Reno
The In Kraut
I blame the rise of geek culture, which is culturally infantilising and obsessed with nostalgia and childhood. It all started with Star Wars.
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Anyone else fed up to the back teeth of all the superhero shite?
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It's a bit like complaining about autotune ruining modern popular music, like there isn't a whole universe of non-autotuned music there waiting to be listened to, and you've never listened to pop music since you were a teenager anyway. Were you guys all into big-money hollywood films before they all went superpowered?
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Similar, I was watching some stuff on Netflix a while ago and got really bored when it turned into just another fighty, shooty thing to resolve the plot.
I mean it's not like I'm a pacifist or anything. I'm reading a Richard Morgan book ATM. But it's just so dull and lazy. An interesting idea, but we need guns and 'splosions n shit cos people won't watch otherwise.
I'm just taking the opportunity to take a pop at a popular genre of film / TV I look down on, TBH.
Reno
The In Kraut
There are and they are usually closer to the horror genre. A favourite of mine is the Norwegian film Thelma which is about a girl with enormous superpowers and it's more of an art house film. Similar to Carrie, which is also a horror film about a girl with superpowers.
A couple of years ago there was Brightburn, the premise being "what if Superboy was evil". It featured a lot of gruesome murdering but not a lot of fighting.
M. Night Shyamalan also made a trilogy of superhero films which don't play like regular super hero films and are more like supernatural thrillers or horror films. Unbreakable, Split & Glass.
The Universal horror films of the 30s influenced many superheroes. Every version of The Invisible Man is about a supervillain (in a few cases hero) and The Hulk is a descendant of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Hell yeah. I like 2012 and Independence Day as well as Come and See and Gummo.
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
The film equivalent would be CGI making action films strangely unexciting, which is what happens imo.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
I recently signed up to Disney for Hamilton purposes, and while I had it, thought I might as well watch all the Marvel cinematic universe films.
There are tonal differences but they’re almost all quite funny at some level, which I wasn’t expecting. I liked the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Thor films most.
by comparison the other big superhero films I’ve seen are either badly written nonsense (suicide squad) or a bit po faced.
Honourable exception for Joker, which was as entertaining and beautiful as you’d want a superhero-tangent remake of Taxi Driver/King of Comedy to be.
There are tonal differences but they’re almost all quite funny at some level, which I wasn’t expecting. I liked the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Thor films most.
by comparison the other big superhero films I’ve seen are either badly written nonsense (suicide squad) or a bit po faced.
Honourable exception for Joker, which was as entertaining and beautiful as you’d want a superhero-tangent remake of Taxi Driver/King of Comedy to be.
Reno
The In Kraut
I don't believe there is such a thing as bad subject matter, just poor execution. Even with superheroes or zombies, the occasional excellent film or TV series comes out. Train to Busan was a zombie film but it was also one of the greatest action films in recent years.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
mauvais
on reddit or something
Yes?
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
This is exactly the problem. Doesn't matter if you watch the films or not, their shite is smeared all over.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
The only good zombie is a dead zombie.
Reno
The In Kraut
I think any MCU film is better than Independence Day. They actually make an effort to get good filmmakers on board, something Roland Emmerich most definitely isn't.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
You must really hate Jonah Hex
Reno
The In Kraut
Any genre film can be reduced to a formula in that way. Then that can still be done well or it can be poorly.
Numbers
an ting!
Wolverine is my fav, he’s some bad ass, and the only series of this genre we’ve watched all of.Never.
I love superheroes!
50 Greatest Movie Superheroes
We rank the 50 greatest movie superheroes – from the Caped Crusader to your friendly neighborhood webslinger, 'Avengers' to 'Incredibles.'www.rollingstone.com
This ^^ has Wolverine as number 1 superhero
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
I hate these fighty shooty ones because they don't accurately represent the realities of it. Too many kids think if you stab someone in the leg it's only a minor injury and a lot of the general population don't realise how long term things like physiotherapy and physical rehab are. That has awful real world implications
ska invita
back on the other side
it seems to have stopped i thought (the marvel DC hollywood thing)?
yes unwatchable rubbish i agree. cant bring myself to watch black panther even...cgi nonsense
ginger_syn
Her Insanity laughs under pressure...👾
I'm more than happy with all the superhero stuff,just finished an avengers marathon and while I know its tat, it is fun tat and cheers me up and I hope it lasts a while
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
Black Panther was such a load of toss. Owing to all the hype I decided to give it a try. I gave up in the end.
Yossarian
Get thee behind me, Santa
Yep - superhero movies that take themselves really seriously don't do a lot for me but I watched most of the MCU movies this year and I enjoyed them a lot more than I expected. I kind of dismissed the genre after seeing one or two duds early on, now I wish I'd stuck with it and watched the Avengers movies when they came out on the big screen.
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