Posted on 08/04/2023 11:17:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I thought that Ironman, Captain America, Batman, and the first Wonder Woman were entertaining. The newer stuff is trash.
Liberals cannot help themselves. They are so convinced of the virtues of liberalism that they do not learn from their destruction. It is always because it was us that refused to learn from their wonderfulness.
Once they discover something is popular the left decides to turn it into a vehicle for their agenda.
THE MESSAGE < /drinker>
Disaster for the human race?! Because a subsection of exploitation movies are a big chunk of the industry?! Jaws and Star Wars moved exploitation movies from the grindhouse to the tent pole. That’s 50 years ago. Everything since then is fluctuation in which KIND of exploitation movie is it. Space movies, slasher flicks, dinosaurs, super heroes, spy movies. Doesn’t matter. They’re just exploitation, the thing movies are best at.
“Why Did Superhero Movies Get So Bad? “
well, to start with, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, if you’ve seen one of ‘em, you’ve seen ‘em all ...
Ironman One had a story and there were some funny lines.
We know what the gang at Red Letter Media would say.
Bingo.
Dumbing down of the masses. From gunslingers that can’t miss, to superheros that hide half of their face and no one has a clue who they are (just a pair of glasses is all Clark Kent needed, lol). Their voices don’t change, except for the Hulk. Following Batman to his hideout? No one does that, except maybe the villian.
More recently you’ve got Mr Downey, a short man that somehow fits in a armored suit that makes him a foot taller, with no issues at the knees, elbows, and other points of flexibility. Many of his collisions in battle should leave his brains with massive hemorrhage. It goes on and on.
I saw the first Superman movie of Christopher Reeve (1978?), then nothing until seeing clips of some of these movies in the last 20 years. Hollywood has little money off of my wife and I for over 40 years.
As campy as the Christopher Reeves Superman is, I can still toss it in the DVD player and watch it now and then. Plus that music!
I prefer the animated Batman and Superman TAS along with Justice League cartoons.
We can sum this up by saying big budget movies controlled by multi-corporations are pushing the “woke” agenda.
You could just as easily make a broad statement like “the death of the adventure movie” or death of the science fiction, action, western, etc as “superhero” movie. There’s nothing essentially wrong with these heroic action tales so long as they aren’t treated with deconstruction and cynicism.
The controlling interest doesn’t believe in heroes. Their goal is pushing an agenda.
The only way to make them realistic is to follow the template of the original tv Batman: the superhero idea is not even close to real life, so just make it absurdly over the top comical.
Lets make everyone a fag and see how it turns out!
I thought it was good. 2 was entertaining, and I didn’t care for 3.
I’m in my 70’s and 90% of my favorite movies are from the 50’s and 60’s. Recently for the first time I watched the “Guardians of the Galaxy” trilogy and I thought they were great.
Just stop already. Stop ruining masterpieces, go do something else...
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