The Boys - An Amazon Prime adaptation of the Ennis comic series

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SITHRAK! said:
It’ll be done with Ridley Scott/Danny Boyle style action scenes with the camera being whipped around like it’s in a tornado and fifteen cuts a second so that everything is a blurry discombobulated mess.

Twelve years on from John Wick and five years on from Nobody and most directors still haven’t figured out that audiences want long-take, coherent, contextual action scenes.
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I get what the fights here were going for, shakiness that emphasizes superhuman blows, but the collateral to back that up is not present. Cameras staying still requires the rarely skilled actors capable of great choreography by their lonesome.
 
JayseeDenton said:
So given all that what exactly is it that they're trying to say in the context of "this guy represents America" shit? It doesn't really fit with the woke narrative that if you're white you've been on easy mode you're entire life. This guy has had a worse life than any other character I can think of. If anything that message seems to be a warning against black/tranny/muslim victimhood mentality... "sometimes people who have had horrible circumstances turn out to be complete monsters and even though it isn't their fault they still need a crowbar in the head".
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This is because most of homelander's backstory is grandfathered in from the comic, wherein he's very much a commentary on how, if Superman had actual emotions, he would be a massively fucked up individual that could easily be gaslit and manipulated by nefarious forces into becoming something truly horrific. It's a more schizoid take on the "evil superman" shit. All of that is thrown out by the show that basically made him a Trump allegory since s3 or s4.

He also gets taken out by the clone, and the military in the comics which is a way better commentary than "dude even tho he's crazy and got MKULTRA'd he's still gotta die bro" that the show went for. It's like they didn't even think of the implications of re-doing the comic ending within the context of the plotlines and metaphors they went for in the show. Would've maybe actually been good libshitkino if they'd actually committed to turning Homelander into a total psycho that BTFO the military and started using his body to kinetically bomb cities off the map. Then Billy's virus would be required and the message is "we gotta just like totally tear down the system before nukes fly bro" which is a watchmen-tier libtard boomer take but would be infinitely more kino than what we got.

They half-assed the ending and it's sad because anything else they were leading up to would've been better.
 
TheHarbinger said:
They don't have the budget for a giant scale WWII battle. Vought Rising is a murder mystery. And also a prequel about the creation of Compound V. The likely twist will be that Soldier Boy or someone from the government kills Frederick Vought.
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I say that because there’s a clip in the trailer with Soldier Boy spraying gunfire with an M1 Thompson while wearing an Adrien helmet in what looks to be urban ruins. Plus a clip of German soldiers riding in a tank. So at the very least we might see flashbacks of SB on the frontlines going ham on the Wehrmacht.
 
If you didn't realize this show was too far gone during the geriatric gay ass eating scene and quit watching right then and there then I don't know what to tell ya.
 
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