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Yeah, I'm having a hard time telling if this guy has a point, or if he lives in a bubble that I feel like I also inhabit. I hear a lot about comic book movies

Yeah, I'm having a hard time telling if this guy has a point, or if he lives in a bubble that I feel like I also inhabit. I hear a lot about comic book movies and those are getting extremely samey (or maybe they already were), but there are other things going on that I don't hear about. Also, Shape of You is a super good song, so it's not SO awful that people love it year after year.

rootsudo 4y ago
Comic books are long gone counterculture. Look at all the marvel/DC movies as of late. No counterculture item is going to be front page news like the whole new "Doctor Strange" movie. Which, I get, knowing this makes me so not counterculture. It's also at the point where even recreational substances, which were the idealogy of what countercultre was - is now legalized. We see this now with Marijuana and Mushrooms (Denver, at least.) - For medical reasons or not.
- civilized 4y ago
  I guess different patterns of mass media consumption were never quite a sustainable way to distinguish oneself from the mainstream.
- HKH2 4y ago
  I doubt acid will ever be legal again.
thaumasiotes 4y ago
> I hear a lot about comic book movies and those are getting extremely samey (or maybe they already were) They weren't. Compare Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Batman Begins (2005). Compare X-Men (2000). All of those had a story to tell. Recent superhero movies... not so much.