aaaand yet Deku is curing or subsiding Tomura's lifetime of trauma by literally punching the darkness in his heart away to free his inner child or some shit. So what the author made fun of or addressed as a cliche, he's subscribing to in the Finale of the series anyway.
"Self aware" my ass, the man is a hack. Good guy i'm sure, but he didn't know what the fuck he was doing. The story is FULL of references from better shit, dude literally has MARIO in the story as a Doctor. A street called "Tattooine."
CLEARLY Kohei is a fanboy of western ideas but did not know what he was adapting when he copied that homework.
That's like ridiculing the color blue, but the visual motif of the entire story is blue anyway. You're not a genius for pointing out the trope exists, you get props for doing something different FROM the thing you're referencing as a bad thing or at least try to expand what you have.
So far, the movies have done a better job treating deku as the main character than Horikoshi's himself.
Episodic Impressions: My Hero Academia (episode 40)
"It's their culture-" *I love that excuse. Weak as an arthritic kneecap and yet people repeat that same non-point over and over again as if "CULTURE" is an argument.
Different culture makes sexualizing minors okay, meanwhile, you're justifying another "culture" while having nothing to do with the paradigm you're defending, so what's your basis of defending a world you're not even a part of.
And it's not even "culture", it's Legalization. Which is a stupid, & dangerous argument, for if Daddy Gov. says it's okay does that mean morally it's sound??? No. Incorrect.
If severe Martial Law in the U.S started tomorrow & reproductive rights for everyone were stripped to reduce population and everyone in the U.S had curfew effective immediately--Or marrying 5-10 year olds was legally allowed or giving up your infants to the State if they say so-- would any of that being "CULTURE" & Legal make it okay? No.
Apologetics trying to justify exploitation of kids in cartoons because "it's allowed", are social risk factors. VERY dangerous attitude to have.
And it's even more embarrassing when these mooks don't even subscribe to what actually is "Japanese culture", like their theatre, their language, history, festivals, etc.
but will defend the sexual exploitation of girls/characters in general (cause it's not just girls but mainly girls) because age of consent or (muh boners) and call that Japanese "culture".
Ppl wildin, hard.
2023 [UPDATE]: Japan raised the age of consent to 16 because sex crimes against women and children have gotten out of control in the past 30 years, geeee i wonder why a Country with a booming industry with a sub-culture that glorifies dehumanizing and over-sexualizing women and children would for no reason at all have a rising issue with sex crimes against women & children?
I'm doing some research to confirm what I suspect, but I know what I know. Youtube has some kind of killswitch function to basically take a video off of life support and then it flatlines.
Example.
Video does 300views first 24-36 hours, and instead of rising on the graph then naturally sloping down & rising like a normal graph, like any normal pattern of graph.
In 2024s CorporationTube, the video that was doing consistently well suddenly just flatlines after 12 days.
Prior to the 10th day mark, the graph rises and rises.
So the question becomes: Why isnt something that's doing good, continue to rise and do good?
What changed?
I certainly didnt do anything and I just sat back and wondered why a low effort video is getting more attention than my better videos. Sooo it wasn't me.
See YouTube agents, shills, misguided people love love Loooove to gaslight small creators into believing that they (creators) are the sole issue.
Your content is "just not good", and yet so many people can attest that their LOW EFFORRT uploads that they themselves know are not good, for some reason gets more views than the content they put effort into.
Its not consistent. Not that logic nor the system they're defending.
Your channel is doing "ok" aka barely making bread, but its not dead so "everything is okay, question nothing".
See, When a good video flatlines like someone decided in a booth that your video did good "enough" for the month, and decided it was time for it to go to sleep for 10 years.
Or 5 uploads in a row do less than usual like your content is being hidden from traffic altogether.
(Because how the hell is a video supposed to get traction to grow if it's not allowed to circulate in the first place?) 🧠
Like dead on arrival. Custom thumbnails, specified time so subscribers know its up, certain boxes checked & unchecked for maximum algorithm efficiency (All the functions SponsorTube added to make posting videos more and more of a burden than FUN🌈 ie. the original purpose of the site)
So with ALL the people on YouTube, clicking and clicking and clicking per second- a channel gets only 50views of traffic on a fairly well produced video after a year?
Huh?
