The death of the popcorn movie

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 5/15/15 at 5:12pm

Marvel is killing the popcorn movie.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 5/15/15 at 5:26pm

I feel so removed from comic book culture.  I think the last comic book adaptation I saw was Supergirl.  

 

Oh, no, wait, the Batman movies.  But, then, before that Supergirl.  

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 5/15/15 at 5:41pm

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[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/15/15 at 6:58pm

Is the popcorn movie a good thing or a bad thing with you?  One would think you think it's a bad thing, but this thread makes it seem like you think it's a good thing?

Updated On: 5/15/15 at 06:58 PM

[Wildcard]

Posted: 5/15/15 at 7:29pm

Just because Avengers Age of Ultron is a bad movie, it doesn't mean the popcorn movie is dead or dying. Mad Max looks very much like a popcorn movie and it has decent reviews as well.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/15/15 at 9:54pm

When I read infotainment industrial complex "news" that some Marvel movie is going to feed into some other Narvel movie that already has a release date of 2019, I realize two things: 1) this is so not for me, and 2) my opinion doesn't matter.

 

 

[SNAFU]

Posted: 5/17/15 at 2:17am

Kind of saddens me that these Marvel Movies are basically made for people too lazy to read comic books.

 

[Kad]

Posted: 5/17/15 at 10:52am

The Marvel films have really exhausted me. And the now very public release schedules removes even the illusion of surprise of what's going to happen.

Unless this is all building to a big sweaty shirtless scene for Chrises Pratt, Evans, and Hemsworth, then... I suppose that's fine.

[darquegk]

Posted: 5/17/15 at 11:53am

The intertextuality of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was to some extent inevitable... since the eighties, reading mainstream comics has become an almost rabbinical pursuit. You couldn't subscribe to one and get the whole story, you had to jump back and forth between I believe fifteen "X-titles" at the height of the X-men revival to pick up the whole story, and so on and so forth.

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/17/15 at 2:17pm

I love that the entire genre of "popcorn movie," which existed long before the Marvel superhero fad and will continue to exist long after the fad ends, has apparently died.

What a myopic opinion.

But if that's the extent of your limited vision, where do I send flowers? My condolences to your imagination. Or any sense of film history.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 5/17/15 at 9:36pm

I have a remedy for this problem. Don't see Marvel movies. More specifically, don't see Disney Marvel movies if this is an issue for you.

I'm with B12B, everyone decries the new fad as the end of the damn world of film when it's no different than any other time in history. It's just a fad, it will pass. Personally, I hope it all does blow up in Disney's face because they are just piling on the required viewings before each of the movies or serieses. To the point where you can't watch Agents of Shield without having the newly released movie spoiled for you.

It's eventually going to implode in on itself. It has to. It has gotten too massive and it's only going to get bigger.

But this is just a Marvel movie/show problem, not one afflicting all of cinema.