Marvel universe plots-keep bad guy away from the shiny thing

[Pamela Jo]

How the Marvel Cinematic Universe Swallowed Hollywood

Robert Redford, Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Rudd, and Angela Bassett now disappear into movies whose plots can come down to “Keep glowy thing away from bad guy.”

www.newyorker.com

 

[Brooke]

finally someone said it!
though this exactly why i love the spider-verse movies; neither of them have this plot, and the plot they do have is pretty dang compelling. Across the Spider-Verse came out recently, and the whole theater was going mad by the end. it's got to be one of the few movies i'll say is near-perfect, which is surprising considering i don't even like marvel!

 

[Dan Payne]

That seems unfairly reductive. Certainly Marvel (and DC) films, as comic-book superhero movies, have a formula, but that formula is applied across multiple genres: horror, action-comedy, war film, sci-fi tragedy. They're all designed as tentpole films, so they were never intended to compete with mid-list films, rom-coms, domestic dramas - and neither did they displace those films. The core audience for comic-book movies is the core audience for swashbucklers of yesteryear from Indiana Jones to Star Wars. And I note it's not as if comic-book movies have prevented the release of more Indiana Jones or Star Wars movies.

The article was interesting, but the tagline comes across as a tad disrespectful.

 

[Pamela Jo]

finally someone said it!
though this exactly why i love the spider-verse movies; neither of them have this plot, and the plot they do have is pretty dang compelling. Across the Spider-Verse came out recently, and the whole theater was going mad by the end. it's got to be one of the few movies i'll say is near-perfect, which is surprising considering i don't even like marvel!

Your review has sold me. I'll check it out. I love Guardians of the Galaxy-but it is all about character. The shiny thing plot is the usual.