Marvel Cinematic Universe general stuff

No shaming, just a quiet tease that your posts have trended towards a degree of "so this is also failing" which has made threads a bit of a succession of negativity; but by all accounts there's "something" going on in cinemas but it'd be a thread in of itself to speculate on the why; certainly Tom Cruise's efforts alone aren't getting people into the cinemas en masse, and it could be as simple that runaway budgets need to stop. Can't be a flop if your blockbuster costed $50 million (hello to Jason Blum). While Superhero Fatigue as it's called doesn't seem so certain with Across the Spider-Verse tearing it up.

If there's any overlap with video games, then it's about 50/50 these days; recent stats came out to show video console ownership and playing is about half and half - while in the case of the Nintendo Switch, majority owners are women. Similar studies show many to most women play anonymously or without announcing their gender because invariably it attracts abuse and harassment.

I think the issue is simpler than that: the internet is an echo chamber, and thanks to how human beings invariably slow up to watch a car crash ... negativity and toxicity gets overblown and overexposed. From critical drinkers to GB News to the Daily Mail: angry bias tends to get attention cos it's loud, vulgar and invites an emotive response and reaction. Twitter, YouTube and social media in general has basically solidified this a business model.

Most people don't care about Woke in my experience in the real world (I've said before many people I've spoken IRL to had literally never heard the word before, or understood it's meaning when it was explained), and certainly wouldn't chart their media consumption based on whether a superhero was deaf, or a woman or whatnot. At worst you'll get apathy, at best it's open support for a bit of diversity and inclusion even if it's for its own sake. Those who cry and wail and go down the Mary Sue rabbit-hole don't make the majority

But as always in our species: a noisy minority make things a bit shít for the majority.

Captain Marvel was a good idea, poorly implemented; not least in proposing an amnesia plotline at the start that got solved within the first 10 minutes of the film. And Larson just doesn't have the charisma, or range, to portray what I think this character was supposed to be. But then it was all so forgettable I'm struggling to even recall the thoughts I had at the time.

And yeah, the use of "Just a girl" was so bloody stupid it could only have come from the minds of a corporation trying too hard.