Here’s a sample chapter of the upcoming John Haynes series teaser
book A Conversation with Death. Enjoy!
Chapter 6
On being met with the scowl from Vance, John points daggers
back at him. “I didn’t think Vampires came out in the sunshine.” John says
getting up out of his seat.
“We don’t put the bite on people anymore.” Carlotta says as blue
flames erupt from her fist. “We put the burn on them.”
Looks like they’ve been promoted to full demons. “So do you wanna
be original boss man?” Vance asks making blue flames erupt from his hands. “Or
extra crispy?”
John gets into a fighting stance as I slide out of the booth.
“Want to watch me rebuke some demons?”
I think I can do more than that. With a thought I gesture and
my scythe appears in my black manicured hands. “I can do better than that.”
John gives me a quizzed look on seeing my weapon of choice. “I
thought you were a nonviolent entity.”
“I only use this when I have to deal with the more unruly
souls.”
“Let’s send some demons into the light.”
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Roughing out The John Haynes: A Conversation With Death cover concept. Since this is a short teaser story for the upcoming John Haynes series, I'm going to keep it simple. A basic image of John to let everyone know who he is.
My ideal image for a cover is to have John sitting in a coffee house front of a chessboard with a cup of coffee with a chalk white manicured hand of an off-camera woman with black nails sitting across from him. Maybe this'll be final, maybe not. I'm still working things out.
Next Season Supergirl will feature a transgender character
as part of the cast.
…Yeah, time for Shawn to stop watching Supergirl.
It’s official Supergirl has now gone full SJW. But it’s not
like we saw this coming. Over the course of three years Supergirl has gone from
a fun superhero show into Greg Berlanti’s propaganda platform for pushing his
feminist agenda. Now he’s using it to promote his identity politics.
The new character is supposed be Nia Nal, a 20 something
transgender character who is supposed to be like a young Cat Grant. And from
the name Nia Nal, and her being described as soulful, it’s sounding like she
could possibly be a Black character. And it’s sounding it’s like she’ll have
some interaction with James Olsen. Because when it comes to Greg Berlanti he
loves to find new and exciting ways to emasculate Black men. And putting a Black
transgender character around James Olsen would further push the agenda I’ve
been seeing where Black men are associated with homosexuals or are portraying
homosexual characters.
Damn. Just Damn.
As a comics fan I’ve tried to hang in there. And I’ve tried
to stomach all the feminist propaganda sandwiched between every episode from
season 2 on. The announcement of Kara’s sister being a lesbian. Then the
complete emasculation of James Olsen as he changed from Kara’s love interest into
the Guardian of the Friendzone. Followed by the complete emasculation of
Superman in the season 2 finale where Supergirl was presented as being more
powerful than Superman and capable of beating Superman.
That’s the first time I started to say this show is COMPLETE
AND UTTER BULLSHIT.
Men have 8 times more upper body strength than a woman. That
same ratio would factor in for Kryptonian biology. So Superman would have beat
the living shit out of Kara without trying.
Feminists are all about everything being equal. Even when
it’s physically impossible from the standpoint of observable reality.
And they’re all about diversity. Like that shit show of Supergirl
a comic featuring the nonbinary Black character. The SJWs saw this as an effort
towards diversity, but all I saw was another effort by racists to emasculate
Black men.
Because racists can’t have a heterosexual Black man around
White women. So they put a Eunuch in his place.
But now that Supergirl has gone full SJW this is where I
change the channel. I used to watch Supergirl because it was a fun superhero
show that was for viewers of all ages. It was a family show that was all about
Kara taking on the bad guys of the DC Universe. Most of the episodes of the
first season like the one where she teamed up with the Flash were just like a DC
comic book come to life onscreen.
But from the middle of the second season the show has gone
from being about superheroes taking on the bad guys into a platform for
lesbianism, feminism and feminist propaganda. All the comic book action and adventure
has taken a backseat while the social justice agenda has been pushed to the
forefront.
And now Berlanti is icing that shit cake with identity
politics.
Damn. Just Damn. I guess we’re gonna get a Rape Culture
episode next season.
