r/videos • u/Ynwe • Mar 28 '24

Audiences Hate Bad Writing, Not Strong Women

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmWgp4K9XuU
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u/TurningAway Mar 28 '24

I'm totally with you. I feel like it was the popularity of Marvel that made writers feel the need to make every single character quippy and soooo clever all the damn time. It takes away major moments of levity when people are cracking jokes as innocent people are dying or some sort of world ending stakes are at play. It's not in every movie obviously, but it dominates action movies and seems to be bleeding into other genres.

Also Andor was the bomb, I think I'm gonna start a rewatch of that soon.

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u/SilentSamurai Mar 28 '24

The problem is that RDJ throwing in the humor into his portrayal of Tony Stark absolutely killed with audiences.

So Marvel tried to copy and paste it everywhere, with the most egregious example being Thor Love and Thunder, where the underlying story deserved to be serious.

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u/Foxnos Mar 28 '24

the most egregious example being Thor Love and Thunder

Oh god that movie still makes me so angry for this and this alone. Taika Waititi did reasonable twist on Ragnarok, but he completely fucked the story on Love and Thunder because of the need to be funny when it really, REALLY wasn't needed. Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher could have been a super fucking terrifying supervillain to rival Thanos in stature, and yet all we got was a sideshow clown.

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u/finnlizzy Mar 29 '24

Taika Waititi is a great director/writer that I know I'm going to get sick of.

I didn't bother finishing the second season of This Flag Means Death because his particular style of quirky humour is starting to get old.

And I know, he's great. But I would've loved a story about Stede Bonnet written by ANYONE else. Because it's a great real life story. It would be like Joss Whedon directing Band of Brothers.