Spoilers - Marvel Endgame Discussion - Spoilers

[Faelco]

SpokenTruth said:

NightlyPoe said:

Yes.

Look.  I know you think you've got some sort of impenetrable argument because there are impossible things in the move, but that's just the suspension of disbelief.  We all walked into the theater expecting to see people shooting fireballs from their eyes and lightening bolts from their arse.  It's literally what we paid to see.

It doesn't mean any mundane thing automatically becomes artistically valid.  Imagine if right after Captain America picked up Mjolnir, he'd donned a red cap and said it was "Time to MAGA" before whoopin' Thanos's butt for a bit.  It'd be plausible, but it would also be inappropriate and would take the audience out of the movie.  People have laid out very valid reasons why the scene shouldn't be there.  Please deal with them on those term and stop pretending that it's all about the plausibility of getting 15 women in one shot.

Fine.  You got 3 hours and 55 seconds of suspension of disbelief and 5 seconds of Girl Power.  That's a ratio of 2,171:1.  Let it go.  Let the women have that 5 seconds of fictionalized, fantastic badassery or is that just too damn much to ask for?

That's the thing. This scene is not badass. Captain Marvel destroying a spaceship is badass. Pott blasting aliens is badass. Valkyrie riding her pegasus through an army is badass. 20 seconds of complete pause in the middle of a fight for a political photoshoot is the opposite of badass, it breaks the action's flow and show them just waiting around while the guys are doing the job.

If they did the same scene, with the same female characters, but all fighting to push back ennemies from Spiderman instead of just standing for the camera, it would be a lot more badass and beneficial to the battle's flow.

Why Hollywood doesn't understand that actions are more important than political messages? Don't waste time showing women taking pose like "Look, we have women!", show them in the battle killing ennemies and let their strength do the talking.

Last edited by Faelco - on 01 May 2019