>The Marvel reboot Spider-Man: Homecoming is such a blatantly calculated example of pop-culture inoculation — it presents a teenage Peter Parker’s apprenticeship to the Avengers clan of superhero misfits — that, maybe, it warrants the same wariness as the vaccination controversy. With movies such as Spider-Man: Homecoming, Hollywood injects banality into young and gullible viewers; it places them on a cultural version of the autism spectrum.
>Scenes of adolescent Parker (Tom Holland) worrying about test grades and dating, and at his high-school prom, alternate with scenes of his doing brainiac research into his newly acquired powers, meeting billionaire Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), and practicing super-heroic derring-do against street criminals and new villain Vulture (Michael Keaton). As directed by Jon Watts, these events lack sufficient satire to counteract the film’s lethal booster-shot of adolescent wish fulfillment. By now, Spider-Man movies (this is the sixth so far) go way past moralizing about good vs. evil and straight to venality: They simply encourage viewers to buy escapist products as if they were objects of their common (youth-based) desires.
>Marvel’s greed merchants are so brazen (winking to themselves with insider Marvel Universe casting jokes such as director-actor Jon Favreau’s double-dipping into the coffers) that their shamelessness ruins any possibility of fun. Arriving at the moment of Mid-Year Reckoning, Spider-Man: Homecoming makes it impossible to ignore that the normalizing of superhero, comic-book movies has led to the culture-wide dismissal of films that deal with the human condition in commonly recognizable terms.
Hey, I liked it.
>What we used to think of as movie art has shifted into juvenile escapism, and this catastrophe has met little resistance — “resistance” now being a euphemism for petulant disgruntlement and snowflake tantrums. Case in point: Celebration of the dismal Wonder Woman amounts to a consolation prize for Hillary Clinton’s election defeat.
>But at this 2017 midway point, some remarkable movies still deserve attention. These anti-Spider-Man films not only chart our cultural standing but advance awareness of the millennium’s human and artistic potential. Most of these films oppose Hollywood’s adolescent fear and adult cynicism about sex, society, and faith.
>A Quiet Passion, the Emily Dickinson bio-pic, upends the new scarecrow feminism with an uncompromising heroine whose profound introspection (and art) found no contemporary audience that would relate to it.
>Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo brought personal responsibility to the sexual-identity fad, a pointedly temporal (and timely) love metaphor that combats social disease.
>Staying Vertical begins misanthropic then observes a variety of social and sexual relations that test modern society’s stability; it rewrites Godard and Kubrick, and both might approve.
>Son of Joseph, an out-of-season Christmas pageant, revived the modern need for art as parable and sustenance.
>The Assignment treats the transgender vogue with depth and offers a humanism and a philosophical critique that radicals weren’t ready for.
>My Life as a Zucchini animates adult fear and desire in childhood terms and through an emotionally direct visual style that transcends allegory.
>Maudie, the bio-pic of primitive painter Maud Lewis, explores compassion through a love story.
>Frantz resolves all political differences in sympathy, uniting traumatized post-WWI society through passion and art (beauty).
>Baby Driver evokes Millennials’ solipsism with speed, music, and humor that touches on the need to connect.
>gay nigger
THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE TURN OF THE TIDE
THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS
>Fresh is less than 200
LMAO marvel pakis at it again
>millenial shill """"""critics"""""" who shill every mainstream action movie for free while simultaneously shitting on anything with innovative or creative filmmaking or an actual moral or political perspective and only ever watching hivemind "approved" independent films and once again only shilling those that adhere to their own shallow politics while simultaneously having a knowledge of film that ceases at 80s action and horror films and a few "essential" older films at best
>especially since every single Marvel movie has varied from okay to absolute garbage and never reaches into good or great
Marvel. Always. Wins.
>two enjoyable capeshit movies from different companies
>NO, MY DICK IS BIGGER
>NUH UH MINE
Fuck off, also no fapping for Renner for awhile
wont win at the box office
Marvel is always right
Be anti white
Is this possibly the worst show of all time? All it promotes is feminazi bullshit about women being "individuals" while providing lackluster humor to make it even more cringieieieiie. SOMEONE FUCKING PLEASE TELL ME WHY SO MANY PEOPLE LIKE THIS SHOW?
>>84705726
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
>>84705726
is that you chuck
>>84705749
lah lah lah not nah nah fucking fag
How I Met Your Mother thread?
Sitcoms were a mistake, immolate yourself.
>>84705703
Ok. I met your mom in a back alley and fucked here OP.
The end.
>>84705703
Awful show. Just shit
At least in friends the characters were somewhat likeable
I'M A GOVERNMENT MAN
IM A MECHANICAL MAN
>>84705563
Vince!?
hey that's my steam profile
Post your favourite movie and other uses will try to guess your age.
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
>>84705758
55yrs old
Benis Parker :DDD
S-stop it Flash! That's mean ):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ANNl3DyYSM
>>84705463
This is why we need Raimi back
>ITT: Movies for other boards
I'll start
>/pol/
>/k/
/sci/
>>84705439
>/pol/
Is Affleck secretly gay?
>>84705338
Secretly?
>>84705338
alright bros so are him and Jenny spliting up or not?
>>84705507
Who knows, maybe he'll flip a coin for it
Hey guys, you ready for the Sci-Fi EPIC that is Valerian? Well just in case you SOMEHOW didn't buy your tickets already, here's another FREAKIN' EPIC reason, a FREE FIDGET SPINNER with your ticket! What a deal!
https://twitter.com/regalmovies/status/883318875328311296
>>84705325
The sad part is, that promotion might be more effective than you think
Let me guess: this bothers you people
/tv/ really wants to hate this movie but it's going to be kino
What did /tv/ think of this movie? I watched it on a plane on Monday and was pleasantly surprised.
nothing special
>>84705298
We watched it on a plane and were pleasantly surprised.
>>84705326
What a coincidence, I too watched it on a plane
And was pleasantly surprised
Watching Strange Days and drinking beer in summer heat. This is so comfy movie and dare I say, Kino... Can we get a discussion of it?
Maybe when you stop sounding like a faggot...
>>84705282
Very underrated movie. The first half is God Tier. The second half gets kind of iffy at parts but I can forgive it. Great film.I'd actually like a remake that fulfilled all of the potential
>>84705350
whoah, why the insults....?
Let's talk about "Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray" (1962)...and also continue the board-related discussion that triggered those who do it for free.
This is still up: >>84704503
makes me fink
>>84705264
I haven't seen that movie, OP. What other films from the 60s would you recommend?
>>84705264
>Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray
downloading this rn, better be good OP
does /tv/ have any merch from their favorite show
>>84705193
I have a few of those Funko Pops from Stranger Things.
>>84705193
could be mistaken for something