No duh, I enjoy all types of art. I'm someone who enjoys plenty of dumb shit seeing that I'm on a Toku forum after all. I'm personally tied of the MCU, Pixar, etc. being considered to be the end of the be all of cinema. Not to mention, I'm sick of movies trying to copy off of MCU's style. Not every superhero or big budget movie needs to be upbeat with dumb jokes mixed into the movie. I'm not saying every movie needs to be dark and edgy. You can have a fun upbeat movie without trying to copy off of MCU.

My biggest issues with the MCU is that they are almost always allergic to actually talking about serious subject matter in a way that doesn’t feel like it was watered down for the Disney Channel. When watching these movies, I never feel like that I care what was going on. That's why I started to lose interest with these movies after Civil War. The comics handle their themes and stories better in my opinion.

You also have the casual people who like to bash on high art movies too. They are just as bad as the film snobs. After all, two wrongs don't make a right. I do agree with Martin Scorses that the MCU are just pop corn flicks and nothing more. You also have people like David Cronenberg and Terry Gilliam that also feels the same way. Hollywood needs more variety like they used too. Most movies these days are superhero movies, sequels to older movies aka nostalgia money gabs, bad romantic comedies, and other big budget movies based on children's franchises (Transformers).

Being a pop corn flick is not always a good excuse in my opinion. Movies like Terminator 2, Death Wish 3, the first two Predator movies, Ronin, etc. are pop corn flicks and I consider them to be better than all the MCU movies in my opinion.

I totally agree. Let people enjoy what they like (unless it's something dangerous or illegal). I honestly hated when you have MCU fans that try to review bomb The Irishman because they didn't like his opinion on the MCU. You can easily ignore his opinion and carry on with your life.

Modern popcorn flicks peaked at Pacific Rim. Everyone's favorite movie of all time is at least 10 years old now because movies back then weren't so concerned about becoming trilogies, selling merch, or systematically winning oscars.

So high cinema is just a figure of speech?

Basically but also covered in a bit a shit when used.

Review bombing is the most childish fucking thing I've seen on the internet, I remember when Last Jedi came out that countless bots on Rotten Tomatoes screaming about how the movie ruined Star Wars forever and is a disgrace to the franchise, yada yada yada. I know for a fact they were bots as they posted those reviews on the page of A Shape of Water. There's also someone who was so pissed off Joker was put in Smash that they reviewbombed the shit out of every SMT game on Metacritic

People seem to have this kneejerk reaction against things they don't agree with, not just movies, before even giving it a chance. I don't exactly know what that's supposed to say about internet culture but it's pretty disappointing.

Welp, speaking of movies I heard Borat 2 is gonna be a thing. That was unexpected.

I didn’t say they didn’t put in any effort. I said they need to put into more effort. Nuanced villains in phase three is nice and all but that doesn’t resolve some of the one note characters and copy and paste storylines. I’m no film snob as there are plenty of trashy art house films too, but by the numbers stories and jokes are just cringe.

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