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Why Must American fiction and Hollywood Always Descend Into Violence and War?

posted 5 years ago by [deleted]
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Doctor Strange really seemed to be going somewhere at first. Despite its coked up, attention deficit disorder, in your face pace where you can tell the director has no sense of subtlety or timing, it still ended up descending into violence and war. Violence and war, violence and war. I know it is what should be to be expected from comic books but it is BORING ALREADY! Hollywood and popculture is OBSESSED WITH IT! It is endless. Just about every other movie these days is about the same BS. It's no wonder you're all out of your minds. Violence and war, violence and war, boring as heck. It is no surprise there are so many school shootings. The thing that is completely whacked about all this is parents think because it is based on comic books, you know cartoons right, they think they should be taking their kids to this. You're all out of your minds. Anyone arguing with this, sorry, you're out of your mind, you're probably a nut.

[–] AP (5259) 5 years ago

Violence exists in movies from other countries as well.

[–] DarthRoger (867) 5 years ago

??????????????

So in your view, a good comic book movie is where Doctor Strange and Dormamu "talk out" their differences, share a campfire song and then Dormamu consumes the world, along with humanity.

Yeah... that'll put people in the theater seats.

[–] TriumphReq (1857) 3 years ago

People aren't as stupid as you think they are. Imagine a movie where Dr. Strange uses his intelligence to change things instead of horrific violence having always to do about it.

I agree with the op. The movie totally falls apart when the whole thing about "battle for the universe" cliche comes into play. It's ad nauseum.

I wonder if we'll see another installment of Dr.Strange because the concept is totally cool but the "infinite war" really makes these comic book movies ho hum.

Guess all the nitwits never heard of something called STORY.

[–] millsey72 (9636) 3 years ago

Yes, I would like to see a movie like that. This way I can enjoy it and not call out any plot holes

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16300) 4 years ago

"...Anyone arguing with this, sorry, you're out of your mind, you're probably a nut."

Guilty as charged.

[–] Otter (24464) 3 years ago

The thing is, if Strange used his powers to build housing for the homeless or to tackle some other specific New York problem... would that make an entertaining 2 hour film?

As it was, about 2/3 of the movie was spent on Strange's spiritual/emotional evolution, which is more of a try at depth than I'd expect from a comic-book movie.

[–] TriumphReq (1857) 3 years ago

The whole "discovers this mystery school in Nepal" thing is probably lost on you isn't it? Head back your video games.

[–] Moonglum9 (10746) 3 years ago

Lucky you deleted your screen name, or I'd hunt you down and punch your fat face! Then I'd see what I could do about getting our military to nuke your craphole country from the surface of the planet. I'm a Freemason, so I've got some powerful connections. I even know a couple of aliens.