I don’t watch Supergirl for Social Justice. Nor do I watch
it for Identity politics. I used to watch Supergirl because I wanted to see a
DC Comic book come to life onscreen. And over the last two and a half seasons
of Supergirl I haven’t seen anything resembling a DC Comic book onscreen, just
Greg Berlanti using Kara Zor-El as his mouthpiece to push 3rd Wave
Feminism. Since there’s no hope of this show changing, I’m just gonna change
the channel and find something else to watch.
According to those in charge of the new Solo: A Star Wars
movie, Lando Calrissian is Pansexual.
FUCK OUTTA HERE WITH THAT BULLSHIT.
In Empire Strikes Back in 1980, Lando was flirting with
Princess Leia. And he was so manly most straight guys thought he was the
coolest dude in the galaxy.
The Lando Calrissian everyone knew for over 40 years in the
Star Wars Universe was a heterosexual man. A player and a smooth operator. A ladies
man.
But to promote Soylo: A Star Wars Movie Disney decides they
need to bring in the Identity politics. Because Diversity.
FUCK YOU KATHLEEN KENNEDY. FUCK YOU.
I find it funny every time these SJWs, feminists, and
liberals want to push their agenda regarding diversity, they try have to take
passive aggressive swipes at heterosexual Black men. Passive in that they
include a Black man in the story, but aggressive in that they do some bullshit
to fuck with his sexuality.
Showing me how RACIST they truly are. Why can’t young Han
Soylo be the Pansexual? Oh wait, it wouldn’t go down well with all the White
female Star Wars fans who see Han as their sexual fantasy to learn that their
favorite scoundrel is also a sexual deviant. So Kathleen Kennedy will use the
Black man to push her racist identity politics the same way she pushed them by
making Rose Tico the ugliest Asian Woman to ever grace a sci-fi movie.
Because no Asian Woman could be shown as prettier than
Kathleen Kennedy’s Mary Sue stand in for herself, Rey. That’s why Paige Tico
had to die.
AGAIN FUCK YOU KATHLEEN KENNEDY. FUCK YOU.
This whole announcement that Lando Calrissian is pansexual
in Soylo: A Star Wars Movie is all part of an agenda these racist liberals like
Kathleen Kennedy have where they try to push a sexually deviant agenda in the
Black community. By making Lando Calrissian a pansexual they can make kids
believe that it’s normal to be sexually deviant.
Because a Pansexual will fuck anything. Men, women, animals,
plants, robots, dolls, pillows, a can of creamed corn, an apple pie or a box of
grits. Whatever. If they’re sexually attracted to it, they’ll have sex with it.
So that means Lando Calrissian is a not only a heterosexual
and a homosexual but he’s also a pedophile and into beastiality.
Again, FUCK YOU KATHLEEN KENNEDY. FUCK YOU.
By making Lando a Pansexual SJWs and liberals can push an
old racist stereotype about Black men under the guise of political correctness.
What most people don’t know is that during Jim Crow, Racists used to say that
Black men were so insatiable they couldn’t control their sexual urges. That
they’d have sex with anything or anyone they were attracted to. That they were
so out of control they had to keep their White women away from them. And making
Lando a pansexual breathes brand new life into that old racist stereotype.
Don’t you just love how SJWs and liberals try to hide their
racism behind all those intellectual terms?
And don’t you just love how SJWs and liberals try to social
engineer sexual deviancy as a social norm? By taking a beloved children’s
character like Lando Calrissian and making him a pansexual, Disney can socially
engineer the next generation of kids to believe that being a sexual deviant is
perfectly fine.
I’m really getting sick and tired of seeing these White
Supremacists in Hollywood use Black men to promote their homosexual and
sexually deviant agendas. First it was Black men in dresses like Big Momma and
Madea. Then we get heterosexual Mr. Terrific from DC Comics turned into a gay,
bumbling stumbling idiot on Arrow. Then nice guy from the Archie comics Chuck
Clayton is turned into a lustful Black Brute who gives White girls “Sticky
Maples” On Riverdale. Now we have Lando Calrissian from Star Wars retconned
into a sexual deviant.
