we have to clarify that "don't worry guys I know the MCU is soy shit haha-ha buuuuut ..."? We should be better than this.

As a committed communist I "disdain to conceal [my] views " and I've said it a few times that the "MCU is good actually" and I've made it known a few times. 80% of the MCU dunks on the "left" I see are lazy garbage and honestly at this point are insulting to the fellow proles working on it. Lazy takes are much worse than dumb takes.

Same as Imperialism is the "Highest Stage of Capitalism", I've said that the MCU is the highest form of moviemaking. Notice I said moviemaking and not filmmaking.

Anyone here daring to give a lazy "haha lib MCU amIrite folx?" should be forced to read Ryan Coogler's eulogy:
https://www.marvel.com/articles/movies/marvel-studios-black-panther-director-ryan-coogler-on-the-legacy-of-chadwick-boseman

In my meeting after watching the film, I asked Nate Moore, one of the producers of the film, about the language. “Did you guys make it up?” Nate replied, “that’s Xhosa, John Kani’s native language. He and Chad decided to do the scene like that on set, and we rolled with it.” I thought to myself. “He just learned lines in another language, that day?” I couldn’t conceive how difficult that must have been, and even though I hadn’t met Chad, I was already in awe of his capacity as actor.

I can't imagine something like that happening in the Snyderverse that some of us hold up as a more "authentic" and interesting if mideocer movie making exercise.

Anyway, the amount of criticism the MCU gets only betrays your impotence: theoretical, for not coming up with better targets for your ire as well as practical, for not being able take any action to further your liberation.

PS if I should post to c/movies instead let me know

Edit: Nah. This isn't fun. Just downvoting arguments instead of a constructive rebuttal and engagements on bad faith isn't what I expected.

    • snackage [he/him]
      5·
      4 years ago

      Superhero stories

      That goes for all action movies, most TV shows and basically all long running media. I don't see them being maligned to the same degree.
      Plus "The Winter Soldier" can be interpreted as revolutionary just to bring a counter example of the top of my head.

      being morally simplistic and unchallenging to its audience

      Now that's something that I'd push against and would call pretty lazy.

      don’t produce materially impactful actions

      Which I tried with my analogy to Imperialism. It's something I've talked about here and in the discord.

      Critiquing a dead person for being in a movie… Eh, unless that movie is some chud documentary, it’s a pretty pointless critique. We all do jobs to feed ourselves and there’s nothing more ideologically wrong with playing a character in a movie than writing the code for a video g*me.

      No one ever said anything to that degree. Literally a strawman argument.

        • snackage [he/him]
          2·
          4 years ago

          I would say you're just being disingenuously reductive towards the movies and would say that I hold the audience in a higher opinion than you do.

          Edit: The screenshot didn't critique critique a dead man either

          • AntifaSleeperCell [they/them]
            1·
            4 years ago

            I think your ego is far too invested in the external validation of the MCU. You can feel free to enjoy them regardless of their ideological issues. Suggesting they don't have any of those issues is highly weird though.

            • snackage [he/him]
              4·
              4 years ago

              I already go to therapy. I don't need anglo internet pseudo-leftists to try to psychoanalyze analyse me as well.

              • AntifaSleeperCell [they/them]
                1·
                4 years ago

                This didn't need an effort post and your reaction to people either being ambivalent to or disliking Marvel is just not worth your time. I'm also confused at the leap you're making here about this being about a larger leftist struggle.

                • snackage [he/him]
                  2·
                  4 years ago

                  It's mid tier effort post. Jeez. I guess I should have named it sincere post. My actual effort post take me hours to write and collate references but all of them are gone because reddit.