>the guy who made die hard and predator criticized movies like captain america, saying “Captain America, I’m not joking… The cult of American hyper-masculinity is one of the worst things to have happened to the world during the last 50 years. Hundreds of thousands of people have died because of this idiotic delusion. So how is it possible to watch a film called Captain America?!”
can we have a cap thread? I'm specifically looking for that page where cap tells off an 'america fuck yeah' impostor cap by saying that america is weak and needs to be protected.
Funny, given that Cap is one of the most progressive, less toxic visions of American ideals ever created.
Xavier Reyes
also funny considering die hard and predator are some of the most hyper-masculine movies ever made.
Camden Bennett
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John Scott
much appreciated, user
Juan Hill
Here's another one I enjoy, though it's a tad conspiratorial.
Nathaniel Thompson
What's actually happened is that McTiernan is just super-jealous he hasn't seen success since the 90's and superheroes are the hot form of action movie and he can't get in on it.
He also blasted Mad Max because George Miller's just as old as he is yet somehow not a washed up has-been.
Isaiah Wilson
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Michael Torres
>first movie emphasizes how Steve is not the traditional masculine hero. How he's a sensitive artist with a selfless streak. The turning point in the film is when he decides 'screw orders, I'm gonna do the right thing' >second movie revolves entirely around being critical of your government and questioning their true motives >third movie is about the right to fair trial, how callously egotistical the military is, and how politicians will throw literally anyone under a bus to gain more power
yeah okay
Hunter Reed
Predator was meant to be satire of action movies. No one seems to get that.
Die Hard was based on a book and was totally different in tone from other action movies before it.
Owen Johnson
This is a troll post.
Here's the real page, OP.
Jason Gutierrez
>Guy who made two movies with zero important/strong female characters is critcizing the Captain America movies for being hyper masculine, a trilogy covered in strong/independent female characters. Also OP, can we get a source on this?
>Corporate product Didn't Miller have to actively push every step of the way against the studio to get the film made and released?
As big budget blockbuster action films go, it seems to be as uncorporate as it can be.
Jackson Barnes
add to that it was a story about strong women with huge themes about tearing down the patriarchy.
Luke Ross
>>third movie is about the right to fair trial, how callously egotistical the military is, and how politicians will throw literally anyone under a bus to gain more power
In civil ware he is a FASCIST denying the right to any country but his own to sovereignty.
Civil war cap is one of the most irrational portrays of interventionism and american exceptionalism EVER.
This image actually shows Cap being not only EXTREMELY WRONG, but protecting the right of americans to be really dumb, ignorant and not feeling bad about it.
Michael Kelly
Fury road was pure corporate, they really destroyed Miller's intentions, it was 2 movies meshed togheter
Camden Lewis
beyond even that it was about showing how the sexes need to work together to make any progress. the female-only tribe was reduced o a few scavengers that had thrown away the last of their principles, and were just stuck in a different kind of hell compared to the male dominated society
Nathan Scott
>FASCIST Stop that.
Lucas Davis
>, they really destroyed Miller's intentions lol Next you're gonna tell me Miller wanted Mel Gibson .
Caleb Morales
you can't be a fascist if you're not demanding people to follow your orders.
Anthony Gutierrez
I can't believe he's actually watched the movies or has any familiarity with what he's talking about. There are characters like USAGent and Nuke who exist specifically to showcase what's wrong with the sort of jingoism that he's decrying here and to illustrate the difference between that sort of bellicosity and Steve Rogers as a character.
I'm not saying he's not correct in his moral impulse here; obviously America's foreign policy in the past 50 years has been - where military engagements are concerned - mostly monstrous. But as a character, Captain America has over and over again spoken against these specific excesses on the part of the US government and if anything exists as an example of what the US could be and perhaps should be; one whose primary trait is his altruism rather than aggression. And I feel that the movies have done a good job of demonstrating that distinction.
Angel Cooper
>if you're not demanding people to follow your orders.
Bjut he is, he was demanding that he could enter any country and kill anyone he thought deserved to die without asking for permission. He wanted to impose HIS will and criteria over everyone.
Gavin Smith
too bad they butchered Nuke in Jessica Jones
Nathan Watson
no he wasn't. his stance was 'if there's hydra in your country, I'm gonna come over and beat them up. if you don't like it, feel free to try and beat me up'
Isaiah King
Cap is hyper masculine? I've never really seem it that way.
Elijah Jones
that was baby Nuke. he'll be back as he should be when he gets revived as a cyborg in Defenders
Henry Brown
Just because Cap is wrong doesn't mean it's fascism. Vigilantism ≠ Fascism. There's more to it.
