greeting , little letterings . It ’s been a problematical week here in the Charles William Post - Book of Revelation , but looking at the engagement this column is going back in time to I can see it ’s been a toughened week for you Guy too . Take consolation in this : It ’ll be years before President Brett Ratner has Joss Whedon executed for being so much better than him .
Bad Romance
Ellen C. :
What ’s up with superheroes ’ girlfriends and sequels . The first movies normally spend time building relationships and alchemy and end with the two character getting together , and I ’m okay with that . But why do sequel always feel they want to score out what bump in the first movie . Either they ’ve broken up and the bomber has to re - come through the girl , or it ’s with a completely unexampled love sake . ( just look at every spiderman and batman movie ever made ) Why do writers and producer feel the need to scrap the relationships they drop a fortune of time edifice and commence over after each installment ? Ca n’t we just have well adjusted people supporting one another or going through the normal struggles of a family relationship ?
A few reasons : 1 ) Romance language are generally shoehorned into these movie for distaff consultation . aggregative distaff hearing , I should specify — not the many lovely nerd women who go see these films , but for the many , many non - amusing - concerned women who just want to see the latest summer blockbuster . sustain some kind of Latinian language between Star - Lord and Gamora helps keep people invested in the report when they do n’t know who Ronan the Accuser is or really care what the inferno he ’s supposed to be doing . And this is n’t just rightful for superheroes movies , obviously — every major summer movie has some sort of romance aspect in it , for this precise ground .
2 ) As for why these relationship always have to start over : That ’s because movie White House think watch the great unwashed fall in lovemaking is interesting , watching people in beloved is not … which is in the main right . Wondering if a dyad is going to get together is spectacular and interesting , but if Batman begins Batman Returns stir up up next to Kim Basinger in layer then this conflict has already been answer and it ’s harder to squeeze drama out of that
Now I know there are plenty of moving-picture show about on - going relationships , but it is much more difficult to compose a compelling plot about people in love than people falling in lovemaking . And even if a writer has an idea for such a romance , superhero movies neither have the clip nor the inclination to bother . It ’s much easier — and usually better for audiences — to have Jane Foster ace - riled at the beginning of Thor 2 , and allow the God of Thunder ’s abs tardily win her over during the course of the picture .
Taming of the Crew
-Devster :
During the sentence between finishing motion-picture photography of The Avengers and the editing of same , Joss Whedon put together an entertaining little Shakespeare flick . With filming of Avengers 2 pretty much roll up , what do you call back he should do with the jailbreak this time ?
I ’d take another Shakespeare film , really . His Much Ado About Nothing was pretty large , and it was fun to see the various Joss Whedon Players together . Any of the comedy — As You Like It , The Merry Wives of Windsor , Twelfth Night , maybe a uproariously depleted - budget The Tempest … Anything except A Midsummer Night ’s Dream , because everybody does it .
Take a Bow
Eric W. :
Hello from the past ,
As someone live in the irradiated wasteland that was our heartland I ’m sure you ’ve acquire an hold for the mere things in life , like not being rust by packs of feral heel or more feral Hill People .
Along those lines , you ’d reckon uncomplicated , classic artillery would be really democratic . A bow for example .
That is a roundabout way of start out to my question . I was study the Future ’s conclusion event and something popped into my head . Why is it the go - to move for so many DC event is to maim or murder Oliver Queen ? Seems like he ’s always getting demote off or losing significant role of himself . Why is that , do you think ?
Is it just that he ’s an easy target , being a sort of second cosmic string hero , redundant ( from his origin he ’s always moderately much been Batman with arrows ) , and just a normal guy therefore easier to explain his death away ?
Or is it something to do with comical archers in general ? Hawkeye getting his ass kick has become so much of a run laugh that it essentially became the full plot of his previous standalone title .
Really , I ’m just funny why Oliver must die so often ?
It ’s all of those things . It ’s because he ’s a second - drawing string bomber , because he ’s seen as weaker than most other superheroes , and because he ’s only human ( the other alternative is Batman , and he ’s obviously not going to be killed , probably because he ’s a main character in whatever story is being told ) . Plus , other than a bit of log Z’s around , Oliver Queen is one of the most morally unsloped heroes in the DCU — his injury / maiming / death is an easy call to natural action for the other paladin to get their shit together .
I do n’t think DC substantiate how often they do this .
Chasing the Dragon
Fi P. :
GRRM admitted someone on the Internet guessed the ending of A Song of Ice and Fire . Which theory is it ?
