Like people who like these might have a very basic taste in movies, but they are real movies made by real people. Not a collection of gifable moments smashed together by an algorithm and 35 focus groups.
Also the guy's favourite movie is American psycho, I feel like you can't be an American psycho guy and make fun of fight club guys.
I wonder how hardcore comic fans who aren't massive chuds (I know this is a unicorn) feel about the MCU?
A friend is a big comics fan and lefty. They basically just enjoy the films on a surface level, but wish the politics and writing were better. They're still entertained by them though.
They're fun to turn your brain off and consume them. But I just find them so bland and similar to each other that I often can't tell you what the movie I just saw was even about.
Consumption isnt politics unless you literally have no conscious politics of your own and just regurgitate what you watch, leftists should be less anxious about if what they watch or play is in line with Das Kapital.
I've been on a car trip with leftists who literally only listened to orchestral socialist anthems or "socialist with an acoustic guitar does a callout post about some industrialist in the 80s" type music, it blows.
I don't only listen to those, I also listen to the Big Bad Beetleborgs theme, so I've got my bases pretty well covered :comfy-cool:
I figured it'd be a surface level of entertainment.
My gf likes them. I watched all the tv show pilots with her and Loki was the only one I could enjoy. I think Tom Hiddleston just delivers that kind of dialogue in a way that isn't as aggravating as a lot of other MCU stars.
I used to be really into the comics as a kid. The films used to annoy me because I wanted a somewhat linear story. Each film (spider-man in this instance) kind of goes all over the place with plot points in the wider story. Now I just treat them as glorified fanfiction.
So they don't follow the comic stories all that well?
In the case of Spider-Man...no. The Sam Reimi movies were all over the place and the Andrew Garfield movies just as much. Homecoming looks like it's something else entirely. I get that liberties have to be taken because the series has gone on for so long, but it doesn't look like they even attempt to follow the plot and each movie becomes a "greatest hit" feature.