Seriously though, criticizing Hawkeye is as silly as criticizing all of the many other unrealistic shit going on in the movie. It`s a superhero movie, it looks this way or that way because it looks badass, just roll with it.
Seriously though, criticizing Hawkeye is as silly as criticizing all of the many other unrealistic shit going on in the movie. It`s a superhero movie, it looks this way or that way because it looks badass, just roll with it.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. -Marie Curie
I guess it depends on how much you care about archery, which you lot don't seem to (Ryllharu didn't critique the article's critique of JR's form), then you might look harder at the form and technique of "the world's greatest archer", even if it's in a movie. Like I mentioned, it makes me laugh to see police and special forces characters on tv/movies who can't hold a firearm correctly. It ruins the fantasy, if ever so minutely.Originally Posted by UChessmaster
The author claims to be an instructor so I think he's basing the arm guards on JR's form. Seeing that poor form, he expects the archer takes a lot of string hits to the forearm, hence he concludes the need for 2 guards. It may very well be a prop/part of the costume. I imagine if the pain was so bad from repeated strikes, then JR would have worn a larger forearm guard instead of just doubling up.
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“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
When you were watching the movie, did you notice he was holding the bow in the wrong way?
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. -Marie Curie
The movie is such a mind-fuck of lights and special effects that no, I didn't notice. But then I'm not an archery fan, so it wouldn't have been something I focused on. Notice how this discussion started with me making fun of an archer amongst mighty heroes.
Remember "The Day After Tomorrow"? A geologist buddy of mine ripped it apart for all of its meteorological inaccuracies. I guess it takes a devoted mind (anal-retentive in fact) to see and demand such detail even in movies.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
But being an expert a meteorology, I bet the geologist didn't have too many complaints about "The Core", right?
I'm sure you know that geology and meteorology go hand in hand, as weather plays a huge factor in shaping the earth.
If we had seen it he would definitely have had plenty to complain about The Core as well as any Hollywood movie covering his field. The thing is that around the time that The Day After Tomorrow came out, there was a lot of doomsday talk about the world entering a new ice age and megastorms destroying the world, complete with a few Hollywood movies covering the subject, so the scientific aspects of TDAT were ripe for nit-picking.
Btw, TDAT and The Core are numbers 5 and 6 in Yahoo!'s list of the 10 most scientifically inaccurate movies ever: http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/top-1...slideshow-903/
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“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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