I just started at Sam's Club to help with the upcoming college expenses, and I can confirm some of what the detractors are saying. Sam's Club is a subsidiary (or something) of Wal-Mart, and it has similar garbage that doesn't make a fan of any employees: the droning CBLs and instruction videos that make you want to put your head through the screen in order to feel something again; the insulting hours; the passive aggressive management; the big brother cameras. I didn't get into the upper tier of horror stories some others have been dropping, but I do know that they practically beg customers to shop lift. It's quite ridiculous.
People where it's a question of livable wages don't always have the choice. That bootstraps stuff is so four decades ago.
Let me take a crack at this. (Labeled left to right; top down)
Voldemort
Bellatrix, Narcissa, Lucius
Malfoy, Nagini
Regulus, Kreacher
Charlie, Arthur, Molly
Bill, Fleur
Percy, Ginny
Fred, George
Nymphadora, McGonagall, Sprout (?)
Hagrid, Dobby
Ollivander (?), Neville, Luna
Snape
Lupin, Sirius
Lily, James
Hermione, Ron
Harry
Dumbledore
I was only unsure about two of them. If I could get either a correction or a cosign, that would be excellent.
Voldemort
Bellatrix, Narcissa, Lucius
Malfoy, Nagini
Regulus, Kreacher
Charlie, Arthur, Molly
Bill, Fleur
Percy, Ginny
Fred, George
Nymphadora, McGonagall, Sprout (?)
Hagrid, Dobby
Ollivander (?), Neville, Luna
Snape
Lupin, Sirius
Lily, James
Hermione, Ron
Harry
Dumbledore
I was only unsure about two of them. If I could get either a correction or a cosign, that would be excellent.
Actually, the word avatar is much closer in meaning to a spiritual being living on earth in a mortal(like) body. So The Last Airbender wins.
First definition: [dictionary.reference.com]
First definition: [dictionary.reference.com]
Aang actually learned fire last because he didn't trust himself to bend the element.
Spoilers: in Book One, he burns Katara because he was being careless while fire bending, and vowed to never firebend again. So he learned water bending and earth bending before he couldn't put off learning firebending any longer.
Spoilers: in Book One, he burns Katara because he was being careless while fire bending, and vowed to never firebend again. So he learned water bending and earth bending before he couldn't put off learning firebending any longer.
You may not like the guy, but you cannot deny he runs that franchise pretty well. He has major say in the makeup and personnel of not only the players, but of the coaches and managers within the Mavericks organization.
Plus he's passionate, close with the players, at all the games and all that good stuff. Fans love it.
Plus he's passionate, close with the players, at all the games and all that good stuff. Fans love it.
I figured I would throw my hat into this "what I thought about the movie" pile. I just came back from seeing it and thought it was a solid movie--definitely worth the price of admission--but I had a couple problems with how First Class all-together went down. Fair warning, spoilers ahead.
I can't stress this enough, do not read any further if you don't want any plot divulged, characterization explained, or any reference to the movie in question of any type or mold.
First of all, I disliked how they dealt with the Darwin character. I will admit, it stemmed from my aversion to storylines where the writers not only manage to kill the black guy early, but make his death the most worthless, pointless, and contrived one in the flick. At its core, his demise only stood to show that Kevin Bacon's bad guy meant fucking business, except we already knew that well before the scene occurred. It was just more villain hype.
But I thought on it some more; I understood that, without even possessing knowledge of his feats in the comics, his character in the movie is a gross representation of missed potential. His power: to adapt to any situation; on paper the most powerful defensive capability shown in First Class. And to show his ability, we get a couple scenes of him growing gills in a fish tank and letting the token dudebro of the film smash chairs against his hardened back, drunken frat style. That's it. And much lesser X-Men get to run around with their peashooter level abilities (the stripper butterfly was an uninspired character), living to angst another day.
A far greater crime, however, is that Darwin's mutation embodies the very conflict between "humans" and Magneto's own "homo superior"s. In a movie of genetic-this and mutation-that--with the theme of survival and acceptance and evolution permeating nearly every bit of dialogue--the guy with the name Darwin gets offed.
Also, there was no story reason for Xavier to not be in a wheelchair. In all of his scenes, he barely moves. He just makes "oh my god, I'm concentrating so fucking hard, I heard a mouse whisper!" faces the entire time. Throw him in a wheelchair, characterize him as a badass despite his disabilities, and keep it moving. The potential scenes with him plus Mags or Mystique that will never be make my inner fanboy weep. At the very least I could have been spared all the grimacing I'll do anytime I rewatch his paralyzing scene.
Emma Frost honestly did not need to be in the movie. And funnily enough, the movie itself realized this about halfway through. She was mostly just there to keep Xavier from one-shotting Kevin Bacon before he got his tinfoil hat. She was confined both literally and figuratively in the movie from then on. Angel replacing her as Shaw's main joint (read: beautiful female who rides the main villain's coattails and listens to his megalomaniac-esque monologues) is high comedy, though.
I kept wondering why Xavier didn't just mindrape Azazel in the Cuban Missile Crisis battle scene. I suppose that would have made too much sense.
I grow tired of the "high ranking government and military officials being completely inept" cliche. The two most powerful countries on the planet get manipulated way too easily. Especially since the US government had at least some research program dealing in genetic mutants among us. And in the scene were Xavier basically just shows them how inept they are, they prove it hilariously with some "spyspyspy, there's no other way he knew that!" garbage, and of course throw in some jabs about Moira's competency. I was just groaning the entire time.
At least the most important part of the movie was aces. Mags and X's relationship, though beginning awkwardly, really hit its stride around the train-the-kids act. The focus bit was appropriately sappy and psychological. And their tag team to take down Shaw was believable in the context of the story.
