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Why so many movies and TV shows about Superhumans?


I find this trend, like most trends, very lowbrow.
I mean, it might be great for the adolescent male mind,
but even by age 12 or so such pointless meaningless
fantasy seems toxic for people's minds. We can all see
the state of "Intellectual America" by who we elected
President for the last 4 years, but even going back quite
a ways, the American narrative is like a kids comic book
or cartoon.

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I agree. It's a disturbing trend.

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I really hate it. Like I hated the Vampire trend. There are other trends that are just a useless waste of time, talent and resources. Like all the hit-man movies. If aliens were monitoring our transmissions and could understand our language and decode our video they would have to think that killing each other is one of our main pastimes of enjoyment. ??? I don't know, perhaps it is.

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lol

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Bill Maher, is that you? What a ridiculous statement. That's like blaming westerns for the rise of McCarthyism back in the 1950s.

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A typical statement from the pretentious, intellectual elite who image themselves so much more intelligent and sophisticated then we poor hoi polloi. What would we do without your superior moral fiber to guide us.

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I can't help that you are unintelligent and unsophisticated and just lashing out, but that only makes your humiliation that much more public.

When there's a reason to be pretentious, it's not pretension. But being part of the "hoi polloi" I know you are shaky with those big 3 syllable words and probably don't really get what they mean.

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And we continue. The limited mindset of your kind of mind is amazing. The thought that only your concept of appropriate subject matter should be filmed indicates the type of person who wants to control what other people think and feel. It also indicates that you are incapable of understanding that most people have a wide range of interests and enjoy a wide range of genres. Your response indicates you believer you are some type of superior person. In escapes you that if I know and understand what hoi polloi means I would also understand unintelligent and unsophisticated.

Intelligence is not the issue here, of course. The issue is a tendency of many who post on the internet to believe it is perfectly acceptable to denigrate other people for thinking differently from you. You do not wish to engage in a rational discussion, even a rational argument, about a particular film or other piece of work. You only wish to sit on your high tower and issue pronouncements and take pot shots at those who have active, engaged minds; those who can encompass many things and enjoy everything from super heroes to drama; comedy to tragedy; historical to science fiction; action/adventure to serious film noir.

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> The thought that only your concept of appropriate subject matter should be filmed indicates the type of person who wants to control what other people think and feel.

Everyone is the type of person who wants to, I would say "influence", what other people think. But you are reaching, inferring and projecting. I think that super-hero movies are pretty useless in that the stories they tell have pretty much nothing to do with reality, there is no real value to them for an adult, except maybe to take kids to who can maybe view them as fairy stories with some kind of message - but there again, most of them are useless at that also.

Early movies were things like short films of trains pulling into the station. That is what was out there, and certainly there was a market for it, but do you imagine that is what people wanted to see or that it helped them in any way? With all the technology of today there is hardly any reason to make the equivalent of a train pulling to the station.

> It also indicates that you are incapable of understanding that most people have a wide range of interests and enjoy a wide range of genres.

Oh, certainly, not even you thinks that. If you did you'd be a complete idiot.

But as I think you are probably only an incomplete idiot, not a complete one, there must be some important reason that you would spend your time trying to insult me on MovieChat, or in trying to make yourself look smart, or open-minded, or maybe pandering to someone out there with someone against my comments. Maybe you are trying to defend your favorite genre of movie, but you don't really have any reasons, so you substitute attempted insults.

> The issue is a tendency of many who post on the internet to believe it is perfectly acceptable to denigrate other people for thinking differently from you.

Really? But that's not what you're doing, right?

> You do not wish to engage in a rational discussion, even a rational argument, about a particular film or other piece of work.

How do you know what I wish from reading one comment?

> You only wish to sit on your high tower and issue pronouncements and take pot shots at those who have active, engaged minds;

So, it's an active mind that you are demonstrating here? And by active mind you mean that you can watch and defend anything the movie industry throws out there, by insulting people who disagree with you?

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Sigh. Some things are hopeless. You begin with denigrating millions of people who do enjoy this genre. You continue demonstrating an arrogant attitude when challenged. You thus demonstrate a need to control (not influence) others. Its a classic behavior. Only those of lowbrow intellect could enjoy this item (or genre in this case). You declare the entire genre toxic.

I really do not see any further need to exchange posts.

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Sorry you feel denigrated, but I am sure watching superhero movies is not all you do in life. You also engage in stupid bickering over someone's opinion on a chat board ... that surely lifts your "brow".

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I see. You can post your opinions but others cannot. If they do they are bickering. I never use the ignore button, but you tempt me.

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I don't harass or insult people ( first ) if they disagree with you, but you take the cake. Please explain to me how I prevent people from posting their opinions?

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YOUR STUPIDITY AND HOSTILITY PREVENT PEOPLE FROM WANTING TO POST THEIR OPINIONS.

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Agreed. It's a lazy formula designed to make money at the expense of real innovation in film. Sure, the occasional superhero movie. I'm all for it!

But now they're replaying the same characters in different costumes. There's nothing new to the plot.

Sorry, I'm an adult. I stopped reading comic books years ago.

But expect the burnout to come very soon.

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