Forspoken's Trailer Shows How Marvel Has Ruined Modern Media
Against my better judgement, I’m excited for Forspoken. I’m not sure it will be that good, but with its much healthier January release window and funky looking gameplay, I’m on board. I’m expecting to like it in the same way I like Agents of Mayhem or Sunset Overdrive. Forspoken appears to harbour some Control-shaped ambitions, but a layered, intelligent experience already seems beyond it. Mindless fun is Forspoken’s sweet spot and I’m not giving up on it. But boy, does the latest trailer want me to.
The most influential piece of media over the last decade has been the MCU. Its power is so vast that the DCEU, Marvel’s closest rival, has just burnt itself to the ground in order to rebuild and replicate what Marvel is doing. The idea of a ‘cinematic universe’ has been pushed into the mainstream by Marvel, and for all Marvel’s faults, there has been a huge upswing in the quality of nerd cinema post-Iron Man. That video game movies have found their feet after Marvel set a baseline for adapting geek-fuelled source material is no accident.
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The MCU has been a huge and near-unbridled success, but its influence hasn’t been all positive. When the MCU first appeared, it was a little all over the place. Iron Man was fairly on the money if a little melodramatic, while Captain America was over-serious and Thor dull and overwritten. Things weren’t quite stitched until Avengers Assemble, written and directed by Joss Whedon. So successful was the team-up that Marvel leaned heavily on ‘Whedonisation’ for all subsequent movies, even giving Whedon the second Avengers film to further imprint his style.
Though Whedon moved on after his second outing, Whedonisation was now a firm pillar of the MCU.
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