel baits hard. But that being said, I do hope there is a sequel because this is a really good movie even with its flaws