Originally Posted by
Albert1981
Yeah, I don't watch that many scripted movies and shows either. I'm more of a reader of books and viewer of documentaries than anything else. Hell, my passion for sports and music is far greater than my enthusiasm for films and television series. But the superhero stuff is fun because of the ridiculousness of the genre. And the MCU has done a pretty good job of making their stuff entertaining. A lot of that has to do with the humor for me. I do think Cap and Black Panther were serious, but they weren't grimdark like the more recent Superman and Batman movies. Not even close. I agree that cosmic horror is tough to do in any medium. I think that stuff is just too weird to do onscreen. I LOVED the trippy visuals of the first Strange movie though. It's hard to do magical battles in live-action. The Sword in the Stone reality warping battle was VERY cool, but that was done through animation, not in live-action.
What can I say, I LIKE banter. I don't like it when characters monologue to each other and their counterparts don't say anything. Oftentimes they're just dumping exposition or being bitchy. THAT is boring to me. And She-Hulk, Loki and the MoM had a lot of that kind of thing and I didn't like it. I enjoy the back-and-forth nature of combative "quippy" dialogue.
"Because they didn't try, Colonel. I saw it myself. Half of your men never left the trenches."
"A third of my men were pinned down because the fire was so intense."
"Don't quibble over fractions, Colonel."
OR
"They've skim milk in their veins instead of blood."
"It's the reddest milk I've ever seen. My trenches are soaked with it!"
OR
"Why not shoot the entire regiment? I'm perfectly serious."
"Well now Colonel, you're missing the point entirely. We don't want to slaughter the French Army. All we want is to do is set an example."
That kind of dialogue is a HUGE reason why Paths of Glory is in my top three favorite movies of ALL TIME. Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson combined hardboiled prose and black comedy to GREAT effect in that film. I wanna see more of that kind of wordplay in the MCU, not less.