Post by formersamhmd on May 23, 2017 0:45:00 GMT
And before you bring up X-Men, there's nothing challenging about subtle-as-a-nuke Holocaust exploitation. In that regard, X-Men doesn't challenge people at all.
The fact it is all wonderous whilst masking real life struggles is the problem. Audiences walk away entertained because they laughed at Ant Man making jokes or Starlord doing a stupid dance. Thats it. There's no suffering or emotional evolution in the MCU which is why its 1 note. No one dies. No one suffers. Without that journey, the payoff at the end is not earned and worthless. No matter how bad some X-films might be atleast they try to exhibit the problems of its heros fully and not holding back. What do the MCU do. They hide or minimise it because they dont want their target audience to see these heros as flawed. Starks apparent PTSD in IM3? Forgotten. Caps worst nightmare of there being no war in Age of Ultron? Ignored. Rhodey being crippled in CW? Laughed off.
These are examples why X-Men in Feiges hands is a terrible idea. You wont get character arcs like Xaviers in DOFP being a suicidal drug addict, or Wolverine in Logan reaching rock bottom. Even DC films that dont quite hit the mark in TDKR and MoS attempt to portray their heros as humans, not idealistic celebrities.
That's not a problem at all, it just means the audience isn't being spoonfed. There are deeper themes in both GOTG and Ant-Man, and if all YOU took away was jokes and dancing that's your problem for wanting the movie to beat you over the head instead of being subtle.
More people have died in the MCU than in the X-Movies. And suffered.
Starks' PTSD? He learned to live with it, the way people have to.
Cap's nightmare? He still has it, just doesn't complain about it all the time.
Rhodey being crippled? He's still crippled at the end.
If anything, XAVIER was the one with the forgotten arc in DOFP. He was drunk in one scene and then got over it after ONE conversation with his future self. That's not how you overcome addiction.