That is very VERY unnatural. You'll have people with 50k-1M subs struggling to get even half the equivalent views. Some with sponsors.
So imagine the likelihood that a small channel of 5k and under is being suppressed by a platform that blatantly shows its dishonesty, distance, and double standards.
When a good video doing good suddenly flatlines like it was smothered in the crib, thats not the "algorithm", that was analytical assassination.
YouTube made a HUGE mistake giving us the ability to see our videos numbers, now their fraudulent system can be see in action in realtime.
If your video is shit, then its shit. The actual issue, is YouTube are frauds BECAUSE the system is inconsistent and fraudulent.
INCONSISTENT.
YOU do not Broadcast Yourself anymore, WE broadcast our sponsors. No sponsors? Tough nuts.
You don't matter. And if we want? What you create won't exist either.
The "it's a business" bullshit doesn't hold up, because if the video isn't supporting hate, terrorism, all the isms but its just an edit or a cool fight, or some original music and its being shadow banned-
Consistent suppression of potential & creativity, is not good business, **it's a blatant failsafe to prevent anyone self-made from ever, and I mean EVER competing with paid Youtubers and specifically Big Companies, the favored spoiled children of the platform that they'll never legitimately strike, or shadowban, block or takedown.** Corporations owned by elites, YouTube will NEVER treat them with half the shit they spare for us. Not that anyone today can't ever make it, but the point is to prevent it.
Its about maintaining hierarchy.
It's fascism, and it's remarkably stupid. Its a mechanism to keep med-small channels in their place and keep the sponsored groups on top. Cause even big Youtubers, while they get privileges, even they're not safe for long if Youtubes good graces go sour.
That's all this is. And its very obvious when you don't allow people to gaslight you when there's but so much you can do when the people controlling the system do not care about creators to begin with (everyone knows this), or deflect the actual problem as a non-issue because apathy takes less braincells.
Cause if channels were allowed to develop and grow naturally? A lot of us wouldn't be at 1Mil, let alone 500k, lets be honest, you're worth what you produce.
But you'd definitely would be big enough to where people would know you exist.
The entire point of this new system is prevent you from Broadcasting Yourself. That's the point.
*Because there's no lucrative point for any business to suppress content that follows the goddamn rules anyway. Unless it's to gatekeep or regulate who gets to succeed on your watch.*
It's control.
YouTube Analytics, all those functions, them giving you "tips", agents dispelling "myths" about the almighty algorithm, they are trying to keep you complacent. Its all control through giving you an illusion of control.
Like looking at numbers is making a damn difference, they know exactly what they're doing.
Make you & your content the problem, you're not good enough, when in reality we have the solution with the flip of a switch. Because we run the goddamn site. But gaslight you to keep you in check and prevent you from asking questions.
Control. Control. Control.
YouTube became an experiment for Dystopian level fascism, it has all the hallmarks for it. Put rats in a concrete maze, then encourage them to claw through the concrete itself, knowing it's pointless, then when they fail, tell them they're not clawing hard enough, when you have the key to their prosperity. Brilliant model.
Point being,
The keyword is the 'flatlining'. Dips to rise is normal, like economy. But erratic graphs to flatlines are: Unnatural, inorganic, orchestrated, inconsistent. Unnatural.
The main issue with her character is not entirely what she did, the Viltrumites are bred to be intergalactic Vikings, Vikings raped people. It happened. And she’s a bad guy.
But the issue is, she didn’t stay bad: they tried the (she comes around) trope, that was problem #1 they tried humanizing her or contriving some redemption while she never directly or appropriately deals with what she did dehumanizing her baby’s daddy in any real believable way.
They tried to Omni-Man her WITHOUT doing what made Omni-Man’s turn work in the first place, narrowly so but it worked.
There’s no organic consequence to what she did. We’re not in Viking times, Invincible is supposed to be in a semi-modern era, if not beyond. So the handling of this was horrid.
She’s very oddly protected from backlash for what she did in-story.
