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  • Xmen is a great example, there are men, women, and everyone in between, just like real life. When there’s an only alpha macho team, it feels like The Expendables movie… similarly, an all female cast, seems equally forced.

    Another great example is Star Trek, I love Strange New Worlds, there’s an episode where they are all forced to sing and it’s so, so good. It was amazingly executed, wonderfully hilarious, the press praised it. Star Trek has an all ethnically encompassing roster of binary, non-binary human and extraterrestrial characters alike, orders of magnitude in comparison to The Marvels, and I haven’t even thought about questioning any of it. In fact I just realized this now, when writing this reply.

    I agree with you on the pacing, and I believe it may have to do with that. Like there’s no build up, not enough justification as to why are we seeing what’s on screen. I think this may be why I believe there’s pandering, because it’s all unjustified. The scene in Endgame would be unthinkable in Xmen, why would they group up by gender? It’s crazy if you think about it.

    Quantumania is so bad on so many levels, I don’t know where to start. Eternals is so bland and forgettable, I feel bad for the cast, most are very good actors. I didn’t know anything about what you mention, but I didn’t find it pandering. It was just weak on all fronts.

    I absolutely agree on this:

    I enjoyed them for what they were, people bringing my childhood comics to life.

    This is why I keep watching bad Marvel movies after another 🤣

    Regarding this:

    I should not have assumed the worst of you I do hope you’ll reconsider the use of the term “woke”

    First of all, you did not. It was 100% my fault for using a word I didn’t really understand it’s meaning. And I learned that and much more about Marvel, thanks to you. I really appreciate that you paused to look beyond the first post and tried to understand. You’re awesome, and I’m glad there are people like you on Lemmy. Thanks a lot for taking the time to discuss and enrich my English and Marvel knowledge.


  • I agree with you on all points. But I feel like Disney did it only for the money. Lots of my favorite movies have strong female casts or leads, like Alien, Contact, Arrival, Star Wars, Anime: Ghost in the Shell, Nausicaa, Mononoke and more. But I felt those movies were honest.

    I don’t have anything against a primarily female cast, or gemder-swapped Dar-Benn at all. I don’t care about that. I just felt the movie was fake in spirit.

    I’m sorry if I have offended you by misusing the word “woke” which I now know it’s meaning, and secondly if I have expressed myself in a demeaning manner against a movie you enjoyed. My first mistake was out of ignorance, the latter mistake is of bad etiquette, and I apologize for that. I hope this post can convey my opinion in a more respectful manner, beyond our opposing point or views or not, i really value healthy discussion and the exchange of point of views as I enjoy learning, and even more so with well educated people like you, well versed in a topic (in this case, comic-books).

    Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post (that I now understand looked like a right wing extremist’s opinion 🤣) and sharing your point of view with me.


  • I’m not a right wing extremist, sorry for wording my post. But I stand by my mistake, that’s why I won’t edit my post. I saw the movie on D+, and I thought everything about it was fake. The Xmen movies had almost all the same ingredients, and while some of them where better than others, all of them felt honest to me. I didn’t feel like they were riding on values in order to sell. The Marvels just felt artificial to me.



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    Pardon me if I’m using a derogatory term in an incorrect way, english is not my 1st language. With Woke, I wanted to convey the message of Disney shoehorning girl power in a forceful or artificial way. In contrast to for example all Alien movies where it works perfectly. I don’t mean that women should not be protagonists at all. Sorry if that’s how my post reads like. Maybe I should have worded it better.