dr-darke
D.R. Darke
dr-darke

this is the first time i’ve ever heard of a ‘the mcu is too fun’ critique.

I’m really enjoying Bo Katan’s greater focus in this season. The show is called “The Mandalorian,” not “Din Djarin.” No reason they can’t switch up who the Mandalorian is from time to time.

Personally, I’ve never understood the accusations about this season. So it has episodic stories with different tones, you mean like...a TV show? Which it’s always done since the first season? It’s very reminiscent of the people who accuse the MCU of being “too fun,” and I’d guess there’s a sizable overlap. And for all

Barsanti is special, in that he is entirely incapable of generating his own opinions, or probably even dressing himself without assistance and shoes that have velcro instead of laces.

I’m certainly on Team Every Writer Has Their Own Opinion, but modern AV Club (especially Barsanti) loves to pretend that their opinion is always the unchallenged mainstream opinion. And for a site that’s just copying 90% of stuff found elsewhere on the Internet, it’s remarkably out of step with everyone else a lot of

Im totally ok with too much Akwafina.

The guy from the Spanish version of Lugosi’s Dracula always looked creepily like Cage, so this just makes sense.

I think this is where the expression “put a sock in it” comes from.

No.  All the single screen theaters I grew up with in the 70's and 80's were replaced by multiplexes long before Disney even bought Marvel.  You could maybe blame blockbusters, as the article sort of tried to, but not the MCU or superhero movies in general.

We had a former multi-screen theater get bought out and turned into a second run $3 theater for years. It was great, sometimes they’d get a release while it was still showing in the major local theaters. 

I could be wrong but I think the landlord assholery you mention is relatively common for movie houses. I’ve heard that from friends in both Boston and Pittsburgh.

Totally fair. I didn’t mean to poo-poo the idea full stop, just point out that the financials are hard to manage. I’ve had a fair bit of experience around arts nonprofits and know how much they struggle.

It’s all about the experience. A lot of neighborhood theaters I’ve encountered frankly are shitty. Run down, poor projection, bog standard concessions. It’s not worth the price being paid, when one could get a far superior experience across the board watching at home. They just seem to have this entitled notion that

And renting them out, my friend’s family rented a local theater a couple times over Covid to run kid flicks for the family.

I think second run and niche programming are the way to go with smaller single screens.

Speaking as someone who sat on the board of a single-screen art house for several years, the problems we faced were three-fold.

Single screen cinemas are doing pretty good with second run flicks in my area.

Yeah, not the best premise. Can’t blame superhero shit for this, any more than you could similar blockbusters.

I don’t really see anything in this article that implicates “superhero cinema” above and beyond typical blockbusters for the troubles faced by ongoing single-screen theaters. If Marvel’s The Avengers had fizzled instead of succeeded, shuttering the MCU, would neighborhood single-screen houses be in better shape?