Bingo!
You literally just cherry picked a couple of the few great villains in the comics and are tossing them out as counterpoints.
Are you thrilled that Vulture keeps coming back? The Owl? Is Magneto a good guy today or a bad guy? Maybe he forgot who he is? Or is he wearing a stupid metal helmet and calling himself Xorn?
The comics have a MASSIVE problem with nothing ever being permanent. Hell, they've even put a lampshade on it a few times in Spider-Man stories.
Unless you love the VAST majority of marvel villains, I suspect your contrarianism is more rooted in your rage over the MCU in general more than anything else.
Definitely agree. I didn't realize it was a male stunt double until the snarky poster (can't remember the name) mentioned it. Maybe it was obvious to some people, but I definitely didn't notice it.
Because I don't have to cherry pick the MCU apart. It's silly shitty treatment speaks for itself. And what's your excuse for all that Disney love you have? Are you such a child in that they can't do anything wrong in your eyes no matter how ridiculous or stupid?
There really is a shortage of stuntwomen. It's at the point where, back when I was still competing at a high level, I was at a training camp out in NM, and like, our gym got calls soliciting any experienced pro fighter to do stunt work for some feature length film. With no experience. Also, it wasn't even like we were going to be doing things related to fighting either, they wanted someone to ride on the back of a motorcycle, and then fall off as it skids out or something.
I really wished they gave Red Guardian at least one *moment* in the film. I get he's played for laughs, but he's a genuinely fun character who should have had at least one good moment so you could at least say he did *something*.
They have PLENTY of characters to draw from. I don't think they'll be running out any time soon.
I actually find it preferable for the MCU (and comic book movies in general) to have MOST of their villains permanently defeated within a single movie. I think long recurring villains only really work in a serialized format. It's just one of those things that works in comic and TV series, but not so much in a traditional movie format.
I happily criticize stuff Disney/Marvel produces that deserves the criticism. Weird for you to make a sweeping claim that I don't. Do you need a list from me as evidence or can we agree that you're just writing from behind your weird MCU rage?
Maybe just calm down and stop watching MCU stuff if you hate it so much. Why do that to yourself?
Genderswapping Taskmaster was not the issue. Taskmaster could have been fine as a woman. The issue was turning her into a mindless drone. So yeah, giving the Wolverine Origins Deadpool treatment to Taskmaster was a huge problem...but that has nothing to do with being "woke"
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I liked what they did with Taskmaster, but I like it less now that you point this out. She could've been WAAAY better with some actual dialog other than the one final line. I think silent while fighting may make for a cool effect by making Taskmaster feel more dangerous/frightening, but imagine if she came after Natasha in that first fight scene and made it verbally clear she was chock full of rage towards BW?
The problem is that she just came across like a watered-down Winter Soldier. Like, we've done the silent and unstoppable killing machine bit already. Taskmaster is like Deadpool and Spider-Man...constantly chattering away during a fight. Bragging, mocking, etc.
Rage wouldn't be the thing I would want from Taskmaster. I would want mocking contempt. Effortlessly blocking/avoiding everything Nat can throw at her while boasting about how much better she is than BW. Pulling out moves that we've seen from BP, Cap, Hawkeye, Spider-Man, etc. It's too bad we won't see Black Knight until the Eternals comes out...because mixing some of that kind of swordplay in with the shield moves she got from watching Cap would have been awesome. That's the Taskmaster I wanted to see.
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There's just better characters that fit with the concept they had for this movie. That's my issue. They promised Taskmaster and they delivered something else. It was just the wrong fir for this movie. Probably would have been better to save Taskmaster for the Hawkeye series....considering Clint is more of a weapons master than Natasha is. They could have had some cool duels.
But those are my issues. Doesn't mean other people can't have their own thoughts and feelings about it
What? You actually figured out that Taskmaster was female before the actual reveal of her identity?
Because till that point, the character looked like a man, moved like a man, fought like a man. It was obviously intended, in order to have a huge impact on BW when the revelation happened.
And don't tell me they hired Kurylenko for her actual acting skills, since we just got one scene with her face on screen. They definitely casted her because of her height (and status, they wouldn't hire a tall nobody), so that when the revelation happened, we could accept that "so, it was a woman after all, and a tall one at that".
I'm not advocating for the silly "trans" poster, but unless you already knew who was playing the role, you couldn't discern that the character on screen was a woman. Even a tall one.
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Wouldn't happen. The character was after the vials, not Natasha.
/spit@Blizzard