>Did you miss the part where the Joker was wrong in the movie? He expected the boats to blow up, but they didn't. Humans didn't descend to their basest instinct

>Did you miss the part where the Joker was wrong in the movie? He expected the boats to blow up, but they didn't. Humans didn't descend to their basest instincts. Worst part of the movie IMO. The acting during this part seemed so fake. The fact that everyone including the prisoners just went with it didn't seem realistic at all. The ultimate choice should have been left ambiguous and darker here. Perhaps both sides ended up trying to blow each other up but batman stopped it somehow. They had to insert some hollywood idealism here I guess otherwise it woulda been too dark. >You want a movie to "question classic tropes of good and evil", Black Panther was right there. Killmonger was right. What Wakanda was doing all those years was wrong. Joker did it better imo. Much more darker and it questioned the classic mythology of batman. Killmonger didn't dig as deep and wakanda/black panther isn't as established so their's no controversial questioning of a classic mythology. >Not to mention, Thanos's response after everyone is snapped back is to remake the entire universe in his image. Like that was possible from the start and he just didn't do it. Yeah I wouldn't call it bad writing outright. But they needed the classic good and evil face off at the end to pull off that final climatic battle. They sacrificed consistency and perfect writing with a short cut here to lead into the climax. It's deliberate imo. > You complain of others twisting logic, then justify Thanos with "the writers said so". The writers exploited the human capacity to twist logic in their writing. A good movie isn't built upon logical consistency. It's built upon emotional impact. Emotions dull when exposed the the same thing over and over so writers need to constantly come up with creating new patterns for plot twists. But you can see in their writing they exploit human biases. That was the point here. >We can also argue that Thanos is operating from a place of emotion, not reason. He's responding to the trauma of his own planet. And since his planet fucked it up so hard, he doesn't believe anyone could do any different. Not to mention, we don't even know if his plan would work in the long run. They didn't try it on Titan and it was only 5 years out in Endgame. There's an adjustment period when half of your population disappears. The writers made him out to be doing (from his perspective) mostly logical choices and deliberately ignoring his emotions. His own death at the beginning of end game and the murder of his daughter are evidence of this. But of course there is that change in heart at the ending; The shortcut the writers took for the final battle where he just became evil. Avengers isn't a literary masterpiece with internal and external consistency. It first and foremost must hit emotional high points that need to come at the expense of consistency.