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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Tbh they only really swerved into it that hard with this Falcon movie.

You know, the movie with themes of black empowerment where they engage in relentless apologia for General President Ross turning a man he did medical experiments on into a slave.

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[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

This reminds me of a reel on Instagram where the singer Aurora said something along the lines of "Isn't it weird how the «villains» want to break the status quo while the «heroes» seek to restore it?" and in the comments there were ones that said "For this nonsense people become leftist" and exactly right below that another one said "For this nonsense people become right-wing".

[–] regdog@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

They didn't use to.

The problem is the studios have gotten lazy and risk adverse.

The reason why Endgame was so huge was because the studio took some risks and did the work to set everything up for that payoff.

There were movies in the first few phases that fell flat, like Thor 2, but even that movie pushed the plotlines forward.

Post Endgame, marvel hasn't really had a unified plan. They've also become so risk adverse that if any given movie underperforms, it kills the entire plotline.

Which leads to movies that don't have meaningful character growth, so who cares about those characters? Or those movies?

[–] rImITywR@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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