Well, but I think that was the marketing working as intended. It's not reasonable to expect people to become PhDs in media analysis to figure out the movies are bullshit when they're just trying to live their life, and they're being subjected to weapons-grade propaganda at an industrial scale that's trying to trick them into thinking it's a good movie.

I posted a video recently, with a pretty good analogy about how the best media like the best food is both good for you and fun to consume, but the thing is you have to not be a horrifying corporate husk in order to produce stuff like that, so it's all gone from our current ecosystem, so can you really blame people for hoping that maybe "Infinity War" is it? They are wired to need it, that's not a wrong thing.

Lol, I mean you are not wrong I guess, but it is a bit of a misrepresentation of what happened. The choice to make slop for the peasants was a choice they made. The people didn't make that decision for them.

But I do agree with your overall sentiment... people have shit taste and make bad decisions and are easily manipulated.