Leo James
Supposedly, Predator was a satire because it was macho but it culminated in a slaughterfest of the main heroes. Symbolically (again, supposedly) killing action movie machismo
Or maybe because the original script was based on a silly joke: "Hey, maybe to up the ante for Rocky V, he should fight an alien!"
I get it, but no. It was just an action/horror movie at a time when those things weren't common.
Ian Phillips
I certainly hope that's the case. He's too worthwhile a character, narratively, to squander like that. His value as the dark reflection of America is something you can get a lot of use out of in a story.
David Richardson
>Supposedly, Predator was a satire because it was macho but it culminated in a slaughterfest of the main heroes. Symbolically (again, supposedly) killing action movie machismo
If that was the intent, it failed badly. All that the slaughtering of all those macho guys did was elevate Schwarzeneggar's character to a hithertofore unmatched level of macho and had THAT be what was necessary to win.
On the other hand, if it specifically intended the precise opposite of what it set out to do and was only ACCIDENTALLY a great action movie, I have to say I find that kind of perversely entertaining.
Jaxon Ortiz
He is a radical violent nationalism enforcing his will over others. There's no difference between hydran wanting world order and being willing to kill for it and Cap doing the same in name of "safety".
Captain america doesnt give a fuck about freedom that isnt his in that movie.
Nathaniel Gomez
except in the new movie, where he's a fascist
James Young
he gives plenty of fucks about Bucky's freedom, and gives enough fucks about his comrades' freedom to bust them from guantanamo island
Alexander Russell
so it was sjw garbage?
Thomas Hughes
that's what Sup Forums claimed, yes.
Lucas Ward
I fail to see how "a story about strong women with huge themes about tearing down the patriarchy" isn't sjw garbage, since "the patriarchy" is something sjws have made up
Ian Flores
> "the patriarchy" is something sjws have made up please tell me you don't believe this.
Brandon Ramirez
you could make a case that he's an anarchist, but not a fascist
Camden Lewis
fuck off back to tumblr
Juan Long
But it can't be nationalism when he hasn't been backed by the US government since SHIELD went kablooey. The Avengers operate without borders supported entirely by private funding, going where they're needed regardless of the name of the country. That's pretty much anti-nationalism
Matthew Garcia
Which ever one means he thinks he should be able to impose his will on a sovereign nation and violate borders, like some kind of filthy mexican.
Chase Morgan
I dunno man I wouldn't say Die Hard 1 was. Yeah 3 onwards got totally ridiculous but to my memory in Die Hard 1 McClane was just a schlubby cop who stumbled into heroism more or less accidentally and spends most of the film hiding, running or saying "OH SHIT" a whole bunch.
Grayson Thomas
how about you do a simple google search as to what a patriarchy is?
Mason Wright
he also made die hard 3.
Charles Moore
a system of government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is reckoned through the male line.
nowhere in the 1st world has this
Christopher Hernandez
No. It was SJWwashed. He made a big public show of consulting some ultrafeminists and even hired one as a consultant.
But he also had no problem running over pregnant women with a big ass truck in the desert.
Parker Wilson
>But the Earth itself has no boundaries. No East, No West, No Cold War. And the irony of it is, the United States and the Soviet Union are spending billions on their space programs and the missile race only to arrive at the same conclusion. In the 21st century everyone will be able to see that we are all just inhabitants of a little celestial body called Earth. A world without communism and capitalism... that is the world I wanted to see. But reality continued to betray me.
Caleb Gonzalez
when did I say it was?
Adam Diaz
>s about Bucky's freedom
Everything you are saying is literally "my people deserve more rights that others".
They all did illegal shit, invaded other countries illegaly used and imported weapons into europe, used those weapons, destroyed an airport, in the case of wanda she was responsable for all the shit Hulk did, If Bucky didnt want to get blamed for the terrorist attack he could had surrender himself the minute he knew about the attack to the local authorities and prove he wasnt in the country of the attack.
He broke people that had done terrible shit out of jail to keep enforcing his will on other countries.
If you agree with Cap in Civil War you agree with the "war on terror". The intervention in syria, the war on Irak and shit like the killing off people like the president of chile or irani scientists.
Henry Brown
>If Bucky didnt want to get blamed for the terrorist attack he could had surrender himself the minute he knew about the attack to the local authorities and prove he wasnt in the country of the attack. You're aware he'd been used by the government as a tortured assassin for seventy years, right? Why do you think he'd consider handing himself over to government custody in any way a good idea?
William Bell
Fuck, all this FREEDOM is getting me hyped, what're some good cap books? I remember reading some DD a while back that had a good bit with cap and nuke, I wanna say that was Born Again but my memory is shit, that new event with the cosmic cube baby was great too. Any other FREEDOMcore?
