I tend to notice stuff only when it's really blatant (Buffy hitting the bag in slo-mo during OMwF, ugh) and I know very little about guns. Sword-fighting flaws tend to stick out more because I have a little bit of experience there and there's a lot of really bad swordplay on film.
I rarely notice switches to doubles (again, unless really blatant) but I also don't pay a lot of attention to cinematic tricks that are used to cover this and that, so they don't ping me.
FTR, I have no problem with SJ's Widow and l liked her quite a bit in Winter Soldier.
I would love to see female warriors with more realistic physiques. One thing I love about Legend of Korra is the titular character has fairly broad shoulders and obvious development in her arms, within the art style of the show. She looks like it will hurt when she hits you.
It is weird what bothers people- I don't see any of this. At all. I never even noticed that SMG was bad.
I don't even really get bothered by historical costume wrongness as long as it is consistent within the world.
What drives me bananas is when they do "theatre" in movies and tv shows and it is all wrong.
What drives me bananas is when they do "theatre" in movies and tv shows and it is all wrong.
For me, it's the lab stuff on shows like CSI and NCIS and Bones.
I think what we can take from all this is that movies and tv do
everything
wrong, but only a small portion of the audience notices any of it.
I never notice any of the stuntspeople. I guess I am unobservant.
I think I was blinded for the whole movie by how blatantly bad the Luchkov stunt double was when Black Widow wrapped the chain around his neck and tossed him over the rail. I mean, it was an obvious-even-from-behind change in build and body language plus a frizzy Einstein fright wig that in no way resembled the actor's hair. The only character whose appearance changed more noticeably from shot to shot was gaining 800 lbs. of green muscle.
If CGI can make the Hulk's face recognizably resemble Mark Ruffalo's, why can't it make the dude doing back flips look like Scarlett Johansson?
The nuances of the character don't matter because she only got to do them because she's a girl?
No, but the importance of them do. Saying "Oh! Look at how lucky we were to get this!" seems silly to me when...they made a female superhero act like scads of females onscreen. We got it and you can like it or not, but it's no step forward and it's nothing I'd call out or defend--it's what I'd predict.
As for her fighting stance not being ScarJo's fault--this isn't me hating on ScarJo (although, ask Allyson how long it took me to teach her a fighting stance -- SMG will forever boggle me). It's that it's bad casting. They picked, IMO, a woman with no physical gravitas who either never watched a daily or can't pick up on those things.
Maria Hill looks perfectly physically competent. So did the woman from Revenge. And Gamora. And Nebula.
Will Marvel miscast again? Maybe. Will they undervalue the physicality of their female heroes again? Maybe. But I am willing to gamble that since they've already ruined one hero I'd rather see a movie of a different one. Makes fairly simple sense, IMO.
Oh, and have Justin Lin direct. He takes his shit seriously in a way I haven't seen Joss do.
When I get really excited about a movie I have a tendency to obsess over box office for a while. It is with a heavy heart that I tell you the latest Michael Bay TMNT abomination is outperforming expectations for the weekend and will easily earn more money that GotG this weekend. I was hoping for a major flop so somebody would stop giving him access to properties of my childhood...
Was there much competition?
What will be interesting will be next week once people are viewing based on word of mouth. I would hope GotG can beat out TMNT then.
