him = hmm
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i want to elaborate that i don't WANT to dislike these films i really want more nerd media to be done amazingly. it's just becoming really obvious to me that it just needs to be done better
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I'm like the opposite of a gatekeeping fanboy but e. g. the star trek films have been a continuous source of immense disappointment.
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Calvin Wong Tze Loon 黃子倫 🇲🇾 Retweeted Bi Dyke Energy
if you've read this far down you need to read thishttps://twitter.com/Azure_Husky/status/1079043202429186048?s=19 …
Calvin Wong Tze Loon 黃子倫 🇲🇾 added,
Bi Dyke Energy @Azure_HuskyReplying to @Azure_Husky @ithaylaP.s. the fact that the writers made "we can't sacrifice Vision, we aren't like that" the plot point and didn't think for a second that throwing the Wakandan army into a suicide battle to accomplish this was an issue tells you everything you need to know1 reply 0 retweets 16 likesShow this thread -
Also the whole 'they had so many characters to develop' thing I mean Into the spider verse. No one in infinity war had a patch on spider man noir for personality and charm
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Infinity war assumes we care about these people and gives us no reason to do so during the runtime. Spider verse (wisely and correctly) assumes everyone knows who Peter Parker is but doesn't take for granted that they like him. It taps into our metaknowledge of spiderman
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But doesn't rely entirely on it. It rides a perfect line.
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it's this lack of basic empathy for your audience that really underscores the lack of basic empathy thru the entirety of infinity war
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Spider verse was like 'what if this person watching our movie has never heard of spider man, let's make sure they can ride along' Infinity war was like 'lol if they weren't paying attention they can eat it'
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'but Calvin how else can you cram so much characterization into such a short span of time?' Idk by not relying on dialogue to do your heavy lifting and making use of the aesthetics, blocking, framing, sound, editing, and score? You know, the things cinema is made of?pic.twitter.com/ohWwTVf7Ci
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Just calling his uncle "Benjamin" does so much. It's one word but instantly places him in the past.
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