Gothamsknight
A Dark Knight
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I miss when these movies felt like events. Even when the MCU was at it's peak, I still felt like we lost a bit of that feeling. I also feel like during that time, people didn't look back on these movies as fondly, and whenever I'd mention them I'd get looks like I was crazy. It actually annoyed me a lot because suddenly it also felt like this genre was now "cool"only because of the MCU.
For context, I had to hide my drawing notebook in school in order to not be mocked because I liked the Spider-Man films back in the early 2000s. With the MCU being as mainstream as it became, I resent the fact that so many suddenly jumped on the train because now all of a sudden it's the cool thing. Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely a fan of the MCU and many of those movies were a dream come true, even if i started to feel a bit fatigued by 2017. But I felt like audiences had been conditioned by the MCU to the point where if it's NOT that, then it's invalid. Just look at the reaction by some to Raimi's style in Multiverse of Madness, which happens to be a top 5 MCU movie for me.
I should add that Nolans Batman trilogy is really what made it more "mainstream cool" amongst my peers. By high school, all anybody was talking about was TDK and rightfully so. But I was mainly reffering to Marvel movies of then and the MCU by comparison.
Sorry for the ramble. A lot of the Raimi movies talk brought back some personal memories from long ago haha.
For context, I had to hide my drawing notebook in school in order to not be mocked because I liked the Spider-Man films back in the early 2000s. With the MCU being as mainstream as it became, I resent the fact that so many suddenly jumped on the train because now all of a sudden it's the cool thing. Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely a fan of the MCU and many of those movies were a dream come true, even if i started to feel a bit fatigued by 2017. But I felt like audiences had been conditioned by the MCU to the point where if it's NOT that, then it's invalid. Just look at the reaction by some to Raimi's style in Multiverse of Madness, which happens to be a top 5 MCU movie for me.
I should add that Nolans Batman trilogy is really what made it more "mainstream cool" amongst my peers. By high school, all anybody was talking about was TDK and rightfully so. But I was mainly reffering to Marvel movies of then and the MCU by comparison.
Sorry for the ramble. A lot of the Raimi movies talk brought back some personal memories from long ago haha.
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