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This is gonna be without spoilers and a bit off the top of my head since I literally just saw it but man I really dug this movie...............................................................I will jump off the ledge for that joke after this, don't worry.

In all seriousness though, the cinematography was amazing which is no surprise, it's the same people behind Birdman and The Revenant. The acting is also fantastic, Tom Cruise and Riz Ahmed especially.

And I loved the set design which I don't often comment on when reviewing a movie but in this case it is a big part of the story.

And while I did say no spoilers, there is one big twist in like the first 20 minutes that the trailers don't show that changes how you will view the whole film.

So yeah, loved it. Hope it does well since it's been a while since Alejandro's last big film.

To say some final thoughts, there is a scene with the president played by John Goodman where he has a big speech and it's like in the middle portion of the film and it is one of the funniest and sadly scarily realistic scenes I have seen.

I swear if you ever secretly recorded a politician talking with his staff, I have a feeling it would sound quite similar.

Do you guys also have this?

I mean I currently have no idea what I want to do.

Honestly I just let things flow and only do "just enough to get by" and I used to have so many ambitions.

I am just so burned out and I didn't even do that much!

Like I am both anxiety filled to do anything and I feel constant guilt to do anything.

And on top of that I keep figuring out myself, my morality, how I wanna live, everything.

I hear this a lot when people discuss her and hooo boy, whoever thinks that clearly doesn't know what kind of male characters a lot of women love cause trust me, Visi at her worst looks like a saint compared to some of them.

Even then, someone like Invisidude (formerly Invisidick because duh) would be beloved by a lot of people aswell. Just a different kind of people (mostly women).

It's not that nobody would care if it was reversed but again as a lot of anime, shows, books, comics and movies taught me, a lot of girls love bad boys like this.

Hell I'm not a girl and I still love bad boys like this. Perks of being bisexual.

Honestly though I hate "if the genders were reversed argument" since and I'm gonna piss off a few people here but men and women are not the same. They both have and deserve equal rights but one gender can in certain situations get away with a lot more than the other.

Like if a girl slaps a guy it has far less severe social consequences than if a guy slaps a girl. Mainly because men on average are physically far stronger than women. So there is more threat.

Which is why Visi punching Robert is much lighter than if it was opposite. Hell, it's different and much lighter even when a girl punches a girl or when a guy punches a guy.

I think Ted Lasso might be one of my favorite fictional leaders.

He is such a great coach who cares a lot about everyone on his team and their growth.

He and Robert are to me peak masculinity so I wonder how it would go if Ted led the Z-Team.

Nope, I really don't think so.

In fact this scene reminded me of the bathroom scene from Top Gun where Maverick hits on Charlie in the ladies room.

Now let's make one thing clear, IRL you shouldn't do what Visi or Maverick did but that is the point of these scenes.

They are meant to show what kind of characters they are in a fun and yet boundary crossing way.

Maverick is impulsive, arrogant, sexually overconfident and accustomed to believing rules are negotiable.

Following Charlie into the restroom is an exaggerated expression of exactly those traits. Then the movie immediately undercuts his swagger in the following when he discovers who she is.

If Maverick behaved like an impeccably respectful, socially calibrated person from the beginning, he’d be a less interesting character and there’d be less room for him to mature.

Sound like somebody we know?

Oh and Charlie much like Robert knows what the other person is doing and in a sarcastic way the do not let them bite. They are dry and sarcastic in return and they also fracture Invisigal's and Maverick's overconfidence.

Yes, I know this is a much older movie but nowadays while some people do not like this scene, most who watch it, literally say how much they love Tom Cruise's charisma and his chemistry with Kelly McGillis.

And in fact I would say what he does is even more questionable considering he is an elite pilot in the Navy, who already was rejected and in the scene he humorously suggests to "do it" on the sink.

He should know better in his position. Definitely better than Visi, who mainly does her thing in the bathroom scene to see what makes Robert tick and see how much she can push him.

She is also a recovering villain, so it's understandable that her character would do this.

