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betaWP  ·  3207 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is Deadpool the end of movies?

    the next 25 movies that Hollywood vomits out will be pale carbon-copies

Deadpool is the vomit. There's never going to be a comic book movie that's considered "bad" again, for two reasons:

1. The film-making process has been hollowed out and sabermetricized to the point where every comic book film will be considered competent, at the very least.

2. The so-called "nerd" culture has captured the popular writing scene and large swaths of critical writing. Those wonderfully grumpy film critics of old have been largely pushed out of the conversation. Anyone who dares to write about these films with anything short of glowing praise faces a deluge of web harassment.