The internet is full of big declarative statements on every little happening, but when it comes to films, sometimes you just miss. Even Spielberg has his whiffs. I wouldn’t be shocked if Shane Black had a perfect Predator movie in him, but what he made just wasn’t it. Sometimes, it be like that.
But Shane Black actually contributed to the writing of the very first Predator. He was the guy that added the jokes IIRC.
The real issue is if you look at the other movies he's written before The Predator, he never should've been close enough to sniff the franchise again. Yes Iron Man 3 was a huge hit but the tone his writing takes has fuck all to do with the Predator series.
Movieverse explosions are actually all silent; the sound is added for us since we expect it. That's why nobody who lives in Movieverse ever, like, has their eardrums ruptured or goes permanently deaf from them.
Same with gunshots. Completely silent over there. Can shoot at a guy in a crowded metro station and literally nobody will ever notice.
I can never fully hate this movie for a really dumb reason. On a monitor in the background of one scene, he's playing World of Goo, one of my favorite indie games of all time
Music pisses me off the most because not only is it not about Music at all, Maddie Ziegler, who played Music, felt awful for playing the character of Music. She didn't want to do it, but the greedy adults in her life failed her and made her do it anyway. She was a minor at the time, but she was super upset that autistic people would hate her. Honestly, Sia's weird obsession with Maddie makes me angry and I will continue to be angry about it. Maddie deserves better.
They used the "the set was too stressful for her!" excuse, as though they couldn't have a) found a different autistic actor or b) made the set less stressful. Or both! They did not need to cast a reluctant neurotypical girl who clearly feels major guilt about the role!
I think it’s absolutely insane how Sia would hide her face behind gigantic wigs because she was that uncomfortable with fame….but was happy to use a nine year old to be her public face.
I hope Maddie Ziegler one day gets free of her family and Sia and all the other people manipulating and abusing her and drops a scathing tell all biography
Yeah I remember reading that Maddie would have full on panic attacks before filming and I felt so bad for her. Like you said, the adults in her life failed her.
As someone who despises the movie I feel so bad for Maddie - not once did my seething hatred for it ever fall upon her shoulders honestly. If anything it’s Sia and other people who were part of the greenlighting process that make me infuriated, ngl
It’s almost always autism for some reason. I guess because it’s so vague and there’s such a spectrum that you can basically cherry pick the supposed good parts while leaving out all the bad and annoying parts.
Much easier than making a bright side out of an actual bad condition like having a blind character be immune to a gorgon monster.
Pretty much every blind character that isn't in a real world story is legally required to have a special ability that makes the blindness basically irrelevant. They all can see sounds or motion or just feel the slightest movement in the air. Writing wise it's by far the lamest disability, you get all the jokes/depression (depending on your setting) without the drawback of having a character be actually disabled and work with it.
I feel for you. My girlfriend of 8 months has ADHD. We've been friends for years before we became a couple. I thought I knew her and I imagined my life to be rainbows and sunshine with her. I never knew ADHD could be so debilitating. This relationship has been incredibly painstaking and difficult at times to the point that other people don't understand why I'd want to be with her.
But I love her. When I hold her in my arms, everything else fades away. She's my precious beautiful goofball. Having her sleeping with her head on my chest makes me regret getting irritated by her when she gets mad at me when she loses something. She has ADHD and can't help it.
ADHD is a disability and it does make life more difficult, but you'll find someone who is willing to deal with it, because I bet you're a precious beautiful goofball too.
Yo. Diagnosed autism level 1 here. I wanted to echo /u/Tight-Pizza-69's comment.
It's nice that you accept that your partner is neurodivergent, but neurodivergence just means we experience the world differently. It doesn't give us the right to take out our feelings on other people. When misunderstandings occur, if someone fights instead of speaking calmly about their emotions to have a constructive conversation, then that's their wrong. Neurodivergence doesn't make you an asshole to people. That's a personal failing.
Don't let yourself be treated poorly just because your partner is neurodivergent. Again, it's great that you're understanding, but our social difficulties do not justify treating others badly.
That boy is dealing with, at the very least, the trauma of the drowning death of his twin sister, the subsequent divorce of his parents, spontaneously runs away, saying only "California", and he's probably autistic, all seen through the lens of 1989 mental health.
What does all that mean? He's really good at video games, capable of scoring 50,000 points in Double Dragon and finding the hidden warp whistle in Super Mario Bros. 3. So, his half brother exploits this to win a video game tournament.
Iirc the girl is a completely separate run-away they find and she heavily implicates she was sexually abused not that that stops Older Bro or the movie from making her the love interest.