Ian Long
>But it can't be nationalism when he hasn't been backed by the US government
Hahahahahahaha
Do you even know the difference between STATE, NATION and COUNTRY?
Steve believes the VALUES of his NATION are superior to the VALUES of others and is enforcing them on other people, the guy is nationalistic and thinks the Goverment doesnt represent the right path for his nation.
>The Avengers operate without borders supported entirely by private funding Just like ISIS
>Invading any country they think deserves it and killing their enemies regardless of the laws of the country.
Nicholas Hall
>hello German TV station, i want to surrender myself, but i will only do it to Captain America.
Asher Hughes
>Do you even know the difference between STATE, NATION and COUNTRY?
Unfortunately, I think that your average politician and statesman doesn't understand the difference between the 3.
Aiden Lewis
So it Cap gonna be his personal warden or would someone else be in charge of his actual custody?
Explain to me how the risk of Bucky getting Winter Soldier'd again stops just because Cap made the arrest.
Dylan White
ISIS shoots people because they worship a cross over a crescent. The Avengers shoot (really just punch) alien invaders and terrorists who want to release bioweapons in crowded population centers.
That's a bad analogy and you know it.
Joseph Wright
It means the public knows he wants to surrender, that he wasnt in the country he said it was, and that Steve would make sure he gets a fair threatment as the former terririst and killer he is.
Alexander Morales
Isis kills people they think deserve to die, Cap does the same.
Jaxon Reyes
what about that time hulk went apeshit on a load of africans
David Cruz
He didnt mean it! it's all Wanda's fault... Oh! wait! she didnt mean it either.
Dylan Jackson
Bendis made Kitty Pryde Captain America?
Jayden Martin
What endeared Cap to me from an early age was the fact that he wasn't special, but his love and devotion for his country did. He was selfless enough to want to protect something he loved and became a greater entity for it
Adam Lopez
>If that was the intent, it failed badly. From roughly around the time of that arm wrestle. Pretty sure it put hairs on me as a child, since I had to start shaving a couple of weeks after the first time I saw it.
David Johnson
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Isaac Lopez
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Daniel Morgan
Zemo ripped up Cap's old baseball cards? What a dick move.
Sebastian Young
Next thing you're gonne be telling me that the crab pussy face the predator has is vagina denta representing the emasculation of action Jackson.
Jose Peterson
>I don't want to kill anyone. I just don't like bullies.
He doesn't believe anyone deserves to die, user.
Evan Thomas
>learning from results on google
you dun goofed sister
Blake Smith
>if you agree with Cap in Civil War you agree with the "war on terror" But that's not true.
Evan Roberts
Anyone who says BS like that clearly never watched the movies.
Ethan Barnes
>Predator was meant to be satire of action movies. No one seems to get that.
Yeah and the Room was always meant to be a comedy. sure buddy.
Grayson Bell
Wasn't Predator initially a joke about making a "Rocky vs. Alien" movie?
Andrew Howard
Yeah, that's Born Again.
Camden Williams
I always liked the idea that Predator movies were Cliche Action Movies with the Predator Twist. Predator was a standard Commando flick but then Predator shows up. Predator 2 is an average Action Cop movie but then Predator shows up.
Predators fucked that up by breaking the formula. If you were going to do a modern Predator movie you should do like a Zero Dark Thirty movie but then when they show up to shot Not!Osama he's hanging from the ceiling without any skin. Probably Rambo.
Zachary Butler
>Zero Dark Thirty with Predators Fuck, that would be awesome
Luis James
He was brainwashed though you fucking asshole.
Austin Cooper
I mean Furiosa was basically just Rudolph Hess, I guess maybe the SJW's white-washed the womyns morality or something I'm not really sure what was changed.
I mean the old feminist warrior women were kind of stupid, but it was post-apoc so I didn't really give a shit.
Jaxson Powell
"The Patriarchy" is just a stupid term for society, go back to tumblr you fucking nutcase.
Joshua Reyes
Edgy teen ager or retarded Euroscum?
Ian Brooks
I feel like even if the themes were simpler, the Cap movies did a way better job with theme than Hack Snyder ever did, despite his shitty Jesus imagery.
Zachary Brooks
I think it's stupid Eurotrash.
Adrian Young
I think it's both
Joseph Young
>Predator was meant to be satire of action movies. No one seems to get that.
Wrong McTiernan movie dude.
>I can't believe he's actually watched the movies or has any familiarity with what he's talking about. This. He's pissed at the genre.
He's also pissed that since he was in prison he's had problems finding work, maybe he's even pissed that RDJ did longer time for worse offenses but he's sitting pretty.
