Its always weird when liberals latch on to corporate titans like him and steve jobs while drinking their starbucks at target, failing to realize theyre as bad as the walmarts of the world. But I’ve never seen someone fall from mainstream grace quite like this

Diminishing Returns, the movie.

Hey, it’s a comics tradition to ignore and/or retcon things that happened in earlier stories.

I think because at this point he seems to be more focussed on making films (or trying to at least.)

Mostly I was making a dig at the way he ignored plot points from Iron Man 3 there.

I didn’t say they were good attempts, and I think it was more obvious in his early works.

At this point I’m pretty not interested if it isn’t the actual cast. Those are the people I like. Just reading books or comic books or whatever doesn’t scratch all of the itch.

He’s right, they are ads, the natural descendants of those “James Bond Will Return in...” titles at the end of those movies. (Or, you know, the one announcing Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League, damnit.)

I also lean toward Mangold’s point of view on this. It’s just a dumb marketing gimmick. If you want to make an extra joke, like in Ferris Bueller, that’s fine, but these superhero bits are just ads.

What about bloopers that play during the credits? Can we have those back instead?

GotGv2 used mid-credit stingers well, to provide some closure to the story threads that might otherwise have been abandoned in a typical Hollywood ending. The Ravagers were important enough to be part of Yondu’s arc; what happens to them? The Sovereign were a relentless villain no matter how many times our heroes…

I don’t know, I kind of agree with him. I feel like a lot of modern blockbusters don’t respect the audience’s time, and the post-credits bit is probably the epitome of that trend. These movies are already pushing up on runtimes that people only used to tolerate for Goodfellas-caliber material, and then they want you…

You don’t need to see the other two to follow the (nonsensical) plot, but they are a must if you want to feel underwhelmed.

Okay, I’ll bite. Thor 2 had a stinger ending that 100% should have been in the movie proper: when Thor and Natalie Portman’s character kiss. Like the movie still on the whole was pretty meh and the whole idea of a final kiss is a bit rote, but without it the ending didn’t feel complete, and a movie without a complete…

Okay, they don’t. But someone else does. Just because one person is okay with being treated a certain way doesn’t give them the right to treat everyone else that way if they don’t want to be treated in that fashion. I mean that isn’t the explicit terms of the golden rule, but I really don’t think anyone would say that…

Yeah, there are always the “you can make fun of me for being white, I don’t care!!” people.  Because they don’t seem to realize that a few jokes here and there is a lot different from the dozens of racist jokes black people would hear on a daily basis if it was all socially acceptable.

More and more I feel like there’s been a growing number of people who’ve come to interpret ‘do unto others as you’d have done to you’ to mean ‘Anything you do will be repaid in kind, so when you knock that motherfucker down, you make sure he stays down before he can return the favor’.

Yeah, but how often does that claim really hold up to scrutiny? I get the very strong impression that those complaints, if we were to view the jokes people were actually complaining about, boil down to “this college got all pissy about my misogynist/racist/homophobic joke, and that usually KILLS in the clubs I play. …

Your examples are all totally different things? Intra-feminist critiques of feminist writers/thinkers, people who defend a controversial activist, and a college where students protested and called on a professor to be fired.

I think it’s inevitable in movements that the previous generation and the next generation will disagree about where the issues and lines are, because the frame of reference has shifted so much over the years. I don’t completely agree with Atwood and Greer but I understand where they’re coming from, I guess