And there’s no narrative point to her existence beyond being a means to birth Markus (which means little to nothing because he wasn’t instrumental in the war, just a DLC side plot post-event), which is hilarious that she’d name the boy after the man she raped (i wonder if that was before or after she miraculously had her little change of heart)
So she either named the boy after the dehumanized father (for some reason, cause it’s not she knew Mark, so why name him after someone she doesn’t know) or she became a good person and thought naming him after Mark was her being a good person or some shit. (stupid, lunatic)
Either way, it’s stupid. She doesn’t work, because even by comic standards, it’s not realistic. At all. Even all these years later, it has not aged well AT ALL.
She just gets to rape someone, Mark protects her from consequence, she threatens him with more rape, she doesn’t suffer any long term consequences.
And no her death wasn’t a consequence of that directly, cause if she’s dead how tf is her character supposed to grow from a consequence by being dead.
The point is for HER to woman up & develop.
The point is she suffers consequence to become a better person organically, not change off-screen, and now suddenly she’s a good person. She tells Eve she’s “sorry” (ha, she’s sorry she brutally raped a person) but she doesn’t regret it.
Yeeeeah, sounds like a real sympathetic character with dimensions doesn’t it.
“Thomas” or KORR-El The 3,000 year old Daxamite raped Supergirl on the moon. When she confronted him about it later to fight, he threatened her he’d to do it again because her pressing him at the moment was turning him on....and she backs off.
Years later before he dies saving Kara’s partner in a battle he says to let Kara know he’s “sorry”, and because their Baby is a good kid, he doesn’t regret it.
Doesn’t sound so simple when it’s reversed huh? Guess what, it’s equally fucked either way. It’s beyond psychotic to think you can wipe something as inhuman as rape away because you’re sorry and the baby is a good kid.
And the fact that she gets a semi-honorable death, like she earned that shit?! HOLY MOLEY.
I think the story is confusing her with Nolan, or forgot that she raped the main character and actually enjoyed it. And told him to “Man up” afterwards !! lmfao.
No lack of Misandry here. Keeping the “men don’t matter” trope going strong, well done Kirkman.
Again, I’d love to see that shit reversed. Amazon would never ok The First season, it would never get greenlit if a man told a woman to “woman up/ man up/ grow up” after he rapes her in superhuman fashion to where he clothes are history.
Now, they might change it, but since as of (March 2024) the cunt is already in Season 2, I don’t think they’ll course-correct at all.
Cause this is their opportunity to fix her character, doesn’t mean don’t have her rape mark but she better feel the ramifications on-screen
But you see that right there is why she doesn’t work.
She doesn’t go through any due process or consequence that makes sense.
And now I’m here HOPING they fix her, because we live in a society where dehumanizing men is played as a joke, male suicide & rape is an afterthought like Men are second class citizens but telling a woman to stay in the kitchen is career suicide, in 30 years that might even put you in prison.
And no, i’m not joking. Women are that privileged.
But men getting raped is a non-issue.
Same exact energy here, she rapes a guy, and gets to have a good life, and only changes because she decided to: because of someone else, not that SHE grew as a person of her own accord. If I remember correctly, she didn’t even apologize to his face! Or no moment of closure for the two of them, it’s like the writers wanted the rape scene but didn’t know how to navigate the situation after they got their shock-factor.
Because notice how Nolan wasn’t out here notably raping Deb. Anissa did that shit, because Anissa wanted to rape someone after she was told no.
And we see the changes Nolan went through, Anissa? Nope.
Scumbag character because of shitty writing.
If you want to deal with a topic like rape? Treat with the same sensitivity if it were a woman, or don’t do it at all. Women are not special. Men are people. They build your goddamn cities.
This was another one of those Kirkman-isms where he just does edgy shit to be edgy and didn’t know what the fuck he was actually trying do or say with it or where he was going with it.
We have characters like Vegeta who committed planetary genocide single-handedly, but he’s still somehow a beloved character nowadays with a following. (I’m personally not a fan, he’s too goddamn whiney but I was a fan a few years back so I get the appeal.)
IF THAT can happen for a genocidal lunatic, Anissa did not have to be handled the way she was, there was a way to do it properly.
And the most believable way? Is not revenge porn, not justice porn, but organic consequences.
The lack of that, is why she doesn’t work.
Rightfully hated character, but she didn’t needed to be hated this much, she could’ve been better.
All they had to do was handle her & the topic with more fucks to give beyond the actual fucking or just stay away from it if they didn’t have a plan for her to develop appropriately in the first place.
