Greetings good citizen, there is a considerable amount of quibbling over the concepts we see floated in the media. If the idea is distasteful its proponents will defend their act with such arguments as moving the audience outside their comfort zone [supposedly for their own good.]
While Europeans think US films are 'unrealistic' because overwhelmingly the, er, 'good guys' pull off an impossible victory resulting in fairy tale Happy Endings pretty much EVERY time. [Which does tend to sour one on the genre, especially one where the protagonist doesn't shoot the bad guy when s/he has a chance to, but even we who are routinely subjected to such tripe know this is just setting up the 'superhero finale' and the Europeans are right, it gets old.]
So it is we have the ending of Infinity War, spoiler alert if you haven't seen it save your money. The movie is very entertaining BUT THE ENDING SUCKS!
I'm not going to go into specifics, it's the premise itself that insulted me.
The unexplained centerpiece of this entire series is 'overpopulation', which is kind of screwed up in a situation where 'resources' are indeed set to 'infinity'.
The antagonist embarks on a mission to collect the Infinity Stones so he can 'rightsize' the universe's population, which he opines needs to be reduced by 50%.
Thannos 'purpose' of uniting the infinity stones is only hinted at in the prior movies, it's not until Infinity War that we learn what his goal is, made that much worse by it being draped in 'nobility and selflessness'.
Where do YOU suppose THAT came from?
Let's assume it is NOT politically motivated and the Russo brothers actually believe our 'universe' is over populated. Is genocide really the answer? In the film's opening Thannos's soldiers slaughter the survivors of the destruction of Asgard because Loki smuggled the Tesseract onboard.
Do you suppose it was a 'coincidence' that they chose to display Thannos's motivation as an 'act of mercy'?
War without end, currently confined to the Middle East but it's drifting around the planet, is a synonym for Thannos's desire to 'balance' the universe simply by snapping his fingers. Unlike the film, the vanquished don't just dry up and blow away...and yeah, that's a spoiler.
This is a work of fiction but fiction is used all the time to float otherwise untenable ideas...like the existence of God. Why do you suppose with all of the incredible possibilities available to them the producers chose this particular theme?
Because it was 'relatable'? Understand for a space-faring race they don't have overpopulation problems because space travel is routine for them.
It seems finding planets capable of supporting life might be more difficult than the mathematics suggest but there is zero shortage of building materials.
Arable land would be conserved by building orbiting habitats which is to opine space stations would be the rule rather than the exception. [But that's using your head for more than a hat rack which the overseers dislike because it leads to questions and they hate questions almost as much as they loathe answering them.]
Questions like why do you suppose the Disney people chose over population, dealt with by genocide, as the theme for this film targeted at the millennials?
If you are/remain 'unaware' where these 'strange ideas' come from then you'll have no idea why poor white people spend two months pay on a semi-automatic rifle and go hunting whoever is unfortunate enough to cross their path... [the answer is the 'popular media', mostly music but influenced by gaming and comic mythology.]
You are/become what you 'believe'...
Which is to belabor the obvious, I'm not the only one entering your mind and playing with your conscious...
Gegner
While Europeans think US films are 'unrealistic' because overwhelmingly the, er, 'good guys' pull off an impossible victory resulting in fairy tale Happy Endings pretty much EVERY time. [Which does tend to sour one on the genre, especially one where the protagonist doesn't shoot the bad guy when s/he has a chance to, but even we who are routinely subjected to such tripe know this is just setting up the 'superhero finale' and the Europeans are right, it gets old.]
So it is we have the ending of Infinity War, spoiler alert if you haven't seen it save your money. The movie is very entertaining BUT THE ENDING SUCKS!
I'm not going to go into specifics, it's the premise itself that insulted me.
The unexplained centerpiece of this entire series is 'overpopulation', which is kind of screwed up in a situation where 'resources' are indeed set to 'infinity'.
The antagonist embarks on a mission to collect the Infinity Stones so he can 'rightsize' the universe's population, which he opines needs to be reduced by 50%.
Thannos 'purpose' of uniting the infinity stones is only hinted at in the prior movies, it's not until Infinity War that we learn what his goal is, made that much worse by it being draped in 'nobility and selflessness'.
Where do YOU suppose THAT came from?
Let's assume it is NOT politically motivated and the Russo brothers actually believe our 'universe' is over populated. Is genocide really the answer? In the film's opening Thannos's soldiers slaughter the survivors of the destruction of Asgard because Loki smuggled the Tesseract onboard.
Do you suppose it was a 'coincidence' that they chose to display Thannos's motivation as an 'act of mercy'?
War without end, currently confined to the Middle East but it's drifting around the planet, is a synonym for Thannos's desire to 'balance' the universe simply by snapping his fingers. Unlike the film, the vanquished don't just dry up and blow away...and yeah, that's a spoiler.
This is a work of fiction but fiction is used all the time to float otherwise untenable ideas...like the existence of God. Why do you suppose with all of the incredible possibilities available to them the producers chose this particular theme?
Because it was 'relatable'? Understand for a space-faring race they don't have overpopulation problems because space travel is routine for them.
It seems finding planets capable of supporting life might be more difficult than the mathematics suggest but there is zero shortage of building materials.
Arable land would be conserved by building orbiting habitats which is to opine space stations would be the rule rather than the exception. [But that's using your head for more than a hat rack which the overseers dislike because it leads to questions and they hate questions almost as much as they loathe answering them.]
Questions like why do you suppose the Disney people chose over population, dealt with by genocide, as the theme for this film targeted at the millennials?
If you are/remain 'unaware' where these 'strange ideas' come from then you'll have no idea why poor white people spend two months pay on a semi-automatic rifle and go hunting whoever is unfortunate enough to cross their path... [the answer is the 'popular media', mostly music but influenced by gaming and comic mythology.]
You are/become what you 'believe'...
Which is to belabor the obvious, I'm not the only one entering your mind and playing with your conscious...
Gegner
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