Again, what both of these characters do is not something you should do IRL. That is not my argument.

My argument is that a boundary crossing scene like this can still be fun and well liked even if the genders are reversed and in both cases it's important to the plot and the characters.

Which is especially important considering that both characters go through a massive character arc to get better.

How interesting or effective would that be if these reckless and impulsive characters didn't do reckless and impulsive things?

So yeah, you can dislike Visi, but please don't call this scene badly written or something that would be automatically hated if the genders were reversed.

And I love Flambae and Coupé a lot but man people say that Visi never apologizes for her stuff but tons of other Z-Teamers do things just as bad as her, if not worse and never apologize and no one minds.

People seem to forget that this game is about rehabilitating villains who still act like villains and are in the words of the game, assholes.

Dangerous people who are not adjusted members of society and that is the point.

So anyone saying that the writers are trivializing things like Invisigal going into the men's room or Malevola tapping his undies need to read the fine print and realize what kind of a story this is.

So Blonde Blazer gets hate for making Robert change in the conference room.

And I get it isn't exactly the most professional way of handling but still her getting hate for this is ridiculous.

Which I find kinda silly, first off she has a good reason to do this with all the incidents of superheroes and making him change there makes sure he does not encounter anyone else in a locker room or something which could cause problems.

Secondly, I get she is his "boss" but definitely not one who uses her authority and is more on the level with her subordinates, especially Robert who she views more as a superhero colleague and again these are mature adults and also superheroes and she is clearly just saying it in a casual non confrontational way.

Literally had a few incidents in one of my jobs at the officewe had to change our clothes quickly so we all found a corner and changed there, even with our boss.

This included pants. There was nothing sexual about it, we just had to do it to prepare because there weren't better places to change at the moment.

Both genders were present (one non binary person too), no one cared. It was like changing in a locker room.

This scene reminded me of that and again, nothing happened we just had to change, noone raised a fuss because we were mature adults who knew this was a work thing, even with our boss there, also changing btw.

And third and final thing, she literally asks if she wants to turn around and she does it anyway even if you are ok with it.

And the little peek? People are calling her a pervert over it but it's a fast, curious peek and she literally stops a second later. It's pretty innocent and she immediately stops.

And I say this again he is literally a superhero, one she clearly admires and this whole relationship of theirs is more like colleagues rather than boss and subordinate.

For me it's the relaxing Tear Drops to Earth and the energetic Don't Stop! (mainly the instrumental version).

The first is just a great vibe track that really let's you into this world and the second is just an awesome track with a perfect build up to it.

The INFP anti authoritarian rebel spirit is real guys! And I must listen to it even if it means I self sabotage.

Not like I don't do it anyways.

I am asking this since our types are on average usually the most artistic ones and also because this sub is the one that posts the most art out of the MBTI ones.

For me personally the worst kind of art is the kind that has no real soul and is often either a soulless construct or a vanity project or something the artist just had no feel in.

They are the kinds of things you just forget because they have nothing to offer and nothing to really say at all beyond very surface level stuff. Like yeah that's a castle alright.

I used this specific painting as an example of this. I really love castles, both real and fictional ones and I love tons of paintings that show them. Like videogame concept art, fanart or paitings of real world castles.

But I really dislike this paiting because there is absolutely no real emotion here. I feel nothing when I look at it apart from the fact that I know who painted the painting. It was the angry austrian painter with a mustache who failed art school.

It really takes a lot of screw ups for me to dislike a painting with a castle in it but once again if there is no real honesty in it and it's just a constract then it becomes so bland that there is really nothing in it to feel.

I feel a lot of self serving and "arrogant" art is like this where the artist is someone who wants to just show their ego, often in a "grandiose" way and it is just completely hollow.

Which, given the author of this piece is fitting.

The thing is I often enjoy finding good things in "hated" art that is called "bad" etc. because I sometimes find something that is redeemable or even that maybe the "bad" art isn't bad at all and is just something different.

