ain't no lie baby bye bye bye

Beast and I watched Deadpool and Wolverine a couple of days ago. No spoilers, but if I wanted to watch mindless, stupid, choreographed, repetitive and completely pointless violence for a couple of hours I could have been a wrestling fan. The movie majored on icky violence and bad language, some of which (not enough) was funny, but forgot the inexplicable charm of the first Deadpool film. And to include a coherent storyline. I wouldn't bother if I were you.

Why is it that so much entertainment these days involves brutality and death? I'm not talking about murder mysteries, because they are in essence about justice, about making sure that perpetrators are caught and held responsible. And also about figuring out whodunnit, although that is not always true, depending on the writing. But the superhero stuff is all about being able to kill people in Really Cool Ways, and there are so many non-superhero stories around that just seem to rely on killing as providing the solution to problems. It cannot be good for us. The recent murder of a healthcare CEO is a case in point: I cannot bring myself to feel sorry for the guy, or to hope that the perpetrator is caught, even though I don't approve of murder. And I'm not at all surprised at the reactions I'm seeing on places like Reddit.

But as a society, resorting to killing instead of sorting out problems is a really, really bad path to be going down.

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