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[Willie the Duck]

Anyone who thinks Heathcliff is a romantic hero (as opposed to a Romantic protagonist) hasn't read the book.

Wikipedia isn't good for everything, but I think here their definitions of romantic heroes and byronic heroes are pretty spot-on to what a lit-professor would say. They are heroes in the same way that Greek Heroes are heroes, rather than the modern conception of the term -- people of great importance, but not necessarily anyone you might want to emulate. In other words, yes Heathcliff is a romantic protagonist who does not display modern heroic qualities, but that's part and parcel of what a romantic hero traditionally is.

Since y'all are on about tramatizing entertainment for kids, whats up with the 1986 Transformer movie? Like 80% of the cartoon autobots die in the first 5 min lol. Up until then they always fired at one another but never hit anything.

What do you mean by what's up with it? It was a marketing decision to remove all the discontinued toys from the toyline from the fictional narrative and shifting focus to the current year's new batch of product. It was also a misstep that damaged the brand (so you found it cheap/dirty pool/upsetting, know that it probably was an actual mistake). That being said, this video argues that, in retrospect, it is an interesting story about what happens when the parental figures (minus a crotchety grandpa-figure) are taken out of a story and a bunch of inexperienced characters in archetypal young-people's roles have to rise to the occasion and save the day.

However, in the next animated film, G.I. Joe, they simply took the main players off stage while the noobs took over. I do get a laugh from the opening sequence "Don Johnson as Falcon, Sgt. Slaughter as Sgt. Slaughter..."

The 'G.I. Joe Movie' was never released in theaters because of the backlash to the Transformer movie. Instead it was direct-to-video and shown (broken up) as regular episodes. It had an almost-identical scene where Duke (the team-dad and Optimus Prime analog) takes a wound meant for a new productcharacter. He was originally meant to die, but after the Transformers backlash they axed the funeral scene and added one line (said by an off-screen character, no less) saying that he was going to pull through.

Die Hard is a sh itty movie.

I wouldn't go that far, but (IMO) it is just another silly action popcorn flick that happened to have some fairly good performances by Willis and Rickman (at arguably each performer's peak). Throw Steven Seagal or even Die Hard 2's Willis into the same plot, put them up against an equally boring villain (maybe Cliffhanger-era John Lithgow's villain persona) and the movie becomes generic forgettable fare.

 

[Micah Sweet]

The laziness in Thor when Asgardians spoke English straight out the gate and Thor even used "clicks" for distance.
Hollywood is just artistically lazy and the critics and audience don't even challenge them on this.

At the very least they could have had a minute or two of them speaking Asgardian with English subtitles for the audience, and the language would gradually change to English as it did in The 13th Warrior when Banderas's character is reflected to have learnt the Scandanavian tongue. It would let the audience know these beings have their own language and that they didn't all graduate from an Ivy League university.

Big companies have little to no respect for their customers (and often their employees). In some ways it resembles the worst aspects of the feudal system.

 

[payn]

In a country where most people can barely read? Yes. Very much so.

You can rant and rave at that unpleasantness, but treating those people with contempt isn't a wise move if you intend to ever sell anything to those people.



Thats the nature of the beast.

And ultimately, theres ways to do it well. The recent Avatar sequel, for all its other issues, is a good example of how you can maintain an artistic vision in regard to alien languages while not alienating its audience.

"Rant and rave?" Talk about contempt.

 

[AnotherGuy]

In a country where most people can barely read? Yes. Very much so.

Perhaps they can use emoji's, memes and Instagram pics?
For a country that is obsessed with social media we really rush to make a serious amount of ridiculous excuses instead of holding the creatives accountable.

 

[Micah Sweet]

In a country where most people can barely read? Yes. Very much so.

You can rant and rave at that unpleasantness, but treating those people with contempt isn't a wise move if you intend to ever sell anything to those people.



Thats the nature of the beast.

And ultimately, theres ways to do it well. The recent Avatar sequel, for all its other issues, is a good example of how you can maintain an artistic vision in regard to alien languages while not alienating its audience.

Never saw it. The first money was a tired, by the numbers story supporting an excuse to show off 3d technology in theaters. Pretty as all get out, but that's about it.

 

[Reynard]

Anyone who went to see Marvel's Thor expecting an arthouse indie film was not paying attention.

 

[AnotherGuy]

Big companies have little to no respect for their customers (and often their employees). In some ways it resembles the worst aspects of the feudal system.

True but consumers really need to hold them to account and not support sequels and should bombard them on their mistakes on all types of social media. How else are we meant to fight back on these creatively bankrupt overlords?

 

[Bedrockgames]

Cynical ploy, perhaps, but it did give the film some buzz all these years later even.

I remember them also replacing Optimus with Rodimus after and that pretty much killed my interest in the show as a kid

 

[AnotherGuy]

Anyone who went to see Marvel's Thor expecting an arthouse indie film was not paying attention.

Yes, that is what we are asking for? Arthouse indie and Thor those are the only two movie categories.

 

[Reynard]

Big companies have little to no respect for their customers (and often their employees). In some ways it resembles the worst aspects of the feudal system.

Now there is some hyperbole! Bravo!