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They're def gonna pull a Wachowski.
Ah, yeah, I was using the term overpowered loosely. OP's saying the hypnotism is <i>too</i> strong in of itself.
But your example is actually better than what I did. If all a person sees is Logan, and doesn't compare him to these other characters, he's gonna seem absurd.
The hypnotism power only seems absurd if you don't compare it to like what Danny has demonstrated himself to be capable of.
You're implying that the people arguing in this thread are all hollywood elites then? cause everyone on this message board seems to be obsessed with politics.
Not really here to discuss whether or not Logan is overpowered or not.
I was using Logan as example of my ignorance, because I was annoyed how he took a bullet to the head, and then came back to life a few minutes later. My friends were like, dude, he can recover from being a half skeleton in an explosion within seconds in the comics.
I only brought this up because OP is acting like this hypnotist is overpowered when Danny is totally ridiculous in comparison.
lol it's just a troll topic written by a child. Nothing more than that.
It's one of the best MCU films. The poor cgi issue only comes up in the final fight scene between the two. Narratively and thematically, it's one of the most complex. I'd say it's worth a viewing.
lol yeah.
Why OP so sensitive?
<blockquote>There used to be a time when you watched a movie and simply enjoyed it, as is, for the fun of it. There was not some deep message about life to be learned, just some cool stuff happened to fictional people, over a two hour ride we went along with.</blockquote>
Nothing's changed.
There were ppl who liked to analyze and discuss movies back then. And there are ppl who liked to analyze and discuss movies now. There's no need for you to join in. There's no need for you to be here. I don't really understand your issue is. You're referencing a time that doesn't really exist.
There's always been people that cared more than you. You probably just know about them more now because of how easy it is to share ideas with everyone else via the internet.
I went to US schools.
Algebra 1 is a standard 9th grade course. You had a good school. Be thankful.
...that's actually probably how some of these things start actually. It never occurred to me.
Oh wow, I've never even heard that idea before. Someone else mentioned it up there. Damn, I feel dumb now.
Technically they could, like how they cast someone with cerebral palsy to play the role of Walt Jr. in Breaking Bad. Just a less severe form.
hahaha well then. I suppose we shall have to disagree here then.
I honestly feel like they brought Hans back just so that they wouldn't have to provide justice, having converted his killer to a protagonist lol.
Not only that, it respected the prequel in the process while also resolving Danny's story, as he is expectedly broken down from the events of the first movie, and a childhood under the fist of an alcoholic, abusive father.
<blockquote>The story should have involved Danny taking on the spirits who controlled the Hotel and destroyed his father and almost killed him and his mother.</blockquote>
That'd be stupid as hell. Danny demonstrates in the opening pages that he is far stronger than the Overlook.
<blockquote>Even the characters were questioning how they survive.</blockquote>
This is why it's entertaining for all the right reasons. It's selfaware without reducing itself to parody or comedy. (though some ppl love that shit too)
Hell, the movie even made fun of itself because John Cena is clearly not related to Vin Diesel.
People love just having something to hate on.
I just saw Black Widow, and the final act where they're going in freefall is so absurd. The prison escape scene was absurd.
But if Tyrese was doing that instead of David Harbour or Scarlett, the same ppl who enjoyed Black Widow would probably complain. XD
Dude made a movie and told the story he wanted to tell. It's as faithful of an adaptation as The Bourne Identity. But everyone wants to suck Kubrick's dick and ignores this.
People are bashing you for this, and rightfully so I think, cause it sounds like you're just raising issues to troll.
But the funny thing is...you're actually more right than ppl realize. Abra's personality in this sense, is a slight sub plot point which comes up at the end of the book (which stems from a larger plot point earlier).
I think the movie makes her acting a bit more explicit, self-righteous as you say, but the movie doesn't acknowledge either of those plot points, so it just comes off as random flavor. But I wouldn't be surprised if this was intentional in the movie to show her like this.
The Kubrick film absolutely changed the book it was adapting in a number of significant ways, both narratively and thematically. It's not strange that Stephen King would dislike that film, but prefer this which successfully services as a sequel to the film while also offering tribute to the book. And as a fan of the books, I can say that that intention was successful.
Danny is so powerful, that as a young <i>child</i>, he was able to interact with a future iteration of himself who was trying to warn him about what would happen. to him.
His future self. He talked to his future self.
I remember when I watched the X-Men films as a kid, and I was like Logan seems overpowered, and my friends are like, the films have actually dialed down his abilities tremendously. (I wasn't familiar with the comics at the time.)
The hypnotism is not too powerful or far-fetched. But if it reassures you any, it's been a while, but I'm pretty sure that scene where she got him in her dying throes didn't happen in the book like that. That was just another case of the movie adding stakes and urgency.
Narratively, the character's presence is to introduce the reader/viewer to the tribe from a newbie's perspective.