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Game of Thrones writer criticises disappointing trend in Marvel villains
Posted on 7/25/15 at 1:55 pm
Posted on 7/25/15 at 1:55 pm
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Marvel movies attract fans in their droves, but there’s one on-going criticism about the similarities of their heroes and villains that George RR Martin also agrees with.
The Game of Thrones creator, who is finishing off his next novel The Winds of Winter, took some time out of his hopefully busy schedule to write a blog post on his Live Journal about his views of Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man.
Martin was full of praise for the latest Marvel movie, but had some reservations about the villains.
“I am tired of this Marvel movie trope where the bad guy has the same powers as the hero. The Hulk fought the Abomination, who is just a bad Hulk. Spider-Man fights Venom, who is just a bad Spider-Man. Iron Man fights Ironmonger, a bad Iron Man,” he wrote.
“I want more films where the hero and the villain have wildly different powers. That makes the action more interesting.”
But Martin’s “quibble” should not be interpreted as major criticism of the movie.
The writer, who admits to once being a member of the “Merry Marvel Marching Society”, said he preferred Ant-Man to the recent Avengers: Age of Ultron.
While he wouldn’t go so far as to call it the best Marvel movie of all time, as some have done, he said: “There’s a lot of humour in this film, but it is not a farce, as I feared it might be….Ant-Man has a proper balance of story, character, humour and action, I think.”
“Overall, I had a swell time. For a few hours I was thirteen years old again,” he wrote.
Posted on 7/25/15 at 1:58 pm to abellsujr
He could have written some pages in the time his fat arse was sitting in that theater.
Posted on 7/25/15 at 1:59 pm to abellsujr
Hahahahahahahahahahshs
A game of thrones writer pointing out disappointing trends?
Pot meet kettle
A game of thrones writer pointing out disappointing trends?
Pot meet kettle
Posted on 7/25/15 at 2:32 pm to abellsujr
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took some time out of his hopefully busy schedule to write a blog post on his Live Journal about his views of Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man.
GODDAMN IT
Posted on 7/25/15 at 2:51 pm to abellsujr
He's right. Besides Loki and Winter Soldier, MCU villains are nothing but an afterthought.
Posted on 7/25/15 at 2:55 pm to abellsujr
I enjoyed Ant-Man but, once again, the antagonist left a sour taste in my mouth. They got a good actor to play the villain but gave him very little to work with. Not once in the film did I feel worried for the main characters when he was on-screen.
Posted on 7/25/15 at 3:05 pm to abellsujr
Thanos has the potential to right these wrongs.
Posted on 7/25/15 at 3:15 pm to abellsujr
I don't get into Marvel movies all that much but Fisk in Marvel's "Daredevil" series was freaking awesome, maybe the best and most complex antagonist I've seen in years.
Posted on 7/25/15 at 5:03 pm to abellsujr
Goddamn it. I thought this was a writer for the TV show, not George RR Martin.
I've got some criticism for him: STOP DOING shite LIKE THIS AND FINISH THE BOOKS.
I've got some criticism for him: STOP DOING shite LIKE THIS AND FINISH THE BOOKS.
Posted on 7/25/15 at 5:12 pm to abellsujr
I dunno. Venom was just one of many Spider-Man villains. Ultron was different. Loki is Loki.
Posted on 7/25/15 at 6:03 pm to abellsujr
GRRM needs to sit down, shut up, and write.
Fat frick.
Fat frick.
Posted on 7/26/15 at 10:31 am to abellsujr
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