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Goblinmonger

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2. Read an article today about Age of Ultron on wired
Thu May 14, 2015, 07:50 PM
May 2015

that is complaining about Josh Whedon killing the "stupid popcorn movie" genre.

Anyway, your comment reminded me of this paragraph:

Moreover, Whedon has a remarkable gift for taking extremely silly subject matter just seriously enough to make you feel something. He’s not Christopher Nolan or Zach Snyder, thank God — no movie posters that look like Trent Reznor threw up in a clown car, no excruciating pseudo-realist interludes in which we have to sit there and contemplate the dark enormity of Batman’s feeeeeeelings — but he can balance an adult awareness of how silly comics are with real, emotionally resonant character work.


Entire article--worth reading for a moderately good point and a couple more good laughs.

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