Stanley Kubrick: The film ends with Kylo Ren trying to break down a door with his lightsaber to get to Rey, culminating in a chase scene through the snowy woods where he freezes to death. And just when we think Starkiller has been destroyed, a giant BB-8 floats in-frame over the Resistance's planet, ending with an epic Mind Screw.
edited 16th Jan '16 2:21:17 PM by HisInfernalMajesty
"A king has no friends. Only subjects and enemies."Guy Ritchie/Mathew Vaughan Star Wars:
The movie is entirely about Han and Chewie trying to escape those two gangs of mobsters.
The movie ends shortly after Rey and Finn fortuitously release that creature that Han is carrying, which eats the members of the gangs.
Alica Vikander plays Rey.
That actually sounds like a pretty cool film.
From what little I've seen of his work, Joss seems to believe that to make a female character "strong" all they need is be snarky and standoffish and able to beat people up, with the occasional brief emotional moment that they tend to work through by being snarky, standoffish or by beating people up. I don't know about misogynistic (since his male characters are sometimes like that as well, though not as much), but imo it does limit their range and make them rather flat.
edited 16th Jan '16 5:15:16 PM by KnownUnknown
Yeah, Whedon's idea of a Strong Female Character is more that they can beat people up/fire guns while snarking in Buffy Speak, not being particularly well-written.
edited 16th Jan '16 5:19:58 PM by higherbrainpattern
rey: *takes off her shoes very slowly before snapping some guys neck with her thighs or whatever*
poe, looking straight into the fucking camera: wow thats hot AND it proves that women can fight
...Does he actually write like this?
He really doesn't. Joss Whedon is a great writer; some people just have a hate-on for him for some reason.
pushovermediacritic aka the poster right above you.
i was mostly saying it because i remembered an argument in the marvel thread about Ao U and how divisive it was.
my only real experience with whedon's writing is the first Avengers film, which I didn't care for.
edited 16th Jan '16 5:31:11 PM by wehrmacht

Kevin Smith: The movie is all terrible jokes that they take fifteen minutes to explain and Finn's excuse for everything is 'Sorry, first day on the job."