Why aren't you sick of Marvel Movies yet?
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Oh, absolutely, I'm totes sick of the mainstream narrative of a rejection of materialism and ego during a dimension warping journey of self-discovery with a phenomenal, thematically relevant set-piece finale...Derryck said:
Those other 99 times really took the edge off of Doctor Strange.
(I posted in this thread before, but after having seen/bought Doctor Strange since, I'd add that to the list of superb MCU entries, and an example of the kind of filmmaking that - on this scale and in a genre setting - quite frankly no one else is doing. long may they continue)
I'm not. Mainly because the ones I've seen so far are fun and enjoyable. And at least they aren't like DC's recent cinematic output...
I am not going to lie and say that they are good movies as a rule. Sure there may have been a gem or two in there, but otherwise they are a perfectly normal set of Summer/Winter blockbusters in my opinion. The average movie that hits my Theater I have absolutely zero interest in watching (and less in paying to watch), but the marvel films at least represent a certain level of professionalism (I am shying away from saying quality here) that prevents the movie from being obviously "bad" (outside of a few out layers like Iron Man 3). They are just there, they are familiar, and they give me a movie about some of my childhood heroes (though often with half of the story either wrong or mixed up, but that is just cinema in my experience) that has a ton of action and occasionally manages to tell an interesting or (more commonly) passable story.
Meanwhile I've seen 5 or 6 action films over the past 3 years that are just complete crap and maybe 1 or 2 that are actually "GOOD". I think that most of us has to face the fact that hollywood is just out of ideas and needs to mine products like marvel and DC comics for stories. Then rather than just leaving them alone at their core (I mean I know that the overall quality of a comic book story is crap in general, not to mention the reasoning they typically give), they try to rewrite them using other parts of the character's story and some parts that are completely unrelated, mix it all together and press out the shiniest turd we will get this year.
Meanwhile I've seen 5 or 6 action films over the past 3 years that are just complete crap and maybe 1 or 2 that are actually "GOOD". I think that most of us has to face the fact that hollywood is just out of ideas and needs to mine products like marvel and DC comics for stories. Then rather than just leaving them alone at their core (I mean I know that the overall quality of a comic book story is crap in general, not to mention the reasoning they typically give), they try to rewrite them using other parts of the character's story and some parts that are completely unrelated, mix it all together and press out the shiniest turd we will get this year.
On one hand I am fucking bored of superheroes, but on the other I like they've now gotten to the point where they have exhausted all the most famous superheroes and now have to try out the weird, interesting ones like Strange, Wonder Woman and Black Panther. I actually really liked Strange and it was the last Marvel movie I had watched in ages, so I'm hoping if I'm super selective and pick the movies with concepts that force imaginative writing, I won't get completely fatigued.
But fuck Iron Man. How many times can they retell the Billionaire-has-personality-issues-and-needs-to-get-his-head-straight-and-build-a-better-iron-man-suit-to-fight-off-both-the-scary-"exotic"-foreign-villain-and-the-greedy-American-arms-dealer-with-a-grudge plot?
But fuck Iron Man. How many times can they retell the Billionaire-has-personality-issues-and-needs-to-get-his-head-straight-and-build-a-better-iron-man-suit-to-fight-off-both-the-scary-"exotic"-foreign-villain-and-the-greedy-American-arms-dealer-with-a-grudge plot?