When it comes to the heated debate amongst superhero-movie fans over whether their allegiances lie with DC Comics or Marvel Studios, I will be the first to admit that I am the farthest thing from a Marvel guy. The game-changing studio may have kick started the recent “world-building revolution”, in which blockbusters are obsessed with creating universes of interconnected franchises by any means necessary (see the upcoming
Amazing Spider Man 2
or 2016’s
Batman Vs. Superman
), but from where I stand, Marvel Studios is nothing more than a manufacturing company, churning out the same finely tuned product over and over again for the past six years. Even with the original
Iron Man
’s undisputed pleasures, most notably the sly star-is-reborn performance by Robert Downey Jr., and
The Avengers
’ Whedonesque, self-reflexive energy, the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe all share the same strains of DNA, which make them…
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