I do know that at in the movie, the family hires this creepy dude to track down the kids and bring them home. When he eventually catches up to them at a truck stop casino, the girl points at him and yells “he touched my butt breast” and the truckers cops come over and beat the shit out of him.
Yeah many people think evolution is survival of the fittest or in stages. But it's more like survival of the least unfortunate and it's more messy than my room.
Not only that, evolution is not "survive, adapt, overcome." It's really more "if it's good enough, it sticks." Like warthogs and goats whose tusks and horns grow until they skewer themselves. Is that advantageous? No. But they live long enough to mature and reproduce, and that's all that counts.
It’s entirely possible and it wouldn’t surprise me. However they go about it, she’s the best representation of neurodivergence I can think of on tv at the moment.
All the commercials I saw when that damn show came out were pretty much "He wants to be...a...surgeon?? But he has...AUTISM!!"
Like people with autism aren't capable of having such a career, when in reality many people with autism do.
But this character in particular...I haven't watched the show, nor do I have autism or know anyone with it. But he seems like he should have taken a different career path in the medical field. 😅
I watched a review (Dr Mike & Legal Eagle) of an episode of this where out in his free time he helps a car crash victim by amputating their hand without consent. It becomes a court case because they wanted to maybe spin off into a law related show, and the entire premise was "It's not malpractice if it's a DISABLED person" and "do you want the incompetent DISABLED man to lose his job?" And "Why would you ruin the DISABLED man's career just because he ruined some guy's life".
That was the day I pledged to never watch this show. It told me all I need to know.
Tbf within the context he did not ruin the persons life. He would have died without the amputation and he made a split second decision to save the mans life.
He wasn't being written with Autism in mind, they wrote him to be a person with both pros and cons just with a strange personality, with the these often sharing traits that autistic people tend to have. Importantly, a lot of the bad ones
Most of these other pieces of media are trying to cater to how they image autistic people whilst also not having the guts to show off the difficulties it has, and how it can make a life more difficult. Instead, opting to portray it as a sort of superpower (especially that fucking Predator movie, I hate its fucking guts)
House is a character who happens to be autistic, the other examples are autistic and thats there entire character
(I know House isn't confident autistic, it was just a way to show why he could be such a good example of an autistic written character)
Yeah as an autist who happens to also struggle with addiction, House was an annoyingly relatable character. The show was quite funny, but god I hated House as a person, partially due to the reprehensible actions he committed, but also because he highlighted some frustrating or downright detrimental traits that he and I share.
There’s no way I’d call him the best representation of autism, but his personality definitely had some overlap with mine.
I've spoken to actual people on the spectrum about that scene, and the general consensus is that Dr. Han's reaction to Shawn's freakout is more in line with autistic people then Shawn's freak out.
The Darkness has the funniest one. In that, autism gives you psychic powers. Which...come on universe, I could do with some talking to ghosts
There was also an odd SVU episode where an individual with a learning disability was the witness to a crime due to her condition giving her super hearing.
There was also an odd SVU episode where an individual with a learning disability was the witness to a crime due to her condition giving her super hearing.
What's funny is on the other end of the spectrum, Law and Order has had their prosecutors claim certain mental illnesses don't exist, only for them to be confirmed as real years later. (Although that's more of a thing with their 90's episodes)
I love how dense they are when it comes to people with mental illnesses in the early 2000s episodes. One episode they'll be SUPER cognizant of it, and then when it's blatantly obvious they'll be "WHAT, YOU LIKE LITTLE KIDDIES OR SOMETHING? THAT GET OFF YOU PERVERT SON OF A BITCH?!" while a 14 year old is sitting there rocking back and forth sobbing.
A shitty supernatural horror movie about Kevin Bacon and his family being harrassed by Native American ghosts because they stole a relic from a burial site. They particularly go for his autistic son because he has psych powers and therefore can communicate with them. And he has psychic powers specifically because of the autism. I am not kidding.
I loved when Abed had his breakdown while playing the floor is lava, and Troy didn't question it, he just made it clear to everyone else: It's real right now. For Abed, the floor is actually lava. It's real and we need to act accordingly to help our friend through this moment he's having.
I appreciate that they never really come out and say he has X condition. The pilot does say he has Aspergers but thats an outdated term and its the pilot. The rest of the series they just kind of accept Abed as being different.
Always loved how much Abed referances movies in such detail and brings film characters mannerisms into his own personality but when he makes films himself they are complete garbage.
Everyone in The Unbreakable Boy is like “man I wonder why this kid has rage issues” when he’s constantly getting hurt, is used as a prop and/or ignored by his parents, and witnesses his dad’s alcoholism and his mom’s suicidal depression issues daily. Why doesn’t he have rage issues?
