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A lot of the best Marvel movies are really other genres wearing a marvel skin Look at Captain America: The First Avenger. It's a pulpy world war 2 film, really

• awongh 8mo ago
  Right, most of the context of who the original characters were and represented in the comic books are washed away in the movie versions- it's just a marketing thing that draws people in. Batman and the different actors and directors over the different versions of the franchise is another example.
• underlipton 8mo ago
  A lot of them are only "Marvel Movies" in their final act, which still leaves a lot of room for fun genre-surfing and -bending, before they have to get back to the business of, "This is part of a franchise." But even on that note, I don't think they get enough credit. Phases 1-3, Marvel et al. managed to wrangle a dozen films of varying genres, working through the stories of just as many main characters, into a single series with a coherent, overarching narrative. It was the biggest spectacle ever created in the Spectacle Industry, yet with a handful of examples of genuine cinematic sublimity (if not entire films, at least a few scenes), to boot. And people would rather hate than just ride the wave.