The funny thing is that Germany has done with the EU what it never could with Hitler and the world's most advanced military force at the time: take over the entirety of Europe (and without firing a shot). They even got the other countries to APPLY for the privilege of giving up their national sovereignty. Even Goebbels himself could have never engineered something that brilliant in a million years.
Turns out the Blitzkrieg was just a waste of effort. Just convince everyone else that it's in their economic interest to hand over control of their country to you, and they'll not only LET you invade, they'll BEG you for it.
Actually, it's a very profitable industry. The problem in the US is that people want the benefits without putting in the work.
No, the problem is that China got tired of being our dumping ground and decided to end the charade. So we can't pretend anymore that recycling saves money by simply offshoring our trash on-the-cheap to China and pretending that they're going to actually "recycle" it instead of just dumping it in a landfill.
Real recycling costs money. It doesn't save it. So if you want *real* recycling (instead of just shipping everything to some third-world country and patting yourself on the back), then it's going to cost you.
Who is the "us" or even the other side that you are talking about? There were no two "sides" going in to see Wonder Woman and there isn't going in to see Captain Marvel. You are not being attacked by some imaginary female movie lead agenda, or whatever the hell you think it is, and you are not on a "side" that exists in this country.
Well, I suppose my "side" is that of people who don't want divisive politics and social agendas in our popcorn superhero movies or their marketing, who want superhero movies to appeal to the best in *all* of us and to be inclusive not exclusive. And I'm pretty sure that there are quite a few others on this "side" too.
I've been a huge fan of their movies for many years, but now they just leave a rotten taste in my mouth.
That's the saddest thing, isn't it? Mainstream superhero movies have traditionally united us. This is the first one that feels like it has only divided us even more. And, perhaps most disheartening, Marvel seems to have chosen this approach intentionally. The certainly didn't take this approach with Black Panther. Nor did DC take this approach with Wonder Woman.
This feels like the kind of unpleasant turning point that I had hoped would never come in this genre. They've brought divisive politics and social division into a genre that used to be noted for its universal appeal. It makes me dread what we can expect going forward.
Having your star go on every talk show bragging about it being a feminist film, insisting on dividing her interviewers up by race and gender, and releasing it on International Women's Day are not suggestive of a studio "not looking to spread division." In fact, division seems to be the very cornerstone of their entire marketing campaign. Contrast that with the way DC marketed Wonder Woman and the almost universally positive reaction that film got, from fans of every political and social stripe.
I think Marvel knew exactly what they were doing. They're crassly playing on ugly social and political divisions, in hopes of it paying off in ticket sales. And sadly, initial box office results suggest that it worked.
As for the movie, there's no propaganda in it anywhere, it's just a movie.
That's most certainly not how it was marketed. Marvel and Brie Larson have went out of their way to insist that it's a unabashedly feminist film, even going so far as to release it on International Women's Day. If it is "just a movie," then they have done it a grave disservice by trying to market it as something with a very clear feminist agenda.
Trolls like you are part of the problem. You're making the world a shittier, more hateful place. Now go apologize to your parents for letting them down.
Sadly, among most of the reviews I've seen that's the one question everyone seems to dance around without a satisfactory answer. And it's the most important question to ask, first and foremost.
I saw Captain Marvel this morning and, unlike the remake of Ghostbusters or countless other examples, this movie doesn't have an agenda.
Admittedly, I haven't see it (only its effects and the ugly divisive firestorm surrounding it), so maybe I'm being unfair. Up to this point I've had no interest in seeing it myself, but I have heard some things about it that suggested it was pretty heavy on the propaganda side. Maybe you can clear this up. This is what I've heard:
1) The hero is potrayed as constantly having been kicked down and told she's not good enough, exclusively by comically-over-the-top sexist men. 2) SPOILER ALERT The one white male in the film who is her ally turns out to be the villain. 3) Captain Marvel herself is a "Mary Sue" with no real character arc. She starts out perfect and flawless, and ends up perfect and flawless. Her only "flaw" that she overcomes is not appreciating how awesome she truly is, or appreciating how much evil men have been holding her back or deceiving her about her awesome-amazingness. 4) Captain Marvel never faces any real challenges, nor has real character development, nor is shown to grow in any meaningful way. 5) The feminism is presented in a clumsy heavy-handed way, such as playing the song like "I'm Just A Girl" during the climatic fight scene--and not in a funny, ironic way.
