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Post by Tristan's Journal on Oct 13, 2017 19:31:50 GMT
The criticism here is not that characters are not original creations, but that MCU are formulated cookie cutter, conveyer belt products: eg always having the same arcs (Jerk goes through crisis becomes good guy superhero a la Iron Man, Dr Strange, Thor Antman etc) or band of jerk has to find together to fight common enemy a la Avenger or GotG. Add all the other MCU formula elements like childish jokes, faux-deaths etc and these movies essentially feel the same. Show me the Logan out of the box movies, with real R-rated stakes and dark elements and original storytelling. Where are they in the MCU? I never saw one. You can love your junk food but do not insult other's intelligence by claiming it is haute cuisine. That formula has worked for Marvel with 17 movies over the last 9 years. They have all been successful critically and commercially. Why do they need to change something that isn't broken? Fine but that's not the point discussed. We discuss that Fox-Men dares to do different, original and adult things, and that these artistic merits would likely be lost if Marvel claws the IP back. And you argue that clinging to the same children-orientated MCU formula repetition is fine because MCU are currently so successful. All the more a reason to be glad that X-Men do not go to MCU. And Graphic Novels are full of dark jokes and real deaths. It's been like that for decades. So what? Let's not destroy graphic novels by integrating them into MCU, no? We are talking about artistic merits in movies and the consequences of X-Men going back to Marvel Studios. And no thanks, I have seen some netflix shows. While some of them seem a tad more mature than MCU movies, I would hardly call that dark or R-rated. To each his own. |
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