"Aren't you upset over superheroes and the MCU ruining cinema?!"
...No? One, I fucking love the MCU. I love keeping track of this stuff. I'm a comic book fan, FFS - and I don't mean I just like all superheroes, I mean it's easy for me to keep track of all this stuff after...
...years and years of doing this. And the MCU is a lot more coherent than the actual comics they spawned from. Fuck, I think I prefer the MCU to a lot of stuff in the actual comics. At least it has a consistent vision for what it wants to be and more oversight and not...
...killing its characters JUST for the sake of a shock death moment. Movies like the original Avengers and Avengers: Endgame feel satisfying and I still enjoy because they're properly built up to, with characters I have become invested in interacting and cracking wise at each...
...other and advancing their own personal story arcs. It's fulfilling in a way that I don't even get from some TV shows that are supposed to have an ongoing narrative arc.
As for "ruining cinema," no it fucking isn't. Hollywood sees that something is popular and they make...
...more like it to try to make more money. They've ALWAYS done that. They have ALWAYS sacrificed one film for another that they think will make them more cash.
Eventually, MCU and superheroes movies WILL die just like Westerns and pirate movies or every other popular trend...
...dies out. We get new movies and TV shows every week on streaming services. We get new stuff, good and bad, on DVDs and blu-rays. Does it get as much popular attention? Not really, but some of this shit wasn't going to be THAT popular to begin with. People have discovered...
...something they like and want more of, so Hollywood produces more of it.
I don't hate a single movie in the MCU. Not even Thor: The Dark World, which I consider the worst MCU film. It's still not THAT bad, just kinda lame. I love these things and I want more and I will...
...watch more. If I lose interest, then that's it. But they've done a spectacular job of keeping my interest, soooo here we are, with me eagerly enjoying myself.
I made a thread about that idea a while ago that having regular conventions and tropes and an ARCHETYPE isn't a bad thing for a movie subgenre, it's about execution...
...but even if that WERE the case, I'd still say it's pretty inaccurate.
The Eternals and Guardians of the Galaxy are both Marvel cosmic stories and they are not alike.
Thor: Ragnarok and Dr. Strange are both movies dealing with big, world-ending threats with godlike power...
...and they are not the same.
Ant-Man and Iron Man are two very different from movies, just like Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger are two different movies.
Black Panther is not Captain Marvel nor is Age of Ultron like Guardians of the Galaxy 2.
Black Widow and Spider-Man are not the same movie.
If they mean that characters undergo a journey, tell jokes, have goofy things happen, etc., etc. ...I don't know what to say other than "Sooo, like most movies?"
Exorcist III is my favorite horror movie of all time and it of course very, very tonally different from ANY MCU movie.
Goofy shit happens in it and characters tell jokes and it is a slow, somber movie with building dread and tension and disturbing moments.
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