Seriously, there are some SICK MOTHERFUCKERS working at
Disney. And these people need to be FIRED. Then someone needs to go OLD
TESTAMENT on their asses for PROMOTING FILTH TO CHILDREN.
This kind of revelation has NO PLACE in the Star Wars
Franchise. Star Wars is supposed to be family friendly action and adventure.
Something people of all ages can watch. An escape. Fun. It’s not a place for
racial agendas or identity politics. If Kathleen Kennedy and the SJWs at Disney
would leave that bullshit out of their Star Wars movies, then maybe they’d be
able to get this generation of kids to be fans of the new movies the same way
they were fans of George Lucas’.
When I wrote my novel The Temptation of John Haynes back in
2005, I always saw it like a movie in my mind. And as I was imagining that
movie in my head I saw certain actors playing the roles.
If I ever got the chance to make a Temptation of John Haynes
movie, here’s who I’d like to see in the lead roles:
Michael Ealy as John
Haynes I mulled over the Casting of John Haynes for years. Will Smith was
too goofy and Cuba Gooding Jr…just wasn’t John. Butwhen I saw Michael Ealy playing Tea Cake in Their Eyes Were
Watching God I looked up at the screen and said That’s John Haynes!
I believe Michael Ealy has the dark presence John Haynes has
in the novel and I believe he has the range to play the complex role of a
cerebral character like John Haynes. Based on what I’ve seen on Barbershop,
Secrets & Lies and his portrayal of Dorian the android in Almost Human I
believe Ealy could command the screen in a Temptation of John Haynes movie and
could transition between the dark drama, surreal fantasy and nuanced comedy in
the story.
Ealy has a great range and I believe he could give a very
powerful performance as John Haynes. Could it be his breakthrough role? I
believe it could be.
Salli
Richardson-Whitfield as E’steem When I created E’steem in 1995, I was
inspired by Salli Richardson. And after watching her acting in films like How U
Like Me Now, Posse, A Low Down Dirty Shame, I Will Follow and Pastor Brown,
cartoons like Gargoyles, TV shows like Family Law, NYPD Blue, and Eureka and I
know she could play the role and give the performance of her career.
From what I’ve seen in her work Salli has an incredible
acting range and I know she could give a powerful performance as E’steem. From
the way she conveys emotion in her performances I know she could put layers and
depth on the character and bring out the humanity in E’steem the she-demon struggling
with reconciling with her troubled past as a demon while pondering her future
as a human being. As it stands right now, Richardson is the only actress I
believe could convey all the emotions of E’steem’s confrontation with Lucifer
in Chapter 82 and the climax in chapter 102. I think E’steem could be Salli’s
signature role and the one people would always remember her for.
Keith David as
Lucifer Whenever I wrote Lucifer’s narration in The Temptation of John
Haynes I always heard Keith David’s voice as Lucifer. That deep baritone voice
of his sounds so smooth and charming it was just like what The Devil would
sound like.
Keith David is a burly and has an imposing presence that
would be perfect for the Lord of Hell. Dressed in a tailored Italian red suit,
black shirt and Stacy Adams shoes he’d look like a badass onscreen. And the Julliard
trained actor has an amazing acting range that I believe would be perfect for
playing a magnificent bastard like Lucifer. I believe Keith David would be fun
to watch playing mind games with Salli Richardson’s E’steem and matching wits
with Michael Ealy’s John Haynes. Like E’steem I believe Lucifer could be Keith
David’s signature role if he got the chance to play it.
I believe Ealy, Richardson and David would have fantastic
chemistry onscreen and elevate the source material I wrote back in 2005 with
their performances. And I believe their performances would make The Temptation
of John Haynes a movie that people would be talking about for years.
I’d love to make a Temptation of John Haynes movie. With
dark gothic visuals similar to Tim Burton films like 1989’s Batman I believe
it’d be a Black fantasy CLASSIC just like the book!
