• J-Bone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    That’s fair. I am just sharing my perspective. Keep in mind this was in 2008, when it just got released in cinemas and that was my initial gut-feeling reaction. Not sure who the other fellows are, but in my mind the Stark character was clearly an American oligarch.

    As I mentioned in my OP, for me positioning Minecraft’s popularity as being bad for the movie industry, while at the same time presenting Superman as a contribution to cinema seems a bit inconsistent.

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      5 days ago

      Stane was the main villain of IM1. Hammer was one of the villains of IM2. Stark was an oligarch, but that’s part of his character arc. He wasn’t a good person in the beginning. That’s the point.

      As far as Minecraft and other popcorn flicks being bad for the industry, those types of movies have always existed.