But your point about origin stories reminds me of something. Can we please stop doing origin stories for at least some people? JUST STOP. Everybody knows how the fuck Superman got here. Everybody knows about ol’ Spiderman. We’ve got it. Thor: The Dark World was miles better than the origin story. We always waste a movie on the background.
I finally got around to watching Man of Steel. That movie is like 2 hrs 18 mins. A boring as hell first hour. I mean, I nearly shut off the movie and walked away.
And a pretty awesome second hour! Showing real issues that Supes might have: can people accept him? Do humans even want a savior? How the hell could he really hide? And of course the very dramatic moment at the end, which I loved and which I thought was set up beautifully to really give him some angst. They even made Lois Lane acceptable! For the first time ever!
But noooooooooooooooooooooo we have to sit through fucking Krypton blowing up yet again, even though I don’t even care. If I was Jor-El’s wife, he wouldn’t have died with the planet blowing up, I would have killed him. You dipshit, if you knew the planet was going to blow up, WHY DIDN’T YOU MAKE A POD BIG ENOUGH FOR THREE! stabstabstab
I checked with the guy who started the thread, and he doesn’t give a good goddamn. He just needs excuses to curse today.
All super-heroes fall apart if you look at them too closely. Except of course Thor and Wonder Woman. That was the problem with the Bale movies; by trying to be realistic, they just ramped up the stupid.
Also, I would not engage in a fair fight with Scumpup. I am a bully, not a warrior, says so in the RhymerFaq.
To get it back on course, I will add to my earlier comments: I think my friends need to have three things.
Critical thinking
a sense of humor
Discretion
If they show significant lacks in any of those, then the friendship is pretty well doomed.
Less like “My friends need to agree with me on everything” but more like “Do they look at things clearly? Can they laugh about life? If they have something they cannot look at clearly, are they able to shut up about it?”
I crossed her off my social list when she said my left eye that without sunglasses is easily dazzled by bright sun so I squint was caused by demons that have control of my soul. I don’t agree.
See, now I have to amend my previous statement. If someone really and for true believes that horoscopes have actual meaning, I can’t be their friend. You found the breaking point that I didn’t even know I had.
Yes, she checked it every day. And I know where it stems from. My best friend growing up cancelled a couple of times she was going to meet up with me because “the stars weren’t aligned” or “her horoscope had a bad message”. Then I was too young to know better.
I’m realizing now that I don’t have a favorite superhero. I have my favorite actors in superhero roles–Ruffalo’s Hulk, Downey’s Iron Man, Gina Torres’s Wonder Woman. But without the actors, I don’t really care all that much.
As for friends, I’m kind of prickly and will stop hanging out with someone for a lot of reasons. Dudes who make rape jokes are on the list (like the guy I used to game with who thought it was funny to make a pedophile character, that kind of thing). People who are homophobes or racists are on the list. And if you’re gonna be an anti-vaxxer, you better be related to me.
Yes, she checked it every day. And I know where it stems from. My best friend growing up cancelled a couple of times she was going to meet up with me because “the stars weren’t aligned” or “her horoscope had a bad message”. Then I was too young to know better.