Courtesy of Instapundit, Jim Treacher explains that Some Critics Like Captain Marvel, and Some Critics Hate Women:
I mean, did these morons see the same Captain Marvel I saw? (No, I haven’t seen it yet, and that’s hardly the point.) This is a scary time for women, and they need this movie right now. Stop politicizing this important event in feminist history, and start praising women for having the courage to play flying people in uncomfortable-looking leatherette jumpsuits with lasers coming out of their hands.
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I don’t plan to see Captain Marvel on opening weekend, because Marvel Studios and this movie’s target audience don’t need me stinking up the place with my toxic masculinity and disposable income. I am not welcome, and that’s the way it should be.
Ace of Spades is being even more respectful:
I am calling for all men to avoid seeing Captain Marvel, at least for the first four weeks of its theatrical distribution, to permit the legions of the ‘Carol Corps’ fans to see the film in a positive, Sacred Feminine, female-only space.”
But you really can’t be too careful with this kind of thing, as Instapundit commenter They Call Me Mister reminds us:
I’m not sure that’s long enough. There are four billion women on this planet and every single one of them deserves to see this POS (“perfectly ossum superheroine”) before any man does.
Given the difficulties of getting movies to females of such isolated populations as lost tribes of the Amazon, or on Indian Ocean islands where they kill and eat intruders, we could be talking decades.
I’ll wait.
Marvellous.
The promotion and inevitable failure of Captain Marvel proves that it isn’t profit that motivates these Disney execs. They truly are Satanic wizards trying invert Christendom.
I agree with the Mister. I’ll wait until I have 100% confirmation that every woman on Earth has watched “Captain Marvel”.
I recommend anyone looking for some fun writing see the “rotten” reviews of Capt M at Rotten Toms. Most are hilarious! The “fresh” ones are too over-the-top for humor.
David Ehrlich at IndieWire: a bien pensant leftist gives a brutal takedown of the film, flanked by boilerplate attesting that he’s a good feminist. Wonderful writing.
https://www.indiewire.com/2019/03/captain-marvel-review-1202048795/
Unintentionally funniest review by a woke reviewer: Kristen Lopez, the “Cultress.” Best line (among many): “a great superhero origin story hobbled by the corporation using it for their own selfish purposes.” She’s unclear about Hollywood (*everybody’s* working for selfish ends) – and that a corporation isn’t a person (its a vehicle for its owners to make money).
https://culturess.com/2019/03/05/captain-marvel-may-not-be-marvelous-but-brie-larson-is/
Ignore the critics. The Gospel (good news) is that it’s truly feminist! “For most of ‘Captain Marvel’ it’s the female characters who save the day (fine!), while the male figures are either dressed down or neutered…” This shows the essence of 4th wave feminism – the quest for superiority (to test for 4wave: reverse the genders; if its grossly sexist, it’s 4wave).
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/captain-marvel-review-woke/
Even National Review managed to give a mildly critical review: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/captain-marvel-movie-review-dull-directionless/
I look forward to seeing Cap Marvel at the premier. It should be fun to review.
Ranks right down there with the Kendrick brothers movies.
Same anti-men message anyway.
Except the K brothers movies are worse since they purposely target Christians.
I do plan on going to see the real Captain Marvel next month in Shazam. I will pass on Marvel/Disney’s you go grrrl version. Will probably also skip the next Avenger’s movie as she’s going to be the Mary Sue in it.
Personally, I don’t really listen to anyone trying to take a political take on stuff like this, left or right. Kind of like how season 2 of the Punisher was supposed to be pozzed and awful (“The Punisher goes full SJW!” etc.), and it was neither of those things.
Ms. Marvel only shaves with Gillette products.
And she only shaves in line with her own conception of beauty; she absolutely does not bow to the standards of beauty imposed by the patriarchy. She’s hairless on her own terms.
Also she doesn’t smile while shaving. Her lips are set in a grim line, as she removes the hair from her ultra-feminine gams and pits.
Additionally, when she cuts herself badly while shaving, she stitches the cuts up herself. No man is involved.
After all, the suture is female.
@Chad
I think somebody just wrote Gillette’s next commercial. Complete with celebrity endorsement.
After all, the suture is female.
