Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (March 24th, 2016)
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To be fair, he's not wrong for liking TFA more than ANH or even ESB. It's a new toy, and after 35 years of playing with the same toys, it's understandable that he prefers the new shinny less original toy.
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That's true, it's kinda like the new Animated Batmobile repaint but instead of 30+ years, it's 3 plus months.
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Thats probably the most question marks I've seen in a tracks list.
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batfan08
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I just question the longevity of any of these movies, really, because it really seems like the genre movie lost its significance by gaining its popularity. That sounds like a ridiculous statement, but if you look at Superman or Star Wars, they blew people's minds and became iconic films. Now, it seems like these things only really matter when they haven't come out, yet.
The Avengers, for instance. Pretty massive movie; the first superhero team ever in live-action, and everybody seemed to love it, but do people really talk about it? Hell, I actually forgot that Age of Ultron came out last year, I **** you not. My buddy and I went to see the Revenant, and, while we were waiting, he asked me what my favorite movie was. I started going through the list and said, "what were the Marvel ones? There was Ant-Man, but wasn't there another one," until it clicked for me that there was an Avengers movie and I had forgotten about it.
Do people talk about either of those movies right now, though? All I hear is "I'm so excited about Infinity War." I guess what I'm trying to say is that by packaging it up and selling it to mass audiences, we've simultaneously eradicated the magic that made you believe a man can fly. Sure, you'll feel it, when the movie premieres and you're surrounded by fans excited for the "next big thing," but it's fleeting. Uncle George ****ed up later on, but when he made Star Wars, he took people to a place that they'd never been before, and that's coming from a guy who wasn't even born when it came out. When you're churning these things out on an annual basis, though, you may capitalize on the current zeitgeist, but you lose that cultural significance.
That doesn't matter to these studios, though. Their primary goal is to make money, after all, and I could very well be wrong, but I genuinely believe that the days of hearing Superman's name alongside the likes of Cool Hand Luke and The Godfather are long since over.
The Avengers, for instance. Pretty massive movie; the first superhero team ever in live-action, and everybody seemed to love it, but do people really talk about it? Hell, I actually forgot that Age of Ultron came out last year, I **** you not. My buddy and I went to see the Revenant, and, while we were waiting, he asked me what my favorite movie was. I started going through the list and said, "what were the Marvel ones? There was Ant-Man, but wasn't there another one," until it clicked for me that there was an Avengers movie and I had forgotten about it.
Do people talk about either of those movies right now, though? All I hear is "I'm so excited about Infinity War." I guess what I'm trying to say is that by packaging it up and selling it to mass audiences, we've simultaneously eradicated the magic that made you believe a man can fly. Sure, you'll feel it, when the movie premieres and you're surrounded by fans excited for the "next big thing," but it's fleeting. Uncle George ****ed up later on, but when he made Star Wars, he took people to a place that they'd never been before, and that's coming from a guy who wasn't even born when it came out. When you're churning these things out on an annual basis, though, you may capitalize on the current zeitgeist, but you lose that cultural significance.
That doesn't matter to these studios, though. Their primary goal is to make money, after all, and I could very well be wrong, but I genuinely believe that the days of hearing Superman's name alongside the likes of Cool Hand Luke and The Godfather are long since over.
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They are making so many films that there's almost no time to breath and to let them mean something because as soon as a film comes out or even before that, they are already selling you the next bigger more "epic" adventure. It's like we're on a nonstop train heading towards Infinity War and god knows what else, and we know all about it, yet there are at least 5 films we still have to watch. The same is happening with SW and DC, all these plans, new toys every year, it's just too much to keep up with and for any of it to be truly significant when there's so much more stuff on the way. The most culturally significant thing to come out of these modern films will be a few memes that get a laugh for a few months, and that's it...onto the next big movie.
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You guys state these things, but I'm never going to get my Terminator Genisys sequels.
Yeah, because robots are over. We can BUY robots, now...and they DANCE. Who cares about some ****** movie?
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I get what you're saying and actually partly agree with it but at the end of the day these movies are just harmless entertainment anyways (except MOS
). Let them keep making them, where's the harm in that.
Give the kids a chance to find their own movies that they will carry with them forever.
I enjoy the genre overload because it gives me the energy to remain young at heart for my son, a connection I did not have with my own father.
Sure most will be forgotten, but I would rather have them exist than not.
Besides, I already have my Raiders, ESB, STM and Die Hard, they can make as much crap as they like.
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Those would be so much better with question marks.
The DC movies are the most forgettable of all. Except Reeve Superman
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I get what you're saying and actually partly agree with it but at the end of the day these movies are just harmless entertainment anyways (except MOS
Let them keep making them, where's the harm in that.
Give the kids a chance to find their own movies that they will carry with them forever.
I enjoy the genre overload because it gives me the energy to remain young at heart for my son, a connection I did not have with my own father.
Sure most will be forgotten, but I would rather have them exist than not.
Oh, I'm not saying to stop making them. As a comic book fan, the idea that I'm living in an age where we're getting a movie with Superman and Batman is like a dream for me, good or bad; no, I love this stuff as much as the next guy, I'm just saying that...well, if Superman:The Movie or Star Wars was the invention of the telephone, Man of Steel and The Force Awakens are the equivalent of the iPhone 3G.
Exciting, at first, but irrelevant once the new model comes along. I'll keep enjoying them as long as they churn them out, I'm just saying that I don't think they'll be quite as important 100 years from now as people think they will be, and, like I said, maybe I'm completely wrong and it's like Bill and Ted, all of these movies totally transform the cultural landscape and new societies are built on the foundation laid by "The Age of the Star Wars C. 1977 A.D.-2107 A.D."
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