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[Onhell]

I initially dismissed the Thor movies and I'm glad I was wrong. My favorite MC movies have to be Iron Man, Captain America (first avenger), Captain America Winter Soldier, Thor I, Thor Ragnarok, Thor II. The Avengers team up movies are their own thing for me and the first is by far my favorite followed by the last two. Since Endgame I only watch the Spider-man movies, couldn't care less about any other marvel property at this point.

 

[JudasMyGuide]

Since Endgame I only watch the Spider-man movies, couldn't care less about any other marvel property at this point.

I have watched the pre-Endgame films several times, went to see them in the theatre and so on. And I just can't really be bothered anymore. Endgame was a great pay-off, but I don't want to be forced to watch several TV shows to "get" films that are very obviously mediocre. I want to catch up with the new Daredevil series, because the original Netflix one was really excellent television and possibly the best comics-related work since 2012 at least, but that's about it (and Daredevil isn't considered part of the MCU as such, methinks).

Also, the biggest cancer in media today is the "marvelisation" of everything and I definitely don't want to return to the source for that. Retroactively, I don't even feel the need to return to the films I genuinely liked back then.

 

[Onhell]

I have watched the pre-Endgame films several times, went to see them in the theatre and so on. And I just can't really be bothered anymore. Endgame was a great pay-off, but I don't want to be forced to watch several TV shows to "get" films that are very obviously mediocre. I want to catch up with the new Daredevil series, because the original Netflix one was really excellent television and possibly the best comics-related work since 2012 at least, but that's about it (and Daredevil isn't considered part of the MCU as such, methinks).

Also, the biggest cancer in media today is the "marvelisation" of everything and I definitely don't want to return to the source for that. Retroactively, I don't even feel the need to return to the films I genuinely liked back then.

My thoughts exactly. The Daredevil hallway fight lives rent free in my head

 

[Onhell]

Watched "Adolescence" to see what the big fuss was about and because I love crime dramas. I have to say I wasn't impressed. It's a good show, but with the number of articles with clickbait headlines like "Teens are getting sucked into the manosphere! Here's what you need to know," or "After Watching Adolescence I had these 3 questions for my teen son," and blah, blah, blah.

1. If you had to watch a show to know what is going on with today's youth, you're a disconnected parent.
2. The idea that millenial parents/detectives don't know what emojis mean is laughable
3. HATED the ending:

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I normally don't mind unresolved endings that leave it up to the viewers interpretation, but in this case, given the subject matter it felt like a cop out. Pleading guilty ISN'T an admission of guilt. Many people, especially those with court ordered attorneys are left with little choice and plea guilty even if innocent, because if they plea not guilty and are found guilty the consequences are much greater. Many times prosecutors will say, "If you plea guilty you'll do five years, can get out in 3 with good behavior, BUT if you plea not guilty and we find you guilty you'll do 12 years, no possibility of early release." Well fuck.... I did it your honor.
They claim to have evidence ( cctv videos of him coming and going in the vecinity of the victim, a friend confessing to it being his knife, BUT they don't have the actual murder weapon) I would have LOVED to have seen the trial.

4. Everything the boy alledgedly did is not necessarily related to the "manosphere" and mostly to do with him being an awkward, hormone fulled teen boy with not a fully developed brain. There are far more shocking true crime stories of teen killers well before the proliferation of the red pill horseshit.

This is not to say the red pill movement is problematic and is absorbing younger and younger men, but the show does a piss poor job in saying it was exclusively or in great part the fault of the red pill movement and not just overreacting to (cyber)bullying.