Villain Bashing

[Pau Diaz]

Certain 80's or 90's films like Batman (1989 ver) or Streetfighter tended to punish the bad guys in either rough or excessive ways such as:

1) The Joker got hit by surprised from the side during the final sequence in the tower, smacked his head on a bell and then let Batman grab him by his coat, hold him there as he said his lines. Joker then let Batman hit him with a punch in the stomach and then almost be thrown out the Cathedral window. Furthermore he let Batman grab him again wind up his fist and then punch him in the face.

2) In Streetfighter Guile hits Bison with two consecutive flip kicks and then Bison does the clumsiest thing - charges at Guile, who whacks him with a spinning kick to the back of his head, sending him face first into a computer console, which explodes and then electrocutes him.

Okay, the villains need to be defeated, but with such glorified violence and obvious mistakes or weaknesses?

[yee-haw]

Certain 80's or 90's films like Batman (1989 ver) or Streetfighter tended to punish the bad guys in either rough or excessive ways such as:

1) The Joker got hit by surprised from the side during the final sequence in the tower, smacked his head on a bell and then let Batman grab him by his coat, hold him there as he said his lines. Joker then let Batman hit him with a punch in the stomach and then almost be thrown out the Cathedral window. Furthermore he let Batman grab him again wind up his fist and then punch him in the face.

2) In Streetfighter Guile hits Bison with two consecutive flip kicks and then Bison does the clumsiest thing - charges at Guile, who whacks him with a spinning kick to the back of his head, sending him face first into a computer console, which explodes and then electrocutes him.




Okay, the villains need to be defeated, but with such glorified violence and obvious mistakes or weaknesses?

Check this out pau, I think you will enjoy.

http://forum.bullshit.com/showthread.php?t=5264

[Pau Diaz]

Very interesting thread, I like it. A cool array of villains were brought into the discussion and hopefully more to come. But really, it's poor form to put the villain at a disadvantage, filming him getting beaten up without putting up plausible resistance. In real life, unless they had an injury or their vision was affected, they wouldn't let themselves get pounded in the films I have referred to.

[yee-haw]

Very interesting thread, I like it. A cool array of villains were brought into the discussion and hopefully more to come. But really, it's poor form to put the villain at a disadvantage, filming him getting beaten up without putting up plausible resistance. In real life, unless they had an injury or their vision was affected, they wouldn't let themselves get pounded in the films I have referred to.

That's true pau, I was only trying to add a little color to your idea is all.

[hitekredneck]

Very interesting thread, I like it. A cool array of villains were brought into the discussion and hopefully more to come. But really, it's poor form to put the villain at a disadvantage, filming him getting beaten up without putting up plausible resistance. In real life, unless they had an injury or their vision was affected, they wouldn't let themselves get pounded in the films I have referred to.

errr...pau, i hate to break it to ya dude, but hollywood ain't about real life...in real life, the scum actually does quite well, thanks the the victim mentality we've indoctrinated our youth into

[Pau Diaz]

Ah, so Hollywood wishes to portray the opposite in their films, create fantasy worlds, where the heroes do better than they do in reality? How sad. Why don't the fools try to do something to redress the balance in real life instead of wasting their money making films that cast the hero in the ideal light?

[hitekredneck]

Ah, so Hollywood wishes to portray the opposite in their films, create fantasy worlds, where the heroes do better than they do in reality? How sad. Why don't the fools try to do something to redress the balance in real life instead of wasting their money making films that cast the hero in the ideal light?

simple answer?...that ain't what seels, mang...hollywood, like any other american franchise, is all about the dollar...nobody's gonna pay to see a movie where the bad guys win, unless it's a series, usually

[LedZap]

Ah, so Hollywood wishes to portray the opposite in their films, create fantasy worlds, where the heroes do better than they do in reality? How sad. Why don't the fools try to do something to redress the balance in real life instead of wasting their money making films that cast the hero in the ideal light?

Hey Pau...those "fools" as you call them , made 78.5 MILLION DOLLARS this last weekend alone. How much did you make ?

[WhiteRaven]

Very interesting thread, I like it. A cool array of villains were brought into the discussion and hopefully more to come. But really, it's poor form to put the villain at a disadvantage, filming him getting beaten up without putting up plausible resistance. In real life, unless they had an injury or their vision was affected, they wouldn't let themselves get pounded in the films I have referred to.

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[Pau Diaz]

Hey Pau...those "fools" as you call them , made 78.5 MILLION DOLLARS this last weekend alone. How much did you make ?

So they made a lot of money, but unless they're willing to spend that money in improving the reality of heroism, it ain't going be worth more than the means to satiate their materialistic appetites.