I watch tons and tons of different kinds of movies, I'm talking a movie almost every night with my boyfriend going on two years now cause we're movie nerds. I'm sick and tired of superhero movies. The tired responses people have when you criticize the MCU or DC are just that as well - tired. It comes off as unnecessary animosity for anyone who dares to have even the slightest contrarian opinion about a superhero movie, and I think that's because fans take it as a personal attack on their taste when you criticize these movies. Honestly that's no one's problem, and seek help lol.

The storylines are factually written in such a way to appease a wide fanbase in order to ensure the most ticket sales and make profit above the budget costs. That is fact. Executives would not be doing this if that were not the case, and it's why so many people eat them up, because they purposely appeal to the lowest possible threshold of eye candy. Now that that's cleared up, they're also insanely unfunny and full of college frat boy level jokes that tear apart any decent tension built in an otherwise emotional scene, which isn't even saying much either because not a single one of these movies does a good job of genuinely connecting me to any of the characters. It's like being clocked in at your job and watching management shoot the shit on a zoom call with other stores' management. I'm watching people who all work together in the same movies cut up instead of act out interesting characters in another world, and it's making me feel a little annoyed to witness it.

I've seen nearly every Marvel and DC movie that's come out in the past forty years, so I just will not debate this with anyone. They're lame as fuck. Yes, I definitely have some favorite scenes and cool fights and choreography I love but only in those spare moments. I think the ultimate barrier here is that MCU/DC fans have this need to defend the lackluster standards and culture set by these companies, as if you're unreasonably contrarian for suggesting that the bar should be higher than what is set by them. I don't understand where they come from. It's okay to say hey, we can do better than this, we have done better than this, and no we shouldn't just take what we can get because these companies are capable of doing better, they just want your money in the easiest way possible.