This really sounds like a Star Wars convo and not literal tumblr fan fic! I don’t have a problem with trans people, this is so so lame dude. How did they write and publish this. It’s like a parody. F4ntastic levels of cringe

Really unfortunate that what should have been her role of a lifetime ended up wrecking her career because Disney is allergic to competent planning and writers. I know people shit on her for a not acting very much, but beyond the opening of TFA I feel like she was never asked to do much of anything.

I heard this one from Robert Meyer Burnett last night, and it finally broke me. Captain America is neither a government official nor he is an especially public figure. To pretend as if public perception determines who can and can't carry the shield misunderstands the entire point of the movies. Anybody who sees Captain America this way might seriously benefit from a rewatch of the MCU. The only time Captain America served in a public role was during World War 2. When he comes back, he lives a quiet and unimportant life until he's contacted by Nick Fury and asked to join the Avengers. Even after the battle of New York, he serves as a covert shield operative, not as a public front man for the Avengers. If Captain America was a superhero capable of filling the role as symbol of America, why would the government commission Rhodes to serve as Iron Patriot? The only time we see Captain America fill any kind of official public role is in Homecoming when he films a fucking detention psa for highschool. The fact of the matter is, Captain America isn't voted into office or approved by some kind of official committee, he only serves as symbol in the hearts and minds of people who choose to look up to and follow him. Furthermore, it's asinine to think that Bucky's public image would factor into Steve's decision even in the slightest. Caps individualism is at the core of his arc in pretty much every movie. In almost every circumstance he eschews public opinion and approval from authority in favor of doing what he believes is right. I mean, come on, are we really forgetting that Steve was literally a fugitive from the law for two years? He was on the run because he refused to be shackled by the control of those he didn't trust would have the worlds best interest at heart. Why would Steve care who approved of Bucky being Captain America? The only thing that matters is that Steve trusts him with his legacy and that he believes he will act with the same integrity that he always acted with. Bucky's past as the Winter Soldier isn't stopping him from being Captain America, otherwise they wouldn't have wasted time setting up and foreshadowing it throughout the trilogy. Marvel clearly doesn't believe this now either, since Bucky is, for some reason, running for office. The decision for the shield to pass to Sam was made to appeal to the same people "All new, all different" Marvel was made for. You might not like to hear that, but it's obvious on the face of it. From a narrative point of view, Bucky getting the shield would actually be infinitely more interesting. Bucky would have to reconcile Steve's trust in him with his guilt regarding his actions as Winter Soldier. His leadership of the Avengers would be in precarious standing, and Bucky would be challenged as to how to maintain his relationship with his peers. Unlike Sam, who fills the role of a stereotypical timid sidekick struggling to fill the more capable shoes of his predecessor, Bucky would be tasked with proving his intentions and strength of character rather than his sheer ability. Any writer worth his salt knows that Bucky being handed the shield is a narrative gold mine. Bucky has hit a dead end and Marvel has floundered trying to write anything resembling an arc for his character since Endgame. And as this most recent outing shows, the same has to be said for Sam Wilson. There simply was no direction for the character in mind when the shield was handed off to Sam.

I guess it doesn't matter about the quality, as long as it has jangling keys to keep people entertained.

I am tired of constant outrage culture from all sides of the spectrum, feminists and woke-scolds complaints that women are too sexualized in media to the anti-wokescolds crying that women in media are too mundane and not beautiful enough. It just extremely tiring for me because it distracts from major reasons why a piece of media is simply not fun or engaging anymore.

Real diversity is finding or making stories with minority protagonists, rather than telling the same stories over again and changing a few things around.

There’s room for leniency when talking about the “magic metal” Vibranium shield, but this is ridiculous.

Link to the article: https://variety.com/2023/film/news/ridley-scott-napoleon-historical-fact-checkers-1235781258/

The specific errors mentioned are Napoleon firing on the Pyramids and being present at Marie Antoinette's execution.

Apparently the Battle of Waterloo was painstakingly depicted highlighting the Brits using square formation to defeat the French cavalry. That's... that's how the French decisively defeated the Mamluks cavalry heavy army nine miles away from the Pyramids.

What purpose does it serve to show the French firing upon the monuments? Other than to appease anti-western sentiments fomenting in Western society. In actuality Westerners were awestruck by them and never sought to destroy them. They wanted to study them and those studies spawned everything we now know about Egypt's incredible history.

That matters considering how many normies take depictions in historical dramas as fact. No, this isn't like other movies that create a fictional character and events within a historical period. It is about a very famous individual whose life was extremely well documented. This is like filming The Patriot but branding it as "Washington" and renaming Mel Gibson's character such.

I think this is a massive L for Scott. Comparable to Abrams' "TFA is not a science lesson" but magnitudes greater considering this is a historical drama. And the actual events don't need any added flare, so why make the diversions at all? It seems the chucklefucks in Hollywood simply hate people that actually know things. They have nothing but contempt for us. Consoom and clap troglodytes!

I for one won't be giving this film my patronage when I had been looking forward to seeing it. What do the rest of you think?

Is this what people on Twitter mean when they tell people to be more empathetic and to have better media literacy?

Holy shit what happened?

Everything that was terrible about the past season (political sledgehammering) got doubled down on. Everything halfway decent like the intricacy of characters interactions got absolutely tossed in the trash. The over reliance on gore in replacement of actual writing is disgusting. It’s not even intriguing gore, just a bunch of swinging dicks(as per usual).

Honestly it seems like the characters are entirely different from S3. It’s like I missed a whole season in between.

No, for real, I don’t know what’s going on with people and tomb raider, but it seemed like everyone has some sort of psychosis or dementia, or some sort of mental illness that strips away there reality