Alright, this is the final part of the hot takes (I need to think of a different term because I hate the term hot takes). Anyway here are some of my thoughts on the MCU, referring to the films and some television shows (I haven’t seen most of them), that have come out between 2008-2021.
A popcorn flick is a film that you see as mindless that you have on in the background while you are doing work or something, and those are different for everyone, and there is no shame in that. There is also no shame in saying that something is more than this to you and that you consider it a form of art like I do about the MCU,
There was a point in this series where I was thinking about including the MCU at all. Mainly because for the most part…the fandom is pretty positive. Sure there are some negative articles out there that in my opinion are mainly nitpicking and are just trying to write something to get a word count, (hmm maybe that’s something else to write about), but on the whole, it’s a nice group to be a part of. So I was thinking of just making this series about Doctor Who and Games of Thrones until I remember something really big about the series as a whole that several critics and people on the internet I respected thought the MCU was that made me think, am I the idiot for not thinking this series wasn’t just fun popcorn movies?
I will say, for the most part, phase one of the MCU isn’t the best and the films that I would say are popcorn flicks. This is fine because the creators were not only setting up all of these characters and the series as a whole but also trying to get the audience to like these characters enough to come back and watch a film where they're all together and have to team up and save the world. Thankfully for them, they were successful and have continued to make successful films for over ten years.
Phase two is where for me, this series becomes more than just some fun popcorn flicks. The characters begin to feel less one-note and relatable. They begin to deal with things like Tony Stark dealing with panic attacks and PTSD in Iron Man 3, Steve Rogers dealing with adjusting to a new time and loneliness in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Thor dealing with the loss of his family in Thor: Ragnarock and Avengers: Infinity Wars, and the Avengers as a whole building a new family, in…well all of the Avengers films. These movies have some great writing and allow you to connect and relate to the characters and in some sense, help viewers understand these emotions that they may be going through. And at least to me, that’s not a popcorn flick.
but this is something I have been afraid of expressing for some time because I felt if I did, it would make me look dumb and low brow. Which one, doesn’t feel good and two leads to so much anxiety in that I feel like an idiot for not agreeing with people or seeing more in a movie that somebody thinks is just mindless. I don’t want to get too much into this here, instead, I will be talking about this in my final post on nerd culture and my anxieties. Stay Tune.
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