[Edd314159]

I don't think serf is calling anyone wrong. Just that there is more to the arts than financial success.

It's ok to let people like the Marvel stuff, _and_ lament the fact that there is less effort going into making more interesting (from one perspective) movies.

[FredPret]

You can't reach financial success in the arts without delighting a whole lot of people with your art.

If some other people then turn up their noses at this art, one has to wonder if they're just trying to project an air of superiority.

[anigbrowl]

That's like concluding McDonalds is the world's best restaurant based on having sold 1 billion burgers, or whatever the number is.

I do enjoy superhero movies to some extent, and many of them are very well crafted. The fantastical elements give actors an opportunity to go to extremes by dramatically upping the stakes. But even the well-made ones can tip into tedium or self-parody, full of stock characters collecting plot coupons and trudging through obligatory scenes. Once something turns into a franchise, it's hard to evade decline, virtually impossible to reverse it.

[JohnFen]

> one has to wonder if they're just trying to project an air of superiority.

Or it could be that's just not a style of art they enjoy, and wish that there were more of other types around.