Okay elitist movie critics and Hollywood nabobs who think that you’re far too erudite to enjoy a Marvel movie, listen the fuck up. I’m going to explain to you why the MCU movies continue to make money despite all your nattering about superhero fatigue and boilerplate plots. Living in your upside down little world where only the only good films are ones from auteurs who make disjointed, violent filled masterpieces with “real” actors and graphic images of rape, you are so removed from the average movie goer that you can no longer gauge what is good or bad.
First, let’s talk about the death of postmodernism and the fact that the majority of Hollywood’s audience has NEVER been postmodern. Fragmented images, a collection of flotsam and jetsam, missing connective tissue … there’s a reason Thomas Pynchon books don’t sell well.
headcanon: since meeting ant man, no one dares to fuck with spider man cause they think he can control spiders and fuck that tbh. he defeats villains by threatening to order spiders to infest their house,, his success rate is 100%, new york is crime-free in less than a month,
antman:
villain: what you gonna do huh? steal my picnic food? lmao lemme get the magnifying glass
spiderman:
villain:
villain: ill just turn myself in,
Um actually,
it was bold of me to assume he wouldnt actually do this in canon,
The best gag in infinity war is Tony dramatically claiming ‘the Avengers broke up’ but then it’s just Tony. Literally every other hero is chill and working together, it’s just no one wants to talk to Tony.