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Post by Skaathar on Dec 21, 2018 20:35:42 GMT
and then convinced her to watch them with me. I thought I'd share what her opinions were about the movies. But first a bit of backstory:
So me and my wife made friends with this lady about a year ago, she's in her mid 30's. Anyway, I found out she's never watched any MCU or DCEU movies. In fact, she didn't know what Marvel was, just that people kept talking about it so she was curious. She had never even heard of DC.
So we started bringing her along with us whenever we watched superhero movies and tried to catch her up on some of the ones that have already been out for some time (Netflix and stuff).
What was the result? Her top 3 favorites were:
Black Panther
Wonder Woman
Thor Ragnarok
We haven't watched Avengers because it's not on Netflix but I assume she'll probably like it. She was so-so with Infinity War because she felt it was too busy and had too many characters with too many action scenes. We watched Venom because she said she liked Tom Hardy, but she said the movie felt like it was in a completely lower tier than both MCU and DCEU movies. Like it was a TV movie instead of a blockbuster.
What I found interesting though was that, without even knowing which movies were MCU and which were DCEU, she ended up ranking all the DCEU movies at the bottom of her list other than Wonder Woman. In fact, she mistakenly thought Wonder Woman was MCU. When I explained to her which movies were Marvel and which were DC, her response was "Well then I definitely like Marvel more than DC".
Anyway, we're watching Aquaman again on Sunday, I'm pretty sure she would have forgotten by now which company Aquaman belongs to (despite having already watched Justice League). I'm curious how she'd react to the movie considering it looks to resemble MCU movies more than previous DCEU ones.
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Post by No Morpho, Only Bánh mì on Dec 21, 2018 21:03:07 GMT
You’re so lucky!
Can you provide the full list/
Her full rankings?
And keep us updated.
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Post by Jedan Archer on Dec 21, 2018 21:10:50 GMT
Funny. In the crazy social experiment of my life it was always the other way round. The gals did not want to watch MCU for it being too childish and immature. Batman, Superman and - duh - WonderWoman were the only acceptable choices, if at all.
Guess that is what they call anecdotal misconception, confirmation bias and milieu orientation.
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Post by Skaathar on Dec 21, 2018 21:16:06 GMT
You’re so lucky! Can you provide the full list/ Her full rankings? And keep us updated. I'll have to ask her again to get the full rankings (if she still remembers). Off the top of my head I think it went something like: BP WW Thor Ragnarok CW GOTG CATWS SMHC CATFA GOTG2 IW IM2 JL BvS SS It's hard to peg her reaction to Venom. On one hand she looked like she enjoyed it more than either JL or IW, but on the other she said it looked pretty cheap. Like a TV movie. So don't know where to put that. She was also completely not interested in seeing Antman and the Wasp and to be honest, I didn't feel like pushing her either. I wasn't that interested in it myself. |
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Post by hobowar on Dec 21, 2018 23:09:56 GMT
Funny. In the crazy social experiment of my life it was always the other way round. The gals did not want to watch MCU for it being too childish and immature. Batman, Superman and - duh - WonderWoman were the only acceptable choices, if at all. Guess that is what they call anecdotal misconception, confirmation bias and milieu orientation. That story sounds very made up if you don't mind my saying so. Those "gals" sound an awful lot like a projection of yourself.  |
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Post by hobowar on Dec 21, 2018 23:14:12 GMT
She put the DCEU movies at the bottom? Sounds an awful lot like common sense to me. Maybe she prefers themes, characters and dialogue that convey an actual story?