WingsOfRedemption WANTS TO START A WAR With Breaking Banquet
he's not going to church to try to sleep with her, but he's going to church to impress her because he eventually wants to sleep with her because he literally just said he's been trying to sleep with her.
*Translation: you're going to church because you want to sleep with her.*
you care because the incentive to care is you have an agenda, which is an itchy rocket that found a target
Bro is trying his absolute hardest NOT to be honest . It's when you try to bullshit and make it sound romantic or some intimate fuckery is when people get on my nerves with pursuit of women. And that's why some women can smell that shit from a mile away and make mfs wait.
*You can't con a con-artist, women are not stupid. If you're going to church just to impress her, that's NOT impressing her. Trust me. Simply walking into a building & sitting in attendance because you want her cheeks isn't impressive.* Shit's corny as fuck, to me a dude, so imagine what her take is.
You give a shit because you want to fuck, that's why 90% men pay attention to women they don't know & hand out attention that's not earned, that's why you acknowledged her existence vs literally everyone else (male & female) with a level of EFFORT you wouldn't show your own mother.
This stranger didn't earn your attention, you gave it to her because you were that easy: Typical but 100% natural. Just say that & stop tryna make it something it's not.
The issue is People get caught up in how cold that sounds, regardless that it is 100% fucking true reality and then start mentally contorting their own intentions tryna to make it sound noble or some shit.
And then after the marriage, that perfectly painted rationale you fabricated suddenly crumbles under it's own weight.
Because NOW she's not a mystery anymore and neither are you. Hence the divorce statistics. (women of God give off a different energy, or vibe), ie. Church women are different....pffft OH fuuuuck off. Clearly you've never been part of more than one church family, you'd know that shit was a damn lie.
ESPECIALLY with the older women. The only thing most church women of the modern era do, is give it away to men/women they actually want, get older & past their prime and then make suckers like him wait for it because they now they're women of god all of a sudden, and ONLY when it's convenient and AFTER they're not getting action like they used to.
Bro want to sell his own bullshit to himself. Sees a fine mama on the street, he then does cardio. Absolute fucking NPC. Zero agency or fortitude, way too easy of a male. Complete drone.
Very young on the brain, eager to create some regrets he can easily avoid, fuck ya life up with a smile on some bullshit. but at least you can say you got to hit, for whatever that's worth
This kind of dude is what Divorces were made for, he'd get burnt and go MGTOW or some stupid crap.
He'll be 3 divorces in life, and still chasing that Disney template.
Wish the video was about that tool instead of wings. 3min in, and literally i mean 3:00 on the dot, and he's getting on my last nerves. And why vent about this shit to wings of all people, like he has ANY wisdom to bestow.
Because what i'm saying right now? Is what Wings should be saying so he can help this mook wake the fuck up.
Because this is how you waste women's time, for real. Young bucks jumping through hoops for a short term release, when an older mama likely wants something real, authentic in the longterm.
Wings neglects his wife in almost every way, it's public record. So WHO in their right fucking mind shares that kind of TMI with WingsofRedemption of all people??! Lmfao Truly a moron
This is story is what Ironman 3 took notes from, the book is better, it shows the Extremis in a much cooler/graphic way. Much more gruesome detail to the serum.
Tony is shown exactly how far he'll go to get the job done, no matter how drastic it is. It's a little dialogue heavy in the beginning, some typo here and there; The villain is weak in terms of ideals, or lore but he's strong enough to have been a problem for Captain America.
Dude had a sense honor despite the contrary. Cause he could've easily ended her even before her voodoo started working, she banked on it & won.
Those women are built different to put themselves out there like that, like elite clerics, elite concubines with class.
Earlier that day she saw what he was capable of, could've snapped her in two with one hand and tamed the beast anyway, AFTER he stated he was aware of her Order's methods "tricks" lol knowing about it and being able to do something about it are two different things Feyd. Completely different.
At least he's survived, for whatever that's worth in his case. A baby girl, as instructed. The loose implication that they can control the outcome of the child's sex, sheesh, OP.
An Elite group pulling strings, manipulating bloodlines, ending bloodlines, orchestrating tragedies for an Endgame Messiah/ or other world power to arise, very subtle Hollywood, subtle.
