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Inzombiac posted:Bautista is such a cool dude, goddamn. Apparently it's because of his kids. When he got cast in Guardians of the Galaxy, his kids got really into it and that lead him to take the job much more seriously. And by all accounts on set, Bautista is just plain better at comedy than he is at the badass tough guy roles he'd previously been cast in. Like Chris Hemsworth, he's simply better at being a big, goofy guy than he is at being a meathead.
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A big goofy guy is just so much more appreciated than a meathead. Arnie knew it, he plays a parody of himself on purpose because people can't get enough of it.
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Apr 23, 2021 16:54
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Batista's bit in Bladerunner was really, really solid. I think he's one of those people with a genuine hunger for improvement. Just an all around cool dude. Also I can't believe more and more stories come out about WB execs being absolute poo poo for brains. "Whoah whoah big guy who's part of one of Marvel's most youth-attached franchises! "
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Apr 23, 2021 17:00
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FilthyImp posted:Batista's bit in Bladerunner was really, really solid. Yeah even if they are super anal about Batman stuff they should have been like "we will keep you in mind for future Bane casting but in the meantime we will call you back tomorrow with 5 other characters you might be a fit for and a very big check if you choose to play any of them"
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fatherboxx posted:absolutely, Ares in that series (and pre-Fear Itself period in general) was also a treasure Have they ever brought Ares back? I remember enjoying the character in pretty much everything he was in up until he got Worfed in the Siege of Asgard. FilthyImp posted:Batista's bit in Bladerunner was really, really solid. He was great in BR 2049, he did a lot with a little bit of time. It made me want to see him in more serious stuff.
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Apr 23, 2021 18:48
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Bautista has that John Cena-energy where he reliably cracks me the gently caress up every time, but he also clearly has the talent and the drive to be a ~Real Actor~ with more to offer than just leaning into a persona. I'd be stoked to see him get more work of pretty much any variety.
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Apr 23, 2021 21:28
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Bautista has it. Whatever it is.
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Apr 24, 2021 00:12
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https://twitter.com/allisonkilkenny/status/1385597080857681921?s=19 I think that succinctly sums up my issues with MCU villains
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McCloud posted:https://twitter.com/allisonkilkenny/status/1385597080857681921?s=19 I didn't watch the Falcon & Winter Soldier series, but if I understand the premise correctly in the post Endgame world governments are trying to reestablish their borders by forcibly deporting people (at gunpoint if necessary), which is what the Flagsmashers want to stop and the good guys...want to let happen? Also the Falcon uncovers Tuskegee 2: super soldier boogaloo but decides that he's cool with that and wants to be Captain America anyway?
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Apr 24, 2021 01:46
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Mat Cauthon posted:I didn't watch the Falcon & Winter Soldier series, but if I understand the premise correctly in the post Endgame world governments are trying to reestablish their borders by forcibly deporting people (at gunpoint if necessary), which is what the Flagsmashers want to stop and the good guys...want to let happen? I know you said you didn't watch it, but it's literally the opposite of that. In the final episode he tells the One Wold Government org that calling people who resist them terrorists allows them to evade the question of why people would risk their lives to oppose them. He then says that shutting people out of the decision making process and only having the rich and elite make decisions that impact everyone gives them the false view that everyone agrees with them. The Flag Smashers end up being martyrs and proven right. In the end, they stop the GRC from re-establishing the old borders. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Apr 24, 2021 |
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In any event, Marvel has concluded that yes, audiences are down for Falcon-Cap. https://twitter.com/THR/status/1385693362456563714
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Apr 24, 2021 01:53
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I didn’t watch the show, but the new cap suit is some 90s poo poo.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I know you said you didn't watch it, but it's literally the opposite of that. Okay that makes slightly more sense. SuperMechagodzilla posted:I didn’t watch the show, but the new cap suit is some 90s poo poo. Yeah it doesn't look great.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:I didn’t watch the show, but the new cap suit is some 90s poo poo. It's actually some 2010s poo poo. Sam became Captain America in October 2014.
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Apr 24, 2021 09:15
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Apr 24, 2021 10:23
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I am so totally disinterested in "guy has wings" Cap was a super soldier from a bygone era who used to be a weak and bullied kid. This new guy is just "Guy"
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Apr 24, 2021 10:32
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That's pretty white for a fly guy.
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Apr 24, 2021 11:00
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Collapsing Farts posted:I am so totally disinterested in "guy has wings" It is particularly odd in a setting where two of his peers have fully miniaturised individual mechanical flight. That said, there is obvious story potential for a black Captain America but probably not within MCU ideology.
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josh04 posted:It is particularly odd in a setting where two of his peers have fully miniaturised individual mechanical flight. Flight and armor. Falcon is weird because he can do what a bunch of other characters can do, but he lacks their bullet immunity, super strength, variety of gadgets etc.
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Falcon's fights are at least much more interesting to watch than most of Iron Man's, whose fights mostly boil down to "shoot beam". Doing flips and shits with wings looks cool
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josh04 posted:That said, there is obvious story potential for a black Captain America but probably not within MCU ideology. lol did you watch the show
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Roth posted:I'm trans and don't give a poo poo. Exactly. That's why I wanted a black person to weigh in on the Awkwafina discussion.
