>”Well Superman was created in like 1929 or something and Metropolis was just a made-up fake city but now it’s some poor schumck’s job to make a map of it nowadays because nerds keep asking “WHERE IS IT!?”. This is a comic book you sold for 1 cent to sell bubblegum ads and now its the most important thing in our society, it’s fricking embarrassing.”
Is he right? Are comic books taken too seriously?
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Yes
You can say that about literally any hobby. It's weird that you're asking if comics are taken too seriously on a comic book board.
They are, I'm not talking hobby, the general public cares far too much about this type of shit, in fact I'd say they they care more than actual hardcore fans sometimes.
>the general public cares far too much about this type of shit
No they don't. They watch the movie and forget about it.
This is cope, the MCU has been going strong for a decade
You failed to contradict me.
Not at all. You couldn’t say that about drawing, hiking, fitness, sports, home improvement, pet care, programming, writing, painting, meditating, cooking, traveling, birdwatching, gardening, climbing, stargazing, planning, eating or just about anything. None of these were invented just to sell magazine ads. It’s like you didn’t even read the post
Superman wasn't invented to sell magazine ads though. Even if he was, why does it invalidate liking the hobby?
It’s more of a rebuttal to anons claim that everything is as bad as RLM says
people all over the country get invested in the superbowl when the goal is to show coca cola adds, how embarrassing.
check the catalog
You said that and I took it to mean there was a new RLM video and that the OP had just failed to see the original or better thread, amongst maybe 3 or 6 or 19.
But now that I see there isn't a new episode, I think you meant "Cinemaphile is a place where people want to frick cartoons."
>Is he right? Are comic books taken too seriously?
No
YouTube reviewers are however and they're all dogshit
Yes
Same with cartoons. I remember there was time people used to be normal and cared about normal stuff like sports.
>Superman
>important in today's society
No, I think you mean Iron-Man
No, it's just that his job is media critic so he's overexposed to popular media.
I can not take any of RLM's posturing about how much they hate nerd shit when they were gushing so hard over kenobi. He's right but he doesn't believe it for one second.
tbh kenobi was less "this show is very good" and more "after the shitfest that was the new star trek, this was rather enjoyable"
This. It's called being ironic.
They said it was shit though
They basically said it was a 6/10 show. They didn't give as much of a shit about the flaws because after going through Picard, they actually like the cheapness compared to the high production values of that show and admitted that they don't give a shit about fitting in with the opinions of the Star Wars fandom.
>they don't give a shit about fitting in with the opinions of the Star Wars fandom.
Could've fooled me with how they waffled on The Last Jedi before seeing it was becoming widely hated and joined the crowd.
>Could've fooled me with how they waffled on The Last Jedi before seeing it was becoming widely hated and joined the crowd.
They've always been divisive on TLJ, they dislike the Poe/Finn storylines but seem to like the Luke/Rey/Kylo story enough to leave it alone and even sort of praise it sometimes. They also constantly make fun of Rian Johnson and are pretty much responsible for subverting expectations becoming a meme.
>"It's really bad but I like it anyway"
>Gushing
???
which episode was this from?
Batman vs. Superman, I think. He was saying that as a reaction to how moronic it is that Gotham is just across a river from Metropolis, and he's absolutely correct.
How is he correct? What exactly wrong with Gotham and Metropolis being twin cities?
Does Superman goes to sleep every night just ignoring all the screams from the other side of the river? Gotham being a shithole makes no sense when a guy who could solve most of its problems in an afternoon living within earshot.
Why don't you put the whole world in a bottle, Superman?
"I'm sure the 17 people I can hear being stabbed RIGHT NOW appreciate how I'm not overstepping municipal boundaries"
" I'm sure the millions of people I can hear getting murdered across the globe appreciate how I'm not creating an ironfisted dictatorship where I am the sole arbiter of justice "
The screams help him sleep, it's like white noise.
>Superman hears someone screaming for help
>as he's getting out of bed he hears Nightwing is already on the case
>goes back to rest
This is such a weird gripe concerning a fricking river when it's established he can hear all over the world. Gotham's location really doesn't matter when you factor that in.
The best answer comics have given is that Superman can't be everywhere at once and Batman is protective of his city. But again I'm not sure why being twin cities is such an autistic sticking matter.
It's especially funny to have such a gripe in a thread talking about ow people care too much about this shit.
I just realized the irony
>Batman is protective of his city
"I COULD go there and save hundreds of lives but there's one (1) moron there that would be REALLY upset if he didn't get to do that with 1/768 of the efficiency"
You're also forgetting where I said he's just one guy. Also shouldn't you be getting more anal about the Gotham police being completely useless.
When Batman had Superman's powers he zoomed around dealing with literally every crime and disaster, listening from the moon between the constant zooming
It was driving him totally nuts
mike stoklasa is never wrong, except when he is
this is the same guy that uses things like maps of the Romunlan star empire and schematics of the Enterprise D to make his points. Fricker is throwing stones in a glass house.
Star Trek was designed/created to have lore-gay shit in it. Superman, not so much.
I highly doubt Gene Roddenberry was figuring out the difference between deflectors and shields while he was high as frick on pills and nailing Nichelle Nichols in the ass. All this shit is backfilled from what the original idea/intent was
See also that they often called them "screens" in the original series. I kinda prefer it due to the vauge connection to actual naval terminology.
Gene Roddenberry may not have personally made all the lore-gay shit, but he certainly set up the universe to be able to accommodate any story that the writers wanted to tell in an expansive, expanding, universe way. Superman was, as OP quoted, "made to sell bubblegum ads" with no thought of expanding the idea beyond "super hero saves the day". The point being that Star Trek was fertile ground for new ideas, the Superman universe is a barren waste land that some poor shmuck has to make maps for metropolis for now.
You could say the same shit about any creative idea that was put into production by any media entity. They are the decoration for advertisement.
One dude made a map once decades ago that showed where Metropolis is in relation to other cities, I'm not sure why it's a big deal.
Superman was created by two sci-fi fans. As soon as Siegel could he started adding more and more lore into it.
Yes, he's right.
There's nothing wrong with liking comic books but when all your life revolves around them it's time to take a step back.
Everything I know about RLM paints the picture that they're not only pretentious but very unpleasant.
So you know very little. Ok.
They seem fun to hang around albeit too cynical for my taste. But maybe that's their internet critic persona.
They're really only cynical when they're reviewing big pop culture or blockbuster releases, otherwise they seem like fun dudes to watch movies with.
Eh, their riffing on B movies is pretty cynical too.
>IM DYING LAUREN
They're basically aging gen x personified. I imagine Seanbabby is like them, too now.
This seems to be the case In a lot stuff like movies and shows where they need to explain everything even if it’s not important
Why are all Gen-Xers pieces of shit?
says the sar trek lore man
>redditlettermedia
How are they reddit when they literally called out the RLM subreddit for being too obsessive and creepy when they mapped out their building space in detail.