x-men’s inherent flaw in its storytelling is that it always has mutants with useful powers telling mutants with actual curses to be proud of their powers
“you should embrace your gifts” says Orgasm Dude, the dude with the power to give anyone an orgasm
“yeah thanks” says Will Explode If He Gets A Boner Man
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Image description: a gouache painting of a gnarled dead tree in the middle of a dark forest. Moss grows on and underneath the tree. The background is turquoise. End ID
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I’ve been on a bit ob a Russell Crowe movie binge in the past few weeks and since he is almost sixty now, many of the movies I’ve watched were consequently older movies. and when I watched them, it struck me again, how much hollywood has changed in the last few decades when it comes to depicting men.
take Gladiator for example from the year 2000. Russell Crowe plays basically an action hero in it. he is a big, muscly dude, who is very strong and uses that strength to defeat his enemies. and this is what he looks like:
looks like a strong man, right?
in the same year, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine looked like this in the first X-men movie:
in 2013 the same character played by the same actor looked like this:
it’s a bit much, isn’t it? I mean, he looks so skinny.
and if we go even further back: look at what the womanizer character Face from the A-team looked like in the 80s show vs the 2010 movie reboot:
maybe the difference isn’t that big but it really startled me when I watched that movie for the first time. in my mind there was no reason why Face should be particularly muscular since he is the charming one not the one known for being particularly strong.
if we go even further back, look at the charmin womanizer character Hawkeye in M*A*S*H from the 70’s.
I know he’s a doctor and there is no reason for him to be ripped but I got the feeling if they did the show now, he would be.
I don’t know what my point really is I’m just saying I got a bit nostalgic when watching these men. I cannot be the only one who’d rather see more of this:
also, as a sidenote: Russell Crowe gained a lot of weight for the nice guys and he is a fucking powerhouse in that film, like, when he punches someone, you really feel it because of the weight that is behind it and the shere mass of his body.
(even if this may look different, he’s about to break Ryan Gosling’s character’s arm. I couldn’t find a gif of him punching someone but I swear it looks painfull as hell.)
so, in short: can we get big, heavy action guys back? cause I’m tired of seeing these skinny, despite being muscular dudes who look dehydrated as hell and on steroids.
and can we stop making characters ripped just for the sake of it? cause I’d rather cuddle with a guy looking like Hawkeye than one looking like Face from the new A-team movie.
this is a very real fighting game called Fight of Gods on steam early access. you can play as odin, amaterasu, buddha, moses, and yes, even the son of god Jesus Christ himself
jesus breaks free from his cross and uses the wooden blocks like hulk hands and basically this game fucking rules
cant stop thinking about how love is stored in the kitchen. when somebody cooks for you or you make food for somebody that’s the purest corner of the heart that gets on the plate
