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The MCU films are at their worst when they're trying to be funny. James Gunn is the only one who managed to pull it off well, and even then it felt out of place.
Also Thunderbolts is a solid "meh" at best. It felt like an extended tv show, not a movie. It ended once it finally got interesting.
Related to Downton Abbey, I’ve been disappointed in the Gilded Age. It’s done by the same show runner.
We’ve got so many parallels they could draw to today. But instead of talking about concentration of wealth, and mistreatment of labor, they focus on costumes and sets, and everybody looking pretty. And of course we are supposed to root for the uber rich people as the protagonists.
For example, did you know that one of the architects who got barely a mention on the show was a pedophile who groomed the original Gibson girl? Where’s that storyline?
We did get at least one decent mention of how the Brooklyn Bridge was actually designed by a woman behind the man. And there was a labor strike, but uncharacteristically it was settled peacefully. In real life, all of those people would’ve been shot back then and the rail baron wouldn’t have given in.
So many missed opportunities. But everybody sure looks great!
I really want to like that show... but I just don't. It's all the elite, the characters are forgettable and other than it bring visually gorgeous, it don't have much.
That is so common with this type of thing. So frustrating.
The woman representation in Apple TV'S "Foundation" is degrading in addition to being poorly written.
They gender swapped a character to increase the representation of women in Foundation (which honestly, good Asimov was pretty sexist so fuck him), but made the character wholly dependant on a man (Harry Seldon)to be useful through visions? This both takes away her agency and defeats the original point of foundation in that humans will reliably make the right decisions given the proper circumstances and not because the ghost of mathematical people understandet said so.
Every time I watch Bridge to Terabithia, the death scene screams "this was a suicide".
Before Palpatine became emperor, there is reason to believe the Sith were more righteous than the Jedi. They, the Sith, operated far more based on negotiation and human experience and did not believe in immediate sectarian suppression. If only they weren't also fans of death and destruction.
[cracks knuckles, does deep knee bends, runs in place for a bit]
The Last Jedi is an absolute masterpiece and most opinions to the contrary are objectively wrong.
[Runs away like that dude in the “Danger Seekers” segment of Kentucky Fried Movie]
Rising Tide was right