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[Tigeraholic1]

Happy Gilmore 2 Not very good IMHO. I laughed a few times and the cameos were decent. 

[Deleterious]

17 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Happy Gilmore 2 Not very good IMHO. I laughed a few times and the cameos were decent. 

Watching it was rougher than watching me try to hit a 3 wood.

[IdahoBert]

I finally got around to going to the theater and watching Marvel’s new film The Fantastic Four: First Steps. It didn’t really move me to any significant degree.

I was a latecomer to the Iron Man films and only watched them because of my son - who is 50 years younger than me - but I felt in those films the characters were developed superbly and they were people I could care about.

I didn’t have to do any homework or be a part of any subculture to get what was going on all the way through Endgame even if many characters already existed in comic books  

With the new F-4 I couldn’t care less about anybody. I think it was just assumed you were a nerd plugged into layers of subtext from previous film and comic book iterations so they didn’t have to bother. It struck me as lazy.

I liked the retro 50s – 60s sci-fi view of the future, but got used to it in about five minutes.

I’ve enjoyed all sorts of these types of movies, but they’re starting to get boring. It’s all empty hopeless posturing.

And just in the larger, sociopolitical, cultural context, I think, relying on superheroes to save you from the hard work of creating a just and livable society is objectively reactionary, and it keeps people in a state of dependence and childlike fascination with the powerful.

I make an exception for Deadpool because Deadpool isn’t full of itself and imagining that it’s transmitting an elevated message. It’s dumb fun often very clever and I’m totally cool with that.

[GalagaGuy]

Good to see DDL again.

 

[gehringer_2]

12 hours ago, romad1 said:

Superhero stuff is really played out.   At the end of the day...the revelation in the superman movie that Lex Luthor was a mega criminal was depressing because (XXXXX edited XXXXX) Superman or the Marvel heroes are not coming through that door. 

To me the fixation of the US viewing public on superhero movies is another bad reflection on the way this society views itself - which is basically as impotent bystanders constantly waiting to be rescued by someone or something else. In a way I find them to be very 'un-American' narratives.