I am a 21st Century Atheist; I don’t believe in superheroes.
This is not making fun of anyone it just came into my head.
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i can’t wait for bernie sanders to be president so we will have films that only glorify the Worker
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my categorical opinion is also hypocritical because i do like some superhero movies. but yeah this is basically it: they feel like brain poison, bright lights and spinning cameras that give you a high.
the worst parts of superhero movies are the parts where the superhero is being a superhero and now every movie has like an hour of runtime where the superhero does superhero things on a green screen and it just fucking sucks. and they even manage to work the gaudy bullshit into normal narrative scenes. guardians of the galaxy 2 has a character heart to heart with the computer graphics guys going HOG WILD in the background and it felt like somebody was pickpocketing me.
i dunno. the whole enterprise feels so cynical to me - corporate executives hiring the latest hot writing talent to jazz up the pop culture property they’ve kept alive as a shambling corpse - so i treat it with the same perceived cynicism. maybe i’m just joyless.
i kinda want to see shazam.
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I have found the only way to continue finding joy in life into adulthood is to try to constantly place myself in the same mindset I had when I was five years old.
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Many times many days I near this mindset, usually while someone nearby is just gorged on MCU mania usually pushing any other media aside.
But while I feel you it made me think about this afterword-ish page from Emperor Joker (not really a great story but when not a chore, amusing for the what if / crossover biz). I’m just the occasional binge comic reader, and rarely with anything Marvel.
Prepare to seethe (not wholly an endorsement)
DRAMICS, a possible score for the terrorists?
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and that’s why i play videogames
the funny thing is i don’t really find the afterword wrong. comics really are all those things. i’m just too jaded to believe superhero comics are like that anymore.
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am i insane or is that afterword very obviously taking the piss
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i felt a little guilty being the only one laughing when joker would do something like have a black therapist tell her client that the government doesn’t give a shit about either of them and then cut to a comedian saying “sex with women is like buying a car”
if it werent for metamodernism that would have killed and the whole audience would have pulled their phone out and donated to bernie. i hate wes anderson so much
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adbusters made a comic movie
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the worst parts were when i was forced to think about batman and not ronald reagan or jerry rubin something
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it is.
arthur’s mom is the “middle class” biden voter. not since little miss sunshine has american cinema seen burgerpunk delusion like this
paul dano would be the hottest joker ever
goddamn joker suuuuuuuuuucks. score is great though. all credit to hildur guðnadóttir. may she be the only one who receives a nomination. (joaquin was fine)
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im really confused about the direction this thread is taking rn then
i like it when ant man shrinks down to the size of a damn ant though
It’s pretty much because he gets so smarmy in the last bit; there’s a genuine ol’ case of the medium’s fantastic value, and naturally desired pantheons (well before Disney’s acquisition) for the contemporary age. The point is just made by being inverted kinda negative space.
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Any possible way to scale up and reach this goofy shit no matter the trappings would would probably be a better tangle than your Justice and Suicide romps, post Scorcese-Nolan palates.
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I genuinely like Emperor Joker, it’s a good What If? story and since it’s Joker rewriting reality it’s mega goofy and violent in a way that acknowledges the ephemeral nature of continuity.
Also superman gets turbo-owned in it.
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It’s not as good as people seem to say it is
and i think it was the last time either company acknowledged amalgam comics (even if it was only as a throwaway line)
Ep 2 of Batwoman is better than the first. Actors are still a good fit. Definitely, definitely feels like a CW superhero show in all the action and plotting and all that.
I feel like they might’ve gone a little too far past “poverty-stricken” and into “post-apocalyptic slum” with some of these Gotham shots though.