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James Gunn Celebrates ‘Superman’s Box Office Win: “I’m Incredibly Grateful For Your Enthusiasm” (deadline.com)
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I was curious about how the Minecraft movie adapted the voxel world, but I started watching it and pretty quickly turned it off.

Superhero movies are OK, I like the Batman series, but otherwise I am good watching one movie a decade (with some exceptions).

To me, a lot of the motifs are extremely provincial and lazy. I remember watching the first Iron Man in 2008, there was this scene where Downey Jr. is imprisoned in a cave by the Taliban and he builds the iron man costume out of spare parts or something and escapes.

It was so stupid. Especially considering in real life an American oligarch in such a situation would do everything to not rock the the boat and exploit his American citizenship and financial status to get released (either via an exchange or giving the Taliban lots of money).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I dont like hero movies mostly because they tend to romanticize a very juvenile view of the world, and it makes it hard to suspend belief when none of the adults act in any sort of rational way.

    I do love batman though since you mentioned it, but the universe really. Gotham the tv show was fantastic, I loved the video game trilogy, and I can't think of a batman movie I haven't liked. Thats a universe where people very much act like you would expect them to given the circumstances.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It was so stupid. Especially considering in real life an American oligarch in such a situation would do everything to not rock the the boat and exploit his American citizenship and financial status to get released (either via an exchange or giving the Taliban lots of money).

    It's a super hero movie. Tony Stark is an idealized futurist. You're oligarchs in the franchise are Justin Hammer or Obadiah Stane.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's fair. I am just sharing my perspective. Keep in mind this was in 2008, when it just got released in cinemas and that was my initial gut-feeling reaction. Not sure who the other fellows are, but in my mind the Stark character was clearly an American oligarch.

    As I mentioned in my OP, for me positioning Minecraft's popularity as being bad for the movie industry, while at the same time presenting Superman as a contribution to cinema seems a bit inconsistent.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Stane was the main villain of IM1. Hammer was one of the villains of IM2. Stark was an oligarch, but that's part of his character arc. He wasn't a good person in the beginning. That's the point.

    As far as Minecraft and other popcorn flicks being bad for the industry, those types of movies have always existed.

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