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> Everyday guy or gal gets bestowed with or discovers powers of some sort and cut to blowing a bunch of stuff up. That comes across the same way as if I said

> Everyday guy or gal gets bestowed with or discovers powers of some sort and cut to blowing a bunch of stuff up. That comes across the same way as if I said "all romance movies end up with a couple, who don't get along, and there's some obstacle in their romance, and then they discover love, and end with smooching- end credits with some sappy music." Yes, the elements you pointed out are a predictable part of (many, but not all) super hero movies- but there's plenty of variation if you dig just a little bit deeper. Iron Man 2 has themes of substance abuse and trust, Black Panther questioned the roles of loyalty and honor in running a country... the recent Spiderman had themes of responsibility and whether it's okay to abdicate it... > To my mind, there's little true creativity to movies anymore And this sounds a lot like the patent office commissioner who said, about a century ago, "we should shut down the patent office, everything that can be invented already has been." Yes, there's a lot of unoriginality in cinema, and also a lot of originality, and both of those statements have been true for about a century. Maybe you just need to take a break from cinema for a while, you're sounding burned out.

the_af 7y ago
> That comes across the same way as if I said "all romance movies end up with a couple, who don't get along, and there's some obstacle in their romance, and then they discover love, and end with smooching- end credits with some sappy music." I find this to be a very good comparison. Most superhero movies and most romance movies follow a pretty strict template from which they don't deviate, so that you can usually very easily predict plot points and in fact can get frustrated if they deviate from the template, even if briefly. These genres of movies are (by the most part) made in a way you can get up, go outside to use the restroom or to buy more popcorn, come back and instantly understand the point of the movie you're at and resume your enjoyment. This makes for very formulaic, predictable and (to me) boring cinema. Other people enjoy it and in fact get upset in the rare cases where this template gets subverted. (And thankfully, very occasionally it does get subverted)

the_af 7y ago

> That comes across the same way as if I said "all romance movies end up with a couple, who don't get along, and there's some obstacle in their romance, and then they discover love, and end with smooching- end credits with some sappy music." I find this to be a very good comparison. Most superhero movies and most romance movies follow a pretty strict template from which they don't deviate, so that you can usually very easily predict plot points and in fact can get frustrated if they deviate from the template, even if briefly. These genres of movies are (by the most part) made in a way you can get up, go outside to use the restroom or to buy more popcorn, come back and instantly understand the point of the movie you're at and resume your enjoyment. This makes for very formulaic, predictable and (to me) boring cinema. Other people enjoy it and in fact get upset in the rare cases where this template gets subverted. (And thankfully, very occasionally it does get subverted)