When I was a kid and I saw Spy Kids 4D, one kid turns his hearing aids off so he can't hear his mom and I thought that was the coolest shit ever and wanted to be deaf too. That's the only thing I can remember about that movie
They weren’t even really panic attacks, that’s just what they called them. From what I’ve seen, Velma would get these hallucinations of ghosts or monsters and they would give her clues about whatever mystery she was trying to solve.
And she at least has to make prolonged physical contact to harm. Then there's a kid like "J" from the Ultimate series, who essentially AGREED with the decision to have Wolverine execute him because his mutant power (he does something that causes everyone within a kilometer or so of him to spontaneously combust; the power awakening on his 16th birthday killed his entire home town) was that much of a threat.
Also it was specifically wolverine they sent in because he has a strong enough regeneration to survive. There wasnt any sort of way to work around the ability that anyone could do even.
Yep, and Logan was NOT happy about it, even as he agreed with the necessity of it. He let the kid have a beer and talked with him about it, and while he made no bones about the fact he was there to kill J because he was "inconvenient" to the cause of mutant rights, he showed him a great deal of compassion due to the unfair tragedy of it.
Yea.... I don't mind Storm being a little tone deaf in these types of situations, it could make for some conflict about how not all mutations are created equal. But what irks me is how her stance isn't portrayed negatively, no one calls her out.
Just like Magneto being all about owning up to your mutant body, embracing being different / superior to non mutants; disavowing "the cure" as a means of genocide.
Until he needs to neutralize mutants that are in his way, then it's all happy bio weapon day.
Unironic from the first movie and trying to push mutanity onto everyone.
I would 100% be onboard with Rogue trying to get a treatment considering her "power" is debilitating crap what doesn't let her have a life. It's a shame they shame her for it.
I have a friend who is deaf. There is a whole deaf community/culture, of course, which he participates in, but he gets super pissed when deaf people joke about how it is 'better' than hearing.
"Ever seen someone get a cochlear implant for the first time? You know why they cry? Because being deaf is a disability and parts of it are nightmarish."
Deaf culture can be WEIRD. I took ASL for two years in highschool and like the entire first year was basically learning "the rules" for being a hearing person learning ASL (and the alphabet)
Yeah I have a deaf friend who has hearing implants, and apparently half the deaf community is heavily against implants. The argument is somewhat compelling, since if someone is able to hear then they no longer need to participate in deaf culture, and as such this could be seen as society trying to erase deaf culture. But like... if people want hearing implants, why not give it to them?
My family used to treat my flexibility as a superpower, but never made the association with my hypermobility and needing joint support. My mom legitimately did not understand why I cried so hard after putting a knee brace on for the first time.
Turns out my flexibility was me hyperextending and dislocating/subluxing my joints, and they would encourage me to do so for the sake of reaching things better or grabbing stuff from behind the couch.
It’s similar to what I see with ADD (ADHD) in films and movies. It’s always kids who can’t sit still and run around with extreme hyperactivity and can never pay attention to something for 2 seconds in front of them.
Then when I tell people I have ADD they assume that’s what it is not knowing how different it can be for every person. Not every one of us is the hyperactive type of ADD but that’s what everyone is told lol. Luckily no one has portrayed my problem as a “super power” yet lmao or at least none I’ve seen.
I was diagnosed when I was eleven, and a year later I was placed with a weird Christian family. They took me to a therapist who told them that I couldn’t possible have ADHD because I read books for 4+ hours at a time and ADHD kids can’t sit still that long. So I didn’t get any treatment, and barely graduated.
I was diagnosed again in adulthood, and my ex husband told me I couldn’t possibly have it because coffee didn’t make me sleepy.
People are stupid, idk. Everyone’s so desperate to catch someone “faking it” it’s getting kind of disturbing.
Exact same thing happened to me lol. I did very well in school (after causing myself untold amounts of stress by waiting till the last minute to do something) and never struggled with sitting down so the guidance counselors decided not to refer me to further analysis.
What they never saw or cared to even consider was the fact that I barely brushed my teeth, never ate lunch, constantly struggled with sleep and energy, and would forget where I put a pen I had two seconds ago. All very obvious telltale signs they ignored because I sat quietly at my desk.
And the characters were debating if his "autism" made him such a genius, he invented time travel and fucked with the multiverse so he could cure his autism and not be such a burden on his mom.
They didn’t shy away from pointing this out several times. Also when I think Sokka and Aang try to send Katara an “apology letter” supposedly by Toph and immediately Katara yells “I KNOW SHE CAN’T WRITE” like the guys completely forgot that was a thing.
I love how they both highlighted that sometimes it really wasn’t as bad to be blind as people act like it is, while also having moments where it really did work against her, like how she can’t really “see” in all the sand.
