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He's spoken at length in the past about the ways the molestation of a large number of his Catholic school classmates by one of the priests contributed to the fucked-up environment there (he claims that he was never targeted, but he sure was around it, aware of it, and has talked about the adults around not believing what was going on).
I suspect that particular life experience contributes to direction of his edgelord era stupidity.
I am of a mind to forgive, since he has already apologized, and, much more importantly, has not repeated the behavior in almost a decade. One of my brothers had a horrible sense of humor like that (so bad that my mother made him promise not to joke when he gave her eulogy) and only improved in his 50s. He is also a great dad and husband and very kind to all the people around him.His actions have always been ethical, but his words were not. If Gunn was still doing that, then it my reaction would be different.
I'm just gonna report what JZ said last week:
when Gunn was first hired by Disney he recalls some of his progressive peers saying, "Uh, no, he's said some fairly horrible stuff and you need to look a lot more closely before you sign him on," but they were ignored. And now it's all being framed as leftist pedophile-enabling hypocrisy, when it was lefties who raised the alarm years back.
Yes, and rather handily. Primaries, man. [link]
Oh, hey, Black Panther is up on Netflix.
Pantherrrrr
Larson looks great but I want to see more muscle.
So, I feel about Captain Marvel the way I felt about Black Panther prior to the movie, which was basically as follows:
Prior to seeing a trailer: Shit, I know nothing about this character (despite T'Challa's inclusion in Civil War) or how he fits into the Marvel universe. I hope this isn't the movie that turns out to be a dud on my personal enjoy-o-meter.
One nanosecond after seeing a trailer: OPENING NIGHT, BETCHES.
I really don't know much about Captain Marvel, and what I do know sounds badass, but I've never read any titles with Carol Danvers in them, so I don't have any kind of emotional hook to the character. But I'm 99% sure the first trailer will suck me in.
I read Captain Marvel comics at a point in my life where they really resonated. I'm definitely there for opening night. I'd rather the lead was being played by someone in her mid-30s, as "Captain" Marvel is actually a major and (Captain America aside) it takes a little time for people to rise through the ranks, but Hollywood.
Larson, for all that she's young, has at least managed to look like she's in her mid-30s for years. (Not through premature aging or anything. She's just got resting mature face or something and I'm always startled by her age.)
