There have been talks about superhero fatigue going back to 2012 when the first Avengers and that shitty Zack Snyder Superman movie came out.
There was talk again about the fatigue around the time Batman v Superman came out and was universally mocked. Back then, you could say it was a shitty movie without having to worry about a legion of pissed off nerds and fan boys rushing to tell you how it was really genius and you're too stupid to understand what Zack Snyder was writing. "Release the Snyder cut" started as a small minority over the Justice League movie and it gradually grew and grew until the point we are getting a 4 hour long cut of his awful movie.
Steven Speilberg and some other big names in Hollywood criticized the superhero movies a few years back and it wasn't so much a big deal. But by last year, when Martin Scorsese wrote that op-ed criticizing them, that seemed to be a weird turning point. He set off a nuclear bomb that incited nerd rage and caused all these major publications to write retorts back at him, ripping him to pieces. Ironic thing is, his criticisms were echoed way back in 2008-2009 by the Red Letter Media guys in their Avatar review.
We've been bombarded with this shit for so long now, it's become normalized and engraved in our culture. We'll be seeing these movies appear in the top 100 best movies of all time lists not far into the future.
Birds of Prey was lots of fun and it in my top 10 this year lol. (not too many films this year). It's a mid-budget movie so it can actually be inventive and take risks, I respect it a lot for that. If more superhero films were along those lines I wouldn't be such a curmudgeon.
There have been talks about superhero fatigue going back to 2012 when the first Avengers and that shitty Zack Snyder Superman movie came out.
There was talk again about the fatigue around the time Batman v Superman came out and was universally mocked. Back then, you could say it was a shitty movie without having to worry about a legion of pissed off nerds and fan boys rushing to tell you how it was really genius and you're too stupid to understand what Zack Snyder was writing. "Release the Snyder cut" started as a small minority over the Justice League movie and it gradually grew and grew until the point we are getting a 4 hour long cut of his awful movie.
Steven Speilberg and some other big names in Hollywood criticized the superhero movies a few years back and it wasn't so much a big deal. But by last year, when Martin Scorsese wrote that op-ed criticizing them, that seemed to be a weird turning point. He set off a nuclear bomb that incited nerd rage and caused all these major publications to write retorts back at him, ripping him to pieces. Ironic thing is, his criticisms were echoed way back in 2008-2009 by the Red Letter Media guys in their Avatar review.
We've been bombarded with this shit for so long now, it's become normalized and engraved in our culture. We'll be seeing these movies appear in the top 100 best movies of all time lists not far into the future.
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Birds of Prey was lots of fun and it in my top 10 this year lol. (not too many films this year). It's a mid-budget movie so it can actually be inventive and take risks, I respect it a lot for that. If more superhero films were along those lines I wouldn't be such a curmudgeon.