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I enjoyed the read. Thanks Jake.

Have you thought about exploring the "superhero movies will go the way of the western" trope and where it will all end up?

Maybe Disney wins the arms race and buys out Warner Bros, or atleast the DC characters, and as superhero films finally dwindle in popularity there is one final blockbuster movie of Marvel vs DC

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I bit on the title, but felt unfulfilled. What, exactly, was the "policy failure" ?

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Agreed. The only policy failure obvious here is the policy that self-hating nerds be allowed to continue to author opinion papers and choose their own titles. It continues to tire me to have people compare sequential art storylines to the likes of Chaucer and Shakespeare and being unfulfilled by the viewing experience. Let you forget, self-hating nerd, that the characters you are watching are dressed in long underwear and, especially in current times, represent a morale ideal that we can only imagine real-world politicians and leaders might have. These movies allow us a suspension of reality and an inspiration to be better humans. If that mission is met then they are successful. However, for some reason, these literary comparisons perpetually seem logical to critics. However, holding derivative period pieces and overly-dramatized versions of actual historic events seldom meet with the same comparison or critique. I’m a nerd and, quite honestly, I am not interested in the Snyder Cut nor am I interested in watching William Chaucer’s reimagined script for the next Wolverine film. Bringing a longtime positive and inspirational hero mythos to the mainstream when people need them the most, through film or streaming media is a mission I applaud. And, as a nerd, I couldn’t be more pleased with the level of quality that Marvel Studios and Disney continue to deliver.

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I think it’s what they call in the biz “a joke”

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hot damn, people are unnecessarily pissed off about this

thought the article was alright, and accurate in summing up the aggressive need to make money via streaming nowadays

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This was kind of touched on it but it needs to be amplified, of what now is so obvious: how Fiege foresaw how the supposed antiquated business model of comic books would translate to streaming. He almost missed the boat, with the first Iron Man entering production in 2007 the same year netflix began streaming.

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“Neither of these is good art.”

It is common error to mistake form for substance. It is also intellectually lazy.

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Almost every single MCU movie looks like an episode of General Hospital. On that basis alone they are poor films.

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Jake, this is astute, and I think accurate. You might consider another piece on how both Marvel and DC movies are modern gothic-romances. Thsi is why the bombast keeps being over-done, for the sake of "drama" (character be damned, anyone learning some useful life lesson be damned, usually anyway). Good groundwork on the terms so you can update them is here http://faculty.uml.edu/bmarshall/romanticismandgothicartlit.html

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Jake another direction to take this, which will please the people you offended by dismissing their "art," is "where there is no vision, the people perish." Real-life heroes are INCREASINGLY scarce. Heroines are now more common. The superhero movies reflect this shifting dynamic, an overlay over selfish-elitist culture offering no positive vision for the 99%.

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Thanks for putting into words things that have been on my mind.

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“I can almost guarantee that you have seen at least one film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe”

as the exception to the rule here, who has never watched any of this stuff, can say that the piece (mercifully brief) is all the more worth reading from perspective of total ignorance

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“Neither of these is good art.”

Says a writer that no one has every heard of and hasn’t produced anything of value to society whatsoever.

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You don’t have to have produced great art to recognise great art.

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Exactly 🙂

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You are an actual piece of shit

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virtual waste...of space pooh

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Why has journalism stooped so low that expletives are common? What happened to the skillful use of words to bring a point through?

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This article was a total waste of my time. I stopped after the 3rd paragraph because it was BS. His guarantee was wrong because I can’t wait to see probably ALL the superhero movies coming out because at the very least they aren’t boring. This “writer “ should actually try watching the movie without a prejudice against them, maybe he would enjoy it. He comes off sounding like a pretentious ass.

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Fucked up, I believe in Zack Syder and his vision will be great..... hater

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How much marvel paid you to write this article?

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