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Post by Jedan Archer on Dec 21, 2018 23:17:37 GMT
Funny. In the crazy social experiment of my life it was always the other way round. The gals did not want to watch MCU for it being too childish and immature. Batman, Superman and - duh - WonderWoman were the only acceptable choices, if at all. Guess that is what they call anecdotal misconception, confirmation bias and milieu orientation. That story sounds very made up if you don't mind my saying so. Those "gals" sound an awful lot like a projection of yourself. Is this some form of awkward come on? Keep it to yourself, lassie. I don't swing that way. |
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Post by hobowar on Dec 21, 2018 23:42:35 GMT
That story sounds very made up if you don't mind my saying so. Those "gals" sound an awful lot like a projection of yourself. Is this some form of awkward come on? Let's have sex, baby. Fixed |
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Post by Skaathar on Dec 22, 2018 16:28:05 GMT
Funny. In the crazy social experiment of my life it was always the other way round. The gals did not want to watch MCU for it being too childish and immature. Batman, Superman and - duh - WonderWoman were the only acceptable choices, if at all. Guess that is what they call anecdotal misconception, confirmation bias and milieu orientation. So far, the only women I've met in real life who preferred the DCEU movies were those who were already fans of the characters. For the regular gals (i.e. non-comicbook fans) they seem to gravitate more towards the MCU as far as I can tell. |
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Post by havenless on Dec 23, 2018 14:37:19 GMT
Funny. In the crazy social experiment of my life it was always the other way round. The gals did not want to watch MCU for it being too childish and immature. Batman, Superman and - duh - WonderWoman were the only acceptable choices, if at all. Guess that is what they call anecdotal misconception, confirmation bias and milieu orientation. If you know your post is confirmation bias, what good does it do to share it? |
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Post by James on Dec 23, 2018 14:52:26 GMT
Wow, even though you couldn’t get through all of them, it’s pretty awesome how you guys got through all that in a short amount of time.
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Post by Skaathar on Dec 23, 2018 18:37:13 GMT
Wow, even though you couldn’t get through all of them, it’s pretty awesome how you guys got through all that in a short amount of time. It was like a movie a month. Sometimes two. But yeah, it wasn't easy. I don't think cbm fans understand how difficult it is to convince non-cbm fans to go on a marathon of superhero movies. |
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Post by James on Dec 23, 2018 18:41:15 GMT
Wow, even though you couldn’t get through all of them, it’s pretty awesome how you guys got through all that in a short amount of time. It was like a movie a month. Sometimes two. But yeah, it wasn't easy. I don't think cbm fans understand how difficult it is to convince non-cbm fans to go on a marathon of superhero movies. Oh I understand. So many adults in my life that don’t watch CBMs often. |
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Post by scabab on Dec 23, 2018 19:03:46 GMT
I thought this was going to end with a story about a threesome and a Zucchini. I'm disappointed now.
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Post by Skaathar on Dec 24, 2018 0:15:47 GMT
I thought this was going to end with a story about a threesome and a Zucchini. I'm disappointed now. Hey man, if it was up to me... |
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Post by Skaathar on Dec 24, 2018 0:17:54 GMT
So we watched it... and she said she liked it almost as much as Wonder Woman. Though she did say she might be a bit biased because Momoa was in it. I also got her top 3 wrong. Apparently it was:
BP
Ragnarok
WW
And now Aquaman coming in a close 4th place.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2018 1:11:29 GMT
I thought this was going to end with a story about a threesome and a Zucchini. I'm disappointed now. God me too. |
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Post by James on Dec 24, 2018 10:43:29 GMT
I also got her top 3 wrong. Apparently it was: BP Ragnarok WW And now Aquaman coming in a close 4th place. Well they’re still the same 3 movies just with Ragnarok and WW switched. |
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Post by Lord Death Man on Dec 24, 2018 17:29:50 GMT
It's getting harder and harder to find people who haven't had some kind of touch point with the MCU or comic book movies in general. A family friend who is a staunch hater of science fiction, comic books, and comic book movies has been sucked into the CBM vortex by his younger nephews. He's seen three MCU films on video and one DCEU film in theaters (Aquaman). He uniformly declared them all trash but, interestingly enough, he said Captain America: Winter Soldier was "not a complete dumpster fire." That's extremely high praise coming from him.
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