Originally Posted by David_Flett1:
“I can work out that RT stands for Rotten Tomatoes but explain DCEU movies”
DCEU, Decetive Comics Entertainment Universe, so Man of Steel, Batman vs Superman, Suicide Squad, and movies associated with Justice League characters
Originally Posted by Ber:
“I've got nothing against the superhero films and have seen some of them, but tbh the constant sequels, reboots, alt universes and spin-offs confuse the heck out of me!”
not that many movies set in alt universe of another movie, and few spin-offs, sure the ever expand MCU can seem daunting to newbies but I love it for exactly that reason, as mentioned above the pay off in Civil War is amazing to long term fans.
Originally Posted by solarflare:
“The worst offenders are the superhero films.
The thing is they're not that bad in isolation, they're just so collectively dull. If you fling enough budget and special effects at them they generally give a reasonable blockbuster film, but they're just so soulless. You just feel like you're watching something that big data analytics says will appeal to the most people possible and therefore make the most money possible.
And you have to constantly up the ante on them because fundamentally the only interesting part of the story is when they actually discover their powers. After that it's just a case of chuck increasingly more enemies at them and hope that does the trick, or what they do now of having increasingly more superheroes ganging together (Avengers/Justic League), or reboot and start from scratch AGAIN (how many times have they rebooted Batman and Spiderman, for god's sake?).
Having said that, I'm increasingly frustrated by needless sequels so that a generic film can be "given" a big name because Hollywood is so afraid of a flop. Did we really need Jurassic World or Independence Day:Resurgence? Those films had their day, they didn't need to be dusted off years later and sequelled (again in the latter case).”
This Spiderman reboot is within the MCU, so its not just ANOTHER reboot, same could also be said for Batman. The truth is this, the comics reboot the charaters just as much, if not more, so for comic book movies to reboot characters is logical.
Jurassic World has some nice ideas, and the idea of an open park is a good one, truth is I liked the movie, there are other types of stories you can tell in that universe however, and that is something that needs to be done in any sequels.
As for Independence Day:Resurgence it is over all a dreadful movie, but the world presented, is amazing.