Posts by Rich Lock
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Up Front: Wonder Bi, in reply to BenWilson,
It's been this way since forever, though. I mean superheros pretty much ALL spend most of their time either bashing or getting bashed. Violence is not an offshoot, it's basically their whole purpose. Very often the whole purpose of their secret identity is just so they can get away with it.
I do have to wonder if we overthink that. How closely correlated is the consumption of violent depiction with actual violence? The two would seem to be trending in opposite directions for like a hundred years. Probably the best you could say is that the exact form of the violence in depictions is often imitated.
I spend far too much time thinking about this....
But what I was specifically driving at was the difference between the 'A-Team' style violence of the cartoons of my childhood (hundreds of bullets flying around, explosions everywhere, cars flying through the air and crashing onto their roofs, yet every single time the bad guys get up shaking their heads groggily and mumbling 'I woulda got away with it too, if it hadn't been for you pesky meddling ex-special forces escaped convicts!'), and this, where Wonder Woman straight up slaughters a bunch of kids.
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Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Conde Nast would have pink-slipped Carter years ago (and shut the magazine down) if there wasn’t a market niche for people who want high society sleaze, celebrity puff pieces and grotesque crime but wouldn’t be caught dead buying a gossip rag in a convenience store. And yes, dear reader, I’m one of them.
So you only read it for the articles...?
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Up Front: Wonder Bi, in reply to Emma Hart,
the rules are definitely different for cable/Netflicks etc.
Different for the animated versions, too, some of which are pretty good, and are also able to push the boundaries and corrupt the kiddies. My recollection of the 2009 film is that she was bi, but that it wasn't particularly a big deal.
The violence in the animated versions is far more of a concern when it comes to a 'won't somebody think of the children' moment. The 2009 film has Ares going on a slaughter-bender against the Amazons, and there's another one that has an alternate reality Wonder Woman straight-up murdering a group of children.
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Up Front: Wonder Bi, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
what I really don't understand with this movie 'reboot' is why they have set it in World War One?
The comic was originally created during, and set in, WW II.I wond....thought about this, too. I suspect it's because Nazis have been done
to death (as it were) in recent superhero blockbusters, Capt America being the most obvious example. -
Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to Alfie,
Is this misogynistic, lying fraud really the best candidate the Republicans can come up with the fill the role of president?
You saw the other candidates, though? Ben Carson, Ted Cruz....
The Republicans have been brewing this self-inflicted crisis for a good few years. They reap as they have sown.
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Pitch Black played a live gig in London a couple of months ago. I'm not entirely sold on the new album, but their live show is excellent.
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I've just started reading Linda Tirano's 'hand to mouth'. There's a pretty big chunk of it up on Amazon as a pre-purchase preview (although the formatting is odd).
There's an interview with her here where she notes:
"I have a very close friend who votes Republican like clockwork. He understands the party doesn’t do much that is likely to help him as someone who might need welfare. So, as a social conservative, he’s going to vote according to which party supports his views on abortion, because that’s a thing that matters to him and he feels he can get movement on it, there will be a direct effect. Whereas if he votes on an economic issue, it’s just a different bunch of rich people doing a bunch of rich people things. [emphasis added]"
Now, with that in mind, explain to me again why everyone should be voting for Hillary?
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Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to Kumara Republic,
As does railroad baron Jay Gould's purported remark during a major industrial dispute: "I can hire half the working class to kill the other half."
Not such a joke back then. It was fairly common in industrial disputes in the US between 1877 and 1927 to use machine guns on striking workers.
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Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to Russell Brown,
It is in the sense that it’s the rejection of institutions. It is worthwhile thinking about why we have those institutions.
And also worthwhile thinking about why these institutions are being rejected en masse.
In last year's Labour leadership contest, also-ran Andy Burnham chose to launch his campaign at a bank in the heart of London's financial district, with a speech about how Labour had 'got it wrong' on business.
Reports that he also asked why those on zero-hours contracts didn't just eat cake instead, if they couldn't afford bread, are at this time unconfirmed.
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Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to Emma Hart,
hate is dangerous
Fear is the path to The Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.