When I was part of the Transformers newsgroup there was this small group of people who claimed that the Decepticons were actually the heroes of Cybertron, and made their case. Speaking as a human I found their reasoning a bit wanting but that was all in fun. Or was it given certain stories we see today. Productions like Wicked and Maleficent may try to alter the story to make the villain the hero but some people want to use the evidence itself to prove the heroes were actually the baddies, and admittedly there are poorly made stories where you can make a proper case. However, there have been examples where doing so means missing certain elements of the story to prove their case. Some time ago I challenged a video insisting Syndrome was actually in the right for the original The Incredibles though I have to wonder if this was a think piece or outright trolling by someone not happy with superheroes. Recently SF Debris posted a video showing why contrary to certain beliefs on the internet Walter Peck wasn’t doing his job but was abusing it and Peter Venkman was right to stand up to him. I think we’ve seen movies where the writers wanted so badly to make a villain out of a strawman that they messed up and it became the story of an innocent but bad tempered person being unjustly kept from their goal.
Very longtime readers may remember I linked to a lot of articles from Cracked, the website born of Mad Magazine‘s former rival. Instead of parody comics the site has articles, most notably lists because they’re very popular on the internet. They still try to be humorous, and one can judge the level of humor, but some of their conclusions as of late have become debatable and after they tossed out their video division without proper warning I slowly lost interest. I’m not one of those people addicted to lists. However, in the YouTube posting of the Peck video someone linked to an article from Cracked, “9 Famous Movie Villains Who Were Right All Along“. Now I can’t really judge every entry on this list. For example I’ve never seen The Rock and all I know about Ferris Bueller’s Day Off are Broderick’s antics so I can’t judge the principal or truant officer or whoever Jeffery Jones was playing. However, I have seen evidence that Bueller himself was either a horrible person or a figment of the other male student lead’s imagination but that’s a whole other article. Of the movies I have seen or at least feel I’ve heard enough about to make at least a minor judgement call however, Cracked is not right in their assessment.
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BW Versus Cracked: No, They’re Still The Villain
When I was part of the Transformers newsgroup there was this small group of people who claimed that the Decepticons were actually the heroes of Cybertron, and made their case. Speaking as a human I found their reasoning a bit wanting but that was all in fun. Or was it given certain stories we see today. Productions like Wicked and Maleficent may try to alter the story to make the villain the hero but some people want to use the evidence itself to prove the heroes were actually the baddies, and admittedly there are poorly made stories where you can make a proper case. However, there have been examples where doing so means missing certain elements of the story to prove their case. Some time ago I challenged a video insisting Syndrome was actually in the right for the original The Incredibles though I have to wonder if this was a think piece or outright trolling by someone not happy with superheroes. Recently SF Debris posted a video showing why contrary to certain beliefs on the internet Walter Peck wasn’t doing his job but was abusing it and Peter Venkman was right to stand up to him. I think we’ve seen movies where the writers wanted so badly to make a villain out of a strawman that they messed up and it became the story of an innocent but bad tempered person being unjustly kept from their goal.
Very longtime readers may remember I linked to a lot of articles from Cracked, the website born of Mad Magazine‘s former rival. Instead of parody comics the site has articles, most notably lists because they’re very popular on the internet. They still try to be humorous, and one can judge the level of humor, but some of their conclusions as of late have become debatable and after they tossed out their video division without proper warning I slowly lost interest. I’m not one of those people addicted to lists. However, in the YouTube posting of the Peck video someone linked to an article from Cracked, “9 Famous Movie Villains Who Were Right All Along“. Now I can’t really judge every entry on this list. For example I’ve never seen The Rock and all I know about Ferris Bueller’s Day Off are Broderick’s antics so I can’t judge the principal or truant officer or whoever Jeffery Jones was playing. However, I have seen evidence that Bueller himself was either a horrible person or a figment of the other male student lead’s imagination but that’s a whole other article. Of the movies I have seen or at least feel I’ve heard enough about to make at least a minor judgement call however, Cracked is not right in their assessment.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on November 5, 2020 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, Short Circuit, The Lion King, The Matrix, The Wizard Of Oz, X-Men.
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