Across the Spiderverse is so unbelievabely UGLY!!!
@LukeAlmighty Yeah, whatever you think about him, Zero wrote a decent long rambling piece that’s also a review of that terrible mobie.
https://wiki.chadnet.org/zendaya-and-the-art-of-multiverse-maintenance
Spider-Man: Across etc. hits all the beats of the queer monomyth, and in fact the dramatic sequence of bigoted rejection, temper tantrum, acceptance plays out several times across several characters. In the climax of the story, Miles Morales defeats his nemesis effortlessly. The only point of friction in the colossally boring fight scene is the cliché where he realizes that he was good enough all along, and he doesn’t have to grow or change in any way. I think that’s a self evidently vile message to teach to anyone, child or adult, but it’s all too typical of queer narcissism. In this movie, being Spider-Man (having super powers) is an allegory for being gay or trans. The children in the movie struggle with the emotional labor of “coming out” to their parents as Spider-Man. This doesn’t make any sense, because unlike being queer, being Spider-Man is not a source of moral opprobrium, but it only serves to highlight the allegorical nature of the conundrum.
@grey
Wait... The bad guy's motivation is literally: Fuck you man!!!
That's so incredibly lame.
@grey
I don't, because I don't believe it's broken on principle...
But noone had done it right yet.
youtu.be/Sp2SLgZ6vQ4?t=1513
@grey
I'll watch that after the movie.
Yes, I know, that argumenting against multiversal storytelling is easy, but I just am hopeful :D
@grey @MeBigbrain
> and then proceed to violate them when they become inconvenient
That part isn't mandatory though... That's the entire point I'm trying to say. I don't mind theoreticals, as long as you keep playing them by the rules.
also, remember that even with the legends like arthur c. clarke, he spent the second half of his life on sri lanka, where he could easily access trafficked children for sex.
Idk, I think the classics like H.G. Wells and Jules Verne weren't meant to be atheistic, just neat adventures. We could go back to that.
There is a reason why it's said R.A. Lafferty asked his editor at some reunion/award thing why he agreed to publish Past Master despite it being a balls to the wall yarn filled with Christian-Catholic imagery. Editor said he just saw a well written SF novel at the time.
1968. Dune was 1965. Something tells me stuff like that wouldn't have made it during the 40s SF highs or their macabre degeneration towards the 80s.
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@grey @MeBigbrain
If your enjoyment of movies is based around the ammount of worship present, then I see why hard magic system fiction wouldn't be for you :D
Spiderman spoiler
@grey
I am still at 1:15