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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5848510" data-attributes="member: 8158"><p>There's nothign confusing or hard to follow about a guy beating up giant white CGI apes. Note that there's a big difference deciding that the villain's motivations don't matter--because they're villains, after all, and villains like to conquer and kill--and stating that their nature and origins are clear, which they aren't. </p><p></p><p>To get to the heart of the matter, while I see lots of posts by you and others insisting clarity, if you actually get into what we get from Shang, it's pretty nebulous who they are, why they do what they do, and why they go about it so obliquely. Even in Hobo's refutation, there's a tacit admission that broad strokes are all you get.</p><p></p><p></p><p>You're talking around the point I was trying to make. I think it's safe to say Burroughs was not involved with creative decision-making processes as far the film goes. And it's equally safe to say that this film does not represent the painstaking devotion to recreating the source material that we seen in films like "Watchmen" or "Sin City". Now, the movie takes liberties with Burroughs' material, including, excluding, and adding whole cloth as they deem fit. There was a decision to include Woola. What deos that decision speak to? I figure it was a stab at pandering to kiddies, but you tell me.</p><p></p><p></p><p>You're isolating one line from an entire post questioning what audience the movie plays to, and what audience the movie should have been marketed towards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Felon, post: 5848510, member: 8158"] There's nothign confusing or hard to follow about a guy beating up giant white CGI apes. Note that there's a big difference deciding that the villain's motivations don't matter--because they're villains, after all, and villains like to conquer and kill--and stating that their nature and origins are clear, which they aren't. To get to the heart of the matter, while I see lots of posts by you and others insisting clarity, if you actually get into what we get from Shang, it's pretty nebulous who they are, why they do what they do, and why they go about it so obliquely. Even in Hobo's refutation, there's a tacit admission that broad strokes are all you get. You're talking around the point I was trying to make. I think it's safe to say Burroughs was not involved with creative decision-making processes as far the film goes. And it's equally safe to say that this film does not represent the painstaking devotion to recreating the source material that we seen in films like "Watchmen" or "Sin City". Now, the movie takes liberties with Burroughs' material, including, excluding, and adding whole cloth as they deem fit. There was a decision to include Woola. What deos that decision speak to? I figure it was a stab at pandering to kiddies, but you tell me. You're isolating one line from an entire post questioning what audience the movie plays to, and what audience the movie should have been marketed towards. [/QUOTE]
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