Did you just assume a gender!?
My large and “woke” employer sent me a huge e-mail today starting thusly:
Spotlight on Diversity: International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day (IWD) is held annually on March 8 celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women throughout history and across many nations.
The 2019 campaign theme is “Better the Balance, Better the World” where everyone plays a part in building a gender-balanced world and driving a better working environment.
Apparently they believe that more women in upper management is better. I wonder if our male CEO can see the end result of this White Knighting stupidity yet? Ultimately his Job could only be done better by having a woman do it, according to their playbook:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Sex
@sharkly
By the time it affects him, he’ll be retired. He doesn’t care.
I promise I won’t see Captain Marvel at all! – Ever! And I hope all other men do likewise. Bankrupt the film!
Brie Larson should have kept her mouth shut and not complained about white men reviewing the film, white men wanting to see the film, and white men commenting on the film, the character, her performance, and the script. Ok, so a lot of white men are talking about this movie. Keep quiet, let them talk, and say what Disney wants you to say to the film criticism community/comics community.
And don’t alienate the people who see these films – overwhelmingly white boys and white men aged roughly 12-50.
No.
I’m not going to the theater to see if for $15.00.
I’ll watch it for free on a United flight in a couple of weeks.
Same for Avengers 4, Wonderwoman, etc. later this year.
Adult onset Superhero Film Fatigue already affecting me.
Market is flooded with this stuff now. And I just don’t care.
Let’s be honest. These films, their stories and characters, really are not very interesting or novel anymore. Even the special effects and snarky comic relief in the fempowered scripts are getting really old and predictable. Or maybe I’m just getting old.
Even Star Wars IX is now a proverbial superhero film with the omnipotent Rey character.
I’m completely apathetic – except perhaps to see how in the world JJ Abrams is going to possibly clean up and correct the spectacular SJW eff ups of both Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson within a 3 hour final film of the series.
He can’t. He won’t.
But his attempts should at least be somewhat amusing.
@ greenmantlehoyos
I wouldn’t give The Punisher Season 2 a pass. There were a lot of SJW elements to it.
1. The Punisher as CPT Save-a-ho.
2. War veterans are crazy, violent, criminals-in-waiting.
3. Christians are crazy, violent, hypocritical, or at absolute best, gullible rubes.
4. Muslims are virtuous (agent Madani).
For most of the series, all but one villain was white (Asian dude in the first couple episodes). Then they introduced some Hispanic and black villains in the second half of the series. But that’s okay, because they were war veterans.
In the very last scene of the last episode they finally introduce a few Hispanic and black villains who are presumably not war veterans.
I honestly wonder what the intent of all the propaganda pushing is; do they really not want men to see this movie, or do they think men are so option-less and desperate that they will see it, anyway?
What was the purpose of saying anything at all, except to promote the film and ensure as many people go see it?
That PJ Media article was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. Hilarious.
Re: predictions that Cap Marvel will be a box office failure
Disney execs are probably laughing, pleased at the massive controversy about the film.
“There’s no such thing as bad publicity.”
— Attributed to P.T. Barnum.
The French refer to the “succès de scandale.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succ%C3%A8s_de_scandale
@The Question
Did you see Star Wars 8? They want to burn it all down and start over.
Larry Kummer @ 12:14 pm:
“Disney execs are probably laughing, pleased at the massive controversy about the film.”
Actually, there’s a rumor going around the comics community that they let Brie Larson out of her muzzle so they could blame antifeminists for what they realized would be the movie’s inevitable bombing. Rotten Tomatoes had some hilarious pre-release stats.
““There’s no such thing as bad publicity.”
— Attributed to P.T. Barnum.”
“Hold my beer.”
— Not Attributed to Rian Johnson
Personally I think they are intentionally drumming up the ire of men so that they WILL go see the movie simply because “No one is going to tell me not to go” in hopes of driving up opening weekend sales because what I just read is beyond sophomoric and stupid. People really write this stuff? Its like the high school newspaper all over again.