Perhaps I've been misinformed on this, and if so, I would be legitimately interested in hearing an alternate take. Maybe Nick Fury takes her cocky attitude down a peg in a funny scene? Maybe she has some real flaws that she overcomes? Maybe there are scene(s) where she shows some real humanity or vulnerability? Maybe she makes some real mistakes and owns up to them? Those would definitely help combat the "one-dimensional Mary Sue" rumors.
But it doesn't make society any better, does it? Bringing more and more anger and division to our pop culture is only hastening a very ugly future in which we are at open war over our racial, ethnic, and gender divisions.
I much preferred the Wonder Woman approach myself. Give us a great story and a great hero who unites us--not a propaganda piece that only ramps up the hate.
I'm sorry, but remind me again how the U.S. is doing just fine without being a member of the EU? I mean, that must be impossible, right? In fact, I have it on good authority that there are over 160 countries in the world that aren't part of the EU either. And yet somehow most of them have also found a way to get food, medicine, etc. and survive just fine without the EU telling them what to do.
So apparently, it is possible to survive, and even thrive, without non-democratic EU overlords running your government. Hard to believe, I know.
Amazing how Britain did just fine on its own before 1973, huh? I guess they must have been "asleep" for those hundreds of years prior, when they were helping to develop modern civilization, inventing new technology, and improving society just fine without the EU telling them how to wipe their asses.
Judging from all the "If you DARE to leave the EU, the apocalypse will happen!" scare tactics that EU authoritarians are throwing out left-and-right, one has to wonder how the UK ever survived at all in the hundreds of years prior to joining the EU.
Remind me again, please. Prior to 1973, were Brits living in shacks and starving, without medicine, currency, or any technology? Because listening to these Chicken Littles, you would certainly suspect so.
Ms. Marvel promoted herself to Captain in 2012. No one asked her to, no one particularly cared, and (still) no one reads her comics. She's that character that Marvel keeps trying desperately (over and over again) to make a thing, but can't. And giving her a butch haircut and uglying her up sure as shit didn't help the situation. She's the character that no one outside of the Marvel writer's room has ever given a flying fuck about. But don't tell them that, or they'll call you a sexist.
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The funny thing is that Germany has done with the EU what it never could with Hitler and the world's most advanced military force at the time: take over the entirety of Europe (and without firing a shot). They even got the other countries to APPLY for the privilege of giving up their national sovereignty. Even Goebbels himself could have never engineered something that brilliant in a million years.
Turns out the Blitzkrieg was just a waste of effort. Just convince everyone else that it's in their economic interest to hand over control of their country to you, and they'll not only LET you invade, they'll BEG you for it.
No, the problem is that China got tired of being our dumping ground and decided to end the charade. So we can't pretend anymore that recycling saves money by simply offshoring our trash on-the-cheap to China and pretending that they're going to actually "recycle" it instead of just dumping it in a landfill.
Real recycling costs money. It doesn't save it. So if you want *real* recycling (instead of just shipping everything to some third-world country and patting yourself on the back), then it's going to cost you.
Yeah, this would definitely stretch the definition of "PC gaming" to its breaking point.
Yeah sure, but GAMES!
They mentioned TV's. Any word on whether this will be available on WebOS for LG TV's by any chance?
Go to school, kids. If you want to protest, do it in more productive ways--like cornering Diane Feinstein and asking her why she hates puppies.
How DARE you speak the movie-name-that-is-not-to-be-spoken!
Well, I suppose my "side" is that of people who don't want divisive politics and social agendas in our popcorn superhero movies or their marketing, who want superhero movies to appeal to the best in *all* of us and to be inclusive not exclusive. And I'm pretty sure that there are quite a few others on this "side" too.
That's the saddest thing, isn't it? Mainstream superhero movies have traditionally united us. This is the first one that feels like it has only divided us even more. And, perhaps most disheartening, Marvel seems to have chosen this approach intentionally. The certainly didn't take this approach with Black Panther. Nor did DC take this approach with Wonder Woman.
This feels like the kind of unpleasant turning point that I had hoped would never come in this genre. They've brought divisive politics and social division into a genre that used to be noted for its universal appeal. It makes me dread what we can expect going forward.
Having your star go on every talk show bragging about it being a feminist film, insisting on dividing her interviewers up by race and gender, and releasing it on International Women's Day are not suggestive of a studio "not looking to spread division." In fact, division seems to be the very cornerstone of their entire marketing campaign. Contrast that with the way DC marketed Wonder Woman and the almost universally positive reaction that film got, from fans of every political and social stripe.