Went in for another watch: I wasn’t tripping, this is definitely Jesus parallel/more so Anti-Christ propaganda. On the level of The Matrix, which is what this is, this generations Matrix. (also Jesus imagery/Anti-Christ/transhumanist propaganda)
Dune is worthy of that position too; Cause think about it, it’s accomplishing a level of epic the MCU took 10 years to build up to.
The failure of the Sequel trilogy. Not financially, but culturally, literary. It’s a narrative disgrace to it’s predecessor.
There’s no, and I mean NO REASON why the stakes, the action, and the characters of DUNE (movieverse) are this good when not only is Disney trying so hard to do the exact same thing AGAIN and failing —
But this is custom lore a lot of people aren’t even familiar with, this isn’t a superhero or a anime adaptation, this is coming from some book I’ve never even heard of and it’s this good? (Not a masterpiece, it’s just well made)
Both propaganda, (Matrix /Dune movies) don’t get it twisted but they’re good, except Matrix 4, that was ass.
Reverend Mother said it best:
“There are no sides”, none.
Just the order, in chaos. And if there is no chaos, well well well, better brace yourself because we’ll create a tragedy to course correct.
(Said the person part of an elite group manipulating events of the world and pulling strings, wiping out bloodlines, breeding their own followers with certain people in power to artificially bring forth a force from the “outer world”. They’re literally telling you what’s going on.)
Both propaganda, but one works & the other doesn’t (Sequel trilogy, Phase 4 MCU).
(good handful of competently executed lady characters without it being inflated that they’re FEMALE and “strong women” or some shit)
Why? because them being female isn’t their stake in the setting or their stake in your mind as you’re watching it, they’re just good characters first, people first & it registers to you as normal, not woke. Not exceptional because they’re women.
I didn’t really pay attention the first time but Florence did a good job as Irulan, channeling that mature wisdom of a leader in the making. She’s pretty smart (not in the way that modern society WANTS girls to be smart which is a Scientist or something, she’s intelligent politically and well read) and after she explained her case of the dangers of downplaying prophecy, religion & martyrdom and what that means to people wanting hope — To the Emperor. He said she’d make a fine Empress.
And he’s right. It’s easy to miss what she’s doing (actually) in the story, you see Florence ofc, but Irulan is easy to miss. That’s because the story doesn’t over-inflate her importance, when she’s more significant than she appears.
Point being, she’s a royal with a conscience (a good example of a decent person on the side of the “enemy”), she’s here & there throughout the story, being the voice of reason even to Reverend Mother, until she’s face to face, not with Paul but Muad’Dib.
Everything she said and did led up to her facing him, a force of nature of a man. Completely different animal. And both of them told the exact same thing (“Strategic alliance”)
The story begins with Irulan and it ends with Chani.
Why doesn’t the movie inflate the fact that they’re strong women? Because the movie doesn’t treat you like an idiot. That’s how it should be done.
It’s not putting them on a pedestal like many woke productions, or bending them over the couch for the sake of pandering like in Anime. Two different extremes.
Yes, Chani mentions that the Fremen way is that men and women are equal or (how any competent society should be functioning). If anyone reaches to say that’s woke? (I’m not even going to entertain that, or be smartass. Just relax. That line doesn’t mean what you think it means/ And this is coming from a mf who’s calling this Anti-Christ propaganda, so IF I’m saying the line wasn’t that deep, then it wasn’t that deep.)
Cause if you wanted to nitpick? That’s easy bait, when it’s really not.
Overall, this reminds me of Aaron Ehasz’ writing chops, how a Live Action Avatar The Last Airbender should be written.
Paul survived a genocide just like Aang but “Usul” is going in a very different direction:
Unlike Deku & Aang, Muad’Dib is not here to make friends, appeal to your inner child or some shit or hand out mercy for nothing in return.
But you’ll see what I mean. Paul is a little Gary Stu-ish (on purpose, hence the chosen one narrative. One of the signs is that he knows some of the Fremen way without being taught. Neo was a gary stu too.)
Yet the guy (Paul) still has to be taught, like Neo & Aang, he’s not perfect. He cries, he gets pissed, he doubts himself, he’s human still.)
Not a perfect little angel like Deku (who cried way too much, gets pissed only when convenient but when abused by the same guy his entire life) or unless it was time to make a CRaZy FacE during a fight. Please.
