(I am your real Imaginary Reader who read the whole thing! //waves)
I’ve watched the movies contained in phase one countless times (well, except for The Hulk. No one watches The Hulk. It’s like some rundown holiday town that no one goes to anymore, or if you do, you need to have your traveler’s vaccinations and wear sturdy boots and bring a hat). I am an MCU fangirl–I’m saying this out of love! Or at least, the battered remnants of my love lying broken on the ground like a helicarrier.
HAH that was awesome (I'd love to read a film-critic-type piece by you on TWS, or meta if it's on your DW or Tumblr....is it in the tags maybe? //looks) My husband is not a fannish person at all, and he really loved C1 and C2 for just the reasons you describe -- the characters, the emotional beats, their stories, not all the fanboy shit because he'd heard even less about the comics than I have. Those movies were special, and at this point it's looking like they were outliers in Marvel's Grand Scheme of Rebuilding the Pyramids via Action Movies. sigh.
I've also read at least one film writer (can't remember where it was online, argh) say that they think Civil War is going to be much more a sequel to Age of Ultron and lead-in to Infinity War, and just ARGH NO. The actual biggest thing -- beyond the sexism, beyond Joss getting My Steve and My Nat all wrong, beyond Clint's fake family and all the stuff I didn't like sort of at a personal level -- the actual biggest problem I had with AoU was it seemed just designed to promote the next series of movies. (This was the one point of Sady Doyle's I really agreed with -- I think hers is the article you referred to -- I thought she really missed the boat on a lot of other points, though, but anyway.) That's not a movie, it's an ad. And movies and TV shows have been steadily turning into ads for decades now and advertising has been possibly the major force in this country since, what, the 20s? but that doesn't mean we can't criticize it.
tl;dr I really liked your piece and I miss meta. SIGH. (It's amazing to me the sea-change -- a lot of people linked to that Doyle article and said it was good, but there was so little actual commentary about it. Maybe I just look in the wrong places.)
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I’ve watched the movies contained in phase one countless times (well, except for The Hulk. No one watches The Hulk. It’s like some rundown holiday town that no one goes to anymore, or if you do, you need to have your traveler’s vaccinations and wear sturdy boots and bring a hat). I am an MCU fangirl–I’m saying this out of love! Or at least, the battered remnants of my love lying broken on the ground like a helicarrier.
HAH that was awesome (I'd love to read a film-critic-type piece by you on TWS, or meta if it's on your DW or Tumblr....is it in the tags maybe? //looks) My husband is not a fannish person at all, and he really loved C1 and C2 for just the reasons you describe -- the characters, the emotional beats, their stories, not all the fanboy shit because he'd heard even less about the comics than I have. Those movies were special, and at this point it's looking like they were outliers in Marvel's Grand Scheme of Rebuilding the Pyramids via Action Movies. sigh.
I've also read at least one film writer (can't remember where it was online, argh) say that they think Civil War is going to be much more a sequel to Age of Ultron and lead-in to Infinity War, and just ARGH NO. The actual biggest thing -- beyond the sexism, beyond Joss getting My Steve and My Nat all wrong, beyond Clint's fake family and all the stuff I didn't like sort of at a personal level -- the actual biggest problem I had with AoU was it seemed just designed to promote the next series of movies. (This was the one point of Sady Doyle's I really agreed with -- I think hers is the article you referred to -- I thought she really missed the boat on a lot of other points, though, but anyway.) That's not a movie, it's an ad. And movies and TV shows have been steadily turning into ads for decades now and advertising has been possibly the major force in this country since, what, the 20s? but that doesn't mean we can't criticize it.
tl;dr I really liked your piece and I miss meta. SIGH. (It's amazing to me the sea-change -- a lot of people linked to that Doyle article and said it was good, but there was so little actual commentary about it. Maybe I just look in the wrong places.)