Many people were excited over Avengers Infinity War. However
as a screenwriter, I noticed there were numerous problems with the Avengers:
Infinity War screenplay as I watched the movie at the Magic Johnson Theatre
last week. From a screenwriter’s perspective I haven’t seen a script this bad
since Tyler Perry started writing Madea films.
Want to know what mistakes are in this horrible script? Here
they are:
The opening scene
didn’t establish the characters or the story. The opening scene of
Avengers: Infinity War fades in on the damaged Asgardian ship in distress in a
wide shot. This doesn’t do a good job of allowing a new viewer to see why the
ship wound up in this condition or allow a good way to introduce the
characters.
Contrast the opening scene of Avengers: Infinity War to Star
Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The opening shot on the FADE IN on of Star Wars
Episode IV shows Princes Leia’s small ship being chased by The Imperial
battleship. Then it shows the ship being taken down. As the camera takes us
inside the ship, the crew in cloth uniforms prepares to fight, they get taken
down by a series of armored Stormtroopers who appear intimidating and Darth
Vader in all black makes his entrance. All of this establishes Vader’s
character as important and why we need to take him seriously.
The opening scene of Avengers Infinity War is a Wide shot of
Thanos holding a defeated Thor. That scene is good for a longtime MCU fan, but
a new viewer walking in wouldn’t understand what’s going on. That wide shot
doesn’t show us who the main character is, what they want and why we should CARE
about them.
We needed to see the ship taken down in some establishing
shots, and the fight between Thanos and The Black Order and Thor and the
Asgardians to establish Thanos as the threat that was supposed to be built up
over 20 or so movies. As it stands now the opening scene is incomplete and that
lays the foundation for a very uneven movie.
Telling instead of
showing. Avengers: Infinity War’s screenplay Tells instead of Shows. In the
Asgardian battleship scene, we get told about the Power gem and the space Gem.
We needed to see those gems in action to know what they are.
Avengers: Infinity War’s script does a LOT of telling. A
good screenplay SHOWS us what happens with pictures and puts powerful visuals
in front of us. With Avengers: Infinity War we get told about The Black Guard,
we get told about the crafting of the gauntlet. We get told about the injured
dwarf. All the telling in this movie is designed to cram a story into 2.5
hours, not allow it to flow organically from sequence to sequence.
Telegraphing the
action. In that same scene where we’re told by Ebony Maw that the Power Gem
makes Thanos the strongest being in the universe we have the Hulk fight him.
Now if he hadn’t said this, the scene might have had some weight. Had Thanos
mocked him and said I thought you were the strongest one there is that would
have added some impact to The Hulk’s psychological issues later in the movie and
foreshadowed the scene where Thanos said he knew about Tony Stark Unfortunately
as it’s written and presented onscreen it takes away from the emotional impact
the scene could have had.
No Emotional
Resonance. No scene in Avengers:Infinity War makes the viewer feel anything. Part of that is due to the
sheer number of characters onscreen. With so many characters onscreen we don’t
get any one scene where a character can be developed in a multidimensional way.
The other part is due to the two dimensional way most of the
characters are written. No one becomes a person we connect with in this story. With
this supposed to be a movie filled with so much death and so much at stake the
viewer needed to feel something.
Instead I was indifferent. All that violence and not one
scene made me care about anything I saw.
With Terminator 2: Judgment Day we FELT emotion. From John
Connor’s connection with the T-800 to Sarah’s love for her son, to the tension
in every chase scene the audience felt something. And because we felt something
from those sequences the audience was able to connect with those characters and
CARE about what happened onscreen.
Poorly written dialogue.
In some scenes of Avengers: Infinity War the dialogue runs too long. And in
others it’s practically interchangeable between the characters. And when Black
Panther points at Captain America and says Get that man a shield I just
facepalmed.
Good dialogue does two things. One it tells us about the
characters. Good dialogue gives a character a “voice”. The other is moving the
story forward. Good dialogue allows a story to move along at a brisk pace.
The dialogue in MCU movies these days is a lot of banter and
a lot of jokes. And a lot of it doesn’t allow the characters to develop into
multidimensional people anymore. It’s clear to me that the writers of Marvel
Studios films are too comfortable with the characters and have become
emotionally attached to them. In order to write great characters a writer has
to remain objective and take themselves out of the story. That way they can
give us a panoramic picture of the action transpiring around us.
