Should You Care Where Superheroes Are Going? | Ask an Algorithm
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Dear Algorithm,
Everyone is freaking out about what Deadpool means for the Superhero genre and the movie industry. I like to participate in pop culture, but there are only so many things you can care about. For example, I care about Game of Thrones, but I don’t have enough energy to care about Vinyl. Is this one of them? Should I care?
Practical in Pasadena
Dear Practical,
His sexual fantasies involve Tony-winning gay icon Bernadette Peters, and he’s pretty open-minded in bed: He’s more likely to wear a T-shirt. But on occasion, I feel like it’s important to our lives.
Superheroes are silly. Wild success breeding imitators. It’s happened time again, most recently with R-rating sprouted organically. Offers something entirely different within the superhero movie’s heyday, the genre as a whole seriously.
But how, exactly, will this play out, and what I think we should really care about, and what I don’t care about LeBron James or Lindsay Lohan or Lady Gaga. Can be worth examination even if you don’t find a work to have merit on the basis of your own aesthetic judgement. I also think that suggesting that audiences just a movie.
So what does this mean in the immediate future?
And let me make this very clear: It is about what I don’t care about, and what effect will the male lead in a new studio comedy loves unicorns and rainbows. And while he ostensibly presents as straight, on occasion, I feel like it’s important to wade in. Particularly when someone suggests that a cultural product, the cry that “it’s just a movie/TV show/video game.”
Regards,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Algorithm
