Marvel/DC movies

[Shake n Blake]

(12-20-2021, 09:32 AM)Benton Wrote: Seth Rogen killed comedies. 

Studios loved it when you could spend a few hundred thousand and, even if it flopped, make millions. You didnt need sets or decent actors, just one good shock and lots of jokes about drugs or dicks.

Seth Rogan looks like he'd be funny, but he's one of the least funny people on Earth.

(12-20-2021, 03:44 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: It sure seems like the number would have been a lot higher than 4 per year between both DC and Marvel. Feels like nowadays Marvel is at least good for 3 or 4 a year.

The excitement has certainly waned on my part. While a lot of these films are fun to consume, retrospectively most of them are just kind of garbage cinema. Even thinking back on the latest Spiderman I just catch myself realizing that it was two and a half hours of absolutely nothing. I've defended the movies in the past, as sometimes a mindless 2.5 hours of ridiculous set pieces, one liners and some physical comedy are what you want, but for me it is starting to get old. But for every one of me that "ages out" of being interested in it there's probably a bunch of kids ready to fill my shoes as the consumer.

Well said. I agree with pretty much all of this. Maybe I did just "age out" of them. Kids now haven't been through 20 years of them, so like everything else in life, they're new and fresh to them, which is why I think it's probably a trend that's here to stay.

I also think it's a generational thing. Older generations realized when something "jumped the shark" and demanded new things. I feel like the younger gen just kinda rolls with everything and is less prone to complain than us "boomers".

(12-20-2021, 04:13 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: I have watched:

- ASM
- ASM 2
- Dark Knight (because my wife is a massive Heath ledger fan and I am now as well, though not due to this film)
- DKR (was dragged to it)

And that's it.

Each one follows the Summer Blockbuster formula and it seems like only NA pays any big money on these films (just my observation; it may be wrong), whereas some real thought-process/deep plot films aren't as big and popular as a result.

I mean, Silence is an absolute masterpiece (and I despise Scorsese, as every film is a borderline rehash of the one that came before it), but I guarantee you that the lowest-grossing comic book film of that year (2016) made 10x or more money than the film did.

Spielberg, for me, is the only one that can do huge plots with a ton of action/stuff going on, really well and effectively (of course, he has some duds as well, but on the whole).

No Way Home may be a super-enjoyable film, but it doesn't make it cinematic art like Saving Ryan's Privates, Schindler or even (since it's the same overall genre) Jurassic Park.

And how bastardised everything has become from the source material, in the comic films (I used to be as gargantuan a Marvel fan as I could have been, when I was 8 years old; died off very quickly lol), just makes it a massive turn-off for me.

I've seen...

All 3 Tobey SpiderMans
Amazing SpiderMan 1
Pretty much all of the X-men movies
Most of the Avengers movies
Deadpool 1
One of the Captain America movies
One of the Iron Man movies
Wolverine Origins
Green Lantern
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four: Rise of Silver Surfer
...and probably a couple more I'm leaving out

I've had my fill. They all seem pretty plastic and cheap in hindsight. None of them are cinematic masterpieces or even that memorable, tbh. I had a better time with the recent Jumanji films (especially the first one) than any of these, and it's not like Jumanji was a masterpiece.

It was just genuinely funny and well cast.