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Thinking about how Adam Sandler figured out how to get paid millions to go on vacation with his buddies by recording some of the worst shit ever conceived for barely any money. Honestly, I respect the grift.

Thank you. You're not there because you're winning an Oscar, you're there to make a quick buck and have a bit of fun while you do it. Cate Blanchett I guarantee didn't go into Thor because she thought it was going to be some revolutionary experience.

On the one hand, yes, these movies are products being churned out for profit by a corporate machine that cares more about marketability than creativity or quality. Anyone signing up for a big studio blockbuster production (superhero movie or not) should know exactly what they are getting into.

On the other hand, there's nothing wrong with actors in flopped movies pointing out that they flopped in no small part because they are the product of a system that seems focused on everything but the quality of movie being made.

And it absolutely can be life changing when it works. Just look at the early MCU movies and tell me that they didn't have a huge impact on careers. Of course younger actors who take these roles are hoping they will be life-changing. You don't become a superstar by doing nothing but small independent arthouse films that kill at festivals and award shows and are never seen by the general public.

And finally, I gotta call bullshit on the assumption that you can't have artistry or depth in movies based on "some fucking universe for cartoon characters." There's no reason why a superhero movie (or any other genre film) can't be more than just a two hour trailer for itself, or a soulless vehicle for merchandise. It's not the medium that the IP came from that determines the artistic value of the movie adaptation, it's the people making the movie (and the suits controlling them) that determine whether it will be a cinematic masterpiece or further proof that AI generated movies are inevitable.

I just want those films to be good! Not an overpriced, low stakes, mediocre film created by souless executives to have mass appeal. Superhero movies can be great, but they don't have to be bombastic life-changing experiences.

My man is stuffed into that cuirass.

Russell Crowe's career is really something interesting to follow lately

Not everything needs to be The English Patient.

The new trend as of late was most recently exemplified by Dakota Johnson’s comments on “Madame Web” after the Sony-produced film flopped at the box office. Johnson told Bustle that she understood why the film was “ripped to shreds” by critics, citing that “art does not do well when it’s made by committee.”

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“You’re telling me you signed up for a Marvel movie,

In all fairness to Dakota Johnson, she didn't sign up to a Marvel movie, it was a Sony Spider-Man Universe (SSU) film and that is a very different beast. She also didn't sign up to the movie that was eventually made, as there were a lot of changes made to the script after she inked her deal and, while the quote they gave is a little... pretentious and open to ridicule, she has gone into more detail about what went wrong.

However, she must have been aware of the reception to Morbius and her agent should have given her an overview of the SSU bizarrely trying to milk to Spidey IP without Spider-Man which is doomed to failure as Venom is the only character who can carry their own story and still the lack of the old web-slinger harms those films too. Unless someone comes up with a great idea for a story, they need to stop trying to build a franchise without it's lynchpin. Some of those characters only work as antagonists and some have developed their own independent stories but only as part of the larger Marvel IP (as Morbius has). So she should have known better going into this or seriously lowered her expectations and treated it as just a payday.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier was life-changing.

That's Russell Crow? Did he eat his legacy?