![]() What some critics and audiences are manifesting now, as they find themselves wading clavicle-deep through whatever particular numbered MCU Phase we find ourselves in, is something softer and sadder - a weariness bred by familiarity. ![]() It's not a backlash, really, because backlash suggests a reflexive reaction driven by a sudden, overwhelming need to reject, to force out, to detoxify. That's just simple statistics: Superhero films have become our cultural furniture they're the steady, unceasing hiss of universal background radiation none of us can escape.Īnd today, with the debut of every new film and television show, more and more prospective audience members find themselves aching to escape, to rid themselves forever of these children's characters and their microweave pajamas and their hypertrophic musculature and their too-tidy, infantilizing morality tales. ![]() If you didn't, you assuredly know someone who did. Maybe you muttered something unkind under your breath as well. ![]() You perhaps read the above and rolled your eyes. Eternals is the latest film belonging to that great, teeming, not-so-riotous achievement in cross-platform multi-vertical corporate synergy/narrative cat-herding known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe. ![]()
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