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Variety interviewed film director Matthew Vaughn, who directed X-Men: First Class, who offers an idea why comics movies are tanking now, but continues the tradition of not addressing politically correct subjects:

I genuinely don’t know what’s happening with the superhero [genre] in the sense that, I do think, maybe we all need a little bit of time off from it. Maybe someone will make something so great that we will get excited again… Superhero films are films. It’s a film that has superheroes in it. I think what happened was that they became superheroes, and the film part wasn’t that important.

When you’re making a superhero movie, you sort of have to work harder because you’ve got to make people believe it. That’s why ‘X-Men: First Class’ was pretty grounded. We set it in the Cuban Missile Crisis; they had relatable human problems. And it wasn’t relying on the CG. I think CG’s fucked up everything as well, because you feel like you’re watching a video game. You’re not with the characters. Apart from ‘Guardians’… I still think Groot and the raccoon are fucking pieces of genius that I feel so much for them. So I’ll be intrigued. I think at least DC is under… I think James Gunn and Safran, they’ve got a good chance of popping, and hopefully [Kevin] Feige will go back to less is more and make less films and concentrate on making them great.

John Nolte at Breitbart commented:

Notice what he didn’t say: the dog Hollywood will never allow to bark… Of course, I’m talking about the obnoxious gender and sexual politics infecting what should be an escapist genre.

Woke is, by definition, death to creativity and nuance. Woke demands men kiss each other for no reason, that characters are defined by meaningless traits like their skin color and sexual fetishes, and everything be stridently and smugly declared rather than weaved through theme and character.

[...] What kills a movie is a lousy plot, dull characters, and political rhetoric. Emasculating Thor into a dope in an apron is what ruined Thor: Love and Thunder, not the visual effects.

Yup, and we still have a sad situation of Hollywooders not having the courage to admit their ideological beliefs aren't winning over the masses. Some people may overlook this, but even the earlier Marvel films had traces of wokeness turning up, like when the 1st Thor movie from a dozen years prior changed characters like Heimdall to Asian/Black. Should we ignore how laughably unnecessary that was in hindsight? Of course not. Clearly and obviously, the Marvel movie producers took advantage of any lack of criticism of their inclusivity propaganda, or if there was, they resorted to victimology to keep it all up, and in the end, entertainment value no longer mattered, just the politics did. Even the older DC movies from the past decade had political propaganda, subtle or otherwise, like a protest against illegal aliens in Batman vs. Superman. Let's also not overlook how Batman is played up in productions like those at Superman's expense. Another problem alluded to in Vaughn's interview is the whole "realism" factor. Why must we always constantly be lectured that being realistic is the only good way to make a movie when dealing with sci-fi?

As bad as the latest Marvel movies have become, WB looks so desperate to emulate them that it'd be a blessing if their movie projects would stop as well. I don't hold high hopes for what Gunn will work on any more than what Feige is, and it's decidedly time to put less emphasis on science-fiction movies filled to the brim with heavy special effects. For now, it's a shame Hollywood's contributors still won't admit what's bringing down these oh-so important comics adaptations, based on creations that sadly lost their way years ago, for much of the same reasons modern movie adaptations are today.

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