is it? top gun maverick would be the most recent us militaryganda out there, it resulted increase in RECRUIT/enlisting numbers last year.
Marvel haters on their way to pick a random negative viewpoint and assign it to the movies regardless of whether it applies
I quit after the snap movie. It was literally an hour and a half of all 30 main characters meeting each other and then everyone died.
It’s not like DC is better, the last dark knight movie was really good, but don’t get me started on “we can’t fight each other, our moms had the same names”. What a waste of time.
endgame was the "best" marvel movie, everything else after was just bad, and disney is clearly grasping at straw since then. the ones with agatha were enjoyable, shes seems better at acting than scarlet witch.
I’m not the biggest comic book reader, but I did prefer DC over Marvel because the stories ended every now and then. There are some very memorable self-contained stories. And then they mulligan and reboot Batman or whatever, but at least there were occasional conclusions and it wasn’t just an ongoing soap forever and ever and ever. Marvel had prompts within the story to refer to issue #blablabla of maybe the same series or some adjacent series. No.
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 had assumed knowledge from the fucking Christmas Special
Family Guy has assumed knowledge from everything ever made (not that I am a fan of that either, but at least it doesn’t expect a 3 hour to 80 year commitment to get the full story).
Family Guy had the appearance of assumed knowledge, but really the writers know as little about what they're talking about as you do.
Seriously controversial take: Seth McFarlane is one of the least funny people ever to live, he just knows how to make things sound like a joke whether it's funny or not. He's like some weird AI that just completely and utterly lacks any understanding of what a joke is outside of intonation and timing.
Family Guy did always give me the sense of referencing a thing being the punchline in and of itself. Anyway, Cyndi Lauper 4-ever.
Just since I have a rare opportunity to talk about comics; I felt disappointed when I saw the Scott Pilgrim movie. It wasn’t a bad movie by any means, but it had to gloss over a lot of the character charm. It never turned me on like this:
Every movie will be ai slop soon enough anyway. Better not to watch it.
Imo, the worst shit is the multiverse shit that makes it all meaningless. If they don't like how they told the story, they will just make up a new version and say multiverse and you are the idiot for saying that it doesn't make sense in another way because multiverse.
An repetitive story with no meaningful content for the franchise and no interest in consistency.
I was floored at just how many MCU movies in the past ten years I didn't know about. No fuckin wonder people are getting burnt out on it.
Not like stories without a multiverse aspect have any more meaning. If someone has an interesting story to tell but it conflicts with some other aspect of a larger storyline (but works well with the rest), why not branch it off so it can stay internally consistent with its own story and not have to worry about what some other producers thought would be cool?
It's the people who think you're an idiot for not following every variation or understanding which ones go together who are the assholes. They are also the idiots themselves IMO for putting so much importance on knowledge of a set of fictional universes (and I say this as a geek who loves diving in to fictional universes, I just understand not all such dives are equal and my own deeper dives don't make me better than anyone).
I don't care about other people. And it is not about what another producer thought.
It is literally that I can hear that a character that I liked died but I honestly don't care because 1. I don't care about this shit and 2. I know the character will be back.
Let me contrast it with star wars because I think it becomes pretty obvious there.
The story becomes meaningless because I know that that the whole team that created the media knew that they don't have to care. Disney decided to reboot star wars and they are doing great job in ruining something great by been unable to commit to a plan too. But for my enjoyment of star wars legends, I can easily ignore the current canon. When something happened in legends, you had a reasonable expectation that it will stay meaningful for the rest of the franchise. Now with the badly executed reboot, at least for rn, I can assume that the people who died in those movies are dead and will stay dead. The next movie will not have magically a dead character inside because multiverse. Movie A has an impact if movies B to Z. And yes, Lucas Art fucked the Legends story up at times but guess what.... That is life.
"But in the last movie [redacted] comes back to life" yes quite a disappointing writing from Disney. It reads like marvel.
"But in the clone wars, [redacted] came back to life" yes and no, imo one of the mistakes while I like the character. But importantly the character technically was never shown dead and it was a plot twist and his "death" had actually a long term impact on the events of the story, making it meaningful for the story.
I can't stand the multiverse write off, even "what if" (which I personally loved at first) started to suffer with the whole strange being the bbeg arc.
Multiverse is just the gg ez way to do a reboot with even less effort lol
Even less effort than what? They just released a superman movie that didn't have anything to do with previous superman movies. Isn't that the easiest way to do a reboot? How is shoehorning in a multiverse easier?
This is how I feel about comic book stories in general. Due to the nature of the medium, they have to constantly come up with new stories with the same set of characters to keep it fresh…eventually the well runs dry.
That's why there were so many characters. New characters were invented. New crossovers. New story arcs.
Seriously! It's almost as if movies were never meant to be bottomless well of cash for wealthy investors, but rather some kind of "art" that takes time and special knowledge and genuine care from an "artist..."
Ah, there I go again.
Are we pretending this is Marvel thing exclusively and not an ALL superheros thing? Lazy slop memes, aren't going to stop lazy slop movies. Do better.
The Boys break away from that.
And that "do better" bs is pretty fucking condescending for someone implying that memes on lemmy might affect the shit hollywood spews out, if only they were less lazy and sloppy.
They go and stand in front of a mirror? I don't get it.
I kind of feel like if a meme image needs an explanation it’s probably failed.
I'm trying to remember if Marvel likes the US military. Aren't they always turning out to be secretly controlled by HYDRA or something? I also seem to recall that Iron Man decided he couldn't trust them with weapons and invented his suit so that he could do all of his killing personally.
Early on up until the first Avengers they were, but that movie strained the relationship due to how much the DoD wanted to meddle in the production. They didn't like the helicarriers due to realism, for example. And you can see shit like F-35's on the flight deck, national guard doing their thing during the invasion, Captain America straight up using an M4, things like that.
After that movie, the influence the DoD had was much more subtle if it was there at all.
Not to mention that every single movie has the same plot. But more meta each time
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and Deadpool & Wolverine were good. Nothing since then has looked interesting.
I found Deadpool & Wolverene supremely painful. Matter of taste I suppose. Haven't seen any other dress-up movies in a while.
seemed alot more cringey than the last 2 deadpools, more personal stories. and they fell for the multi-versal slop.
Haven't seen any other dress-up movies in a while.
Isn’t every movie a dress-up movie?
Maybe not certain porn.
Well, the birthday suit is given quite a bit of wear, in those.
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