re: Tarantino Weighs in on the abundance of Superhero movies in Hollywood, MCU.....

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You are on a roll, Freaux.

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For the shitty generic films, but there were a lot of quality stories told through film in the 80s. Sure the special effects were still evolving, but I still prefer it over ridiculous and unnecessary amounts of cgi.

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Lack of CGI has nothing to do with Commando sucking balls.

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Haha... CGI isn't ok, but spraying hundreds of thousands of rounds at 6'5, 250 lb. Arnold while NEVER HITTING HIM is tense and exciting? Please.

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We need things like comedies, horror, action, silly ridiculous over-the-top 80s movies, etc.

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we need good movies, regardless of genre.

Most of the MCU is dreadful.

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Let me put this out there: You are NEVER going to like every single film released. It isn't going to happen because of a thing called "taste." You aren't built to think every film is magnificent, it isn't possible. As great as Breakfast at Tiffany's is, I hate that movie. It's a great film, that I don't like. And that's ok. Or take Rocky Horror Picture Show: bad film, but a fun movie, and still not something that's I would say I like. It is what it is. Good or bad, not everything is for me. But people out there love Breakfast at Tiffany's, people out there obsess over RHPS. Cool. I'm glad.

No matter what, we'll get good films, well get bad films, we'll get films that we like, we'll get films that we don't like, regardless of whether or not they are good or bad.

It's ok.

What if there's some kid out there watching MCU movies now, some pre-Tarantino vide store worker- who watches them and likes them, but feels the same as you. Too samey, too safe, etc. What if said kid, in 10 years, makes the most awesome Malick-esque deconstruction of Superheroes ever put on screen? What if said film becomes your favorite film of all time? Is that worth it? Is some crap, crap to you at least, worth a higher form of art?

That's kind of the idea of film. It can suck sometimes, but film, all kinds, is necessary. And we are never going to like everything that is produced. Be realistic about that, because this:

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Most of the MCU is dreadful.

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Is completely false and unsupported. There are dreadful films out there, the MCU, as a whole, is far from dreadful, even if most of the film are merely average or above average. They aren't dreadful.

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Is completely false and unsupported

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It's not false. they are almost all bad movies.

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Is completely false and unsupported

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It's not false. they are almost all bad movies.

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No they aren't. They aren't wildly innovative movies of narrative complexity, film making expertise and amazing acting. But outside of 2 or 3, they are average films at worst and excellent films at their best (Guardians, WS)

It is possible to separate taste from critique. That doesn't make you any less of a critic, or any less knowledgeable about film.

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GotG is this generations Star Wars.

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WOW!! I liked it too, but cmon man

It's the whole without evil, does good really exist argument.

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It's not false. they are almost all bad movies.

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Same is true of 80s action movies. John McClane lost like 3 gallons of blood in Die Hard.

Must be trolling. MCU has put out average-to-great movies.

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Do you just want every movie to be exactly like the comics with zero changes?

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Of course not, I just want them to be good movies.

Example: last night I was watching Beverly Hills Cop, a movie that has the same sort of tone than at least some MCU movies are going for. BHC does a really good job of hitting the notes it wants to hit, while still advancing the story in a meaningful way and making you care about the characters involved. It builds dramatic tension while still retaining its lightheartedness in a way that doesn't detract from the significance of the scene. An example of this is the final scene when Billy is trying to get Taggert over the wall in Victor's mansion.

Now, it would be unrealistic to expect every movie to be as good at what it wants to do as BHC is. But most (not all, but most) MCU films fail spectacularly to achieve what they are going for. I'm often left in the odd position of not caring about a group of characters when the only reason I go to see most of these things in the first place is because I already cared about these characters. They frequently fall apart in the final act or at the very least become boring. There's typically too much going on in the frame at any given time and the poor writing and execution of what should be basic concepts of filmmaking fall flat. This is the same problem that Terminator Genysis had.

Iron Man 1 and GotG are notable exceptions. And while Avengers 1 isn't terrible, it's not anywhere near is good as people on here like to pretend. I didn't even bother with Winter Soldier after how bad Cap1 was, but I will go ahead and take y'alls word for it that it's good.