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by raydiatian 1284 days ago
I mean, one part of the problem I see at a local level is Black Panther 2 is currently occupying 50% of available projectors at all of my local movie theatres. I’m sort of just waiting and hoping the silly capeshit phenomenon will die out already. I think we need to see that the cinematic universe concept was a novelty and is extremely difficult to execute, especially when it’s driven by soulless profiteering.

I mean, it’s not at all difficult or dishonest to argue that the MCU was 80 years in the making. More importantly, it was made by people that genuinely cared about comic books and their characters, as opposed to caring about (and subsequently engineering for) shareholder satisfaction.
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bitwize 1284 days ago
I used to not take people who grouse about capeshit too seriously. I would go okay, maybe this whole superhero thing is starting to get played out, but I'll go see the next Marvel just to be sure.

Up until Captain Marvel (2019), the Marvel films were solidly entertaining if not great, and very respectful of the characters. There were still some Marvel films like that after that, but most of Phase IV has been a hard skip for me.

Now I'll sometimes watch anime or science fiction on streaming, but the last movie to make me really want to go to the theaters was Maverick.

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raydiatian 1284 days ago
Agree on all points.

Avengers Endgame had its visible flaws that I was straight up willing to forgive because the seams had just started to rip. Phase 4 just feels like Disney-owned Marvel going

“And for my next trick, uh, uhhhhh, uhhhhhhhh, here’s a twerking She-Hulk? Hello fellow kids.”

Maverick made me finally go watch Top Gun.

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bitwize 1284 days ago
The only other movie I really wanted to see on the silver screen this year besides Maverick... had frickin' Sonic the Hedgehog in it.
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JKCalhoun 1284 days ago
> I’m sort of just waiting and hoping the silly capeshit phenomenon will die out already.

Ha ha, capeshit. I confess, I can't stand super hero movies either.

Instead I've been working through the "1001 Film to See Before You Die" and it regularly reminds me what film can be (has been).

As an aside, I also remember wondering when rap music would die out. We may both be waiting a long time.

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Der_Einzige 1284 days ago
It IS capeshit. The majority of the fans of capeshit today we're bullying the old school capeshit fans 20+ years ago.
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