Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.
One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??
The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.
Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!
The Backrooms movie was a 3/10.
Im honestly really upset. What a betrayal of the fandom that made the Backrooms phenomenon popular in the first place. No almond water, no levels, no unique and interesting entities. The whole movie just takes place on level 1, because the boomer who directed this didn't even understand more than the surface level. Disgusting movie.
You’re the typical loudmouthed loser on the internet.
You’re about ten years too early to be threatening me, you piece of trash.
And I’m no longer involved, so DON’T ASK ME FOR SHIT about TEKKEN.
Just sit there watching tournaments while your mommy holds you, you little shit.
"My skin didn't char but I was screaming in agony, my tears just sizzled away."
Homelander has a few moments that give insight to his relationship with pain. It defined his life and yet he has grown numb to it.
He responds with anger in almost every instance of challenge but that's not because of the pain, it's the sheer desire for vengeance on a world that created him to receive and perform every torture and manipulation.
Homelander took on three supes at once, got beaten, tossed around and nearly killed. He was inches from losing everything...but he didn't even hint at begging. He simply got more and more furious.
Watch his fight with Maeve in s3, she can and does make him bleed but he goes for vengeance and immediately takes her eye.
Not because he's so scared of her causing him pain but because he wants her to suffer much like anyone else crossing him as part of getting his pay back.
Same for the guys who tortured him when he was a child.
Homelander lasered his own arm open and didn't give much of a shit because pain isn't new to him whatsoever.
He's an egomaniacal psychopath with a horrific history of intense childhood trauma turning him into a vengeful monster.
This ending feels more like a self masturbatory fantasy where Kripke sees his enemies begging to suck his cock while he kills them.
It does not however, for many in the audience, feel like the ending for Homelander.
A broken monster losing the only avenue of enacting vengeance on the terrible world that he always wanted approval from.
I would have perhaps expected him to see red, to enter an impotent rage, unable to do the damage he's desperate to achieve only to reach a despondent end.
Knowing he is now incapable of taking that revenge, and has to simply deal with his psychopathy.
Ending on a hard fought, bloody fight with Butcher, who would eventually win due to his training but at the very least give us a decent back and forth about how much meaning could be drawn from this fight.
Butcher was created by Homelander and there's something to say about both men being exposed nerves turned empty shells, struggling to feel anything by taking even a sliver of vengeance whenever possible.
I would picture them both drenched in blood, fighting to the bitter end, devoid of humanity, demanding payment for something they can't even fully rationalise anymore, after having taken so many lives.
At the end, they couldn't even follow through on the threat Homelander was warned to be throughout the entire series, stemming from having lost a loving mother and father to protect and raise him as opposed to a sterile laboratory.
The countless humiliations and tortures he suffered as a child, created Homelander as we know him.
I guess, him being humiliated at the end is a good enough throughline to argue this was somehow worth it?
"Evil Superman" was mostly a bad joke and they cashed in a petty ending for social media instead of finding something more in the material.
Nothing here has layered thematic value for the history the show presented, your just supposed to vicariously enjoy kicking your own personal monster while he's powerless, enjoy him begging to suck your cock and eat shit while you kill him.
It's all a rather long waste of time and can happily sit next to so many other stories that fail to realise their potential in this generation.
But oh well, we still have Mandalorian and Grogu I guess...
George Carlin infected Gen-X with this horrible apathy towards everything. The statue doesn’t just mock nationalism but belief itself. Any ideology, any group, any loyalty. It’s like they think they’re the first person to discover ideologies or positions all have tradeoffs, and because they’re not perfect it’s better to stand against them all.
It’s as childish as it is false. A few minute conversation with anyone who puts on this front will quickly reveal which ideologies they feel are above such critiques. When exposed that John Stewart wry smile turns into the most vitriolic anger you’ve ever seen.
I'm honestly fascinated that the boulder king is so invested in my work but I appreciate it all the same. ❤️
As for it being two and a half years after the film released, I guess I just don't care? I release my videos when they are completed.
And as for the purpose?
The video is about how the film was made, what Disney said of it's creation.
What the writers, director and producers marketed it as vs ditched it as once the box office was revealed.
The sheer scale of talent in the crew that was wasted, the confusion of the ideas to create a story like this.
The reasons it doesn't resonate with audiences, the lack of work it does for its characters, the way they moved Brie Larson in as the new Avengers lead only to move her back out.
The themes, the meaning and the potential to be better had they taken this seriously while trying to find the rot at the heart of a story like this.
The idea is this major failure facilitates the changes in approach that now govern the newest entries in the MCU, reaching it's zenith with Doomsday.
I tried to pace it well, I tried to make it funny, I wanted snappy editing, I looked through countless sources for information and I think it turned out neat.
Give it a chance Mr. Jarbo and you may just have some fun 😎👍🪨
A filler movie thru 'n thru, like the shounen anime original movies that don't matter to the canon. Except the fights are lamer bc Aang jobs as hard as possible so "some guy" can recite the 14 words over and over. Can't recommend unless you're just into animation and not the lore
Call me crazy, but I think Aang's story might've peaked when he fought the world's most powerful Firebender who had taken over most of said world.
Can't wait for a movie where he fights "some guy"