Marvel Films
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sus
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Was The Flash the sign of doom? Or has it been coming for a while?
linebaugh
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I think its the 'world building' or w/e you call it. Everyroom is full of gadgets and movement. Stacked to the ceiling with stuff. Theres a special device for every quotidian activity. Feels very warm and alive. They also for the most part take place in gradeschool with its comforting rote procedures
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Yeah, very much so - it's a world enclosed inside a world that you get to hitch a lift into, and as you say it has that structure of school life which as an adult you lack and get a little nostalgic for.
I remember that feeling when I was a kid of getting to the end of a book and being really sad that I wouldn't get to spend any more time with the characters. And then starting the book again to resurrect them.
Not something I do much nowadays except when I'm laid up in bed with depression.
Actually that's not entirely true I just don't do it with books.
linebaugh
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That seems right but I worry that might not matter at all. If a superhero movie flops that just means you can reboot it even sooner. You can use the fact that the last one sucked in the marketing for the new one- 'look, this time we got it right.' I noticed they did that with suicide squad movies. They made 3 of those and no one liked the first two!
sus
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the newborn is innocently happy, we can see the world through his happy eyes, and be happy for his innocent happiness.
You have to keep people's attention though.
sus
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"Things familiar enough I recognize/relate to them, but enchanted enough that my own life feels more meaningful in turn"
Corpse weeping at the end of Paradise Lost because he can't hang out with Satan.
linebaugh
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Some things calcify with their audience and remain the same until they cease to be. Its why whats on the radio hasnt changed in the 20 years Ive been listening or the simpsons are still network tv.
I dont actually think that will happen to movies but I think its interesting how certain formats effectively die but continue beating in perpituity because their audience is past the point of finding something new but still has interest in consuming the medium so it self sustains
linebaugh
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Like a merging of platform and content. Tom petty is 99.5 The Jug and 99.5 The Jug is where you go to listen to tom petty and it will be that way until all the tom petty fans die or for some reasons coming from much higher up radio is ended all together. And in this dystopian movie scenario, what we think of as The Movies becomes the defacto super hero platform and how all other non super hero movies are consumed looks very different than how its done now.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I think if I read Ulysses again obviously it would be for the language and artistry etc but I would be pleased to be "in the company" of Bloom again, and back in Joyce's rendition of Dublin
craner
Beast of Burden
Having watched the whole thing sequentially within the space of one year my conclusion is that the MCU made sense as a self-contained modern epic right up until Endgame.
WandaVision was an imaginative and fragile coda, Black Widow was fantastic, Loki was an entertaining cryptic puzzle for 2 or 3 episodes before imploding in a puff of brainless CGI and Hawkeye was fun, but all of this was footnotes and marginalia to what had come before.
As soon as you geared up to the creative heart of this new cycle in 2021 (Eternals, Shang-Chi, Multiverse of Madness, etc.) the whole thing shattered to pieces. It's been unwatchable since that point.
WandaVision was an imaginative and fragile coda, Black Widow was fantastic, Loki was an entertaining cryptic puzzle for 2 or 3 episodes before imploding in a puff of brainless CGI and Hawkeye was fun, but all of this was footnotes and marginalia to what had come before.
As soon as you geared up to the creative heart of this new cycle in 2021 (Eternals, Shang-Chi, Multiverse of Madness, etc.) the whole thing shattered to pieces. It's been unwatchable since that point.
You would L😍VE them,