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I remember the dark times. When the last big Superhero screen outing was Superman 4. When to say Batman conjured thoughts of 'Pow' and 'Biff'. When the last coherent take of a property was the late 70's Incredible Hulk.
The best we could hope for was a b-movie Captain America, The Punisher without the skull, a myriad of non-franchise supes without the backstory or emotive hooks of the traditional comic book heroes..
I now live in a golden age where even the worst performers are light-years ahead of what we had. So I will ride this Marvel Franchise machine wherever it takes me until it finally peters out, sputtering and croaking it's last in the face of whatever the new, popular thing is.
(I'm hoping the 'new, popular thing' is a fully immersive experience like 'Better than life' but I'll settle for Young Guns 3).
The best we could hope for was a b-movie Captain America, The Punisher without the skull, a myriad of non-franchise supes without the backstory or emotive hooks of the traditional comic book heroes..
I now live in a golden age where even the worst performers are light-years ahead of what we had. So I will ride this Marvel Franchise machine wherever it takes me until it finally peters out, sputtering and croaking it's last in the face of whatever the new, popular thing is.
(I'm hoping the 'new, popular thing' is a fully immersive experience like 'Better than life' but I'll settle for Young Guns 3).