DUNE PT 1–2, Not as groundbreaking as The Matrix, not even close.
But given the fact that this has an almost 200 million lower budget than Endgame and is a better film than Endgame in story, (some) visuals, direction, writing and effects?
Worthy. (And I also gave Endgame a multi-viewing the week it dropped, 3 in fact. *never watching it again, it’s just Nostalgia-Fanservice: The Movie*)
So yes, still a decent little movie, outside the realm of conspiracy.
Part One did it’s justice setting the groundwork, which is why it felt dry or boring for some people.
It got the work done, so the second could come out swinging, which is why the pacing felt so much better in this movie, it started right in the thick of the plot. The work was done already.
The level of foreshadowing in this movie, throughout? Is insane (PT 1 too). I counted it somewhat, the most throwaway line or an establishing shot you’d easily miss or overlook as random or an artistic decision, sets up something that will happen later, or in a couple of minutes; Or the next movie, and no I’m not even talking about Paul’s dreams.
Visual foreshadowing, visual storytelling. Vision. Not agenda shoved down your throat, not blatantly anyway. If you want to sell people propaganda without them rejecting it?
Make it good & wait for them call it a “masterpiece” or something. (People won’t question what they like, because bias lowers your defenses. That’s warfare for the mind, The Matrix mentioned something similar.)
As for the movie, 2 of Paul’s outbursts in the 1st to 2nd act don’t sell for me because Timothy himself doesn’t come off as intimidating, at all.
But? When he goes Lisan-Al Gaib mode? And his speech scene in the southern temple? (my fav scene in the movie, how it began, the scene that led up to it, his stride, that shot, the MUSIC. Jfc, Hans Zimmer.)
Projecting his voice, like a godly apparition in human form. His aggression, body-language, he’s not asking, he’s telling you what’s going to happen.
The man can see timelines without an Infinity Stone, the LAST thing he wants to hear is someone informing him he has to kill one of his many mentors because of “tradition”, ALL just to speak his mind in a gathering.
Yeah, anyone would get pissed when all they’ve been hearing is “Prophecy, prophecy, prophecy” for the past imma say…(3 months toa year)
That entire scene was him embracing the role, while expressing his frustration that he had to do it at all.
He sells it 100%, reminds me a lot of Jesus roasting the priests in the temple. Same exact situation. Some other hang ups I have would be:
We never get to see exactly how Worm Riders dismount their Worms, we’re never shown how they get off. Especially how they manage to get a pregnant woman & crowd on and off one of those behemoths.
The Voice, as a concept is too broken. There should’ve been some kind of criteria like if you try to use it on someone who can also use it, it can be countered or something (Like “The Force”). Or you risk injuring your vocal chords if abused etc. It’s way too broken, you can win pretty much any fight by just commanding them to die. It’s basically Lelouch’s Geass
Paul is a sympathetic MC, he’s cool, he’s a bookworm, it’s good to see him learn something from others (to negate too much gary-stu energy), he’s like the quiet, nice kid in class. But he’s not all that interesting, that is until he transitions and he starts carrying himself a little differently. Pretentious? Sure, Messiah complex to the max, but again, consider his frustration with the whole thing. And he’s got the energy to make people follow, and I’m interested to see what he does next, that’s the point essentially. He’s not that engaging until he is.
PART TWO is worth the money because it’s 2 films in one, surprisingly well paced. But there in itself lies an issue, there’s a lot going on in just this one movie that could’ve been fleshed out. As you notice, there’s very subtle points where time-skips are implied, like Maud’Dib’s reputation, we didn’t really get to see how Usul got that reputation just that the name means something infamous to the Harkonnen’s at a point, so much so that that’s how they address him, like he’s Robin Hood or Captain America during the Civil War Arc (books). But it works because it keeps the movie from being 3 hours, but definitely skimmed over some things.
Some of the fight choreography has some chinks in the armor in the bigger scenes, like a character’s back it turned to someone who’s facing them and they don’t strike. The combat is overall solid, but that (in any movie) drives me nuts, and I saw it on my first viewing lol. But I won’t specify when or where, I don’t wanna ruin it. Because I can’t unsee it myself.
