LogFAQs > #928750105

The issue with the MCU films, if there is one, isn't that they are bad, or not of a good quality. It's that their quality level, as it is, should be considered the baseline for a Hollywood studio picture, not its peak.

And that's not to mention all the other franchise films of a lesser quality that have replaced more adult dramas as the top movies at the box office, which is more of a problem than Marvel. Sure people love to "turn their brains off" whatever that means, but if so, that's a recent development. There was a time when movies like Kramer Vs. Kramer, Rain Man, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Dances with Wolves, Terms of Endearment, Titanic were massive hits that were in the top 3 or so of their year. No similar type of movie would come close to their box office numbers today. I know people will quibble with the quality of some of the films I mentioned, but regardless of how successful they might have been at it, all of those films were attempting to appeal to something deeper than "Oh hey, I recognize the characters and settings up on the screen," and audiences of the time clearly reacted to them. But those days are gone, and in our current climate of social fragmentation, content glut, and siloing, it will be hard to get back.

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