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crashfrog t1_ix7l0gi wrote

Reply to comment by RPDRNick in TV’s True Crime Obsession Is Reaching a Tipping Point by HumanOrAlien

“Comic book movies” is like saying “novel movies.” As long as people are making new novels and comic books, some of them will get made into movies.

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[deleted] t1_ix8025j wrote

Novels usually aren’t completely dominated by one genre and all of literature isn’t in a shared universe and a sequel of an earlier book. It’s not really comparable

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crashfrog t1_ix809si wrote

> all of literature isn’t in a shared universe

I mean, technically the realist stuff is

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RPDRNick t1_ix7ltem wrote

I'm merely mocking the entertainment media that's effectively been predicting the death of Marvel and DC movies for about ten years now...

With that said, I think you know damned well what genre "comic book movies" tends to describe. No one is thinking American Slendor or Ghost World, regardless of their sources.

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crashfrog t1_ix7pbm4 wrote

> With that said, I think you know damned well what genre “comic book movies” tends to describe.

Yeah, but I think you know what kind of movie "novel adapted for film" tends to describe, too.

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