Originally posted by Astner
To a degree they're right. Comic book movies are popcorn flicks, they're not written to make you think or get invested in the drama. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but to pretend these movies are work of art is pretentious—and I mean like root beer in champagne glass-level pretentious.
This is the argument some like to present against all popular movies, is that they are somehow a different genre simply because they are popular. It's why that proposed Academy Awards idea of making a category for Most Popular Film was so patronizing, and I'm glad it was dropped. It's why so few Science Fiction & Fantasy films have been nominated or ever won Best Picture at the Academy Awards, because of this snobbery.
Well, for every trashy Michael Bay movie out here, there is a dozen artistically indulgent indie movies out there that defend their lack of appeal because they are 'artistic' - but it's not a full brush defense of your movie.
I may like and admire many of Terrence Malick's movies, but I've heard people accuse him of making movies all these decades like a film school student who just shoots lots of randomness and cuts it together. I can't argue that they don't have a point.