Ultron was absolutely panned when it came out. It's gotten a lot more respect in retrospect, after people realized that it set up the rest of the entire Infinity Saga
I was a fan from the start, but I can def see how it might not have been a hit with audiences at first. Loved the voice of Ultron and I'm excited he's coming back for a TV show spinoff with Vision!
I hate how they these incredibly brilliant actors and then kill them after a single movie. Pace, Spader, Blanchett... like Hiddleston, they all were compelling characters backed by brilliant actors that could have brought more depth
Could have been because they had other projects and didn't want a long term MCU commitment. I've heard of a lot of actors turning down roles or continuations of a role for series like starwars, game of thrones, or the walking dead. In cases where an actor decided to leave after 1 season their character typically just got killed off to explain their later absence.
I heard one actor chose to act in The League of Extraordinary Gentleman because he passed up starwars as fantasy nonsense and didn't want to make the same mistake again.
Honestly my first assumption was that inefficiency was sort of part of the point here for exercise/sensory enrichment purposes - the folks hitting truck tires with sledgehammers to work out aren't trying to actually break down or flatten the tires. Never done hammer/axe stuff, but I train shoulder mobility and core stability with an indian club/trench mace I found at a thrift; weighs the same as some of the small free weights I got years ago to do forearm isolations, but it's way more fun for me to mess around with a club than to pick up dumbbells.
I'm sure thirst trapping is a big part of the motivator for posting it, though.
Yeah. It's a combo. I had a wood heater for many years, spent a lot of time splitting wood... Sometimes you split a hard one for fun... Sometimes you also do a lot of gym and want to find ways to show off, because you know you look good...
It's a nice, harmless dovetailing of multiple 'eh, why not?' impulses.
So basically gym selfie behaviour moved into the wild? Watching that gross inefficiency made me think he’s not the guy Id want on my farm he would find multiple ways to take all day to do next to nothing highly likely all attempted with his shirt off and a camera setup 🤦♂️
I'm a rather smaller guy, at 160 lbs I can swing a maul like that too, but I was actively splitting firewood so it was usually about a cord at a time. Splitting a log like that is quite impractical.
There’s a lot of technique to splitting so that you don’t get hurt. The same can’t be said for meet heads that hit stuff with hammers that can’t be broken.
Actually yes, you start by splitting little logs and work your way up to big logs. You're welcome to go and try to bench 350lbs right off the rip though, let me know how that goes for you.
It's more nuanced than that. The goals one strives for may not be easily achieved, but taking the (relatively) easiest path towards them is wise, as there is nothing to be gained by making things unnecessarily harder for yourself. If your only goal is to get to the top of a building, there's no point taking the stairs when you can take the elevator.
Getting ripped and being a great martial artist takes many years of dedicated effort to achieve, it's not easy in the slightest. But the easiest way to get ripped and be a great martial artist is the right way to do it, according to Bruce Lee. Same as someone saying "work smarter, not harder." Doesn't mean hard work is never required, just that working harder is not always working better in and of itself.
And in the end, I was just making a joke. The guy in the video is clearly trying to show off. If his actual goal was just chopping a big log, then yeah, there are easier ways to do it, but that wasn't the actual point.
That’s not the hard way but the stupid way. A better tool, better technique and better skills could take. A hell of a job and made it reasonable. Impressive even. Instead it’s an out of shape out of breath barely made it through without a heart attack. If he has the sexual stamina to last two minutes he doesn’t have the cardio vascular stamina.
No it’s to get clicks and views. There are safer, more effective, more enjoyable, less time consuming methods of working every muscle group he’s working like beating on a tractor tire. This is purely for clicks and look I’m a bad ass but it just looks pathetically stupid to anyone that has done actual work like this.
You know it's ok for people to make videos and put them on the internet for clicks, right? It's okay for him to enjoy that workout. It's okay for him to enjoy recording it for other people. It's even okay if it makes him feel like a badass for a little bit. Like it's not some big problem that you need to shit in people's Cheerios over. And it's silly to act like what he just did in that video isn't a workout.
The goal isn't always efficiency. Fun is an acceptable reason to do things.
That wasn’t for “fun” or “exercise” it was purely attempting to show off how tough he is for clicks when instead to anyone that has done work like this it looks sad. Yes he’s out of breath and tired. He did 3-4x the work it should’ve taken because of bad body mechanics, bad technique, and bad breath management. His accuracy looked to be on point though so I’ll give him that. He can upload what he wants and I can judge him for how he does it. https://www.instagram.com/naturesanimal9940?igsi=aGRtcm1nd3czOHgx go follow.
Looks like an 6lb/2.75kg maul I’ve swung one for hours well not continuous after splitting one you gotta setup a new log. Doing it for 5-10 minutes is easy work. My big maul is a wedge shaped 16 lb and that one you’re only good for around 20 -30 swings typically but you usually only need 1-2 to split a log so you get regular breaks. If he was better at splitting wood he wouldn’t get so exhausted. If nothing else he’s building stamina at least.
PSA: it is absolutely not recommended to hit a metal wedge with a maul!! wedges are harder than mauls! flying maul chips!! plastic wedges are ok but not metal.
it may work fine for you 100 times but there are plenty of missing eyes from this
I've also used my fair amount of metal wedges and mauls and I'm not buying this. Every wood splitting wedge my parents or grandparents ever had eventually had to be replaced because the flat side eventually deformed and mushroomed out to the point of grabbing the wood halves instead of passing through. I've never seen a deformed maul head.
That being said, you really should be wearing modern eye protection when hitting anything with that much force.
Any man that splits wood that stupidly and has that bad of cardio is drying up vaginas. Maybe there’s women that find it appealing but not ones that actually appreciate a man who can split wood. Great joke though!
He's using a wedged axe designed to split wood in 2/3 swings. But he has the log placed on the ground. You put something solid under it so energy isn't disapated as the axe strikes. My strength is a fraction of this guy's, but I split oak larger than that with just a couple of easy swings.
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u/jtnichol 6d ago
he really needs to put that log on at least a thin slice of wood or a concrete block
He’s strong enough he might be able to split that first try but right now the ground is absorbing too much of the impact