I think Marvel knew exactly what they were doing. They're crassly playing on ugly social and political divisions, in hopes of it paying off in ticket sales. And sadly, initial box office results suggest that it worked.
That's most certainly not how it was marketed. Marvel and Brie Larson have went out of their way to insist that it's a unabashedly feminist film, even going so far as to release it on International Women's Day. If it is "just a movie," then they have done it a grave disservice by trying to market it as something with a very clear feminist agenda.
Trolls like you are part of the problem. You're making the world a shittier, more hateful place. Now go apologize to your parents for letting them down.
Sadly, among most of the reviews I've seen that's the one question everyone seems to dance around without a satisfactory answer. And it's the most important question to ask, first and foremost.
Admittedly, I haven't see it (only its effects and the ugly divisive firestorm surrounding it), so maybe I'm being unfair. Up to this point I've had no interest in seeing it myself, but I have heard some things about it that suggested it was pretty heavy on the propaganda side. Maybe you can clear this up. This is what I've heard:
1) The hero is potrayed as constantly having been kicked down and told she's not good enough, exclusively by comically-over-the-top sexist men.
2) SPOILER ALERT The one white male in the film who is her ally turns out to be the villain.
3) Captain Marvel herself is a "Mary Sue" with no real character arc. She starts out perfect and flawless, and ends up perfect and flawless. Her only "flaw" that she overcomes is not appreciating how awesome she truly is, or appreciating how much evil men have been holding her back or deceiving her about her awesome-amazingness.
4) Captain Marvel never faces any real challenges, nor has real character development, nor is shown to grow in any meaningful way.
5) The feminism is presented in a clumsy heavy-handed way, such as playing the song like "I'm Just A Girl" during the climatic fight scene--and not in a funny, ironic way.
Perhaps I've been misinformed on this, and if so, I would be legitimately interested in hearing an alternate take. Maybe Nick Fury takes her cocky attitude down a peg in a funny scene? Maybe she has some real flaws that she overcomes? Maybe there are scene(s) where she shows some real humanity or vulnerability? Maybe she makes some real mistakes and owns up to them? Those would definitely help combat the "one-dimensional Mary Sue" rumors.
But it doesn't make society any better, does it? Bringing more and more anger and division to our pop culture is only hastening a very ugly future in which we are at open war over our racial, ethnic, and gender divisions.
I much preferred the Wonder Woman approach myself. Give us a great story and a great hero who unites us--not a propaganda piece that only ramps up the hate.
And then one of them screamed "Umpire 3927 want to live!" during a Braves game, ran off the field, and killed two hot dog vendors.
Well, in that case, I guess that makes you the raging fuckwits, huh?
I'm sorry, but remind me again how the U.S. is doing just fine without being a member of the EU? I mean, that must be impossible, right? In fact, I have it on good authority that there are over 160 countries in the world that aren't part of the EU either. And yet somehow most of them have also found a way to get food, medicine, etc. and survive just fine without the EU telling them what to do.
So apparently, it is possible to survive, and even thrive, without non-democratic EU overlords running your government. Hard to believe, I know.
Amazing how Britain did just fine on its own before 1973, huh? I guess they must have been "asleep" for those hundreds of years prior, when they were helping to develop modern civilization, inventing new technology, and improving society just fine without the EU telling them how to wipe their asses.
They're REALLY ramping up on the fear-mongering propaganda today.
Again, you would think Britain hadn't existed just fine on its own for hundreds of years before 1973.
Judging from all the "If you DARE to leave the EU, the apocalypse will happen!" scare tactics that EU authoritarians are throwing out left-and-right, one has to wonder how the UK ever survived at all in the hundreds of years prior to joining the EU.
Remind me again, please. Prior to 1973, were Brits living in shacks and starving, without medicine, currency, or any technology? Because listening to these Chicken Littles, you would certainly suspect so.
I know it's true because Leonard Nimoy told me about it while wearing a turtleneck.
There is no way that anything useful ever came out of Wales.
But...but... a group of cute kids said we HAVE TO DO THIS NOW. And that's good enough for me!
Ms. Marvel promoted herself to Captain in 2012. No one asked her to, no one particularly cared, and (still) no one reads her comics. She's that character that Marvel keeps trying desperately (over and over again) to make a thing, but can't. And giving her a butch haircut and uglying her up sure as shit didn't help the situation. She's the character that no one outside of the Marvel writer's room has ever given a flying fuck about. But don't tell them that, or they'll call you a sexist.