Tom Hanks Says ‘We’ve Had 20 Years’ of Comic Book Spectacle but Now Moviegoers Are Asking: ‘The Story Is What? The Point of This Movie Is What?’
variety.com
Tom Hanks says moviegoers are no longer interested in VFX spectacles and are returning to good storytelling.

Tom Hanks says moviegoers are no longer interested in VFX spectacles and are returning to good storytelling.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    724·
    2 months ago

    Ah good, a Marvel movie! I wonder what will happen?

    • Super cool opening number showing how awesome it is
    • Baddy makes huge entrance and introduces themselves to the protagonist
    • Who is this guy? Let’s get some backstory
    • Funny cameo
    • First fight with baddy, which is lost
    • Self reflection, pump up talk, You’re the god of thunder not the god of hammers, I’m taking the suit back, etc etc
    • Huge baddy fight which is awesome, optional expensive background music
    • Quick wrap up with slight cliffhanger for sequel

    Ah that was fun, did it feel similar to <<insert any other recent marvel movie>> though?

    (And I say this as someone who loved the marvel movies, up until endgame, but everything since phase 3 has followed this pattern very closely)

      • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
        102·
        2 months ago

        I hate how we can’t just have villains anymore. It’s either a future corrupted version of our current hero, or we spend about a third of the runtime making our villains relatable so people can be upset when the consequences finally catch up to them.

        Imo we don’t need relatable villains, which is ironic because I used to think being evil for the sake of being evil was annoying, until it went away.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      IW killed it, it broke us completely.

      Endgame was expurgation, but we’re still so overloaded, I think the only thing even remotely interesting to me has been loki. And that’s just because tom h is the most charming thing to exist.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I loved IW and even endgame. But looking back, even it followed the same pattern, just in longer form. IW ends with the first fight with baddy, which is lost. Once you see the pattern you can’t unsee it