My thing is even in elseworlds they never would had gone there with those 2 characters a few years ago.
I was going to make the same joke but saw you beat me to it. But yeah, just build a regular Rollercoaster, paint the track orange and bam, you got your hot wheels ride.
Yeah, it's pretty bad. I just felt like clarifying since there are a bunch of people who go off sometimes baseless clickbait both pro and anti to determine where things are at. Really bizarre since it's not like there's a shortage of bad comics that people need to make stuff up. For example, the other day I saw some fujoshi trying to argue a bunch of the characters are gay in the comics to justify her MCU ships and people who'd otherwise hate her took her word for it.
I always like how you're essentially MovieBob without the audience. Or the fame. And I know what I'm saying.
Personally, I think that Hollywood executives underestimate people's desire for sincerity in their entertainment. Just look at Top Gun: Maverick: it's the highest grossing film of the year and at no point does it wink at the audience to remind them of how "stupid" this all is, instead opting to let them get swept up in the melodrama of it all.
See also the growing appreciation for foreign films. Bollywood can be deeply hilarious and silly at times, but they are always very, VERY sincere in the films and I keep finding more and more people loving them.
Speaking of Bollywood. Sacred Games is an Indian Netflix cop drama that is very much set for western sensibilities. I just found out about (very late to the party) but if you want to watch something new without getting lost in translation then give it a go.
Same here. I was never more grateful that my mom taught me phonics then when they still had remedial reading classes in Grade 7. (I was the town freak, being able to read at 5 years old. Like when my barber retired and I went to another guy for my final trim before leaving town forever, the dude said "You're the kid who could read on the first day of school!" I was twenty-four and this is what followed me.)
Lawd Dem Rangs ain't got no rangs?
Because they don't know what empathy is. The word seems to have been redefined as "noticing that the other person has the same identitarian labels as you". So a single dad can't empathize with a single mom character, but an empty-egg-carton wine aunt totally gets it.
Just to add to what you said, the late Richard Donner sought to avoid this very thing when was brought on to direct the prototype for (non-capeshit) superhero films, Superman '78. The production troubles on this were legendary as the original director, Guy Hamilton, bailed for tax reasons because they moved production from Italy to the UK. Donner looked at the original script, which was reportedly as campy as the 60s Batman television show, and was horrified by it and brought on another screenwriter as a "consultant" to punch up the script. He knew how important it was to make the audience believe that a man could fly and thus took the source material seriously. Same with Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, and pretty much the entire cast except for maybe Gene Hackman and Ned Beatty who were hamming it up with a huge slab of cheese.
When did sincerity die? A lot of the blame can be placed on the 90's and gen X, where the culture was 'yeah, well, whatever'. That mindset prevailed all the way to 08-09 with the hipsters where giving a shit was a cardinal sin. Now we can only enjoy things if they are ironic and nothing non ironic will ever be made until the zoomers are in their 50's.
Eh, maybe. It seems to me more and more people are getting bored with the hipster decon bullshit.
I thought about bringing it up in my previous post, but have you seen RRR? It's an Indian action movie that came out this year (and is made in Tollywood, which is the South Indian, Telugu language version of Bollywood), and has really caught on with American audiences. To give you an idea of what it's like, I submit to you these two clips:
And it wasn't just any old screenwriter: it was Mario Puzo, writer of the novel The Godfather is based on (and who also penned all three movies alongside Francis Ford Coppola).
That's obsolete believer talk. Obviously the thinker scientists already know how to build it, they just need some money, which is the exact same as magic, to make it happen.
It's a combination of both. Bob has always been a fan of style over substance (he gave The Last Airbender a good review because it was pretty) but also sees himself as this great intellectual who truly understands film. So rather than put in the work of learning proper film analysis and why he and the respected critics have such differing views, it's easier to say they're wrong and he's smarter than them for coming up with these moronic twistings and ignores the fact that everyone is mocking him for them.
So let's just remove that requirement.
When thinkpieces starting associating it with bronies, I think.
Honestly the She-Hulk thing kinda does legitimately piss me off since it's a very common misconception and this show along with people like Bob are going to spread it. Jen actually isn't a female copy of the Hulk, She-Hulk's more akin to an "inner self" which is something she enjoys being though her inhibitions aren't as strong in that state. The general idea with gamma mutates in Marvel proper is how they're affected is determined by their psychological profile. So you have Banner's fractured mind from childhood abuse becoming more literal split personalities, Jen going from a wallflower to a statuesque free spirit, The Leader going from a dim witted janitor who wished he was intelligent to a hyper-intelligent mind, etc.
I mean he's been saying since WandaVision where he thought the blonde lady was Arcana Jones that he really wants the Squadron Supreme so they can be stand-ins for the Snyder Justice League and then there can be a movie where the MCU Avengers beat them up before quipping about it. The man's a child.
