Their Ages Are Clearly Much Closer And Trended Older In Move-verse, But I Think This Paradigm Still Applies.

Their ages are clearly much closer and trended older in move-verse, but I think this paradigm still applies. And it may actually be the hobbits’ biggest red flag that the ring is a grade A evil item. Bc out of the landed gentry hobbits it would be Frodo’s responsibility as the oldest, the only one who has come into his inheritance, and the only one who has practice taking care of an estate which probably includes tenant farmers? to make sure that all the hobbits have what they need. But he’s…not really doing that. And that’s WEIRD! He’s not like that at home! He’s a very kind, conscientious person all around even if he’s a bit quiet and occasionally strange. Who wouldn’t be growing up in large part with only Bilbo and no other faunts in their big smial on the hill? Sam is looking after Frodo of course, I mean he basically signed up to be Frodo’s valet as well as best friend when he decided to tag along on the journey. No lie, if the option was maybe having to deal with the Sackville Bagginses if they pulled a minor miracle and somehow took over Bag-end AGAIN when he was accustomed to Mr Bilbo and Frodo would be less than optimal, esp if Sam’s family are also tenants of the Baggins estate. So Sam is invested in making sure Mr Frodo makes it back in one piece in a very practical way. They’re for sure bffs too, so Sam’s doing his best to help, but really it’s not really his place or his job to look after Merry and Pippin.

So…Merry and Pippin do their best, with a laugh and a smile. *cries*

# Aragorn is already so done with them and it hasn't even been a week yet

Bucky Barnes’ favorite movie is Mad Max: Fury Road. He likes the bit where the expert sniper with one arm confronts the man who treated her like an object for years and rips his face off. 

I dunno, I still think the Joker is scary af, but yeah it’s one of the great things about the universe that Batman has a whole host of villains that allow for incredible storytelling.

With characters like Harvey, we get what happened and why they’re fucked up and how their arcs are tragedies, even if we think their actions are crazy. But I like to read the Joker as more of a primordial force of chaos and cruelty that we aren’t meant to understand and who can’t be redeemed. It’s that just-want-to-watch-the-world-burn mentality which is the antithesis to humanity, relationships, and pro-social behavior as we know it, and if nothing else the whole Batman universe is built on the cause and effect of relationships. Jason as an actual villain rather than a foil would be a tear-my-heart-out interesting read, no lie.

ur telling me batman (a hero whose power is like 65% fear 35% money) has a villain who is all about weaponizing fear and he’s not the main villain? ur telling me batman (man with a secret identity so strong that there are questions of who the real person is at the end of the day and whose entire creed is about stopping One Bad Day™️) has a villain who is his childhood friend that has physically separated his dual violent-nonviolent nature and is all about duality and chance and he’s not the main villain? ur telling me batman (man with strong ideas about the Right Way to stop crime and who emerged from the destruction of his own family structure) has a villain who is his undead son/former sidekick who he couldn’t save and now disagrees with the way to address crime in gotham and he’s not the main villain? ur shitting me about this clown guy right

Why MM:FR Was the Most Tasteful Action Movie I’ve Seen

Things that the film handled with restraint:

Rape: As countless people have said – Half of the movie’s main cast consists of sex slaves. And there’s not a single rape scene. 

Gore: The film looks exactly the type to be ultra-violent a la Quentin Tarantino. But it’s not. The one gory moment is one that you can see coming from miles away and lasts only for a second. And even then, it’s not terrible. Considering this, the movie probably could have had a PG-13 rating with minor alteration.

Sexualization: Five women wearing nothing but gauze sounds like a recipe for anything but what we got; no lingering, awkward, bodily shots. There was even a scene with a completely naked young woman with the camera focused directly on her. Guess what. The camera treated her exactly as if she were wearing flannel pajamas.

Degradation of women: Bad people get upset. We get that. Sometimes they like to swear at our heroines. And yet no one felt the need to say “bitch,” “cunt,” or “whore.” How a film managed to present about the least female-friendly society you can imagine but treated its female characters with more respect than 99% of action movies is beyond me.

Things that the film did not handle with restraint:

FLAMETHROWER GUITAR.

Gender equality: No one once says “Women are ___,” or “Men are ___.” It almost seems like outside of Immortan Joe’s freakishly utilitarian society, men and women get along just fine. Huh. Weird.

Death: Good and bad people die alike on the Fury Road; very quickly. It’s your typical action movie body count. But in a move that’s both odd and brilliant, the film spends a good amount of it’s scarce dialogue detailing what death means to the characters. For some, it’s a suicidal call to honor. For others, it’s a necessary risk to bring about more life. People die in droves. And it’s sad. Death matters.

Criticism: This is about the most critical movie of gender inequality, capitalism, and fascism I’ve ever seen without anyone ever mentioning gender inequality, capitalism or fascism.

COMPASSION: I can’t state this enough. This is a post-apocalyptic genre movie where people kill each other over sex slaves, border disputes, and cars and its message is hope and compassion. The biggest, most heroic moment of the movie is an act of healing, not an act of violence. WHOA.

They are best friends (do not separate them)