The one where Dany ’s three dragons merge to form a jumbo robot fly by Dany , Jon Snow and Tyrion . What ? It ’s a theory on the internet … now . It could be correct !
shoot Back
Joseph L. :
A Stephen Amell and others have mentioned , it appears as though the DC television and film cosmos will be kept separate for good or for bad . Still , I regain it curious that The Flash has n’t been redact yet for Batman V Superman : Dawn of Justice , establish he ’s probably the most democratic Justice League member right after the Trinity .
Do you think The Flash will look in future films or do you intend Warner Brothers / DC will forefend vomit up the grapheme , given the upcoming TV show ?
Well , the rumor is that one of WB / DC ’s many , many TBD movies is a Flash / Green Lantern team - up . Even if it was n’t , the Warner Bros. movie squad is way high on the incorporated totem rod than the television set team . If the movie team imagine it would help their Flash movie to make the television Flash wear a sombrero for a full season , I secure we ’d see Grant Gustin in a sombrero immediately
The movies are so just much more profitable than TV shows , so they get to call the shots . About the respectable the WB TV guys can hope for is that the movie sectionalization ignore them and permit them do their own matter . That ’s what we should be hop for too .
Famous Last tidings
Spaceknight :
Mr Postman ,
Apparently there ’s some question aboutwhat “ BFG ” stands for .
Who decides who gets dibs on a idiom like that ? Does the apocalyptical future have a court to handle the case of Dahl v Doom ?
beau monde at big gets to resolve phrases like that . When Roald Dahl ’s book make out out in 1982 and coin the abbreviation ( short for Big Friendly Giant ) , it reigned alone and sovereign . When Doom occur out in 1993 and sold a bajillion copies , its BFG ( Big Fucking Gun ) entered the arena , and between the ubiquity of the biz and the fact that it became a franchise which stick around in public discussion , it kind of trample Dahl ’s book of account .
But Steven Spielberg is directing a movie of The BFG , due to come out in the next few years , that should avail put the Big Friendly Giant mean back in contention — if not back on top , because Spielberg movies are always so huge . But yeah , usage is what decide over time . That ’s why “ literally ” now entail “ not literally . ”
On Guard
Chris V. :
There has been a great deal of hypothesis around why Guardians of The Galaxy has been a bighearted success but the primary one that seems to be being batted around at the second is that the MCU is the new Pixar ( i.e. It does n’t weigh what the film is about , trust is so mellow it will almost always make over $ 200 m domesticated ) . Whilst I ’m sure this theory is true with the gist audience I ’m not sure how well it works for the general moviegoing population .
The cause for my cynicism is that I am constantly surprised by how few people seem to get it on which movies are from which studio apartment . I ca n’t be the only person that has had to explain , on a fairly even basis , why Spider - Man ca n’t flex up in The Avengers or why Magneto could n’t be a baddie in an Iron Man movie ( for example ) . Most mass just see the Marvel logo and sham it as all one and the same .
My personal purview is that was well promoted and it simply attend comic and was unusual enough to bear out in a summer which lacked strong syndicate and clowning motion picture . What is your take ?
I do consider there ’s a general perception of the Marvel Cinematic Universe . I mean , most of the Guardians of the Galaxy ads had tremendous textual matter reading “ FROM THE STUDIO THAT BROUGHT IRON MAN , THOR , CAPTAIN AMERICA ” — mass consultation think back liking those specific films and safely assumed that Guardians would be on par .
for sure , these audience member in all likelihood could n’t narrate you which studio possess which Marvel characters — and they probably do n’t care — but thanks to the interconnectedness of the Marvel Cinematic Universe , they do know Thor , Cap , Hulk , Iron Man and Avengers are all connect somehow . Marvel was very light about lay the Guardians as part of that universe , even if the connexion have n’t been revealed yet . That does n’t mean that world-wide audience realize why Spider - Man ca n’t bulge by and say hi to the Avengers , but I suppose they do understand that the MCU is something unto itself .
So I say there is a stigma trustfulness in the MCU that does n’t require a cognition of who owns which character . But it definitely helps that the Marvel marketing and packaging team is pretty marvellous at their jobs . And I do n’t think GotG ’s uniqueness hurt either , at least to get citizenry into theaters .
Cat Power
Gary F. :
Do ThunderCats habituate litterboxes ?
They have special can with sand in them instead of water system . And instead of a curlicue of gutter theme they have a bidet that ’s just a giant automatonlike tongue . That licks their buttholes . In cause that somehow was n’t clear .
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