As I recall, she wanted to be able to talk about the movie as a movie, i.e. about the structural issues and acting and writing choices she disliked, etc., and not get involved in a culture-war debate over whether the movie should exist and be singled out as uniquely problematic
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Replying to @AlexJThomas @KirifudaRed and
I have no opinion on whether you personally hate women, I just strongly feel that the argument that CM is *particularly* problematic and has advanced the interests of the US military-industrial complex more than any other Marvel movie is obviously false
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
Because it deals with the US military during a period that people still remember and lived through. Your refusal to admit that it hits closer to home for people because it's *more recent* is very skewed. No one here grew up with watching WWII on the news. Kosovo yes.
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Replying to @KirifudaRed @AlexJThomas and
...Okay I know this is arguably whataboutism but Iron Man 1, which started the whole MCU, is transparently about the (at the time present-day) War on Terror It takes place in a very thinly fictionalized version of the Afghanistan conflict
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
Which the same people, including myself, have criticized as a weak-ass point and a weird transposition of Stark originally a Vietnam era chacter, which Would Also Be Terrible. This is the same whataboutism as your points about CA.
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Replying to @KirifudaRed @arthur_affect and
In addition you can't say that the scope of storytelling hasn't changed since 2005 to 2019. Weird you pretend CA somehow came out the same year as other Marvel movies, as part of the criticism toward's CA is because it was more recent and released to the current political climate
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Replying to @KirifudaRed @AlexJThomas and
My read on CM is that it's a movie about a character who was historically associated with the USAF, with tremendous pressure to be positive about the USAF and tie-in with them for marketing etc., that nonetheless avoided saying anything positive about the USAF as much as possible
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KirifudaRed and
And that within the confines of what they were realistically allowed to do was *much* more negative about US militarism than the typical MCU movie (or typical modern action movie), and dealt with those themes a lot better than movies that got high praise for the same stuff
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KirifudaRed and
Like, again, my take is "Winter Soldier and Captain Marvel were both badly hamstrung by the circumstances of their creation and couldn't be truly critical anti-war movies, but Captain Marvel's critique is much better than Winter Soldier's" I don't think it's that hot a take
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And yet it's an IMMENSELY controversial take, with people all over the Internet ready to jump on you for it Again, I seriously do not believe we would be talking about this if I just said "Yeah, Captain America's an example of a reluctant military hero, remember Winter Soldier"
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