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[-] 1bluepixel@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Superhero fatigue must be a thing...The reviews for this movie are pretty positive, but I still don't feel like checking it out.

I can already imagine the protagonist being torn between his newfound role as a superhero and the demands of family, only to realize after a long series of humorous situations that he can serve both by being true to himself, and... Yeah.

[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 14 points 1 year ago

I was done with the whole genre after watching just about everything leading up to Endgame. Once that saga closed I've seen like 2 superhero related things and just can't muster the energy to watch it. Even seemingly great movies like the Spider-Man stuff, particularly Into the Spiderverse looks awesome but I'm just so done with it all. That said it's not like I consume all that many movies outside superhero stuff either so yeah.

[-] diykeyboards@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Please reconsider Spiderverse. Both movies are superbly made.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

Maybe they should wait for the 3rd one. 2nd is kind of a cliffhanger.

[-] makeshiftreaper@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Cliffhanger is a generous term for "the movie doesn't have a 3rd act"

Don't get me wrong, I liked it but it just kind of stops instead of ends

[-] SPOOSER@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

People saying it's a terrific movie are being incredibly misleading. Across the Spiderverse is 100% setup, 0% payoff.

[-] protokaiser@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

At this point the only thing I'm interested in is the Loki series everything else I just can't muster the energy/desire to want to watch.

[-] 1bluepixel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Loki had my interest until the last episode of season one. Now I'm worried season two will be an extended trailer for Kang Dynasty.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I was done the moment I realised they weren't brave enough to be experimental with their formula and tone/vibe. I think the high points were Iron man (1) / Winter Soldier / Ragnorok / Endgame / Loki (TV) ... because they all did something new for the genre. Everything else has been bland, or, sadly IMO, had fans decry it for not being a comic book movie (looking at MCU fans criticising Eternals).

[-] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

I watched it last night and you’re not close. Still not sure I’d recommend it, though.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Really? I watched the trailer and that was the exact vibe it gave off. Maybe that formula works so well that they decided to advertise the movie that way, instead of showing what the movie was actually like?

[-] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Trailer companies don’t have access to the whole movie. They just hack together whatever they can maybe with some director input, iirc.

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Superhero fatigue must be a thing

It is for me, at least for Marvel. I think the last one I saw in theaters was Black Panther 2. I've never seen any other Marvel movie (or series) since then. DC not much either, but it's more because they're terrible. I watched The Flash at home and I'm so glad I didn't waste money in the cinema for that cgi garbage.

[-] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually no. The family steps up. Nana kicks ass. It's refreshing that the main cast aren't just fodder for the plot.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.one 21 points 1 year ago

And I helped! :)

But seriously, even among comics nerds, B.B. is largely an unknown property and the super generic trailers didn't help.

[-] UsernameLost@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Doesn't help that it just looks like an off-brand Iron Man. I saw one trailer and had no desire to watch anything related to it

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

Like I said, the super generic trailers didn't help.

It's Iron Man, but replace the alcoholic billionaire with a broke fresh college graduate, and replace Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan with a multi-generational Hispanic family.

[-] _finger_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Movie looked like total garbage based on the trailers.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

It's a good comics movie. They did a pretty good job of covering 83 years of comic book history spread across three characters.

[-] Cralder@feddit.nu 10 points 1 year ago

I had no idea this movie even existed before now

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly isn't that kind of nice to be out of the advertising loop? I'm in the same boat. I think maybe I am once heard something vague about it years ago. But had no idea that it had released.

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

PG Deadpool was the impression I got

[-] Hyperi0n@lemmy.film 1 points 1 year ago

Blue Beetle is a more down to earth Batman.

[-] wilberfan@lemmy.film 4 points 1 year ago

Why are box office numbers always framed as a competition in the USA? Did I read once that, for example, movies in France report the number of people that attended--not how much money was spent?

[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

First Oppenheimer, now Blue Beetle.

I still don't get what my movie has to do with either one of these movies.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

It has become an easy way to create a narrative in American movies, especially after Covid cleared the slate on how movies used to perform.

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This movie was meh. I tried. I really did. I wanted to like it. But it wasn't it.

[-] heimy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Idk man... It felt like they forgot to include scenes that would connect shots together? Idk if I'm making sense (it's been a while since I saw it and I only saw it once so...).

[-] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

All still trying to cash in on even a glimmer of what Nolan's Dark Knight accomplished. That's the reality. It has been ever since that time.

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