re: Infinity War is the empire of my generation.

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Are you serious? Ragnarok was one of the weaker Marvel movies.

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My opinion of Marvel movies is that they’re typically well-made, decently acted, and fun movies that often (but not always) lack a real sense of danger and emotional depth. The best Marvel movies, in my opinion, are Infinity War, Winter Soldier, Iron Man, and Thor: Ragnarok because it feels like there’s so much at stake and like the characters are in real danger of failing.

Despite being silly much of the time, Marvel movies do occasionally bring the feels, like in GOTG 2. Marvel movies are meant to entertain while being fun for kids and adults. They’re not meant to be complex, gripping, mind-bending, suspense movies or deep emotional dramas. They’re more Temple of Doom and less Empire. They’re built in the vein of Men in Black, not The Usual Suspects.

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My opinion of Marvel movies is that they’re typically well-made, decently acted, and fun movies that often (but not always) lack a real sense of danger and emotional depth. The best Marvel movies, in my opinion, are Infinity War, Winter Soldier, Iron Man

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+1

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Marvel films are not Sci-Fi. At all. Neither are Star Wars.

Literally not at all.

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Of course they aren't, and I never said they were. I said:

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action/sci-fi hybrid film genre

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That's being loose, admittedly, but MOST people would classify Fifth Element, Star Wars, Marvel Movies, The Matrix, Underworld, Avatar all into the same bucket. And they are perfectly fine in that bucket.

We don't need to have a strict genre discussion (I'm actually way more strict than most people and have gone on Star Wars is not a sci-fi film rants on here before). But when you create loose hybrid genre buckets, that's a more generalized discussion. "What films are Marvel films mostly like?" That's an easy answer.

In my world, they are straight action-fantasy films. Real sci-fi is a super limited genre in all actuality, that's usually more prone to being hybridized than other genres, and is harder to detect.

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My issue with superhero movies is best highlighted by Superman. They just are shitty vehicles for a story. The only way to create real conflict with godlike beings is to just willy nilly forget things you've established or just lazily establish new things.

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It is hard to create genuine suspense and emotion when plot armor or super powers makes the protagonist practically unkillable.

My issue with superhero movies isn't actually with superhero movies at all. My issue is with movie studios who have essentially given up making most any other kinds of films. Feature length comedies basically don't exist now. Action-comedies that don't have super heros? Gone. It feels like the only movies studios crank out these days are:
Superhero
low-budget horror
black women rom-com bout how you don't need no man, but get a man in the end
basically a superhero movie, but starring the Rock who doesn't explicitly have super powers, but pretty much is immune to actual harm

Where's the other blockbusters like we had in the 80's and 90's? Where's the comedy movies after 2015 or so? Where's the teen movies, the suspense movies, the spy movies, the heist films, the mafia movies, the detective dramas, the buddy cop action-comedies, the romance films, the period pieces, etc.

It feels like Hollywood has become extremely shallow in their releases and pretty much focuses 90% of their resources on superhero films to the exclusion of everything else.

Never seen it.

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Do you really think anyone will be watching Infinity War in 20 years? With the amount of CGI these films have, they age like milk.

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It’s been 20 years since the Lord of the Rings, those movies have a lot of CGI, and I still watch them regularly.

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Can we save a person, or a neighborhood, or stop a crime boss please?

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I love how this is the theme of the first Marvel Spiderman movie. Peter wants to be an Avenger, but Tony wants him to just be a friendly neighborhood spider man until he gets older, wiser, stronger, and more mature.

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Lucas had nothing to do with it. He neither wrote nor directed the movie. "Laser brain nerf herder" is all on "the great" Kasdan, the same hack who wrote TFA.

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You didn't read my next sentence. And the dialogue on the page has never been my problem, even if it is simple; it's the delivery.

And the hack Kasdan also wrote Raiders and Body Heat...