Comment on Marvel calls for more reshoots on ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ after failed test screening
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 3 weeks agoPeople don’t care about politics so much as to boycott a good movie because they aren’t feeling the “American spirit”
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I dunno. From what I’ve seen, comic movie fans can be pretty progressive. I could see them feeling uncomfortable with the idea of Captain America right now.
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
They can be, sure, but I doubt most of them are. And of course there’s the comic book movie fan, and then there’s the general moviegoing audience, which is a likely a lot larger.
And I don’t see the progressive case against this movie along political lines. We’re getting a black Captain America suiting up for the first time to fight an (ostensibly) evil white president, after all, plus the canonical removal of a Jewish agent’s heritage. A likely plot point of this film will be the mistreatment of black people in decades past at the hands on the American military. If anything I’d expect angry neckbearded wokespotters to boycott this movie, but that audience is so small that their response to this movie will be inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.