IdleRich
IdleRich
My hatred of Marvel stems more from its all-conquering ubiquity. It's the one thing where "if you don't like it, just watch something else" is not a valid point - cos there is nothing else. The directors who should have been making their own independent films have been sucked into a corporate black hole and forced to make Thor or whatever instead, same goes for actors and even other resources.The Marvel backlash. The criticism of the Netflix sheen.
For eg, apparently that Irish film from last year, The Banshees of Inisherin was supposed to have a couple of spectacular dream sequence scenes but basically Marvel had used up all the CGI and so there was literally no CGI left to use in that film. And anyway if there had been any to spare somewhere they wouldn't have been able to use it cos all of the engineers were busily working on The Avengers: Infinity Films with no Endgame.
Average cinemsa here in Portugal has like fourteen screens and thirteen of them have a Marvel film, the other one is out of order but they're working on it day and night so grown adults can find out what happens to Ant Man.
Depressingly I read about this paper produced recently by The institute For Studies which concluded that these days kids quite literally (in the old sense of the word where it tells you that the sentence is a true, actual description with no metaphor or approximation involved) only watch TikTok porn and Marvel, they did an experiment where they showed kids other films and the answers they got back were things such as "I don't understand it, which one is the superhero?" and "where are the leotardS?" etc
It gets worse though, cos the Important Research Foundation have been examining the brains of people who watch Marvel and they've concluded that anyone who has, through their own volition, seen more than three Marvel films has serious issues with the parts of their brain that control taste and thinking. There needs to be more research, at the moment it's not clear if being dumb makes you watch Marvel films OR watching Marvel films makes you dumb. If it's the latter it's pretty scary cos they are creating their own audience by giving them brain damage - and there is no twat in a skirt pretending to be a Norse god coming to save them...
Anyway, got a bit carried away, but the point is, with Marvel it's not really the aesthetics I object to.