Arthur Christmas
Nov. 28th, 2011 09:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficI think they misjudged how much the audience would sympathize with a guy who's unappreciated because his dad is an assy gloryhound (but the guy himself is scary-competent) versus a guy who's unappreciated because he's a total fuck-up. It's pretty much the Thor/Loki situation from Thor, only this time, the fangirls are right about Loki being an unjustly persecuted saint and Thor being daddy's little girl.
(Yeah, I'm not sure how Thor the movie was about "Loki saving Asgard from Thor's warmongering" when Thor the hottie was responding (in an admittedly heavy-handed manner) to enemies breaking into a secure facility and killing guards. If Chinese nationals busted into the Pentagon and killed some Marines in the process, would even Taft, jokiest of all the presidents, just go "well, we stopped them, no reprisals or investigation at all!" Anyone who did would be impeached so fast the Oval Office would spin, and rightly so.)
It probably doesn't help that Steve is played by Hugh Laurie. The character is a gift-wrapped woobie of fangirl Kryptonite.
Also, before the movie, there's a Justin Bieber music video about J-Bieb (?) and his band of multiethnic Christmas elves building robot dancers (and yet, everyone does the robot) with steampunk technology. I don't mind that shit during the credits, when you can leave, but before the movie it's the most obnoxious unskippable cutscene ever seen aside from the Metal Gear Solid series. Have you ever seen Justin Bieber? There's just something unwholesome about seeing an adolescent boy who looks like a twenty-something lesbian try to be a black guy. Other than that, the music video ruins the song 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town,' the steampunk aesthetic, and dancing.
(Yeah, I'm not sure how Thor the movie was about "Loki saving Asgard from Thor's warmongering" when Thor the hottie was responding (in an admittedly heavy-handed manner) to enemies breaking into a secure facility and killing guards. If Chinese nationals busted into the Pentagon and killed some Marines in the process, would even Taft, jokiest of all the presidents, just go "well, we stopped them, no reprisals or investigation at all!" Anyone who did would be impeached so fast the Oval Office would spin, and rightly so.)
It probably doesn't help that Steve is played by Hugh Laurie. The character is a gift-wrapped woobie of fangirl Kryptonite.
Also, before the movie, there's a Justin Bieber music video about J-Bieb (?) and his band of multiethnic Christmas elves building robot dancers (and yet, everyone does the robot) with steampunk technology. I don't mind that shit during the credits, when you can leave, but before the movie it's the most obnoxious unskippable cutscene ever seen aside from the Metal Gear Solid series. Have you ever seen Justin Bieber? There's just something unwholesome about seeing an adolescent boy who looks like a twenty-something lesbian try to be a black guy. Other than that, the music video ruins the song 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town,' the steampunk aesthetic, and dancing.
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Date: 2011-11-28 04:52 pm (UTC)