In the world of classical music anniversaries are very important and so one might expect the BBC’s classical music station ‘The Third’ to make some form of acknowledgement of the death one hundred and fifty years ago this coming Friday the 8th of March of Hector Berlioz. The schedule however shows nothing. One has to wait until Monday for anything by him. The reason is of course that all this week they have been playing music by women whom even I have sometimes never heard of. Where is the equality in that! – when someone acknowledged by all musicians as one of the all time ‘hall-of-fame’ greats, a man at sometime pictured on whichever French Bank Note, a man who according to Discogs has had no less than eight hundred and seventy seven albums of his music released is ignored in favour of the fifth rate.
The BBC will say that they turned over a long weekend to him three weeks ago but that is no excuse and is as clear an evidence as one could wish for that good music is now not its primary concern. Could it be however that the BBC also see Berlioz as the Liam Neeson of Classical Music. This is what happened. Hector was a pensioneer at the Villa Medici in Rome he having just won the prestigious Prix de Rome. He was engaged to be married to a pianist, one Mlle Moak when rumours reached him that Miss Moak had married Camille Pleyel the composer and publisher, a man thirty years older than her. Berlioz naturally incensed promptly set out for Paris which you must understand was not in the days before Steam Locomotives and the Internal Combustion Engine easily or quickly reached. He also purchased two pistols for his intention on reaching Paris was to shoot dead not only the new Mrs Pleyel but also her Mother! On reaching Nice he rested for a few days and enjoying the skinny-dipping so much began to think better of his murderous plan (really Hector she isn’t worth it) and wrote his King Lear Overture – for which I am most grateful and I will be sure to spln my platter of the piece this Friday rather then endure the rubbish from the BBC. Berlioz will survive this sleight.
@Oscar re: Punisher season 2 SPOILER ALERT
1. The Punisher as CPT Save-a-ho.
Eh, not really. In season 2 he spends some time saving the teenage chick, who eventually is straight chastened that, no she can’t “take care of herself”. Again the chick he saves is portrayed as being an idiot, which the adult, is saving because being young and stupid doesn’t mean you should die. This sends the opposite message of women who “don’t need no man”. The female characters on this show are more like actual people, including some downright villains, no pedestal to be seen, can’t really hang with the male characters.
2. War veterans are crazy, violent, criminals-in-waiting.
I never took it as a blanket, Hoyle and his group of veterans, especially in season 2, are a counterpoint. Yes you see criminal veterans, you also see non criminal veterans, so I’m hard pressed to say that was my takeaway.Even the criminal veterans are viewed by the non criminal veterans as idiots, so you get some contrast.
3. Christians are crazy, violent, hypocritical, or at absolute best, gullible rubes.
Again, this really wasn’t a blanket. The villain is basically Night of the Hunter Robert Mitchum, kinda, split between Pilgrim and the people who hired him and importantly Pilgrim survives the season because he was at heart a good man who had been deceived. This just didn’t come across as hitting up Christians to me. It hit up some people who appeared to be hiding behind it, which just isn’t the same thing. The sincere believer survives, the hypocrites do not.
4. Muslims are virtuous (agent Madani).
Madani isn’t a Mary Sue, Madani is just a mess. Plus her family fleeing the ayatollah, Persian Muslim, not quite the same thing, but that’s a minor point. She makes very female mistakes like loving the wrong guy, makes irrational decisions that get people killed, and none of this is excused or portrayed as a good thing. Her one virtue is that she didn’t want her partner back in Afghanistan to be unavenged. She spends most of her time getting out done by everybody.
So, on balance, when I was watching what characters actually did and what actually happened, no the series wasn’t really SJW that I could see, not really.
@ greenmantlehoyos
I wasn’t talking about the teenage chick. I was talking about the tattooed, single-mom-by-a-rock-band-drummer bar slut.
Only one war veteran is portrayed as neither crazy, nor a criminal. Even the Punisher is both. You have to look at what they exclude, not just what they include.
Show me one Christian character in the entire season who is neither crazy, nor violent, nor hypocritical, nor a gullible rube.
I never said she was a Mary Sue. I said she’s portrayed as virtuous, which she is. Damaged, sure, but still virtuous. Once again, show me one Muslim character in the entire season who is portrayed as non-virtuous.
The bolded part is the key.
Battle Angel Alita might have the most positive father figure in a film in decades.
As a Japanese property, they have more female archetypes to play with then “serious face perfect wahmen”. So they have caring and cute, high energy punch girl.
