He really needs a hospital

There is a huge spike in the incidence of Superhero movies.  But, I haven't seen them.  Not because I don't want to.  I would be perfectly happy to watch any of them, but it just never has happened.  In fact, I've recently been told that I need to watch Superhero movies.  Because the only ones I have seen were the Supermans from the 70s.  Yeah, the ones with Christopher Reeve.  So, last night, I began to satiate this "need" that I have recently been told I have.  I watched "The Amazing Spiderman."  It was good.  I really did like it.  I just have one thing to say: Why doesn't Spiderman die without hospital care?

I actually have to give the movie credit.  After a fight, this Spiderman has cuts, bruises and other abrasions and he actually keeps them for a realistic amount of time, and their appearance follows healing patterns.  But, this adds to the suspension of disbelief for the serious injuries.  My roommate tried to convince me that his super powers have also accelerated his healing time, but if this is true, he should be able to heal the cuts and bruises overnight.  And yet, The Lizard can gouge huge cuts across his chest.  He is visibly hurt by this, and tarzans over to Gwen Stacy's house where she cleans the wounds.  However, about 20 minutes later, he's ready to go tarzanning with Gwen on his back for their romantic moment.  Then, Spiderman gets shot in the leg.  With a gun.  And he's hurt.  Knowing, however, that if he doesn't get to Oscorp Tower in time, NYC will all be turned into mutant lizards, he gets an adrenaline rush and, with the help of the people of New York, gets there.  True, he does cauterize the wound with some spiderwebs.  Apparently a lot of people didn't like that, because it wasn't "realistic"--funny thing is spiderwebs are actually VERY good at cauterizing wounds and have been used for that purpose for centuries.  The down-side being, they weren't generally super clean.  I'm willing to believe that Spiderman has sterile webs--so no qualms there.  But, he still has a gunshot wound.  Both of these injuries should require hospitalization.  Even if he cauterized it and isn't going to bleed to death, he would have already been in septic shock from the scratches across his chest.  If he managed to avoid septicemia in that wound, he will die from septic shock about a week after the movie ends from the gunshot wound.  Spiderman really needs a hospital.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Over-analyzing Disney Movies: The Little Mermaid--Why Eric is White.

Image
I have recently noticed a trend of just purely over-analyzing Disney movies.  In this category, I also include the fascination with photoshopping Disney characters to swap genders, races, or eras, as well as making princesses have "realistic" body shapes (which is something I could write a whole other post about, and it wouldn't be pretty.  Spoiler alert:  I find it to be one of the most unempowering trends of recent years).  However, I sometimes wonder at how much people are reading into Disney movies.  Today, I'm going to over-analyze their over-analysis. I recently read that the fact that Eric is a white prince is a representation of how we white-wash racial expectations for our children.  I'm not even sure what that sentence means.  It seems to have a lot of buzz words.  But I'm going to show you today, using evidence from the film, why Prince Eric is, in fact, the correct color. (I will, however, say that Eric is the only Disney prince wh...
Read more

Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!

James Joyce is my kind of guy. He made puzzles that I like to think are just for me. He was a great lover of languages, and he is sometimes called the father of a literary technique called polyglotism. This is when you insert other languages in there. Just 'cuz. So, in James Joyce's wonderful story, "Eveline" there is a phrase that nobody knows what it is. Even to this day. "Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!" Many people believe it to be corrupted Irish Gaelic. Needing a break from homework, I have approached this by taking the words and then transliterating them into Irish Gaelic, trying to create Irish Gaelic that would be spoken by someone of this status in this time in Ireland. Nationalist, but not educated enough to actually understand all the ins and outs of the language. I came up with two possible phrases that I find very probable. And I'm not pretending to solve the mystery. If Joyce experts over the years have not discovered the mean...
Read more

What does it mean to be a Russell?

Image
As many know, most European families (not all, but most) have a coat of arms, a crest, a motto, all that good stuff. So, I decided to look a bit into what being a Russell means. And maybe I'll do the same for Hatches, because I am a Hatch too. The last name Russell is Scottish and means "Red-headed" and derives from the Norman name of Roussel. The Russells are a well-respected Highland Scot clan, complete with Scottish crest and tartan: The motto on the crest "virtus sine macula" means "Virtue without blemish." As Scotland incorporated more and more into England, the Russells became nobility in that world as well, and were thus presented with a coat of arms: And yes, the motto written on that one is "che sara sara." You've got to admit, that's pretty gosh-darn cool. It really does mean "Whatever will be, will be." And in honor of that:
Read more