No Depth/layers.
The Avengers: Infinity War screenplay is a shallow one. Part of it is due to
Jim Starlin’s source material, part of it is due to the screenwriters being
forced to cram so much story in 150 pages.Over 2.5 hours, Thanos steamrolls heroes, stuff happens and
then Thanos gets the Infinity gems. Roll credits. Wait a year to see the next
movie. There’s no symbolism, no irony, no foreshadowing or any of the elements
of great storytelling. That’s why I called it a big budget Star Trek: The Next
Generation Season Finale Part 1.
Worse there’s no subtext or social commentary. Great fantasy
like the Twilight Zone, Star Wars Trilogy, Oldschool Star Trek and Terminator
2; Judgment Day tells a story between the lines and makes a commentary about
the world around us. We got none of that due to the surface adaptation of the Thanos
Quest and Infinity Gauntlet storylines. It’s depth and layers that give a story
substance and allow it to resonate with readers. And when a story resonates
with the reader they share that story for years to come.
Not making the villain
into a credible threat. Yeah, Marvel tried to build Thanos into a badass
villain over ten years, but we don’t get a payoff due to that opening scene
with that wide shot that obscures Thanos. That’s part of the Russos’ numerous
directing mistakes, but the writing lays the foundation for that FADE IN for
those shots.
Over the course of the movie we don’t get any scenes to make
Thanos appear to be a legit badass on his own. Instead of him legit kicking ass
he has the Black guard doing his dirty work for him. Those henchmen water down
his threat. They do all the fighting for him and allow him an out from avoiding
actual conflict that would have added to the emotional resonance of the story
and showed why he was legit threat to the universe.
The Black Guard aren’t characters. They’re basically a plot
device used to bring The Avengers into the movie and get Tony Stark to Titan.
But after over 20 movies we needed to see Thanos’ threat in this movie. Instead
of him being the star, he’s just another background character.
In Terminator 2: Judgment Day we see the T-1000 as a legit
threat because he’s a relentless killing machine. Dressed as a cop he blends in
and gains people’s trust. And because he has everyone’s trust he runs roughshod
throughout L.A. wrecking shit and destroying lives everywhere he goes in his
quest to kill John Connor. If Thanos is so obsessed with his quest why isn’t he
pursuing it with that kind of tenacity?
No serious tone.
There are just too many jokes in this movie. For a movie about a cosmic level
threat to the universe the tone needed to be a LOT more serious. There was NO
place for all the ridiculous banter scenes and the jokes in this movie.
Sure, a little humor can break up tension like the Let the wookie
win scene in Star Wars Episode IV. But Marvel Studios movies have WAY too many
jokes in them. Instead of the humor adding to the experience, all it does is
suck the energy out of many scenes.
In Terminator 2: Judgment Day we see the gravity of the
situation due to the serious tone of the film. Each scene builds the tension
and suspense.
With Avengers: Infinity War we don’t see any sort of tension
or suspense built throughout the film. It’s just humor sequences followed by
intense action. The inconsistent tone keeps the story from having any serious
impact on the viewer.
When I wrote The Man Who Rules The World I wanted a serious
tone to the story. With God Katious being a world ending threat I wanted the
reader to understand how much impact this godlike man would have on the entire
world of the SJS DIRECT Universe. If I could put a serious tone on a world
ending event, why couldn’t the screenwriters of Avengers: Infinity War?
Convenient/Coincidental
occurrences. As Thanos gets the gems, it’s not done in an organic fashion. Instead
we get sequences where he gets the gems through him bullying heroes.
That’s some Tyler Perry level bad writing.
When I watched Thanos gets one stone by bullying Loki for
Thor’s life in the opening scene I cringed.
And when Star Lord got emotional over Gamora just as they’re
taking the gauntlet from Thanos I just said WTF?
This was followed up with Tony Stark getting stabbed. When I watched Thanos get The time gem another
by bullying Dr. Strange I just facepalmed.
