We don't often pause to think about the faceless civilians who get killed in movies, and there are some movies that go so far out of their way to ignore these deaths that we can't help but wonder about the mental stability of the writers.
Being a movie villain is not easy. Nobody respects your work, women refuse to date you, and the heroes are always in the business of trying to straight up murder you.
The key here is the characters aren't just really smart, they're incredible and borderline supernatural scientific ubermenschen who are better at their jobs than anyone has ever been at anything.
Darth Vader and his underlings apparently planned every last subtle detail, right down to the color of the spaceships and Vader's own robot voice, according to what science says works.
It didn't start with Avatar. Humans have been obsessed with the idea of combining humans and cats into a new fictional creature for as long as written records exist.
one Christmas movie doesn't want to teach you kindness or charity, or any of that crap; it only wants to teach you spite and how to commit hate crimes.
If you're under the age of 50, chances are you received most of your life guidance from teen movies. Unfortunately, upon closer inspection, it appears that was more ill-advised than you previously thought.
When it comes to marriage, some lucky folks manage to land somebody way out of their league, though that's pretty rare. Rarer still is the small group who get to marry someone way out of their league, and just completely take it for granted.
