Alara317 said:
Don't worry, some day you will grow up and understand that movies can be fun instead of just relentlessly dour and 'realistic'. When that day comes, we'll gladly be here for you, welcoming you as one of us with open arms. You know, one of us. Someone who isn't an edgy teen who thinks that happiness is for posers. As for me, totally just got my tickets for opening weekend. Well, thursday night. Pre-opening show. Gonna be a laaaate night. 10:45 PM, 2 hours and what, 37 minutes? |
He's not entirely wrong, though. The MCU is basically consists of silly, lighthearted movies who rely mostly on special effects and foreshadowing to attract its target audience: mostly children and teenagers. It's basically the same thing Star Wars did in the late 70s and early 80s, though I'd give George Lucas the advantage of coming up with the story on his own instead of mining comic books for plotlines, and successfully using archetypes to give it that timeless appeal instead of being bound or influenced by market analysis comitees.
That's not to say those qualities makes those movies necessarily bad; on the contrary, I think they can be a positive force, since it's good to have something fun and idealistic on cynical times such as ours, like The Hobbit did on the 40s, and Star Wars just after the Nixon era and during the Cold War.
Your assertion of every other more realistic and thoughtful movies as "dour", though, showcase you are in mostly for cheap and quick rewards with the flashy stuff of those movies, so ironically maybe the lack of "growing up" is on you instead, since those traits are commonly associated with the incomplete neurological development of children and teenagers.
