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To a certain kind of viewer it is a horrible movie. You know, the way Mad Max: Fury Road was a horrible movie.

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"There’s a whole sequence... that feels like a gender-swapped Top Gun."

I don't know why this should bother anyone. I certainly wouldn't want to be around anyone that would be bothered by this. I think it's safe to assume it's not the beach volleyball scene (it's "I feel the need... the need for speed!" isn't it? I bet it is), but honestly, it won't matter.

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@1 Pashaw, I say. What sort of monster didn't like Fury Road?

Also, how did the Stranger miss Climax?

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@4

I don't know that there was as much pre-release hate for Fury Road as for Captain Marvel, but there were definitely some nuts who were pretty angry that Max wasn't necessarily the hero of the film. There it is at least one fringy MRA blog article that's easily found ranting about Fury Road along those lines.

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@5 Ah, yes, THOSE kinds of monsters.

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You can find them in the comments for every Captain Marvel trailer on YouTube.

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I'm very excited! Especially since it's dropping on my birthday. It will be nice after spending so many years having to identify with white male protagonists to have this. So yeah jackkay, it is important

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@9: Happy birthday, Lissa!

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@6

See @8.

@9

Happy bunny mug!

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@ 10 $ 11: Thank you so much! You two are so sweet :)

13

I would go see it but, apparently, it "want made" for me. So that sexist, and racist can suffer the same fate Ghostbusters 3 did.

14

A fall of manflakes
covers the ground. Crocuses:
purple in the white.

15

Super Heroes are dumb and the movies are pretty much played out the formula and the only thing keeping them alive is some sort edgy factor of casting and creating "nontraditional" characters and roles. Women can participate in CGI punchfests, wow.

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@13 killer sentence, bro-bot.

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@14: Indeed.
@15: Awww punkin. If women behaved the way you and little mister @13 did every time a movie came out that was by and starring and from the point of view of men? We'd never see a movie. Go get yourself some desitin and stop pouting.

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@17 it's 100% not a gender issue for me. The outrage from MRAs and the like is dumb as shit. Superhero dreck just sucks and if you take up the fight is dumb and meaningless. Hollywood is all about money and continuing to produce these isn't some woke justice shit, it a marketing ploy to create buzz and put butts in seats.

There 100s of these things and they're boring.

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MCU is for nerds. They are not good movies - get real. They are literally Star Wars Joseph Campbell's hero's journey repeated over and over and over again. Luckily I think people are getting tired of the MCU and nerds in general.

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@18: Cool, cool. You don't like super hero movies, and nobody says you have to, certainly not me. But I have to ask, how much water do you drink a day? It must be a lot considering how invested you are in pissing on people's parades.
I mean am supposed to turn my nose up this movie, in which I get to see someone who looks like me as the hero, because it will make money? Because it's commercial? Would you be happier if we all confined ourselves to watching films made on people's phones screened in coffee shops between beat poet sets? For which the makers accept no money to keep their art pure?
Don't see the movie, that's fine, but don't pretend that just because you don't care for this particular genre that representation isn't important, even if, hell, _ especially _ if, it's in popular culture.

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@19: You are not wrong. Those tropes are very, very old. Why they've been part of popular entertainment since Gilgamesh, and yet, we never tire of them! You'd think after millennia everyone would have seen the light like you...

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You had me at "kitty".

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@15 Comic nerds may want to correct me but hasn't Captain Marvel been written as female for like 30 years?

Superhero movies today are what westerns were in the 60's. Some great ones, tons of mediocre ones—but a good setting for storytelling. They'll fall out of fashion sooner or later.


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