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Apr 24, 2021 13:02
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The United States posted:Hmmmm... The lack of a proper helmet is really distracting for some reason. poonchasta posted:Exactly. That's why I wanted a black person to weigh in on the Awkwafina discussion. 
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MiddleOne posted:lol did you watch the show I have and think that statement is even more accurate than before I did
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Apr 24, 2021 15:45
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The United States posted:Hmmmm... Forgot the ring
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Apr 24, 2021 15:57
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MiddleOne posted:lol did you watch the show I've seen twenty-odd films in the series I think it's fair at this point to paint in broad strokes.
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Apr 24, 2021 16:22
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josh04 posted:It is particularly odd in a setting where two .
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FilthyImp posted:No it's not. Dude was using experimental HALO packs (the wings) when he was in the military. er, I feel like if you read the rest of that sentence it explains that what's odd is that Iron Man and War Machine both also have flight, as well as a bunch of other super tech, while Falcon only has flight (not that what was weird is that he was trained with the HALO wings)
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He has flight and I'm pretty sure Stark designed the Redwing drone thing he uses as an add on. He'd probably comfortable with the wingpack, might have a bit of pride from being a betatester, obviously has a fighting style suited to the pack... you might as well ask why Hawkeye and Natasha don't have Iron Avenger suits.
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I'm not even arguing that point, I'm pointing out that you cut off a sentence midway then argued against something that wasn't said
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Bautista was the best part of 2049 which is both powerful praise for him as an actor and also hoooooo boy the rest of the film. If the dude called me up for a role I'd be slamming him into so many movie roles he'd need to see a doctor. Please bring back tony stark to kill him again. Not with RDJ, XXX 2 style.
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Jedit posted:It's actually some 2010s poo poo. Sam became Captain America in October 2014. Right: for a black superhero, in 2021, they replicated an already-outdated design from nearly ten years earlier.
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The suit will have a redesign for Captain America 4 so they can sell new toys. Nobody wears the same thing twice in these movies.
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poonchasta posted:Exactly. That's why I wanted a black person to weigh in on the Awkwafina discussion. I'd prefer you not use my struggles as a gotcha moment to win your dumbfuck internet debate.
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Guy A. Person posted:I have and think that statement is even more accurate than before I did I skimmed a little of the show last night and it was somehow even more hamfisted than I expected. The exchange between fake Cap and the main Flagsmasher girl where she tells him that she didn't mean to kill his friend because she only kills people that matter (i.e. the elites who make the decisions) and his response is "you think [insert Black sidekick's name here] life didn't matter?!" was particularly cringey. All of the MCU stuff that tries to talk about race has been like this so I'm not sure why anyone would find it to be poignant or somehow insightful.
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Mat Cauthon posted:She has fans who want to support her but feel that they can't because she won't acknowledge the harm done in reinforcing stereotypes that harm Black people. She has fans who want to support her because of the importance of AAPI representation but can't because the way she got famous inflames tension between minority communities as well as reinforcing a model minority myth. That's criticism levied by people of all races but obviously Black and Asian people have been the most prominent voices because the impact affects them more heavily. No one is asking for her to grovel - simply saying "I realize that what I did was harmful, in the future I'm going to do better to listen and work to make space for all minorites who embody their culture to be embraced" would do wonders. I go back and forth on Awkwafina just because I knew a lot of APPI kids when I grew who have struggled with identity stuff and there is an insane amount of racism in NYC towards AAPI folks. It does bother me that NYC BItch$ has a friggin slur for trans people because it's a rap song? I dunno. The trans hooker reference is weird in general for a song that I actually related to a lot on the whole.
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Guy A. Person posted:I have and think that statement is even more accurate than before I did I was waiting for the follow up because having seen the show makes it much worse.
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier suffers more than anything from the Flag Smashers being awful antagonists, even by MCU standards. On a surface level they're pro-refugee anarchists, except they're also effectively anti-immigrant (from being dead) mega-reactionaries who are nostalgic for what it was like after half the world died because the purple alien got all the magic rocks. So you can't really root for them on ideological grounds because they're basically mad a literally random genocide didn't stick. Meanwhile we are told the GRC is evil, mostly by characters we never met before this show and don't care about yet... because we never actually saw the GRC do anything to wrong them. They just told us. So it's like a bunch of weird edgelords declaring war on the UN High Commission for Refugees and then lecturing the black guy who we watched go through various problems involving being a black American and none of it works on an emotional level. Then their radical act is to kill some... warehouse workers? Killmonger was at least allowed to be clearly right about understandable things in various scenes and to have comprehensible motives even though he "had to be" (because of the writers) a sadistic bad guy in the end. 100% the best part of the series was the goofy buddy cop interactions between Sam and Bucky. They shoulda just made Sam and Bucky Go To In-N-Out Burger tbh
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Falcon and Winter Soldier was going to originally have the flag smashers try to do a viral attack to try to kill people and then Covid happened and that element got removed and replaced with not much really. At least according to the Internet anyway. I stopped watching the show because it was the worst thing entertainment can be. Boring.
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