[lurk]

I went to one of the most recent superhero movies. Spiderman animated. I fell asleep. Had no idea what was happening.

[noiseman]

I think this article correctly nails the main culprits, especially woke ideology and the hiring of talentless, agenda-driven writers as a result. I also think there are two other factors in play here: “sequelitis”, the poor quality dreck that usually results when a studio does nothing but crank out endless sequels, and the lack of any dramatic weight to stories involving characters who can just use magical powers to get out of any predicament. Regarding the latter, I think that was fundamental weakness of comic book movies to begin with. It’s hard to suspend disbelief and become invested as a viewer in the story when you always know that the characters can at any time use some fantastical power to get out of any situation they find themselves in. Nothing matters in these movies, which makes them dull and boring beyond the initial novelty.

Even after Thanos killed off half the main characters I knew that the likelihood of any of them miraculously reappearing in later outings had more to do with the actors’ contract negotiations and desire, or lack thereof, to do any more Marvel than it did with any plausible plot device that could resurrect them. The end of the world didn’t even matter in the viewer’s mind because everything in the Marvel “universe” is so arbitrary and can therefore be completely changed on a whim.

[newfreep]

SouthPark's Eric Cartman has reported it's Kathleen Kennedy's fault.

[FLT-bird]

Firstly, I don’t watch comic book movies. So all of those are out.

That said, You had to actively try to screw up the Star Wars franchise. That thing was a license to print money. Yet somehow Kathleen Kennedy managed to do exactly that. That wasn’t even just hiring bad writers who have zero creativity. That was a willful insertion of their woke politics into a storyline that had been written a generation earlier and which had legions of fans worldwide.

The first step isn’t focusing on this or that or even on hiring good writers. The very first step is firing those in charge starting with Kathleen Kennedy and any of the other woketards in Disney. Go through the executive suites with a flamethrower.

[rlmorel]

Very good article. Thanks for posting it.

[Zathras]

Where they lost me was with Wakanda in Black Panther and even worse in Infinity War.
So suddenly a bunch of spear carrying Africans are going against Thanos?

In the real non PC world, they would be gone in 1 sec.
Makes for a very short movie.

[moovova]

And now I’ve noticed Rachel Zegler, the Prince Charming-hating, DEI-spouting Snow White in Disney’s upcoming rewritten debacle) is in the upcoming “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes”. I can’t look at that woman without a shiver of disgust.

On the other hand...I want Gina Carano.

[butlerweave]

They replaced all men with women and even the women hate it and everything they make

[bray]

That’s what happens when virtue signaling is more important than making money.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

As Siskel and Ebert said several decades ago, “The early movie makers were raised on Great Gooks and made movies of Great Books.
“Today’s movie makers were raised on comic books.”

[Retrofitted]

I don't want to be preached to. I want classic stories -- morality tales with violence -- like I read back when I was a kid. I wanna see the stories told by Jim Starlin, Jack Kirby, John Byrne, and Chris Claremont. To see that kinda thing, I've found indie and foreign movies to be the best.

But then again, that whole "foreign/indie" thing applies to pretty much all the movies I watch anymore.