I enjoyed Matt Walsh’s review:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/44259/walsh-captain-marvel-towering-artistic-achievement-matt-walsh
“The movie gives me life and purpose. I am not worthy to watch it. So I didn’t, and I won’t. I offer this only as tribute to an utterly sublime piece of art. And as proof that I am not sexist.”
@Heidi
I enjoyed Matt Walsh’s review
Funny piece. But I’d recommend it just for that photo he included at the top of his review. It solves the mystery of why Brie Larson never smiles in public with just one picture
@Oscar
1. Come and gone by the first episode, not great but not a dealbreaker.
2. Remember all of the other veterans in Curtis’ group? Also the ones that report back about the vet gang? More than one.
3. Pilgrim’s wife for one, but there’s only like four choices, three of whom are the villains.
4. There’s only one Muslim character, at least in season 2 I don’t really remember her family playing much of a role.
They’re not obligated to shoe horn in extra characters. It’s really not SJW to portray people realistically, which I think they’ve done.
Oooo, burn. Yes I write about what I see, you write about what you see. C’mon dude.
O/T, but thank you to Opus for the notification about the 150th anniversary of classical composer Hector Berlioz’ passing, this coming Friday the 8th. As Sharkly noted above (March 6, 2019 at 11:32 am), the 8th day is ‘International Women’s Day’, so as you noted the Radio 3 schedule reflects that instead.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl8t/2019/03/08
But now that you’ve let me know, I’ll have to pull out my Philips LP boxes of the Colin Davis-led Berlioz operas, such as ‘Benvenuto Cellini’ or ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (the latter maybe less O/T in a blog about difficult male / female relations)!
Apologies to any other readers, since per Warhorn, I too am a nasty person for reading Dalrock
/sarc
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@ greenmantlehoyos
She was in two episodes. And who said anything about deals, broken or otherwise?
You mean all the ones suffering from PTSD, which is a mental illness?
Pilgrim’s wife was deceived by the evil, wealthy, Christian Schultzs, as were all the members of the church, which makes them all gullible rubes.
So, have exactly zero.
So, they present multiple Christian characters, and every single one of them is either evil, gullible, or both. They portray exactly one Muslim character, and that character is virtuous. And you think that’s a coincidence?
Nobody said they were.
“Realistically”? Is every Christian you know evil, or gullible? Is every war veteran you know a criminal, or mentally ill? Once again, do you really think that’s a coincidence?
That wasn’t a “burn” (what are you, 12?). It was an observation.
1. I meant a dealbreaker for me, just vernacular that I’m not tossing the whole thing away as an SJW fest over what I think was basically minor
2.Well yeah, it was a PTSD support group. Just because a guy has PTSD doesn’t make him some sort of criminal in waiting maniac.
3. Gullible rube is a bit extreme, anybody can be fooled
I don’t see examples of three Christian characters and one Muslim character as “AHA see they’re anti-Christian! And pro-Muslim!” I also feel like you’re complaining that a show about vigilantes has criminals in it. But that’s probably a little unfair on my part.
“That wasn’t a “burn” (what are you, 12?). It was an observation”
Oh it was not, it was a dig that I was blind to something that you believe you see. Again, c’mon dude.
@Larry, no, Ghostbusters 2016 had *mad* hype all across the media, and bombed hard for both sucking and being terrible message fiction. That’s why there’s been so much chicanery with reviews, scores, etc leading up to it.
An interesting stat which I culled from the last paragraph of the latest news at Box Office Mojo is that not only are cinematic receipts for 2019 down on 2018 by a whopping 26% but 2019 is also down on each of the preceding five years. Gee I wonder what might be keeping punters out of the cinemas?
@ greenmantleboyos, the broader point is that those groups are always portrayed that way, and without exception (that isn’t compensated for ham-fistedly).
Converged stories will never have groups of black or Hispanic people as the bad guys, unless they’re part of a mix group with whites. The reverse is never true. You are looking at it as though their choices for these things happened in a vacuum, and not in the same pattern as a million other theoretically individual narrative decisions.
Look at the Gillete ad. Even some honest lefties pointed out that whites made up a massively disproportionate number of the bad men, and non-whites the reverse. That is part of a larger pattern of tropes that they simply do not deviate from.
