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.
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I don’t see how Superhero movies are any worse than most hollywood garbage. At least they (generally) portray heroes in a positive light.
“I grew up in the 60s when Marvel Comics just started and were light years better than DC”
I agree. see post 57 on what I did with my paper route money buying up Marvel comics beginning in 1961.
No self-respecting adult should read the Telegraph.
I got ‘em still from early ‘60s.
So we’re supposed to dwell on the negative all the time?
Who the hell are they to tell me what to do with my time.
I lurve me some Zatoichi, man ...
I like comic book movies, but I hated Deadpool. Should have walked out. Terrible sex and language. Awful!
I enjoyed Coleson’s (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)snip about “It would be nice if, for once, Thor and his people sent down the god of cleaning-up-after-yourself.”
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.
Yeah, both were fun to watch. I guess I should find some boring liberal dreck to watch instead to make the author happy.
I pretty much agree
*chuckle*
Of course the postmodernist neo-Marxists hate comics. They represent everything they despise: Heroes and villains, good and evil, fantastic and unique people, romance, excitement, happy endings (sometimes).
Like Phineas Fogg they burned all the fittings on that steamboat to win the race.
The king of the gold asteroid took the earth that McDuck had place under homesick Donald’s feet, and generated it into his own planet with atmosphere, water, & life. Scrooge McDuck got the gold asteroid & felt shortchanged.
I have asked several millenials what their generation’s fascination with superheroes and zombies is about. Don’t think I’ve ever gotten a coherent answer.
I’m not feelin’ it myself.
Well, that’s kinda the whole point of Deadpool.
My girlfriend in the 1970’s nearly dumped me because I couldn’t stomach Sylvia Plath’s OCD-laden verse.
She was a psychology major who turned Socrates’ observation about the unexamined life into “The overexamined life may not even seem worth living”.
Left her & married a math major who was later a CPA. Utter bliss.
LOL! Plath is the patron saint of feminists.
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