Nah, I just like ranting. I'm old too you know.
That's it, I think. If studios would be banned (somehow) from making superhero movies, they wouldn't turn to intellectual dramas instead. There were few superhero movies in the 90s, but to my mind, there is really no conceptual difference with mega-hits like Jurassic Park, The Matrix, Armageddon, Men in Black, and so on, or a lot of Disney stuff. I mean, just take a look at IMDB's list of the 20 highest grossing films of he 90s (link to full top 50):
Think that's bollocks tbh. Quite a lot of the stories and characters are metaphors for real world issues. The X-Men for example is metaphor of discrimination and segregation.
I'm not sure. Saving Private Ryan doesn't belong in the list; that's more like Dunkirk now. I don't see how Independence Day is more intelligent or better done than most Marvel movies. There is some flimsy moral attached to it, but you also get that in Black Panther (which had a big social impact), and Avengers 2 also explores the morality of superhero destruction. Terminator 2 stands our more to me, but you also have good action movies now - like the Dark Knight trilogy. (Yes, I'm going for a Christopher Nolan theme.) I do like those 90s films more than the Marvel stuff, but that might also have to do with youth nostalgia; it's hard to tease those apart. Although I guess you could say that the Marvel movies are a lot more 'a dime a dozen'. As for the Matrix - its stand-out is its pseudo-intellectual approach and novel camerawork; but for those, you also have stuff like Inception or Tenet now.
Yeah, that's one thing with the whole Marvel spree: they're all a bunch together. In the 90s, you had a Jerry Bruckheimer spree (The Rock, Con-Air, Face/Off, and Armageddon immediately come to mind), but they didn't feel as same-ish cause they had nothing in common except for the producer. Maybe the movie blockbuster industry has gone the video game route, where establishing a franchise is the hard part, and after that it's just a matter of milking it dry - rather than trying something new.
Nah, just a moron.
You'd struggle to find films that match the exemplary technique, craft and filmmaking artistry on display in the two Disney animations listed.
Yeah, when I found a list of actual 90s blockbusters, I realized my argument wasn't working the way I had expected it to - but I ploughed anyway, and here we are.
In my defense, I did for that reason avoid mentioning Titanic (or Avatar, for that matter). And with 'Disney films', I didn't mean the Lion King or prime Pixar (which anyway wasn't Disney of course). But I would say they both have made some by-the-numbers thrash as well. (Pixar mostly the Cars series; although Cars 1 had its merits.)Oh, absolutely, I agree they're very same-ish. Although I'd say picking Thor and Guardians as films you'd expect to be more different sounds odd to me, cause they are both set in outer space (except for the first Thor). If anything, I'd expect those to be most similar of the bunch. But yeah, all those films have a similar vibe, feel, colouring, and lack of artistic adventure (except on social issues sometimes). But that's like any movies franchise though. I haven't watched the Fast & Furious movies (9 in total by now), but I imagine their (lack of) diversity from one film to another is pretty similar; same for the Transformers franchise.
He's right.
