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Superheroes & Supernonsense
All of the superhero movies. Sci-Fi fantasy is a lazy genre where every character’s superpower is just one giant, contrived plot device. The formula is identical in all of them.
The only really good superhero movie was The Dark Night because it wasn’t sci-fi fantasy. Neither the good guy nor the bad guy were supernatural, and the Joker was brilliantly acted. Iron Man was ok, but the technology is so out in left field that it might as well be fantasy-based supernatural. Like when he’s flying and gets hit by the tank shell in mid-air? Even if I could believe that the thin material of his suit was capable of deflecting that shot, his internal organs would liquefy at such a sudden momentum change.
Every other superhero movie has dull, boring characters with arbitrary supernatural sci-fi fantasy powers that served as perpetual plot devices, and the entire movie depends on the audience wanting to see superpower porn and eye-candy visual effects.
It’s the equivalent of downing a cup of sugar and calling it a meal.
And the fact that so many of them all seem to get extremely high ratings on Rotten Tomatoes despite how vapid they are, makes it clear just how crappy the movie-reviewing industry is. Either RT is being paid off to cherry-pick reviews, or the reviewers themselves are being instructed to write positive reviews of the films. There is just not enough substance in any Marvel movie to justify the RT scores they get.