Gunner Q –
“Actually, there’s a rumor going around the comics community that they let Brie Larson out of her muzzle so they could blame antifeminists for what they realized would be the movie’s inevitable bombing.”
That looks like a urban legend. I suggest skepticism about rumors, because they are almost all false.
I’m in Iowa (not one of its big cities) – not a feminist conclave. On opening night the cineplex (there’s only one in town) has 25 showings. They take reservations, and are almost sold out. For most showings, there are seats only in the first row, last row, and far sides.
Even the IMAX is mostly sold out, at $15 per seat. That’s real money for most people out here (lots and lots of payday lenders).
In 20 years, the children of millenials will roll their eyes at their troglodyte parents, who no doubt kept women chained to sinks and pregnant – cuz their teachers said so and 2039 is the Time of the Woman!
I think it will do really well in the box office.
It’s not so secret that she plays a major role in the resolution of Infinity Wars. Enough fans will want to “check the box” (if they aren’t simply fans of the genre) to ensure they catch foreshadowing about the finale.
The real question is, “What happens to the Marvel franchise after they complete Infinity Wars?”
Can they reset the stage and keep up the story-telling quality for another long-play plot? I’m really skeptical. I think they’ve signaled the direction they insist on going. Fans hung in for it, but may not have the patience or interest (or they’ll be flat-out fatigued) to support the superhero film multi-film plot, like they did when this started.
@greenmantlehoyos @Opus
Opus, I honestly think you’re looking for something to be offended about with the show.
Punisher hooked up with a single mom, so what. The whole concept of men tending to protect women isn’t exactly blue pill/red pill/SJW issue. And the idea that he’s Cpt Save-a-ho, he hooks up with a woman at a bar without knowing any backstory doesn’t seem like it fits the bill. Even him rushing her to the hospital doesn’t go against what I’d expect a person with the characters experiences would do.
One the point of the fact that the vets are all messed up in some way. That’s part of the story, Castle is more messed up by what happened to him after coming home than while he was deployed. He’s not going to associate with the “upstanding” members of society anymore because of it. It’d be out of character.
On the point of Christians, name for me one Christian who is not hypocritical. As far as the rest, we’re talking about a show were it deals with all of the broken things in society and how certain characters deal with it. I don’t expect to see well-adjusted people in Punisher or any of the Marvel properties that have been on Netflix. That’s like expecting a PG Deadpool.
They present one Muslim character who’s messed up. Hell, they don’t really even mention her faith. She can’t be a good muslim as she drinks like crazy. It’s not like the show Counterpart where they introduced a muslim character in season 2 and show her doing her performing her daily prayers every time they can work it in.
I understand the impulse to be looking for this stuff as it is often pushed down our throats in countless shows and movies. I just don’t see this being the case with this show. Now the rest of Netflix, filled with the garbage…
re: Punisher
The inclusion of a Muslim as a Federal agent in itself is a SJW move. Take this sort of stunt casting to an extreme and you get ABC’s POS Quantico.
@cshort you actually put it better than I did myself, and I think you mean oscar not opus
@greenmantlehoyos
Yep, meant @Oscar. My bad.
@pb
Are there Federal agents that are Muslim? Yep. On the character, I honestly can’t remember a single scene where they discussed/pointed out her faith background because it’s pretty clear how the character was portrayed that she didn’t really have much faith in anything in Season 2.
I agree with you that Quantico is a crappy show for stunt casting and just in general.
@The Question
“I honestly wonder what the intent of all the propaganda pushing is; do they really not want men to see this movie, or do they think men are so option-less and desperate that they will see it, anyway?
What was the purpose of saying anything at all, except to promote the film and ensure as many people go see it?”
They build in a ready-made excuse for failure (much like The Ghostbusters all-fem remake), that Toxic Masculinity destroyed a perfectly wonderful film. See, we Grrrls were right!
If the movie does well, then it becomes a victory over the Patriarchy. See, we Grrrls were right!
I took notice of Captain Marvel when criticisms of Brie Larson’s press conferences appeared in my news feed.
Her comments were uncharitable and unnecessary (“I’m not interested in what a bunch of old white dudes have to say” ; ”can’t we have more diversity in film reviewers?”).
