*You remember how I did a post a while back about hating it when movies manufacture a "last minute villain" using the same tech/magic/whatever that gives the hero their powers? I don't actually recall a post like that, but it does vaguely irritate me, too. Maybe not 'hate', but.. yeah. Oddly, I was about to type 'not a fan of mirror bad guys', but I realised that I'm not totally against it. So it really must be something about the 'last-minute-made-like-but-bigger/uglier/better-than-you' variety of mirror bad guy.
Suddenly I'm thinking about Hulk, or Ironman.
*I like how when someone with the power of suggestion tells you to walk until your feet bleed and then just keep on walking, it actually means "walk until someone talks to you, then just stop, it's cool." Heh. On the suggestion thing, I did have slight issues with her saying that she could've made him pull the trigger on himself, but it would make her too much like him. Or something to that effect. So instead, she proceeds to order him to go and (what I'd thought at the time) not die right now, but suffer horribly with the walking and the bleeding stumps and stuff. Because apparently that's better? (Turns out it was, since, as you'd pointed out, it was negated when someone came for a chat.)
Oh. But even then, I still didn't mind the film. I didn't feel it was horribad, but then as you know, I'm fairly forgiving of things even when I am picking them to pieces.
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Date: 2009-05-04 07:48 am (UTC)I don't actually recall a post like that, but it does vaguely irritate me, too. Maybe not 'hate', but.. yeah. Oddly, I was about to type 'not a fan of mirror bad guys', but I realised that I'm not totally against it. So it really must be something about the 'last-minute-made-like-but-bigger/uglier/better-than-you' variety of mirror bad guy.
Suddenly I'm thinking about Hulk, or Ironman.
Heh. On the suggestion thing, I did have slight issues with her saying that she could've made him pull the trigger on himself, but it would make her too much like him. Or something to that effect. So instead, she proceeds to order him to go and (what I'd thought at the time) not die right now, but suffer horribly with the walking and the bleeding stumps and stuff. Because apparently that's better? (Turns out it was, since, as you'd pointed out, it was negated when someone came for a chat.)
Oh. But even then, I still didn't mind the film. I didn't feel it was horribad, but then as you know, I'm fairly forgiving of things even when I am picking them to pieces.