Posted on 11/02/2023 9:56:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I consider things like an America-hating Captain America who no longer is referred to as Captain America - only “the Captain.”
Other detractors are a no-powers Black Widow, a lesbian Captain Marvel, etc.
The other difficult-to-follow thing are all the close-in, jerky scene fights with the universe bad guts. One of he best that I thought would suck but didn’t was “Aquaman,” however.
I don’t care about the ‘why’ Disney is failing. All I care about is that people are walking away from them and the more people walk away the better I feel.
I went to one of the most recent superhero movies. Spiderman animated. I fell asleep. Had no idea what was happening.
Even after Thanos killed off half the main characters I knew that the likelihood of any of them miraculously reappearing in later outings had more to do with the actors’ contract negotiations and desire, or lack thereof, to do any more Marvel than it did with any plausible plot device that could resurrect them. The end of the world didn’t even matter in the viewer’s mind because everything in the Marvel “universe” is so arbitrary and can therefore be completely changed on a whim.
I should add one more thing: I think the reason Iron Man was so much more popular than other characters is that his character is the most reality-based, and therefore most relatable and believable. Not that Disney might not still invent some magical way to bring him back, but in the original storyline at least there was some real dramatic tension because he was mortal and could die. Not so with the menagerie of more fantasy-based characters. Of course, this isn’t entirely Disney’s fault; it’s a weakness of the source material. Comic books just don’t make very good movies. One exception was the Christopher Nolan Batman movies, and they were great because Batman, like Iron Man, has no fantastical powers, and because Nolan wisely made his movies even more grounded in plausible reality than than that.
Firstly, I don’t watch comic book movies. So all of those are out.
That said, You had to actively try to screw up the Star Wars franchise. That thing was a license to print money. Yet somehow Kathleen Kennedy managed to do exactly that. That wasn’t even just hiring bad writers who have zero creativity. That was a willful insertion of their woke politics into a storyline that had been written a generation earlier and which had legions of fans worldwide.
The first step isn’t focusing on this or that or even on hiring good writers. The very first step is firing those in charge starting with Kathleen Kennedy and any of the other woketards in Disney. Go through the executive suites with a flamethrower.
Very good article. Thanks for posting it.
Where they lost me was with Wakanda in Black Panther and even worse in Infinity War.
So suddenly a bunch of spear carrying Africans are going against Thanos?
In the real non PC world, they would be gone in 1 sec.
Makes for a very short movie.
All of the comments, and the article itself, list reasons why we watch Korean movies and series. Great stories, good acting, intelligent script writing and we are never expected to accept woke/gay ideology.
“Because they have made around 100 superhero movies, they have become boring, and now they are also getting woke. Nothing but loud boring battles of people throwing electricity balls at each other, and saying snarky woke things as they defy all authority and win in the end.”
Nicely put!
Turkey actually produces some good series as well.
And now I’ve noticed Rachel Zegler, the Prince Charming-hating, DEI-spouting Snow White in Disney’s upcoming rewritten debacle) is in the upcoming “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes”. I can’t look at that woman without a shiver of disgust.
On the other hand...I want Gina Carano.
I wasn’t familiar with Brie Larson. Looked her up. She seems pretty unremarkable. Just right for the fawning woke masses I guess.
They replaced all men with women and even the women hate it and everything they make
That’s what happens when virtue signaling is more important than making money.
As Siskel and Ebert said several decades ago, “The early movie makers were raised on Great Gooks and made movies of Great Books.
“Today’s movie makers were raised on comic books.”
That said, You had to actively try to screw up the Star Wars franchise. That thing was a license to print money.
Case in point - watch this brilliant fan story of how Episode VII should have been handled (not he also covered 8 and 9). Didn’t crap over the beloved original characters and introduced the new characters with actual character arcs. It was a simple formula but they just couldn’t help themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lzI1oURGxo
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