In both these
sequences Thanos had been reduced to Mean Max. If the gems are so dangerous I’d
like to think people would be willing to sacrifice their lives to keep Thanos
from getting them. But this movie goes on in spite of these plotholes.
Worse, in most of these sequences, there’s no tension, no
buildup, no suspense. Nothing to make us believe that Thanos is DANGEROUS. Like
the Gary Stu he is, Thanos doesn’t get the gems through actual skill or
treachery, just through convenient plot devices created by the writers to move
the story forward because they like him.
Then there’s how Thor gets his new eye. Rocket Raccoon
conveniently has an eye on him to replace the one Thor lost in Ragnorok. And
that Mechanical eye doesn’t malfunction or get destroyed when he’s trying to
ignite that forge with the heat of a neutron star.
Good Gravy.
Then there’s the sequence with Thor’s new hammer. After the
pieces come out of the forge, we have Groot there to continently give it a
brand new handle. It’s an extremely telegraphed sequence that smacks of bad
screenwriting.
Poor Transitions. The Entire Reality Gem sequence featuring the
Guardians of the Galaxy is one of the WORST ones in the film. We don’t get to
SEE Thanos beating the Collector to get the reality gem, instead we get to see Thanos
manipulating reality.
That one sequence cheats viewers out
of a major part of the story. If the story is supposed to be about Thanos
getting the Infinity Gems as some MCU fans would love to argue, then why wasn’t
this sequence added to the movie?
Ridiculous plot points. In an attempt to give us a plot Twist we have
Thanos calling Iron Man Tony after he stabs him. And revealing that he knows who
he is.
That’s RIDICULOUS.
Thanos has NEVER met Tony Stark.
He doesn’t know who he is. While this was designed to shock the fanboys itmade no logical sense. With no buildup It’s
Tyler Perry level bad screenwriting.
And the whole Tony Stark putting
the arc reactor back in his chest for his nano armor at the start of the
movie’s earth sequences CONTRADICTS ALL of Iron Man 3. The whole point of Iron
Man 3 was to show that what made Tony Iron Man wasn’t the armor, it was HIM.
And he threw the second arc reactor in the sea to show he didn’t need it as a
crutch to carry him through life. This sequence completely DESTROYS all the
character development of Iron Man 3.
Then there’s the whole Vision having
Ultron in him. This revelation makes no sense. Didn’t the Vision destroy Ultron
in Avengers: Age of Ultron?
The entire Wakanda climax. One of the WORST sequences in Avengers:
Infinity War was the entire Wakanda Climax. Clumsy awkward and uneven it
continues the trend of Marvel Studios NOT being able to write a third act.
The Aliens going through the
barrier: Ridiculous. Conveniently added so Black Panther could let down the
barrier.
The war wheels were DUMB. Stolen
straight from Justice League’s Savage Time they were just there to kill Proxima
Midnight, not add to the story.
Then there’s Captain America and
Black Panther taking punches From Thanos. Here’s a guy established as being
capable of beating down the Hulk, but Cap and Black Panther who are LESS
powerful get punched by him and just get knocked down. No broken bones, no
internal injuries. Nothing.
Yeah, I know it’s a comic book
movie. But come on. When I wrote the first Isis and E’steem Ascension people
who fought people with super strength had broken bones and internal injuries
from being hit by someone with that kind of power.
Avengers: Infinity War had great
special effects. But they were made to overcompensate for a terrible screenplay.
From what I saw onscreen the script for this movie it was clearly a second
draft that was in desperate need of a rewrite. With another polish they might
have made a movie that would have paid off from 10 years and 20 movies worth of
buildup. As it stands now, it’s an overrated movie that’s the equal of its
overrated source material.
And I was deeply disappointed. If anything I see the
beginning of the end of Marvel Studios happening right in front of me with this
film.
Many comic and MCU fans will say that Avengers: Infinity War
was the best film Marvel Studios ever produced. But what I saw was at the Magic
Johnson was jumbled disjointed movie that was basically a half-assed version of
Part One of a Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Finale.
