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Tom Hanks says moviegoers are no longer interested in VFX spectacles and are returning to good storytelling.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 68 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Ah good, a Marvel movie! I wonder what will happen?

  • Super cool opening number showing how awesome it is
  • Baddy makes huge entrance and introduces themselves to the protagonist
  • Who is this guy? Let's get some backstory
  • Funny cameo
  • First fight with baddy, which is lost
  • Self reflection, pump up talk, You're the god of thunder not the god of hammers, I'm taking the suit back, etc etc
  • Huge baddy fight which is awesome, optional expensive background music
  • Quick wrap up with slight cliffhanger for sequel

Ah that was fun, did it feel similar to <> though?

(And I say this as someone who loved the marvel movies, up until endgame, but everything since phase 3 has followed this pattern very closely)

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Don't forget how the bad guy is just a bigger, badder version of the hero.

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"We're not so different, you and I"

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I'm not strong enough, but I'll use my actual secret power: Screaming.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I hate how we can't just have villains anymore. It's either a future corrupted version of our current hero, or we spend about a third of the runtime making our villains relatable so people can be upset when the consequences finally catch up to them.

Imo we don't need relatable villains, which is ironic because I used to think being evil for the sake of being evil was annoying, until it went away.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

IW killed it, it broke us completely.

Endgame was expurgation, but we're still so overloaded, I think the only thing even remotely interesting to me has been loki. And that's just because tom h is the most charming thing to exist.

I loved IW and even endgame. But looking back, even it followed the same pattern, just in longer form. IW ends with the first fight with baddy, which is lost. Once you see the pattern you can't unsee it