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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
"The composer has been getting squeezed over the last few decades. I guess sometimes maybe it works. A lot of times, and especially in the cases of the films they were pointing to in this You Tube thing, it started sounding like musical wallpaper," says Mothersbaugh. "I think that's what people were reacting to. It didn't sound like the music was written for that scene in particular. It sounded like somebody was just spraying the wall with some color. It was the right color for a specific moment but had no nuances to it."
Makes me wonder if live action films get storyboarded the way animation does. Would help a lot toward helping composers with timing and moodsetting even if the actual scene isn't finished until much later.
I'm kind of stunned that Ward's character took such a sharp 180 - prior to episode 6 he was just a one-dimensional dick (the flashback with him bullying Danny was laughable), but the way his character just unravels from the drug use and makes him a lot more emotionally vulnerable, as well as him getting fed up with his dad and wanting to live his own life was exactly what he needed to become interesting. I actually sort of care about him now and find that he's basically my main reason to keep watching now that Harold is gone.
Another aborted gag from my Iron Fist liveblog was that I was going to keep doing a "Hail Hydra" when Ward showed up and making comments deliberately mistaking him for Grant Ward from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Ward wound up being so hilariously, pointlessly, needlessly evil in the first couple episodes, however, that this wound up being replaced by various cracks about him being an avatar of pure evil fueled by human suffering.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I didn't find him to be evil, just a bland, one-dimensional corporate asshole. That might not have been as bad if not for the fact almost every other character was also bland, if not a corporate asshole. I'm not sure there was much benefit to delaying his arc that long either, or at least if they were gonna do that they should have given him something more substantial sooner.
I actually think that his was deliberate....the show does this switch and bait thing with ALL the characters, but especially with Joy and Ward...they start out introducing her as the caring one and him as the typical corporate villain. But the deeper they dig in the characters the more it becomes clear that Joy is actually the one with a ruthless streak while Ward isn't really cut out for this and just tries to please his controlling and abusive father.
Anyway, editing. I am glad that I am not the only one who noticed that there is something off with the editing lately. I mean there is naturally the mess which was Batman vs Superman, especially the theatrical release (who the hell thought that establishing shots can just be removed to save running time?) which was then topped by Suicide Squad (someone, I think it was folding ideas, even made a vid just about the editing problems in this movie), but even Marvel seems to struggle with it. ´Civil War is a great movie, but I think it would have been even better if some of the scenes had been better edited and in Iron Fist the editing might be the biggest issue with the show, because it destroys the great camera work someone did on the show.
People can say that "well Joy being isolated by the men in her lives was the point, it was her story." Yeah, that doesn't make it GOOD!! I'm sorry but "we're going to waste the entire first season, basically making her irrelevant" is NOT a good story. It doesn't matter what they do with her now, it doesn't how crap her Season 1 story was. Season 1 Joy, is not at all interesting and feels superfluous to the show. It was a terrible storyline.
Again this notion that "well it's automatically good, because they chose to do it that way" is not true.
Exactly! I also wouldn't compare it with Ant-man at all...in the case of Ant-man it is obvious that Hope was originally an afterthought at best and that after the director changed, some course correction was made, but it was too late to make her actually relevant to the plot aside from expanding on the father/daughter theme. Joy is relevant to the plot. She is the one who ensures that Danny's identity is proven and she is also the one who gathers the information to take down the hand. And she has a proper arc, one which isn't reliant on her developing an understanding for the men in her life, but one of self-discovery.
And yes, it is also the story about a woman being robbed off her agency by the males in her live but that is exactly what I like so much about it. We need stories like this. We need to explore how toxic this kind of dynamic is. And I sure as hell hope that Joy will be back with a vengeance and reclaim her agency, though I would really prefer it if she didn't do it in a villainous way.
Well I can't speculate on whether the Royal Family will appear again, recast or not, but I wouldn't be totally surprised if Kamala and some of the other Nu!Inhumans appeared in an MCU show or movie down the line. I think movie is most likely and would be my hope, in which case the only previous Inhumans character that would appear/be recast is Lockjaw.
Don't worry. She and the true hero Davos are only going to rid the world of the treacherous and selfish Danny Rand. I don't see any villainy in that.
One Strip! One Strip!The thing for me is that so far Joy hasn't had that big an impact on the plot. She let Danny back into the company, and that was one thing, but otherwise her character is mostly asking the male characters to let her be a part of the plot and being repeatedly denied, instead mostly just serving as an object for those male characters to worry about. Her guilt over the actions she has to take as a corporate leader contrasted with the ruthlessness she shows occasionally is ok I guess, but it's not that compelling.
I'm not gonna give a full assessment since I haven't finished the show yet but it's easy to see where people are coming from with their complaints, like basically everything else I heard about the show.

<Winces as he remembers the massive amount of vitriol he spewed towards both Fairy Tail and Naruto>
That's rough man. ...um...I liked the fight with those axe dudes in Iron Fist, cause I think they are supposed to be the same gang from The Legend of Drunken Master and Kung Fu Hustle, and those guys are always awesome for some reason.
Joy even got to punch on in the face herself.
There. Something good about Iron Fist. Oh, I got another one: Danny's sheer joy at the idea of all of them teaming up, because whatever we feel about them, you gotta admit he's got a point that all of them stumbling onto the same case is way too coincidental.
One Strip! One Strip!