(We refuse to gratify it with a link.)
And the bickering back and forth between pro-Marvel and pro-DC fans has reached deluded sport fan levels.
We’ve got at leastfour more yearsof this everyone, (hooray!)
so can we tone down the rhetoric a little?
I get it, 2016, and the springtime in general is like an election year for superhero films.
I guess I’m an Independent.
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Personally, I have no allegiance to either brand.
This reduces a lot of risks and high-stake scenarios because these movies are becoming too big to fail.
The problem is, this tendancy isnt nefarious.
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Every studio is reacting to Marvel.
In terms of cash-outs, no one is content with sequels anymore.
Theres UniversalsMonster Universe, SonysMen in Blackand21 Jump Streetcrossover, Paramounts ramping up aTransformersuniverseand Fox has theX-Men.
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), I have no desire to take sides.
Its just less obvious.
Like Ant-Mans fighting method, lets start small in this critique.
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Snyder has a war room soldier announce that where Doomsday has landed is an unoccupied stretch of land.
Did the Langoliers clear out the airport for the Avengers?
Did someone stay behind to clean up the place after the panic evacuation?
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They both want it both ways.)
Crossbones is a deadly assassin whose switch of allegianceand for profit terrorist team assemblyinCivil Waris not given any weight.
Say, Luke Cage, who has unbreakable skin and superhuman strength?
The absolute worst moments inBatman v Supermanboth involve parental deaths.
ButCivil Warisnt exactly revelatory in their simple formula of grief = vengeance.
Props to Marvel for dropping in Spider-Man without an Uncle Ben death).
Marvel knows its formula to a T and it isnt tinkering with it.
But lets not confuse that with pushing the genre forward.
Did connect the dots coloring books revolutionize the act of coloring?
No.Civil Waris another agreeably fashioned connect-the-dots entry.
Thats not a takedown, as it does have some great action and some great actors.
But yo tell me where the risk is in this movie?
Even if the films share some of the same storytelling mistakes.
Marvels films get people excited for the next film because theyve met expectations without raising the baryet.
It feels like they’re about to turnthat corner.
