Come tomorrow morning I won't be able to tell if I saw that story here or if some ole fella in the pub told me earlier this evening.

*quality story telling either way.

I'll stand down as this is no longer in the danger zone. You rock lucky760.

You too newt




Now I have a great story tell my grandchildren.

That was wonderful. Beautiful animation, and such economy of story telling.

imo, infinity war had the best ending of any marvel movie and they should keep it as the actual ending of the current MCU. the main story telling problem with most superhero movies is there is no real risk or threat to the main characters, only to the people around them. this makes all the action have much less impact as consequences to the violence and action are minimized. ending the series with real deaths from a foe they could not defeat finally gives the series the gravitas that it failed to have up until this point.

also, thanos was by far the most interesting and complex character in the whole MCU. the reframing of his motives vastly improved on his character.

He felt they did a poor job with story telling, character development, and lacking consistency/continuity of characters and that universe.

I was curious so I started watching it and ended up watching the whole thing. I guess this is a new style for him? Very measured in tone. To be honest, I think I ended up watching the entire thing because it impressed me by how much time he must have put into this to get the level of detail he included. Even when something may not be quite in your wheelhouse of interests, I always appreciate seeing a skillful job accomplished.

*promote

saw this last night... really fun stuff and ballsy story-telling. Up there with Marvels best

better story telling than any of the movies. that could have saved me 40 hrs of eye rolling if it came out 18 movies ago.

Other than horrible story telling there is little i hate more than overused, shit cgi. Fincher makes great films and now i have that much more respect for his work. *promote the appropriate finely tuned use of CGI to make movies the best they can be.

And they added in the grown adults with years to retell and refine the best and favourite stories from growing, then pretend it's honest to compare the same story telling ability of children still only part way through those years, let alone with years to pick out the best times and articulate them well...

But I guess what do you expect from a commercial from a food company...

Yey - Another Origins Movie!!!
I Just love Origins Movies - Especially when they tell them wrong!
Why do they always feel they need to tell us how they got to be who they are, get on with the story telling already!!

This is one movie I'll skip.

I thought it should be about Hank Pym too. I never followed Ant-Man but if they are attempting to silver screen a relatively unknown Avenger, shouldn't it be some kind of origin story? Telling how Hank created his particle that allows Ant-Man? This almost seems like it should be an Ant-Man 2. Jumping this far ahead in the story seems to alienate people who don't know anything about this hero.

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I personally think that the first two hobbit movies were more entertaining than the LoTR movies, simply because they were creative in their story telling rather than glued to the rather subpar writing of Tolkien.

Your "obvious" solution has been progressing for years... Indeed Sarkeesian cherry picks games that offend her, but ignores that there are quite a few more games where women are protagonists, and /shock horror even dressed appropriately...

It's obviously not good enough for her, or apparently you...

As for your daughter and Mario, no, there's not something wrong with that. There are quite a few games (and more are coming) with female protagonists. Perhaps you should introduce her to Child of Light? Or let her play through the Longest Journey series? Guess what, not every game is going to give you the choice of a male/female protagonist, and I'm not sure why it's required. Honestly, I'd love it if reality TV shows about dumb socialites would disappear from the entertainment spectrum, but sadly I don't get to dictate to the media (or indeed the viewing public) what they should be doing.

In response to your points about the fight, you're right, and it should keep going and we should all try to support it. But Sarkeesian undermines that fight. Not because she dares to speak out, but how she does it. In her attacks, and they are attacks, she tars all male gamers as either deliberately misogynistic or hopelessly naive. That's great, really, you convince people to support you by insulting them continuously?

As for this snide little bit of crap...

"Look, I'm sorry people pointing out to you how fucked up it is how women are sometimes portrayed in games is somehow ruining your ability to enjoy games. But there are serious problems here. Maybe not problems for you, but problems for people like my daughter. "

This is a problem you and Anita share... Presumption. That just because I think she's a hack, that somehow she's ruining my fun (she isn't), that I support a male character domination of the industry (I don't), that there shouldn't be more strong female characters represented (there should) and so on and so forth. You have concocted a scenario in your head and jumped straight to the insults without ever bothering to find out what my opinion on the games (as opposed to the person blasting them) is...

Would it be sexist/misogynist to think that the woman in the article is batshit insane?

http://thelibertydoll.com/2014/08/22/meet-woman-reduce-male-population-90-for-peace/

Not because she's a woman, but because of what she's saying, and how she's saying it. This is why I object to Sarkeesian and think she's a shameful opportunist who's willing to set back feminism in her quest for fame or perhaps relevance..

"You can still have your Damsel/Dude in Distress trope, by the way. I have no doubt lazy developers will continue to use it as a substitute for meaningful story. Just don't expect people not to call out the utter absurdity of it, is all I'm saying."

Oh, it's my trope now... /eyeroll

I can't point out how ridiculous it is to try and kill off a trope that pervades every aspect of human story telling since the dawn of time without it becoming my personal favourite? Pro tip, if you're trying to convince someone of a viewpoint, it usually helps not to be a patronising git... X D

Honestly, you really don't. I tolerated the first one but the second one put me off the whole trilogy completely. It's just such a bloated attempt at a cash-grab by making three movies instead of the one they should have done it in. Terrible acting and terrible story-telling. The action is decent but the CG is kinda in-your-face and pulls you out with lots of "that's totally green-screened" moments.