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  1. Posted

    I felt

    there was far too much emphasis put on Coulson's death. There were like 3 scenes where mourning him was the main point. But worse is that ~50 other SHIELD agents had also died, as well as Loki's agents which were actually friendlies, and no one seemed to care about them. No one cared that Captain America threw a man off the heli-carrier, not even a hint of like "Oh that was really bad, but possibly necessary" / no one saw.

     

  3. Posted · Edited by Shorty
    Wha...

    I feel "THANOS!!!" doesn't actually spoil anything, since, like, in the film his presence is a spoiler in itself, tacked on the end. Reading it on Facebook or seeing it on the screen is pretty much an identical experience.

  5. Posted

    Also I would suggest against donating to her justgiving page. I'm pretty sure Justgiving take a cut of the donations. Much better to donate directy to the Samaritans instead if you care about the cause.

     

    Justgiving get 25p for every £5 donated, which they "re-invest to help raise more money". I think the symbolic value of her loved ones seeing the massive amount donated on her page of meagre expectations is worth the 5%.

  7. Posted

    Just watched the first film again:

     

    If it's not Winter Soldier, I'll eat my hat. When Cap rescues Bucky at the factory, he's been taken away to a room and clearly brainwashedor something. It has overt Clockwork Orange vibes like he's been forced to stare in to the device over his head. When Cap enters the room, he's mumbling something about "targets". The last thing is that the other prisoners mention that 'nobody comes back' from that room, hinting that Bucky is the latest of many, which is the exact plot of the new Winter Soldier series.

     

    It's a small scene but it sets so much up: a brainwashed and cybernetically enhanced Bucky is revived by a modern day Hydra from cryo sleep and clashes with Cap in the present day, bringing back his guilt and bridging the gap between the two time periods.

     

    ur2 clever.

  8. Posted

    So I was cycling home today and saw a poster for this and saw a huge Aussiebum logo next to the main logo. At first I thought it may be a sticker someone's put on there as some kind of weird joke but then saw another poster.

     

    Weeeeeird sponsorship.

     

    Although, it does make sense, since superheroes have always had a penchant for lycra / costumes that might as well be underwear.

     

    And it feels like a reference to that Black Widow's Ass thing.

  10. Posted

    Its a little sad that people are spending so much time talking about whether or not the artist is racist, instead of talking about the issue that the artist meant to highlight in the first place.

     

    There's really not much that can be said/done though, everyone knows colonialism is disgusting and that the western world should be eternally disgraced at itself for building its wealth out of the exploitation and despair of Africa. And no one's endorsing female genital mutilation.

     

    I'd argue it is valuable to discuss what racism is / does and what constitutes racism.

  11. Posted

    I think it's a little disingenuous to call something racist simply because you don't understand the point it's making.

     

    I think there's something in the jovial nature with which pieces of cake are being parcelled out, in contrast to the agonising protest. I haven't read up on the piece or anything, but I don't think it has anything to do with female genital mutilation (of course, that's the problem with performance art - you can never be sure that your audience isn't going to cut a cake in a place that would roughly equate to where the female genitals are located), but just how black labourers were exploited, bodily, in every way you can imagine, they were caracaturised, their humanity reduced, and their protests ignored because there was another buck to rinse from their forced bondage.

     

    It requires a bit of induction, but it seems to be fairly obv.

     

     

    I read from a different source that stated that the piece was about female genital mutilation, so I assumed it was an unambiguous thing.

  12. Posted

    It makes no sense; the people who are performing female circumcision are African themselves, and would never characterise themselves like that. It would be acceptable if the ridiculous representation actually had a point, but it doesn't; it's racist.

  13. Posted

    Just read The Return of Bruce Wayne by Grant Morrison.

     

    batman-robw6-1289416981.jpg

     

    I feel so unprivvy to what just actually happened. But it felt stunning nonetheless. I probably should have read the rest of Morrison's Batman mythod -- apparently the story arc is the best thing when you've faithfully read all of Batman RIP / Batman & Robin etc.

     

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    Wolverine vs the X-Men (2011) is the worst comic I've ever read. Sloppy writing, pointless story. Worst of all you can tell the writer was wanking over Emma Frost throughout the writing process.

  18. Posted

    I know what you mean is, "she's so beautiful that even I - a gay man - find her attractive", but all I can read it as is, "she looks like a man". :heh:

     

    *Has nothing constructive to add to music threads*

     

    You seem to have a strange idea about the notion of beauty?

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