These, combined with a trailer that says, ”Put down men!” and a po-face that makes Ms Larsen look like she is visiting her ex-husband throughout it, tells me that I’m going to avoid this movie like Dracula does a wooden stake.
Women, plus their feminist mangina cohorts have to realize one basic truism: You cannot hate on a group and expect that same group to do what you want at the same time. I’ll make that even simpler and more specific:
You cannot hate on men and expect those same men to do what you want at the same time.
The Question — ‘I honestly wonder what the intent of all the propaganda pushing is; do they really not want men to see this movie, or do they think men are so option-less and desperate that they will see it, anyway?’
The latter. And likely men will see it, in droves, if not box office then disc and streams. The Marvel Universe has kept Holyweird afloat for a decade now. It’s hot. The Marvel plot and character lines are interconnected across movies, and across character arcs. The (ludicrous) Captain Marvel film likely will contain elements which further the ‘global saga’ taking place in past and future Marvel films. Many will attend to get the ‘latest’ on which character is up to what. If one misses an episode, there is a hole in the viewer’s narrative comprehension and enjoyment.
I enjoy some Marvel films, but shake my head at inclusion of female ‘superheroes’. Can’t suspend my disbelief for such stupidity. The revolving rack at Moran’s Cigar Store is where I bought my Fifties and early Sixties comics, Superman and Batman, Fantastic Four, Thor and whatnot. I don’t recall any female comic leads. Or much about females at all except as love/save interests. Girls back then weren’t brainwashed to want to be (male-action) superheroes, they were into music and boys and make-up.
It’s clever how satan draws the carrot back to himself, ever so slowly, until they are conditioned, and ensnared. It’s his world and he delights in mocking God’s masculinity with Ms. Marvel, a better man than mere Jehovah could make!
I’m old. I grew up with a different Captain Marvel.
Is there something anti-christian about Superheroes? The characters clearly derive from Greek and sometimes Norse myth but in Christendom the heroes are Saints who do mundane things such as helping lost causes – St Jude, or as I suggested the other day, skinny dipping of whom St Tropez is surely the Patron Saint – he certainly helped Hector Berlioz so who can deny it.
I have to confess that I have only ever seen one superhero-movie if indeed that was what it was, the 1966 Batman. I have never read or probably even seen a superhero comic because on this side of the Atlantic the comics had none or little popularity and are seen as somewhat ridiculous – and not a little American. Monty Python had a sketch parodying the genre concerning one Bicycle Repair Man but I cannot find a decent clip of the sketch on Youtube. Bicycle Repair Man is of course far more like a Christian Saint helping to repair punctures than he is a Superhero.
I am however of course happy to acknowledge that Brie Larson is the world’s greatest actress, her movie better than Citizen Kane and her character the greatest of all Superheroes – we are not worthy.
Back to Berlioz
I have just checked as one can now do on-line as to the Third’s schedule for the 8th March 1969 the 100th anniversary of his death. On that day they played Berlioz from eight till eleven in the morning and then from seven-thirty in the evening the complete Damnation of Faiust. I checked but not one note that day of any other music was by a woman. but then in those days no one had ever heard of International Woman’s Day because we did not follow Soviet Marxist ideology although having said that my Father who would have known some BBC types always said that the BBC was a disgusting (i.e. left-wing) organisation.
Actually, it is really a little embarrassing because although we have to say how wonderful it is hear women breaking through the sound barrier no one especially wants to listen to any of it. Once upon a time I was perfectly happy to listen to the music of any composer male or female indeed I have known quite well though not in the biblical sense two female composers but now as with Cpt Marvel I can see that I am being got at and any view that the music is less than wonderful is a form of misogyny and thus I avoid the same like the plague. That the present crop of young British female composers have first names such as Leonora, Cassandra, Emily and Rebecca (rather than Jade, Kylie and Tracy) reveals the usual upper-middle class pedestalisation of a small and privileged part of the female sex. The Third are kicking-off their women’s marathon-fest at 01.00 pm Friday with the Clara Schumann Piano Trio – that is at least the second time this week that they have given it a broadcast, indeed it is always being played – presumably because that is about all there is. I have heard it live and though it is alright the difference between her music and that of her genius husband (and it is only because of her husband that we hear her – a sort of compositional Hillary Clinton) is night and day – and I say that as a pupil (pianistically speaking) of a pupil of a pupil of the said Clara Schumann.
