Discounting an opinion because it disagrees is poor argument (Gaming)

by Kahzgul, Thursday, June 02, 2016, 17:54 (3096 days ago) @ cheapLEY

If you've said your piece and have nothing left to add, that's one thing, but it sounds more like you're saying I'm a moron for disagreeing with you.

For what it's worth, I didn't read it like that at all, and I definitely wouldn't expect that from Kermit.

Good to know. I have very limited experience actually talking to most of your guys (send me party invites, yo).

Mad Max: Fury Road gives me a picture of Furiosa, a picture of Max, a picture of the breeders, a picture of the Immortan, and a picture of the mother-bikers, but it gives me arc only for Nuk.

Why is that such a bad thing? I'm genuinely asking. Not every character actually needs an arc--that's not how life works. Sometimes things just happen. Not everyone changes all the time. In my mind, Nux is the main character of Fury Road. I really feel like the film is his journey more than anyone else. No, the film obviously doesn't focus on him, and it would have probably been a vastly different film if it had. But I feel like he really is the main character, and we see his journey through the eyes of Max and Furiosa.

I agree that not every character needs an arc, but MMFR is directed in such a way that it seems to be holding a sign saying "look how Max and Furiosa grew over the course of this film! Look at that silent, knowing nod they give each other at the end! See how Max finds freedom and Furiosa finds redemption!" But none of those things happened. The shots are massively indicating the significance of Max and Furiosa's parting, but there isn't one because their joining was purely out of desperation. They needed each other, and now they don't. There's not really a story there. Nuk has a story but the direction flatly dismisses it. The writing practically ignores it after he dies. If I don't care about anyone left in the film, and the people left in the film don't care about the one character I did kind of care about, it just makes me care about those people even less, which made me literally ask myself "why am I watching these people? They're boring."

In a movie about cars and guns and explosions and violence, with an incredible setting and fully realized world, the characters the movie follows actually bored me.