Just finished up the show, Colin Farrell was spectacular as an actor, but the wahmaning, victim writing, and poor story structure sucked the life out of the otherwise genuinely good parts. I don’t know if it was the female showrunner or writers or what, but you could have entirely removed the female “rival (but secret actual main character)” from the entire series and the show would have drastically improved. They had gold with a Colin Farrell playing Tony soprano trying to scumbag his way to the top and nearly half the series episodes instead revolve around a girl boss “finding herself” after being a victim. It’s so fucking tiresome anymore that something can be a solid 7-8 tv show if you just completely remove half of it because it’s female victim porn.
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (31)
sorted by:
The Batman has put me to sleep both times I have watched it, so I'm hesitant to give it a try. All the media played up the performance of the "mother" and Penguin's driver and that adds to my hesitation.
Haven’t watched the movie, didn’t bother after I saw the race swapping. The driver was essentially a plot device who bounces in and out of even having a story because the writers couldn’t be bothered to try character development on anyone but girl boss. The mom was an ok actress whose character suffered from rushed episode pacing forced by… the main focus being on girl boss.
The girl boss thing is so forced in modern movie it's laughable. I see men defend 90 pound girl bosses beating up 240 lbs. Behemoths, but question a smaller guy fighting dudes. We live in a simp culture
In college I had a neckbeard try claiming that men and women have the same combat capabilities and that an all female platoon would be able to fight equally against and all male one. They truly exist in a perpetual state of delusion reinforced by media propaganda.
They can't even hold their own in sports, including professional tennis which has no physical contact between players. The 203rd ranked male player beat the Williams sisters back to back and they'd both been training their entire lives.
I'm guessing that guy was never in a platoon if he believes that. If they could why do they have a lower fitness threshold?
Even if that platoon was the 1st Drone Strike platoon, where all the platoon does is sit at computers pressing buttons to initiate or not initiate drone strikes, well... The top Starcraft esports players are even all bio-male. I can see wanting to m'lady the women, I can see grasping for a theoretical singular edge case where probabilities align to allow an outlier... But on-average, platoon vs platoon combat? That's peak delulu.
Its very slow and brooding, kinda like Batman, until the last chunk where it ramps up to overdrive until the end.
Its way too long, seemingly to try and dodge doing an origin story for Batman but still "setting him up."