MARVEL Movies and Shows

I played this just because I refused to believe it was the same as Dance Monkey Dance, which I think is just Boatman’s Dance with different lyrics. It is in fact not the same.

People have been saying this for close to decade and the movies are still making tons of money. You're wrong.

Can opinions really be wrong?

People have been saying this same thing for a decade, "they'll go the way of the western". It's not the case, the movies have been big sellers for close to two decades. They've been around since the 70s.

I'm on the Martin Scorsese side.

Only this one.

This.

Westerns never really left. They just got morphed into Sci-Fi. Once the West was all discovered and used up as a unique setting they just moved the frontier/stories out to space to fit in the times of the Space Age. The genre changed settings, but the theme and archetypes remained. Outlaws, lone gunmen standing alone against the enemy, New Frontiers, etc. 'Outland' is basically a remake of 'High Noon' in outer space. 'Star Trek' 'Guardians of the Galaxy' 'Alien' 'Cowboy Bebop' 'Firefly' - the list goes on.

I don't give a shit either, but I figure there's the hard core comic fans who will always love the movies no matter that they start getting samey or completely fall off, and then there's the person like myself who doesn't give a shit but likes to see something new - like the MCU once was. Problem for the latter is once the newness wears off. Good news for the former is that there's a seemingless endless supply of characters. I think the MCU's done a pretty good job of creating an intertwined universe while still making their movies work as standalones. But I wonder how long they can keep that going before the movies start getting so that it becomes harder to know what's going on if you don't watch most of them or they just start to become too cookie cutter with a some minor elements changed. There's complaints now that they're not the kind of movies a director places their stamp on, but instead directors have to make the movies fit the Marvel Studios way.

I read about how the whole industry and our way of watching movies is changing or has changed. Box-office expectations and budgets are so high that a movie has to make a Billion dollars to be profitable so only movies with blockbuster potential will be produced and exhibited in theaters. Average dramas, comedies and anything with a more modest budget will be relegated to streaming services and all you'll see at the multiplex is the same three or four movies on all 18 screens. Lot more people watching entertainment from the comfort of their home on a 50" and going to movies only for big movies that play well on a big screen.

So who knows what the next big thing'll be. Maybe it'll just keep being the same superhero movie recycled with different actors wearing the same motion capture sensors playing slightly different characters in different costumes in front of different green screens with CGI added by the same companies that do all of the movies. I guess horror will always work since the budgets can be kept low, they make for good teenage date movies, and if they hit they can return huge profits. My guess is Hollywood keeps riding the superhero wave for as long as it works for them and once the publics tastes change they'll change right along with them - kind of like the music industry.

Naw I'm the only one saying this. Hot fucking take.
Fwiw I LOVE most of the marvel movies and I've seen all of them with the exception of the last dr strange but the same cookie cutter storylines can only be so popular for so long.