Avengers: Infinity War is supposed to be an epic movie. And
it feels grand in many of its visuals. Many feel like the comic panels of an
Avengers Comic or Jim Starlin’s epic Infinity Gauntlet saga like the Hulk
crashing through the Sacntum Santorum and Nebula being torn apart.Unfortunately, for all its big visuals
and special effects, there’s nothing of substance that gives the film any
emotional resonance. And that’s partially due to Jim Stalin and partially due
to the by-the-numbers screenplay that feels like a second draft.
Why do I blame Jim Starlin? Well, The Infinity Story has
always been a shallow one. So the screenwriters didn’t have much to work with
in terms of source material for this adaptation. The whole Thanos Quest/Infinity
Gauntlet comics featured heroes being jobbed out so he can look like such a
badass. Unfortunately, when that’s presented onscreen it just doesn’t have much
depth. From the opening scene we see Thanos killing Asgardians to make it look
like he’s a badass, then the writers start TELLING us how Thanos is a superbad instead
of SHOWING US. That sucks all the emotional resonance out of the story.
The other thing that sucks the emotional resonance out of
the story is the sheer number of characters. Because there are so many heroes
onscreen it’s hard for any deaths or injuries to have any emotional impact on
the viewer. It’s hard to care about one person in this story because you barely
get to know anyone in the few minutes they’re onscreen. If you walked into this
movie cold with no knowledge of the MCU or Marvel comics, you’d think it was a
very shallow film just like the overrated comics it’s based on.
The
screenwriters try to rewrite Thanos to make him a superbad by saying he’s going
to kill half the universe to stop people all over the universe from suffering
due to a lack of resources, but I still see the same old SIMP I read in the
comics over 25 years ago. Only Instead of chasing under Death’s purple robes,
he’s chasing a grand delusion like the Supreme Gentleman Eliot Rodger.
Seriously there’s a HUGE flaw in Thanos’ grand plan to get
all these Infinity Stones and kill off half the universe. It would NEVER
balance the universe. Why? Because all the survivors will do is reproduce and
in a few eons we’re back at square one as related to resources. So killing
people doesn’t change anything.
To me Thanos isn’t a mad god, but a STUPID one. If Thanos
picked up a Bible and Read Psalms 24:1 he’d have saved himself a LOT of grief. And
if he read the book of Ecclesiastics he’d realize what an idiot he actually is.
But the film goes on piling up plotholes as Thanos continues
on his quest to get the Infinity Stones. Heroes get jobbed out and beat up and
killed until everything builds up to the disjointed climax. After numerous
overdone special effects sequences ripped from Paul Dini and Bruce Timm’s
Justice League and more jobbed out heroes, Thanos gets the last Infinity Stone
in Vision’s head. Then we get one of those endings that literally feels like it
was ripped straight from a Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Finale.
And a couple of scenes I think were ripped off from me.
There’s a couple of scenes in this movie that look like they came STRAIGHT from
my John Haynes sequel The Man Who Rules The World. When I look at the Scene
with Star Lord shooting at Thanos and him turning his laser shots into bubbles
I have to wonder if these screenwriters stole that from the Climax of The Man
Who Rules The World where John Haynes and E’steem are taking on God Katious
after he destroys 4 Times Square.
And when I look at the scenes of half the universe turning
to dust I also have to wonder if Marvel Studios stole that from The Man WhoRules The World. Because when Katious kicks the bucket after his final
confrontation with John Haynes that’s pretty close to how I imagined God
Katious going out.
Unfortunately the screenwriters just couldn’t execute on
concept. Because none of those scenes has any of the depth or emotional
resonance that The Man Who Rules The World had as a story. With TMRTW, readers
FELT the threat from God Katious. And they had a reason to CARE about the
threat due to the fact that I used fewer characters and I had a much tighter
story.
With Avengers: Infinity War there’s an effort to make this
cosmic threat appear to be epic from a universal perspective, but sadly the
story only scratches the surface. While there’s a lot of flash from the special
effects, there’s no substance onscreen. In between the silly jokes and the
uneven storytelling I saw was a film from a studio that has grown arrogant and
complacent in the last decade. A studio that has taken the craft of filmmaking
for granted. A studio that’s taken its audience for granted. A studio that has
clearly lost its way.
