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Anyone else not like superhero films?


I just can't get into them. Yet they keep churning them out 2-3 at a time, all year long. People can't get enough of them. What is the deal with this?

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Easy money.

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& I recall, 8, when they started churning 'em out they warned us it was going to be a long campaign of such. & they kept that word in spades.

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It's only been a decade since Iron Man?

Wow, feels a lot longer Culburn!

I liked Batman Begins and The Dark Knight which ended my enjoyment of those types of movies (With the odd exception on Thor 1+3) but this Avengers and X-Men stuff, and particularly the bad DC stuff of late has really plugged any gap in potentially wanting to relive watching any of them again.

Still, fun boards to watch people bitch out upon!

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Yeah, just like the trend of remakes. I guess the better question is what do people love so much about them? Entirely too much suspension of disbelief.

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I've enjoyed a few over the years MovieGuy, so not all bad. But as you say entirely too much and very oversaturated with regards to having healthy variaty in our movie diets.

The Black Panther thing, whilst not particularly good or bad, was a big cultural moment for many people though and so it's the wins that seem to make it worthwhile for most - and that can never be a bad thing.

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Only "Superman" 1978 drew me. I play that introduction a lot and it gets my tired blood to moving.

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can't stand them. People suggest them all the time to me and I just roll my eyes.

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I don't enjoy them, im becoming older and everything seems like shit. But if I was a comicbook nerd aybe I could enjoy them or hate them like I do with Star Wars movies these day. Even comic book nerds hate em.

I like to think i'm more of a music guy, science wanna be nerd than a comic book nerd but everything I learned about music was from teaching myself guitar and pirating mp3's on soulseek. So I wish I worked on being more of a performer and I knew more creative gems artists. but on soulseek you can get a good grasp on music. Took a Whats that sound rock n roll class even to understand how the industry grew from tin pan alley to radios stations in the 50's and 60's.

I love album art but broke and don't collect records. Even music is marketed to naive youth but I appreciate it. I did collect comic book a lil as a teen. but I feel everything if for kids and I don't even have any to take to the movies. and I hate HBO and Showtime, I feel adult programs are a distraction to my ultimate destiny.

maybe I got a stick up my ass but I am poor as shit and im not spending my life watching program after program on the premium channels

I don't hate everything but im a complete f-up in regards to accomplishing my dream and I feel maybe snobby or insulted that it has come to me just watching tv shows with gays sex and taboo subjects and whatnot. I don't even know what my destiny is. I did want to act at one point I did want to record an album. Still want to do those things.

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I watched the last Logan one which was pretty good. That's it.

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Theyre huge money makers and some of us find them great silly fun

I enjoy most of them but i am a couple behind (Black Panther and Spiderman Homecoming)
Ill get to them

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I don't get it either. I thought Raimi's Spider-Man was okay, but all the other stuff is unwatchable trash to me.

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I don't like them. I consider them vapid, inane and infantalsing... Although I don't judge people for watching them...

They are popular because adults no longer go to the cinema as an important demographic and the studios, for the most part, no longer make movies for adults at scale...

The few adults who do watch these movies are either taking their kids, or are part of the current culture of holding on to childhood attachments as a way to be eternally youthfull on the inside... i.e. Comicbook movie geek culture. This is now mainstream as all nerd, geek and dork culture is mainstream now. it is establishment.

The current culture, abhored sensuality, which is why there is none in mainstream film today, whereas it was common even in the adolescent genre movies of the 1990s... intimacy is rejected as well... It is too adult. Instead, nerdy minutia, trivial self references and meta fiction of "universes" and "series" of movies is the aesthetic that appeals to movie goers today. It is a fanboy culture, raised on the serialised nature of TV shows and comicbooks, and a cinemasins ideology.... e.g. witness all of the 'canon' discussions about comicbook movies or starwars, etc...

It's a toy movie culture.

This is the current culture... there are other movies, that step aside this, but they are mostly the rare adult oriented genre movies like 'A Quiet Place' (a movie about the anxiety of parenting) or other genre films that avoid too much fanboyism and look at grown up themes instead, i.e. social, spiritual themes, ideology and philosophy... But this is the exception rather than the rule.

The ideology of TV, of selling product and toys has taken over mainstream cinema. There are still people who make films for the sake of the film, not to sell a toy, or monitise a series, but most movies are global CGI soap operas on the big screen

This is not an attack of people's hobby, so please don't flame me for this, but it is my analysis of the situation and the current culture.

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