UNPOPULAR OPINION ALERT

[mmichelle]

Finally saw The Avengers. Liked it well enough, but it has finally pushed me over the edge into accepting that I do not like comic book movies (specifically Marvel universe movies [because I do adore the Nolan Batman trilogy, so that is one big score for DC]) as much as the world wants me to. I am sorry, universe. Please don't hate me.

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[chickadilly]

I don't hate you - I don't like them much either save for Batman and Superman. Anything and everything I've seen by Marvel has left me 'Meh' - I've thought about why a time or two. I think it's because I grew up on Superman so I can accept the concept of all of these unbelievable things but when I watch other comic movies my ability to suspend disbelief just evades me and I sit there going, "oh Come ON, for real?" for most of the film.

Why that doesn't bother me when I watch fantasy (and things like Star Wars) I don't really know but there it is.

P.S. I'm probably the only person on the planet but I was actually bored through a good part of the Avengers. I kept looking at my watch. LOL

[mmichelle]

I think it's because I grew up on Superman so I can accept the concept of all of these unbelievable things but when I watch other comic movies my ability to suspend disbelief just evades me and I sit there going, "oh Come ON, for real?" for most of the film.

I really have this issue with suspending disbelief as well. I was talking about it with my roommate last night when we finished watching and I was trying to figure out why I love the 3 recent Batman movies so much and am so neutral on the Marvel ones, and I decided that for me the stakes just feel so much higher in the Batman movies that I get really invested in them - the villains are so terrifying, and even though there's all this crazy shit going down, it still feels really gritty and real to me and I am very, very invested in the outcome. Whereas throughout The Avengers I was just like, they're flying around in this huge flying thing and I don't know what's happening and I don't really care that much. I appreciate the bits of humor in the Marvel movies, but that's about the

[chickadilly]

Whereas throughout The Avengers I was just like, they're flying around in this huge flying thing and I don't know what's happening and I don't really care that much.

This sums up my reaction 100%. I mentioned the thing about growing up with Superman because I really think that had I not I'd probably not been introduced to him when I was really young I wouldn't really enjoy those movies (well the first two - the 3rd and the 4th were flat out terrible) and even Crackville (which is admittedly stupid in a lot of ways) for the same reason. But when a young kid I was more able to actually believe in stuff like that. Now, I would just be rolling my eyes through a lot of it.

Batman works because it is gritty and it actually feels like a story that almost could happen. I felt like my suspension of disbelief was on a rather standard level watching them where as with Marvel through the whole thing I'm just, "Yeah, sure, if you say so... "

I gave the Avengers a shot mostly because of two things - Joss and several of my friends were OMG THIS

[settiai]

See, I'm used to getting odd looks because I'm the exact opposite. I've yet to find a DC movie that I've really enjoyed (sadly, the Nolan Batman trilogy and I are very much not friends - it's way too dark and gritty for my tastes), but the Marvel ones are right up my alley.

Yet people seem shocked when I say that, because if you like any comic book movie then people assume you like all of them. Which, no, not so much. It's all a matter of taste. And, as you said, the Marvel Cinematic Universe vs. the Nolan Batman trilogy have extremely different feels to them. :-/