Marvel Studios is headed down the same dark road that took
down Joel Schumacher and The Salkinds. And I have a feeling they’re going to
make a Batman & Robin, Superman IV or Last Jedi sooner rather than
later.
If you like popcorn movies filled with superheroes, carnage,
and explosions, then go ahead and waste 2.5 hours of your life on Avengers:
Infinity War. But don’t expect much in terms of story, substance or anything
that’ll resonate with you for years like the original Star Wars Trilogy or even
some of those Star Trek: The Next Generation season finales. Like Part 1 of a
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Finale featuring time travel, this movie
just sets up the second part where everything in this movie will all be CTRL+Z
in the next movie.
Many Black women claim to be such big wheels with their
college educations and their corporate jobs. However, Black male unemployment
still remains high. So why aren’t those Black mothers trying to help get their
sons jobs?
That’s a question many haven’t been able to answer for close
to 40 years. Black women are supposed to be the most educated and have all
these high profile jobs. Many work in Human Resources and know all about the
job listings and can easily put in a word with managers for their boys at the
companies they work at. However, they never seem to use their education or
influence to try to help their sons get that first job that will help them take
the first steps towards fiscal independence and fiscal responsibility.
I find it funny how Black mothers, especially Black single
mothers will go out of their ways to coddle their sons. They’ll buy them
everything from $300 Air Jordan tennis shoes, $400 XBOX 360 and PS4 video game
systems, and $200 pairs of designer jeans $800 iPhones and $1000 leather
jackets. But they won’t help those same sons find a job to pay their own way in
life.
In today’s job market 97% of all jobs are gained through contacts.
However most so-called educated professional Black women never use any of their
power to get their sons full-time employment. Instead, they let their sons sit
in their homes playing video games and having arguments with other grown men on
social media.
In the past when Black fathers were in the home, they often
made efforts to get their sons their first jobs. As the first contact on a job
they’d put in a word with a boss to get a son a job at their company. While it
oftentimes wasn’t the job that a boy would want, it usually taught a young man
discipline and a work ethic. From that job a boy would learn why it was
important to come into work on time and to come to work ready to work every
day.
Moreover, that job taught a boy fiscal responsibility. As a
boy worked in those menial positions at those companies, he learned the value
of a dollar. To take care of their everyday expenses, like gas, auto insurance,
bus fare and lunch, boys would learn how to create a budget. If he really
wanted something, like a video game or a video game system, he soon learned he
needed the discipline to save his money to pay for it.
And over the course of a few months or a year, he soon
learned the value of time as it related to money. With each day he worked he
learned how many hours he had to work in order to have the money to pay for the
everyday things he wanted like those video games and designer clothes. All
those lessons taught a boy not to take his money or his time for granted.
In addition to learning about the value of a dollar, getting
that job helped a boy develop self-confidence. As a boy learned that he could
work to meet his own needs he developed the confidence to go out and take the
risks that would help him grow up to become a responsible man.
So why aren’t all the Skrong, ejumukated professional Black
women helping their sons get their first jobs? I believe it’s because they’re
afraid of their sons having power over their own lives. A boy with economic
power has access to economic resources. And those financial resources give that
boy a say over his life and what he can do with it.
As long as that boy remains on her sofa in her house playing
video games she has power over him. And as long as he stays in that state of
arrested development she can delude herself into believing she’s the most
powerful person in the room.
However, if that boy starts making his own money he starts
taking steps to becoming his own man. And that scares many Black mothers. So
she makes efforts to keep her son stranded in a co-dependent state of perpetual
adolescence.
Black women claim to be the most educated in the world. Many
say they can be both the mother and the father. However, when it’s time to help
their sons find their first jobs many don’t make any efforts to help their sons.
While they brag about being strong enough to do the work of a man on their high
profile professional jobs, it seems like they lack the strength of character to
do what’s right for their sons by helping them find that first job that will
help them take the first steps to going out to becoming a man.
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