I recall reading of the Russian composer (a holy minimalist) Soifia Gubaidulina explaining why in what was then Soviet Russia she had failed to accept an invitation to be at an all-women music festival. She explained that she wanted to be judged against the best (i.e. men) and thus refused attendance. She obviously had failed to receive the memo that she had been oppressed. Were music, chess, the yawning gap between the best men and the also-ran females would be far easier to observe but concert promoters do not deliberately construct programmes which will result in empty seats!
Berlioz anyway should be accredited with being politically correct. When a student at the then newly formed Paris Conservatoire in the 1820s at which and from the first there had been female students he fell foul as so often seemed to happen to him of the great Luigi Cherubini who was the Director of the Conservatoire. Hector’s crime was treating the door to the specific door at the College reserved solely for the female students as if it were gender neutral.
“I think somebody just wrote Gillette’s next commercial. Complete with celebrity endorsement.”
They’re backtracking: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbpn7BiTq_U&t=330s
Larry,
What else will be available on that night to see? What other competing entertainment is there? How many people in the area? Lots of questions need to be answered other than “only a few seats left”.
One YouTube video I watched (it showed up in my feed too) indicated one site (RT?) only had the option to buy that move on its opening night. That would skew things if people who still pay for movies only had that option.
It is funny that I desperately wanted good superhero movies as a teen, yet I have seen very few of the current crop, even the MCU ones. Holyweird’s departure from solid entertainment has made them uninteresting. At least that is what I think is one of the biggest factors.
The real question is, “What happens to the Marvel franchise after they complete Infinity Wars?”
The rumor was that Captain Marvel was supposed to be the leader of the next generation of Avengers. They were going to rebuild the franchise around Captain Marvel (as the current one is built around Iron Man). I understand she has a long (as in 7-10 picture) contract with Disney.
http://thefederalist.com/2019/03/07/olympics-allowing-trans-athletes-compete-without-surgery-just-cynical-ratings-grab-womens-expense/
So sad. Feminsts angry they have to compete on the same playing field as men who they claim they are equal to.
“So sad. Feminsts angry they have to compete on the same playing field as men who they claim they are equal to.”
American females (feminists) stewing in their own toxic juices. It’s lovely! I’m enjoying their first exposure to the effects of their own malevolence and totalitarianism. There will be many more such opportunities to come.
Larry Kummer, Editor @ March 6, 2019 at 3:45 pm:
“That looks like a urban legend. I suggest skepticism about rumors, because they are almost all false.”
Rotten Tomatoes is not an urban legend. Of course opening night for a highly advertised movie is sold out. I predict a strong opening weekend followed by a strong drop-off.
Hollywood isn’t whoring its ass to the Chinese market because Americans still want to see this junk.
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Opus @ 3:00 am:
“Is there something anti-christian about Superheroes?”
Superheroes aren’t anti-Christian, they’re pro-American. They live as ordinary people who rise to superhuman achievements as needed, then return to their ordinary lives. They’re icons of the American can-do attitude… lost now in our modern society that rewards victimhood.
Few of the major superheroes lived as nobility:
Superman=journalist
Spiderman=perpetual student
Green Lantern=test pilot
Daredevil=trial lawyer
Iron Man=Businessman/inventor
Hulk=scientist
Captain America=infantry soldier
Nightcrawler=circus acrobat
Batman=billionaire playboy. Okay, he’s nobility.
Not until (roughly speaking) the X-Men did one begin seeing superheroes who intentionally lived apart from the normals. They’re iconic also but in hindsight, as an early exploration of identity politics.
The rumor was that Captain Marvel was supposed to be the leader of the next generation of Avengers. They were going to rebuild the franchise around Captain Marvel (as the current one is built around Iron Man). I understand she has a long (as in 7-10 picture) contract with Disney.
Yes, this is my understanding as well. The next iteration is going to be 100% feminist, full stop.
I’ve never been a huge fan of the movies, but I’ve seen some of them. I won’t be seeing this one.
