OK Incoming Marvel rant and apologies in advance to any fans but I honestly have yet to see ANY artwork for this movie to impress me. I'm growing tired of these themes and I'm slowly going off Marvel adaptations rapidly.
Lobby posters, Promotional material, Front, back, slip, lenti, amaray, disc art or otherwise. EVERY single choice of artwork I have ever seen for this movie has left a sour taste in my mouth. Now granted, I have yet to watch it, but judging by the trailer I assumed the inclusion of cable would have made it an overall slightly darker movie than the original.
I'm a lover of all types of cinema from the important and the golden age of the 70's to the guilty pleasures and the trashiest of horrors and my tastes are always extremely eclectic. Again, I'm very sorry and I know there's a lot of Marvel lovers on here but apologies for my negativity, a rarity for myself, honestly, and when it comes to physical media artwork I'm an all round positive guy and always have been. I'm all for fun and I get the whole "Deadpool" thing but I'm really growing tired of this doodle, unicorn, rainbow, love heart bull**it.
Maybe I'm ageing too rapidly or listening to way to much Joy Division these days
but I think I'm really starting to feel a disconnect with the Marvel cinematic universe. I own every single Marvel flick bar Thor: The Dark World (Mew-Mew, what the f**k was that) in steel format but the only few that have truly resonated with me were the 1st two Blade movies, The Winter Soldier and Logan and I'm seriously debating slapping everything except these four up on Ebay to reap the benefits.
I'm aware as to why they're so popular, there's no doubt that they're fun big popcorn movies to turn the brain off to and they're clearly the moden day equivalent of the old 80's cinematic blockbusters. There's also a reason as to why EVERY single Zavvi release sells out lightning fast (2nd Lenti re-release or otherwise) - SCALPERS cough cough. (Nothing irks me more than a Zavvi scalper)
There's a very, very teen friendly market going on here and upon watching the Ant Man sequel with my kids last night that truly put the nail in the coffin. I really don't get the hype nor this Marvel comedic style at all and grabbing some of the biggest names in Hollywood throwing in some greats like Douglas, Redford, Hopkins does not a great movie make.
Infinity War bored me to tears and has caused genuine conflict with me and work colleagues that praise is so mightily. I quickly dabbled with the special features after watching it one night in the hope that maybe I got it all wrong and started to think, what's wrong with me that I didn't like it like every single other human being in existence right now, but nope nothing. Don't get me started on that guy, Anthony Russo and whatever the hell the other guy is called, they seemed to think they're Gods right now. Yes, monetary wise they are, and a lot of people worldwide hold them in high regard but I really hope their reign won't last long, It's akin to Ridley Scott fans despising Damon Lindelof for his scripts. There are some truly great directors behind these projects but maybe the writing is the problem. Unfortunately given the overly expansive nature of comics in general they'll never run out of ideas or fail to pair up crossover heroes on screen for a long long time and yup... cuz Hollywood.
I am done with marvel. Done.
I think it's time for me to truly revisit some quality Michael Mann celluloid greatness or douse myself in some beautiful Wally Pfister cinematography or perhaps bask in the madness of Kubrick, Cronenberg or Hitchcock, ya know, good Cinema. Again, I'm sorry, I'm not sarcastic by nature but Marvel have been getting to me as of recent. Maybe this is a topic of conversation for over at the "other site" as opposed to here, but hey, I was drunk and happened to be viewing this page so deal with it
Off topic, but I decided to Treat myself to a Hot Toys Vader for Christmas the other day and upon browsing I noticed the recently released Deadpool figure came with detachable high heels, I kid you not. There's just something about this film that doesn't do it for me and I truly believe strangely enough even without having seen it yet, IT is the one to have made me truly despise the majority of Marvel movies from promotional material alone, that and the campy nature of Ant-Man & The Wasp, AND THE GODAWFUL DAVID BECKHAM PROMO CLIP!!!
Let the hatred flow, I can take ya'll
Also, without sounding like a little spoiled brat or a telltale you can all thank an unnamed member on here for my rant due to his/her really snarky comment on an earlier post of mine. As a 39 year old man I don't take comments online to heart nor do I post here much but every single time I seem to log in (other than pay for a GB) and post something friendly or positive I tend to get a non positive vibe back which makes me retreat right back to the start to being a lurker for news / info and mostly viewing the back in stock / price drop section alone.
It's a beautiful site & I know you all by your avatars, there's a lot of banter and a very strong community here but there's an awful lot of sarcasm and a few members that like to bring people down to a certain level. There's also a ton of bullying towards certain members of which I obviously won't name and I think that needs to be stamped out ASAP mods!
I ain't no goddamn school principal, nor am I a moderator and I sure as hell have no power here but I think the majority of you who read this know who exactly who I'm talking about on both the receiving end and those that dish out the nastiness. No forum is perfect but by God this one would be if we eradicated about 5% of it's toxic members.
This is all.