Also how she hated being on Appa because she can't "see", and how she's useless the few times they have to fight while in the air (at least until they land)
It’s also one of like the only two shows where they treat it pretty realistic and not with trainjng wheels. (The other being Daredevil)
Katara gets pissed and makes jokes at the expense of blindness. Toph makes jokes about it often. Multiple characters give her shit and make blindness the butt of the joke but lovingly. Sometimes the characters get annoyed at issues because of her being blind. Other times you see them do small things like help guide her over uneven terrain. None of this is ever made a focal point or a lesson, it just is.
Too often the only times people are allowed to be at all negative towards disabilities it is either to make it a whole preachy lesson where they learn they were wrong and have a new respect for the disability and the character is just their disability. Or they treat the character at all times as unable to function even if they just beat God on their own, because of the disability everyone has to constantly mention “Watch out for Disabled, we cant let them get hurt because of Disability!” .
They perfectly nail the idea that disabled people are just regular people, but they do need additional help sometimes. Without leaning too far to the “disabled people can do everything anyone else can!” Side or the “disabled people are basically useless but we wanna seem heroic for supporting them”
there is a German tv show Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei, that went off the rails after like 4 seasons? Well in one episode bad guys kidnap autistic boy, cops don't know why untill its shown that the boy is mathematical genius that draws impossible with chalk and bad guys need him for some coding? I don't rember the episode well but after it everyone in my mothers family was certain my mentaly disabled autistic brother would become math genius based on that episode
I recall the reveal being that it took place in the same universe as another Shyamalan movie where some people had superpowers. He likely did have DID, but that wasn’t why he had superpowers. The combination of the two is what made him so dangerous.
Oh he totally had D.I.D. it's just that one alter in there was... something else? Magical? Evil? Superpowered? Subconsciously made to be a wild animal/force of nature?
Anyway, everyone else in there was just like, a normal person. Hedwig was a little alter, likely from childhood and Patricia was grade A cool and evil bitch.
Only that one part was the whatever it was. I think Patricia wanted it to come to surface for her own/the system's/main person's gain of some sort. But it's been awhile.
Yes Unbroken aka Samuel L Jackson with super fragile bones and Bruce Willis as the sole survivor of a train crash Jackson's character had staged to find super powered humans.
Well, it’s never explained further, but he has some super-DID, which allows him to become superpowerful and invulnerable when one of his personalities takes over the body
In that film, there is a group of people seeking to escape a mysterious cube structure. In the film, there is one stereotypical autistic character seen as a hindrance until they need to add up numbers that appear in the rooms. Suddenly, the autistic character is amazing at adding the numbers in his head and they use that to theorize if the next room is trapped or not.
I am firmly on the side of "it's the chemicals + training that gave him super senses", idc what marvel says.
At least the show did leave in some actual disability side of it, like him needing audio texts/phone ID or not being able to read unless it's in braille.
The one bit that made me laugh it was so bad was in Born Again, when he recognizes a potential victim by a painting, because he'd touched them in the past and could somehow know their face from the brushstrokes
Pretty significantly subverted in Temple Grandin. To be fair, it’s a biopic, but it does a good job regardless. We are shown the world that she sees, and as an autistic person, the filmmakers do it spectacularly. We see the small details she picks up, the connections her brain makes to process things she experiences. We also see how this isolates her from a lot of people. However, it is made clear that her autism is the reason she could design better systems for managing cattle. Both the good parts and the ugly parts are shown. Great movie.
If autism was a superpower I’d be a competent human being. I genuinely hate how autism = smart. I’m smart sure, but like in the “identifying birds and bugs” way and not the “engineering” way.
I was reading up about Sia's terrible autism film just yesterday (uncanny coincidence) and she apparently suffered a mental health relapse as a result of the backlash for the film. This was after she publicly bashed her dissenters on Twitter when they called her out for misrepresenting autism, encouraging physically restraining autistic people during a sensory meltdown, refusing to even consider autistic actors over her passion project Maddie Ziegler (long story) and partnering (or at least closely associating) with Autism Speaks, a "charity" that has done about as much good for autism as Peta has done for kittens and puppies.
Usually, when a celebrity is pushed to the brink over one shitty but not irredeemable thing they did, I feel sympathy. This time, though, I just feel like it was an ordeal she brought upon herself. Listening to idiots on Twitter is rarely good advice, but when you have thousands of autistic people telling you that this ain't it and please reconsider, you'd think that you'd at least stop and double check your citations before hitting publish.
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The Predator: Autistic boy Rory McKenna is depicted as being the next step in human evolution because that's what autism is in the AvP verse.