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.