Russo Brothers and "Superhero Fatigue" | Absolutely Marvel & DC 

I’m dying that you held on silent Hassan during Sal’s 9/11 metaphor monologue 😂🫶

Whoever editted the section of just Hussan's face during the 9/11 tangent is going to hell😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I have superhero fatigue fatigue. I'm tired of people talking about how tired other people ostensibly are of superheroes. There's a reason superheroes have endured this long. There's always an audience for them.

Damn Sal has a way to make me wanna build a doomsday bunker and save every penny I get “you dont have money to change your life, you just have enough to make yourself forget”

This is my favorite kind of AMS episode... the kind where the conversations go way off of where they start, but are just so so good!

Can we please get an episode where you guys all talk to Sal about that late night comedians podcast and his opinions on colbert I was really bummed when y'all went to another topic lmao

I feel like y’all have this same discussion every 6 months 😂

Shoutout to hassan's camera for making that gorgeous man more clear

It's not comic book movie fatigue, it's bad movie fatigue. We need good story and drama with our favorite characters interacting and giving villains more depth and not kill them in their first movie

But I thought Marvels main audience is millennials and gen z. Not gen alpha

Love when yall get together and talk! Now that I know when the stream is I might check it out lol

Honestly Covid is a big reason why the movie industry is struggling. Like why would I have to drive like 15-20 minutes to my nearest theater spend $110 on three people( $70 of that is just at the concession stand) and have to deal with loud kids and rude people when I can just press a few buttons on my game system and can watch the same movie a month later for a fraction of the cost.

The 24/7 news explosion post 9/11 to COVID "normalizing" phone/app addiction was a poignant analysis, but it made a lot of sense to me. Even if it was a _tad_ bit of a tangent.

Oppenheimer isn’t about us nuking Japan but I get what hasan was trying to get at

They should actually post a Colbert talk

Thank you Sal.

Well here's the thing. Even if a movie is generic/formulaic but it's done well, like it fits the formula well, it's still a gud movie. But if we're gonna get a series of such movies, overtime we will probably get kinda disinterested. So unless and until there's a completely unique power set that's yet to be seen on the big screen or we venture into creative takes, this is a problem fr every genre. Same with kaiju movies.

Average movie + High prices = Less interest

When I was a teenager I was in therapy and I had to bring a sketchbook along so I could draw in order to have a conversation with my Therapist. I wasn't a mute without it but being able to focus on that while conversing allowed me to open up more and just naturally let things out without having to think about it so much. All that to say I completely understand where Benny is coming from lol

It's only fatigue when you don't do it right.

I was on the toilet when Benny went off about being on the toilet. I feel seen.

Its crazy that the russo brothers said this when as of now Godzilla X Kong is about to cross 600 million worldwide with a budget of 135 million and Godzilla Minus One grossing 100 millions worldwide with a budget of 15 million.

It really is attention spans, and with streaming they’ve made the movie theater experience obsolete.

Sal is the absolute best balance in these shows. Great show yall

Everyone acts like movies are expensive as if everything aside from the ticket is not optional.😂

Why Dan do that to Hassan?🤣

8:24 this is exactly what I did for both showings of the re releases for Spider-Man 1 and 2. Love the films but after work I just can’t and they’re available on Disney plus.

I agree brother

Sal needs to make a rant channel fr

Money is one factor, but I think the other reason is simply damn near every movie that seems to come out, you’re rarely hearing good things about it. Maybe its just me, but it seems like unless a movie is something everyone is ranting and raving about all over the internet, the general consensus is “its okay” or “its mid.” Which prompts people, especially young people, to not go to the theater because why spend the cash to buy a movie ticket when you can wait 2-3 months for it hit one of the streaming services you’re already paying for anyway to watch for semi-free? At least thats how I perceive this whole thing and discussion.

30:10 I wonder if that will make more sense for people with ADD.

That generation was willing to go watch a 3 1/2 hour Taylor Swift concert movie in theatres. They have the patience. They are willing to pay to sit through long movies. They're not "sick of superheroes". Put out good movies and you'll continue to break box office records year after year. It's that Marvel/Disney movies are all very same-y and not doing anything that makes them worth $50 night out at the theatre. It's really baffling to me that there are filmmakers that are still blaming the "next generation" for these bad movies failing, instead of just doing the tiniest bit of reflecting on the type of stuff they are putting out.

Who tf watches anything for the hot ones guy? It's cause they have people in pain from the spice. That's why I watch.

I think a lot of people can’t afford and don’t want to spend $120 to watch a movie with the cost of living and just in general

26:12 or the OJ Simpson trail.

I think the conversation about adhd should highlight that there has probably never been a preferred way the masses like to consume movies. More like theaters have been only way and now that people can enjoy to maximum efficiency theaters don't look like a luxury anymore. Spider-man in the bath.

I think it doesn't help the movie industry and movie theaters that nothing coming out right now feels worthy of being seen in a theater. For the prices you have to pay to gt a true Movie Going Experience, there has been nothing worth seeing in so long, sure marvel is getting better and when they put out a hit it genuinely makes you want to go, but what beyond them has come out in recent months that warrants that sort of price tag?

And studios need to stop burning money on s*it; I’m still amazed at how terrible “Quantumania” looks and how long it was in the can to be such a messy waste of time and money.

Abso....lutely

Us gen z and gen alpha still go to the movie theater lmao. The stuff stopping us isnt taste its money. Edit: Nvm he said it for us thank god lol.

15:10 $100 million

There is not enough vision in hollywood anymore, originality is on the decline. either you are watching something good that was remade, retried, redone in a different medium, or your unlikely watching something new. All of these things cater to hollywoods politics. While movies are in a recession America will find something else to fill the void until the movie industry get its head out of its ass.

can we please have a set of videos where we don't talk about "how good the mcu used to be" i get it it's a good topic but maybe it's just me but seeing how not great the mcu is now in every other video is tiring

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Zooming in on Hassan during the weird 9/11 rant is absolutely INSANE 😳

Instead of Colbert watch Glenn Greenwald benny

Write better stories. Market the movies better. Then i'll go and watch it. But if it's just a bunch of people making poorly written stories and on top of that antagonizing the audience, no one in their right mind would pay to watch the movie.

Start making good movies again with new ip and people will show up. Hollywood has made terrible tent-pole films for the most part for last 15 years. The success of the MCU just masked the problem, when covid hit and they started releasing a steady stream of garbage it exposed how bad things actually were. I remember how i couldn't wait to see the trailers at the theater for upcoming summer blockbusters. Now that feeling has gone away, Hollywood did it to themselves.

He is not wrong about the "tik tok gen" people take out their phones furing the movir to make a meme before anyone to go viral

This is ridiculous. In this episode alone he is admitting he is terrible. Just give the show to Hassan and Sal.

I have ADHD, and it annoys the crap out of me that people look at their phone when watching a show or movie. If you are not going to 100% forcus on a show/movie you're watching, then don't bother watching. Granted I understand Ben that he needs something else to listen to when doing certain stuff. Like I need to listen to music or a podcast when doing mundane stuff like driving, cooking, cleaning, and working in order to focus on the task.