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The Dark Knight Rises, the Avengers, and Occupy

Posted in Braak, crotchety ranting, movies, Politics with tags , , , , , , on July 22, 2012 by braak

I am going to discuss The Dark Knight Rises at length, now, and I am of no mind to be careful about what I reveal — like I’ve said before, I don’t really “review” things, like, “Should I go and see this on Saturday?”  Yes, you should go see The Dark Knight Rises.  That is my review.  What follows here is a discussion of the movie, and to that effect you must understand that there will be Spoilers, and this entire opening paragraph before the jump is actually just an extended Spoiler Warning, and I don’t want to hear any of you punk suckers crying to me if I reveal that Hulk punches Thor or something, all right?

Spoilers.

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NEW RULE, NERDS:

Posted in Braak, crotchety ranting, poetics with tags , , , , , on May 9, 2012 by braak

HERE IS THE RULE:

You cannot justify the existence of a thing in a story by arguing that it is a necessary consequence of other elements in that same story.

Why not?

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Dramaturgery: The Avengers

Posted in Braak, comic books, reviews, Threat Quality with tags , , , on May 5, 2012 by braak

In my last post, I suggested that I had a number of questions and problems with The Avengers, despite generally having a pretty good time while watching it.  I don’t know if other people, ordinary humans with their inferior movie-watching abilities, are capable of both simultaneously enjoying something and engaging with it critically, but I am.

ANYWAY, when I declared that it was possible to make basically the same movie but also fix all of the problems that I had, Moff (author of Moff’s Law) admitted that he almost believed me.

Almost.  Believed.  ALMOST.

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Chris versus the Movies: The Avengers

Posted in Braak, comic books, reviews with tags , , , , on May 4, 2012 by braak

Look, I’m not trying to give anybody a hard time here.  The  Avengers was a fun movie, and I was committed to liking it.  Hulk smashed, Thor knocked some stuff around with his hammer, Captain America threw his shield at guys.  You know, the stuff that happens in The Avengers.  Every moment of the movie was an exciting and dramatic moment — people were falling out of things or into pits or whatever, getting zapped by stuff, things were going wrong.  There were a lot of jokes, which were great.  All in all, A+ time, would watch again.

But.

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