Posted on 03/30/2016 5:05:51 PM PDT by MoochPooch
Another month, another superhero movie staggers to the silver screen, lurching under the weight of its own self-importance, groaning with the expectations of fans, and burdened with a nine-figure marketing budget. I am, of course, talking about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, to give it its full, clunkingly portentous title.
Can we all please grow up? Can we acknowledge that Marvel and DC have scraped right though the bottom of the barrel? Can we call time on superhero films? Films which are too dark for kids the comics were originally written for, yet too dumb for any thinking adult.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Today they are given huge budgets best CGIs and massive publicity. On an average week, at our local 6 plex there are five Si-Fi fantasy films, and one kiddie cartoon movie.
We truly live in the age of fantasy.
Here is a movie they can remake using the top budget and CGIs. One of the worst si-fi fantasy movies ever made.
Aw c’mon! All flicks are escapist fantasies. Do the elevated personages at the Telegraph really think Casablanca was realism?
I haven’t seen even one war movie that was realistic. The Telegraph writers need to get a life.
No, my tastes are a little more highbrow than that - Sylvia Plath poetry, for example. “Oh, the tea was cold today / and my little dog Fluffy has the runs / I think I’ll slash my wrists.”
LOL! Only...Sylvia’s first attempted asphyxiation was unsuccessful as it turned out to be an electric oven.
;^)
Agreed, a solid movie with an excellent story line.
Boy did my perspective on Plath change since college. I’ll take men in tights any day over that depressive bore.
***Scrooge McDuck fan here,***
Remember when he and Donald raised an old shipwrecked steamboat to complete and win a hundred year old steamboat race? Somewhere around 1960.
Then there was that trip into outer space when a little asteroid made of SOLID GOLD was found hidden behind the moon!
‘Batman v Superman’ Dominated the Box Office, Opening With $420 Million Worldwide. Comic book movie are certainly on the decline... </s>
Personally I find solace in escaping the drudgery of the real world for a couple of hours. I don’t overthink it, just escape. The Russian saying, “The less you know, the better you sleep” applies.
The world is on fire, the nation’s on the brink of collapse, up is down and down is up. I have no control of any of it. Outside of my high pressure job, you’re damn right I will seek escape in a movie once in a while.
Just wait until Civil War. They are setting up to go much further on the theme, and delve into civil liberty vs. government registration.
Oh crap. I’m all for escapism. I gotta get away from politics regularly. Currently inhaling Longmire every evening on Netflix.
I do take the point though about how stupid comix based movies are. Sometimes that’s just the thing. But they make too many of them now. I’ve no interest in seeing any more of them.
Or any more of the Star Treks either. What an overdone franchise. How much did they spend to remake “The Wrath of Khan”? And they took all the fun out of it.
Captain Jack Tonto.
Some folks think only adult dramas about boring professors living mundane boring lives and cheating on their wives in grinding realism are high literature on film form. Usually you mostly see it with literature snobs, but this guy brings it into movies.
Freegards
I recently rewatched the Christopher Reeve Superman. Compared to today’s dark, edgy superhero movie this was a breath of fresh air. Also, Superman did a lot of super hero stuff, like, you know, saving people. So many modern superheros only manage to do one single heroic thing, making a giant mess in the process that makes it practically worthless, and it is usually to clean up a mess they themselves made in the first place.
Those of us who actually deal with some of these issues beyond being keyboard warriors appreciate a little escapism on occasion.
The author of this article can got to ####.
Oddly the Marvel series of movies are not all that politically correct. The first Avengers movie was very good without a bunch of PC garbage. Ironman 1 is definitely not PC by todays standards.
Sounds like an old stick-in-the-mud, like the crusty old critic who was bashing Star Wars who Siskel and Ebert debated with on Nightline (on YouTube).
There’s nothing wrong with having fun in life. Relaxation is healthy. And movies are a wonderful, safe way to do it. Also seems healthier to me than “binge-watching” hours and hours of TV shows. A movie is a quick 2-hour-ride and you’re in and out.
the title is misleading to content of article.
Article basically says that comics and superheros have deteriorated in quality, not that they are bad.
I threw newspapers over 50 years ago and collected most of the original Marvel comics of the day.
Great comics and, since I kept them all, a great investment that keeps growing.
the more movies Marvel makes, the higher the value on them.
The X-Men series provided great social commentary about an overreaching government subjugating and disarming citizens under the guise of “protection and security of the governed.”
***I only watch Zatoichi films.***
I used to watch them every Saturday morning “Samurai Saturday” on IFC. Then IFC went commercial and went to crap. I never watch it now.
“first Batman (with Christian Bale), “
No, it was Michael Keaton.
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