Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is an unexpected surprise, and one that dares to evoke in Doom emotions he has long considered beneath him -- grief and an ache that no lost battle nor failed conquest has ever drawn forth.
How does she wield such formidable power over Doom’s indomitable spirit? What sorcery or technology does Gerwig possess to command these feelings that no intellect in all creation can equal could suppress?
Doom, who has stood unyielding before cosmic forces, now…
Hocus Pocus is a disappointing spectacle, where supposedly powerful witches are laughably defeated by mere children.
Doom laments such weakness, for had they been sorceresses of true power -- Morgan Le Fay or Amora -- their enemies would have been utterly crushed beneath their might.
The careless missteps of these so-called witches prove they are unworthy of their craft. True sorcery bends the very fabric of reality itself. They are not petty parlor tricks easily undone by mortals.
Gigli is an indignity to cinema, a grotesque failure led by Ben Affleck, who stumbles through his role with ineptitude. The film's plot is a nonsensical travesty, lacking the vision and intellect befitting of the Mindless Ones. Such an abysmal creation deserves to be obliterated from the annals of film, for it dares to pollute the world with its mediocrity, unworthy of even a second glance from Doom.
The English Patient presents a character in László Almásy who wallows in despair and regret, a truly pathetic display of weakness.
Unlike Doom, this man cannot summon the tenacity to simply wear a metal mask and move forward. He allows himself to be consumed by his scars rather than use them as fuel for his rise.
Doom wears his mask and it burns with the fires of vengeance. It is precisely this resolve that separates the truly powerful from those who merely endure.
Almásy's self-pity is beneath Doom, who knows that true greatness comes from mastering one's pain and bending it to serve a higher purpose.