And when it's all said and done, the movie was going to either succeed of fail based on that duo's interaction, so all my other gripes are excusable in the grand schemes of things. They don't stop the movie from being solid.
I can't stress this enough, do not read any further if you don't want any plot divulged, characterization explained, or any reference to the movie in question of any type or mold.
First of all, I disliked how they dealt with the Darwin character. I will admit, it stemmed from my aversion to storylines where the writers not only manage to kill the black guy early, but make his death the most worthless, pointless, and contrived one in the flick. At its core, his demise only stood to show that Kevin Bacon's bad guy meant fucking business, except we already knew that well before the scene occurred. It was just more villain hype.
But I thought on it some more; I understood that, without even possessing knowledge of his feats in the comics, his character in the movie is a gross representation of missed potential. His power: to adapt to any situation; on paper the most powerful defensive capability shown in First Class. And to show his ability, we get a couple scenes of him growing gills in a fish tank and letting the token dudebro of the film smash chairs against his hardened back, drunken frat style. That's it. And much lesser X-Men get to run around with their peashooter level abilities (the stripper butterfly was an uninspired character), living to angst another day.
A far greater crime, however, is that Darwin's mutation embodies the very conflict between "humans" and Magneto's own "homo superior"s. In a movie of genetic-this and mutation-that--with the theme of survival and acceptance and evolution permeating nearly every bit of dialogue--the guy with the name Darwin gets offed.
Also, there was no story reason for Xavier to not be in a wheelchair. In all of his scenes, he barely moves. He just makes "oh my god, I'm concentrating so fucking hard, I heard a mouse whisper!" faces the entire time. Throw him in a wheelchair, characterize him as a badass despite his disabilities, and keep it moving. The potential scenes with him plus Mags or Mystique that will never be make my inner fanboy weep. At the very least I could have been spared all the grimacing I'll do anytime I rewatch his paralyzing scene.
Emma Frost honestly did not need to be in the movie. And funnily enough, the movie itself realized this about halfway through. She was mostly just there to keep Xavier from one-shotting Kevin Bacon before he got his tinfoil hat. She was confined both literally and figuratively in the movie from then on. Angel replacing her as Shaw's main joint (read: beautiful female who rides the main villain's coattails and listens to his megalomaniac-esque monologues) is high comedy, though.
I kept wondering why Xavier didn't just mindrape Azazel in the Cuban Missile Crisis battle scene. I suppose that would have made too much sense.
I grow tired of the "high ranking government and military officials being completely inept" cliche. The two most powerful countries on the planet get manipulated way too easily. Especially since the US government had at least some research program dealing in genetic mutants among us. And in the scene were Xavier basically just shows them how inept they are, they prove it hilariously with some "spyspyspy, there's no other way he knew that!" garbage, and of course throw in some jabs about Moira's competency. I was just groaning the entire time.
At least the most important part of the movie was aces. Mags and X's relationship, though beginning awkwardly, really hit its stride around the train-the-kids act. The focus bit was appropriately sappy and psychological. And their tag team to take down Shaw was believable in the context of the story.
And when it's all said and done, the movie was going to either succeed of fail based on that duo's interaction, so all my other gripes are excusable in the grand schemes of things. They don't stop the movie from being solid.
No, we're slaves to social constructs and our own human obsessions. Which happens to be a lot more variable than Darwinistic nature.
...who the Hell was Q? I'm assuming you meant K.
The few lead because the many like to be told what to do. They don't want to be burdened with any problems other than their own.
This is definitely not an exclusively tech problem. People will be biased based on arbitrary things, regardless of technological parity.
I looked it up after I saw the movie and yes, Loki is a Frost Giant.
I'm just nitpicking, and the overall point you're trying to make doesn't change, but it was more than twenty four hours. Two night scenes passed between Thor waking up in the hospital and the kiss before he departed to beat his brother's ass.
Also, it's not so far-fetched to believe her love, considering they went through an entire adventure together, he saved her life, she melted his arrogant disposition with her quirkiness, he provided the quintessential breakthrough in her research, and he's pretty much a God. Anybody else she could possibly meet is a clear step down from a handsome, blue eyed, Hammer of Thunder toting badass.
Also, Loki's motivation was quite clear: he wanted to be seen as an equal to Thor, and win Odin's favor by destroying Asgard's longtime foes, the Frost Giants. Simple stuff...Loki literally says it himself.
Also, it's not so far-fetched to believe her love, considering they went through an entire adventure together, he saved her life, she melted his arrogant disposition with her quirkiness, he provided the quintessential breakthrough in her research, and he's pretty much a God. Anybody else she could possibly meet is a clear step down from a handsome, blue eyed, Hammer of Thunder toting badass.
Also, Loki's motivation was quite clear: he wanted to be seen as an equal to Thor, and win Odin's favor by destroying Asgard's longtime foes, the Frost Giants. Simple stuff...Loki literally says it himself.
Out of that list, Cowboys & Aliens jumped out at me the most. I don't know if that is for or against the purpose of this poll, but I picked it.
Just because Superman is a finctional character does not invalidate his very real influence on culture as an icon.
And then she'll write about unicorns.
No need to be hurtful about it. I quite enjoy my "lizard brain" and the accompany low brow tastes, both of which you skewer with your mighty lance of condescension.
True enough, I know that now. I don't know why I was fishing for opinions prematurely, I was going to see this flick regardless.
@DasStan: I heeded the spoiler tag and skipped the rest of the article. Didn't matter; saw a random careless comment.
Yeah, it was a surprise for me. I skipped the rest of the article as soon as I saw "spoilers ahead", only to have the ending spoiled in three words from a random comment. That'll teach me to read the comments section of a movie review. Jeez.