Spare a thought for my youngest son. It is his birthday on March 8, a date that it is troublesome for him to celebrate.
I will, however, let him know about Berlioz.
Opus — “Is there something anti-christian about Superheroes? The characters clearly derive from Greek and sometimes Norse myth. . .”
That’s a fair question, and I don’t advertise for these films for that reason. Each (adult) Christian must answer this for themselves. I’ve been at this quite some time, and am not at risk of being conditioned/propagandized by the feminist/PC/modernist elements that assuredly exist in these movies. Others however might well be at risk, as the films function, intentionally or otherwise, to normalize many things either non-Christian, or perhaps even anti-Christian.
These are essentially pagan characters who, as you note, derive from mythological and/or fantastic sources. The pantheons of the Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and such were solar/stellar, which Scripturally is ‘worshipping the host of heaven’, Lucifer’s game from the jump. A recent spinoff I viewed, concerning one Wolverine, unusually had overt, if muted, Christian aspects to both character and plot. Not the norm tho for Marvel pics.
An added aspect of danger is the likelihood that the coming global (beast system) government almost certainly will consist of technologically altered persons, probly combining human, AI, robotic, and demonic elements. To the ‘old human’, these individuals will appear superhuman, both in intelligence and in physical capabilities. One could certainly argue that the comic-book phenom of my youth, and the superhero/superchick films of recent vintage, are incremental demonic introductions and preparations for what’s ahead. Norming of both the ‘UFO’ demons, and the Enhanced Human creatures of the near-future. Making it exciting entertainment ensures it sticks, deep.
@ greenmantlehoyos says:
March 6, 2019 at 3:28 pm
Please answer the question I already asked twice, and am now asking for a third time. Do you think it’s a coincidence? Yes, or no, please.
No, it was an observation that I see something you don’t see. Now, answer the question, please.
@ cshort
And, you’re wrong. Pointing out common, obvious SJW tropes in a TV show does not equal offense. Assuming offense where there is none, however, is kind of weird.
Oscar,
The difference over those scenes seems small, but it’s not. I have had so many similar arguments with Republicans and churchgoers. When it’s political, they end up saying it’s all good, we’ll keep going. I disagree but I never am able to change their minds. Even after it’s all destroyed, I don’t think they’ll ever see the unnecessary compromise and attacks Hollywood makes on a scene by scene basis. But why are you infecting your mind with that trash?
By trash, I mean TV, not the commenters here.
Other non-superhero movies are so tight with Christianity after all….
Give it a break. Modern culture is corrupt. You can be a strong Christian and still read old superhero comics. The movies suck more and more because of the worldview of the producers, not the content.
Modern culture is corrupt. Name one thing that is good an accurate and you might have a point.
Even The Passion of the Christ added some RCC mythology and was not quite violent enough, while leaving out a key part – the Resurrection. (Not completely unreasonable, but it is an incomplete story without that. You need the “why” for the suffering.)
https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/kodaiji-temple-kyoto-japan-debuts-buddhist-robot-named-mindar-modelled-after-kannon-buddhist-goddess-of-mercy/
cshort,
“On the point of Christians, name for me one Christian who is not hypocritical. ”
This is bullshit. cshort is a walking manure spreader.
I know lots of Christians that are not hypocrites. Is Dalrock a hypocrite?
Planning a franchise around Brie Larson is a disaster in the making.
Chris Pratt, Robert Downey, Jr, Hemsworth, even Chris Evans have natural charisma. Gal Gadot lacks charisma, but has a metric ton of smoldering, smoky, sexiness. Paul Rudd is goofy, guy next door.
Larson has blonde hair. Her smile is flat. She has no charm.
Now, Anna Farris? You could build a franchise on her disarming smile.
I was complaining up above about the BBC devoting all of Friday to female composers. I am so far thinking better of printing and posting my letter of mockery which sits in my hard-drive to the (fat) Controller of the channel. Today to continue the theme they have broadcast their usual Saturday afternoon one hour slot entitled Sounds of The Cinema, for this weeks theme is female super-heroines. I cannot but notice that of the twelve composers featured all but one (who wrote the score for Cpt Marvel) are male. Yes even when it comes to female super-heroines it is men who are called on to write the music. ROFL