I find it very, VERY unlikely that the Harkonnen’s wouldn’t have a contingency for The Sand “Demons”/ Worms by now. Nukes exist, space ships, personal shields, hover jet packs, but not an Orbital Rail gun? Or a mounted Rail gun on a base wall? Fishy. Awfully convenient. (Harkonnen’s would have my ass in R&D because that’d be my first question to Chain of Command “What if we simply designed-”)
This is not a masterpiece, it’s a well made movie with an interesting parallel to The Matrix, very very well composed (Props to Hans Zimmer), well acted, the setting & story are interesting for what it is and how ambitious it is.
And very ominous overtones that caught my eye.
Might shill it again another time.
I recommend you watch it in theaters at least once before it goes.
If you have tinnitus or something, DO NOT brave IMAX.
That shit gets so loud it physically assaults you sometimes.
And if not, then enjoy it however you can get to it. It’s the same movie wherever you watch it.
TMI: I personally ignored the first movie when it dropped, “Paul’s Dream” OST somehow found it’s way to me via a playlist in 2022, finally watched PART ONE March 2024, then I was impressed with what PART ONE was setting up, and the sequel impressed me more —
So, If this is trying to be a Trilogy, I’m definitely going to have eyes on that 3rd installment.
Because Paul’s Dream in PART ONE regarding what Chani does to him, definitely makes more sense given not only — how uneasy she was the moment he broke off from the worm caravan suddenly to (do what he did), what he did in the temple, and how scorned she was later on (won’t specify) —
We can only imagine what else he’s going to do that (might) lead to her making that call.
And that’s an “if” because Paul says to Jessica (after the attack, tent scene) he saw his death but claims that’s not what it means.
And it also makes sense in context of the story. The knife was given to him by Chani, and to begin his journey to become Kwisatz: Paul had to die through killing another (Jamis). Killing another is killing himself. So the vision’s meaning was likely isolated to PART ONE’s plot, but it’s something to keep in mind for potential PART THREE.
It’s funny, cause My Hero spoils the ending in just the second episode, it doesn’t work because there’s no narrative point to it, doesn’t progress or fit the kind of story that it is.
Like Spider-man 2002 didn’t begin with Peter saying he’s Spider-Man, it began with a question:
“Who am I?”
It ENDED with him saying who he is, answering the question, because narratively, it makes more sense to hear it AFTER we see the goddamn story, and what he just sacrificed to be who he is. All to justify the answer to the question:
I bet you before now, you didn’t really think that hard on Peter’s question making sense to that extent until now lol. That’s how subtle it is.
Tangent: (Horikoshi copied other people’s homework without knowing why their shit worked in the first place, in context. The man at heart was a fanboy of A LOT of franchises, and you can see it in the entire story *He named a street after “Tatooine”* But his execution & ideas needed more time to mature. His mistake was getting involved with Shonen Jump before he had it figured out and or getting involved with them at all.)
Otherwise, main reason SM2002 narration works: Is because it isn’t a fantasy film with prophetic elements, it’s a superhero title and it didn’t spoil anything.
For that MHA story, us knowing Deku becomes the greatest hero contributes to nothing, because for that story, that doesn’t make sense to know it that goddamn soon.
But in this story, with visions & prophecies, all these biblical parallels, knowing what happens in fragments, works because of how the film executes it, the setting is compatible with it — hooks you to keep watching, some visions are proven right. So for the audience that gives us a sense of progress and achievement even though all we’re doing is watching, we’re not doing anything, It’s very immersive.
like J.J Abrams “Mystery Box” technique but it’s not shit.
Hence why, DUNE: The movies, so far, are already a better Sequel Trilogy than the Sequel Trilogy of Star Wars. Because like EPISODE 7, PART ONE was just 100% Set up and foundation. And PART TWO was basically EP8-9, and now we might get another.
2 ways to technically spoil events here, but 2 out of 3 example swork. Because the storytelling methodology are completely different.
MHA was just copying an aesthetic without understand why the original worked (which is why the story began promising but ended up a narrative failure)
DUNE is compatible with it because the story itself already has mystic/biblical/prophetic elements, so it’s compatible with the trope
And for Spider-Man 2002 specifically, it didn’t jump the gun before the story was even finished in the writing room. There was a long-term point to the narration and the question.
