I would say that being critical of Israel and it's government is less of a spicy take for millennials and Gen Z (for whom the concept of a government being "good" is a laughable take) but that it's almost certainly going to get protests one way or the other because of aging Boomers and the Right Wing.
[Movies] MCU: Phase 5 - To Kang or Not to Kang
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I personally hope they skate right into the thorns. It really depends on how they treat the character, is she fully on the side of the isreali government, or is she going to be faced with the realization that governments are usually shitty. It would fit in the theme of winter soldier when Cap realized the Nazis we coming from inside the house the whole time
You should have recorded yourself reacting to it...
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CONTENT GOLD, JERRY!!!
Well...this is happening.
I still wish they'd make it PG-13.
Imagine the comedy of Deadpool struggling behind that censorship. Swears constantly bleeped (except one well timed F-bomb), nudity tastefully and hilariously covered, excessive violence hidden in shadows, etc. The jokes write themselves.
I still wish they'd make it PG-13.
Imagine the comedy of Deadpool struggling behind that censorship. Swears constantly bleeped (except one well timed F-bomb), nudity tastefully and hilariously covered, excessive violence hidden in shadows, etc. The jokes write themselves.
I like the subtle Aviation Gin placement.
I fully expect Wolverine to be a big deal in the marketing, only to have no more than a brief cameo in the actual movie. The reasons for this:
1. This seems on brand for Deadpool-style trolling. Look at how X-Force was handled in the last film.
2. Hugh Jackman is not getting any younger, and I doubt he's eager to have to get back into Wolverine shape again and have to maintain it for a whole movie.
3. I'm pretty sure Disney would want to recast Wolverine with a younger actor for the actual X-Men movies going forward.
1. This seems on brand for Deadpool-style trolling. Look at how X-Force was handled in the last film.
2. Hugh Jackman is not getting any younger, and I doubt he's eager to have to get back into Wolverine shape again and have to maintain it for a whole movie.
3. I'm pretty sure Disney would want to recast Wolverine with a younger actor for the actual X-Men movies going forward.
For me, the show has ranged from okay to good. But seeing the usual yahoos overreact and the show actively calling them out on it has been hilarious.
Yeah, haven't finished She-hulk yet....The massive amounts of online hate made me think it'd be wall-to-wall feminazi propaganda and indoctrination (I was well aware it wouldn't be, thanks). Is it in the last episode that I finally get brainwashed into being transgayfemicommunist?
It's not without its flaws, but overall so far I'm enjoying it more than I did Ms. Marvel.
It's not without its flaws, but overall so far I'm enjoying it more than I did Ms. Marvel.
Honestly, the amount of anti-incel or feminist jokes totals MAYBE a minute of the whole show so far. They're only incredibly short things, like the incel online comments or the twerking.
As always, these yahoos are overreacting to throw away gags.
Which also falls into the area of unreliable narrator because in that very same episode, she lost her temper because some guys hit on her outside a bar.
Which these idiots wouid understand if they had any semblance of media literacy.
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I see so many people getting hung up over if that line is true, but that's not the important part. What really matters is if its in character for Jen to say that, and I think it absolutely is something this version of Jen would say. Doesn't matter if it's actually the reason she's better at handling her anger, it's definitely what she'd say in an argument with Bruce. Sure it's an over-simplification at best, and probably wildly off-base in some aspects, but it's still very much in-character. She's not delivering some well-researched thesis on why Bruce's abusive childhood, and suppression of his rage have left him unable to deal with anger on a very basic level. She's trading barbs with her cousin in a oneupmanship contest. I know women who would make very similar arguments, even if they'd admit that the real issue is more complex were they really pressed about it.
That said, Jen does have a point about how having to deal with anger on a regular basis makes you much better at dealing with it than just repressing it until you explode. It's not because she's a woman and Bruce is a man, it's because Bruce had an abusive childhood and was taught to repress his emotions. I saw someone on Twitter comparing it to being able to swim. Jen can swim just fine because she's been in the water regularly her whole life. Bruce can't swim because he's only been in the water when he's been dropped into the deep end, and then into the middle of the ocean as Hulk.
I think one of the reasons why this statement is so polarizing for comic book fans is that we've been trained to accept a character's statements about their powers as the Truth, or at least as close to a capital T as you can get in a fictional world subject to retcons. Comic writers use characters talking about their powers as a way to inform us about how the fictional world works, and it's rare for characters to have Rashomon moments when talking about their super abilities. When a character says "my powers work this way", then that's how their powers work, like 99% percent of the time (until they're retconned). So when Jen says "I have more control because I'm a woman", nerds take that as the writers telling us how She-Hulk's powers work, not as a character saying something from a biased viewpoint during banter with her cousin.
I've gotten into arguments with some MRAs on the She-Hulk page. Almost invariably, they are from small towns in impoverished regions. They will write pages of poorly spelled, grammatically incorrect hatred and try to insult other posters' masculinity just for liking the show. I remember a few years ago, when they applied the "cuck" label to anyone who didn't subscribe to their beliefs. It was such a weird insult that reflected much more poorly on the manbaby using it than it did on the intended target. I'm very much a highly educated, cosmopolitan, coastal elite and so many of their attempts to make me angry don't work. But I have noticed that if I even insinuate that their specific demographic will be replaced one day, they fly into nerd rage and say something that gets them thrown into Facebook jail. Inceldom and racism often go hand in hand, and many angry white men subscribe to Replacement Theory. They sincerely believe that liberals are importing brown-skinned immigrants to push conservative whites out of the country.
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I really hope they make fewer tv series.
They've got at least... 5 scheduled for 2023 (one is season 2 of Loki), with at least that many more in the pipe. They are going to be going into animation more coming up though, especially with Spider-man stuff.
Four MCU series and two or three Star Wars series a year and my TV hours are pretty much all planned out.
This looks pretty danged great.
Let's hope, out of all the choices this movie makes, having Shuri become the new Black Panther is not one of them. Anti-vaxxer Letitia Wright shouldn't be handed the keys to the franchise. I say give the keys to Danai Gurira or Lupita Nyong'o.
Let's hope, out of all the choices this movie makes, having Shuri become the new Black Panther is not one of them. Anti-vaxxer Letitia Wright shouldn't be handed the keys to the franchise. I say give the keys to Danai Gurira or Lupita Nyong'o.
In this case, yes? It's not just that she's both a terf and an anti-vaxxer, but she also delayed filming for weeks because of it because she couldn't re-enter the US. She must have caved at some point... it's literally illegal for an non-immigrant, non-citizen to enter the US without a COVID vaccine right now.
I'm most excited for Ironheart's appearance, honestly.
