pturtle
Super Freak
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Two things
First, people don't want innovation with superhero characters. If they did there wouldnt be so much hate for man of steel or bVs. People hate those movies because both supes and bats aren't like the idealized versions of the characters they read about growing up or that they have in their heads. To some people, superman has to be a boring 1950's goody twoshoes boy scout who saves cats from the trees and operates without a grey area. Everything must be black and white, with supes, he must always be positive and his actions must always be predictible. He cannot have any inner turmoil or self reflection, in other words he can't act human in anyway, unless he has the values of a farm boy from kansas.
2) people don't have any preconceived notions about the characters in Kingman, so they can just sit back and enjoy it for what it is.
I have to respectfully disagree.
Batman v Superman is mostly a Batman movie, and the general consensus with that movie is that Batman was great. Lot of criticisms I've seen stem from what people actually consider to be flaws with the movie, like shoehorning the Justice League in it, or the Martha scene. I don't think the critics care all that much for source material, they don't seem to care much when it comes to the X-Men movies at least. Even the Nolan trilogy was very different from the comics and that was praised.
I guarantee I can make a better movie than Whedon.
When the **** did it become a crime to like ****?
I saw Logan. I loved Logan. It combined two of my favorite genres into a compelling, unconventional, sci-fi neowestern.
I loved Guardians 2. It showed me that Marvel was not above taking risks and that great character development can do wonders for even the unlikeliest of heroes.
I loved Spider-Man: Homecoming. It was probably my favorite Spider-Man film, ever, and it not only perfectly captured the essence of everything that makes Spidey our friendly neighborhood webslinger, but, once more, through excellent character development and great casting, gave us, arguably, one of the greatest villains in the MCU.
I loved Wonder Woman. Gal Gadot was the perfect balance of innocent, graceful, and formidable, and she brought the Amazon Princess to the silver screen in a stellar offering that gave us everything a Wonder Woman movie should give us: hope, and, in doing so, created a new role model for girls and boys everywhere to grow up with.
You want to know what stops me from loving all of these films? Not a goddamn thing. I get that all art is subjective and not everyone's tastes perfectly align, but holy ****, it seems like so many of you dudes on both sides of the fence get such massive hate boners going for the opposition that you can't even appreciate the fact that we're living in an age where we got ALL OF THOSE MOVIES IN A YEAR AND WE'RE STILL WAITING ON THOR AND JUSTICE LEAGUE TO HIT.
Here's the thing, if you keep eating up everything these studios serve you then we'll be stuck getting the same unimaginative risk free films that we've been getting. DC copying Marvels formula is terrible because now they're not putting pressure on Marvel to make great films, there's really no competition at all now. Fox seems to be the only studio left willing to take risks and to be honest, that might have ended with Logan. Sony's Venom movie sounds interesting too, but everything else is just rinse and repeat in my opinion.