But with art like the one in the post, I just feel nothing and I do not want to pursue it further. Again this is only if I look at it as is without the historical context.

So I want to ask you all here, what do you personally think is the worst kind of art?

Seriously, Invisigal smoking whilst having asthma is such a perfect trait that describes her character.

And if you think people with asthma don't smoke IRL then you are sorely mistaken.

Oh and as a Blonde Glazer myself, I am ashamed that this guy is one of us.

Sometimes I feel like my natural self is just a bad person. Like I sometimes do something I don't consider bad and some people act like I acted like a POS.

But I seriously do not know why. I try to be good to other people but it almost feels like none of them care until I do something they consider wrong, then I'm a problem to them.

And I feel guilty and ashamed for this. And often angry too because it's frustrating.

Especially when I see other people act worse and then be completely fine socially.

Feels like some people just have it out for me and I don't know why.

Am I a bad person is the question I often ask myself or am I mentally wrong or is it something else.

Some people say the characters act "off" or "fake" in the bad ending but I don't think that's the case at all.

They mostly think they failed her. And they are not sure what else to think.

I mean from their perspective she did take Shroud's mask and ran off.

But they also think that considering she almost failed, she might not have bought into the idea of redemption.

But here we can see they still care about her.

Some people say the characters act "off" or "fake" in the bad ending but I don't think that's the case at all.

They mostly think they failed her. And they are not sure what else to think.

I mean from their perspective she did take Shroud's mask and ran off.

But they also think that considering she almost failed, she might not have bought into the idea of redemption.

But here we can see they still care about her.

People say the characters act "off" or "fake" in the bad ending but I don't think that's the case at all.

They mostly think they failed her. And they are not sure what else to think.

I mean from their perspective she did take Shroud's mask and ran off.

But they also think that considering she almost failed, she might not have bought into the idea of redemption.

But here we can see they still care about her.

A lot of people were hating on this scene because apparently Chase could have easily saved Beef but that is simply not the case.

In fact this scene makse a lot of sense once you consider Shroud's powers and the context.

First of all. Shroud, while not omnipotent has very good predictions on things he knows enough info about. So he knows how the Z-Team and Chase will react.

He knows Chase will hesitate because of his personality and he knows Beef means a lot to Robert and others including Chase.

He can also predict attacks really well so if someone might be attempting to attack he would hurt Beef.

And of course before he reveals himself with Beef he definitely made those predictions.

At that point, speed is irrelevant because Shroud can literally make his move before Chase even starts physically moving due to his calculations.

Same reason he can predict Blazer showing up. If he has enough info on things he can predict them incredibly well.

Also important to note, the whole time Shroud is holding Beef in his hands and no one on the Z-Team knows if he doesn't have something on him that could easily kill Beef.

And Shroud definitely calculated that they would have this doubt and hesitate.

While Chase is fast, he is not speed of light level speedster. He ain't no Flash and his speed has limits.

It is stated Chase's speed it's 50 times the average person. Which is fast but it is not even close to the speed of light or even a lot of other speedsters in media.

Also his reaction time is regular human when he isn't using his powers. This is why he couldn't save Astral. Shroud caught him off guard, fired a round which is already really fast and Chase tried but was not fast enough because the bullet was already fired and moving and he needed to charge his speed. So he was fast but not fast enough for that.

And his rescue of Visi is very fast but again, it's likely the editing of that scene is playing with time and it took much longer in real time than the scene presents.

I am saying all of this to explain that Shroud definitely had his calculations present when he took Beef hostage and he could calculate every move and how others might react.

He knew Chase would swoop in and save Beef if he dropped him but he also knew based on his calculations that no one else except Chase and Phenomaman maybe could be fast enough to get up there.

And more importantly fromw what we see his calculations and predictions work incredibly well when he has enough info, which he definitely had here.

So essentially Shroud could kill Beef before even the fastest members would start moving due to his predictions of them. And they know this so they don't risk it. And there are also the other Red Ring goons who could pose a big problem to others.