Is There a Superhero Movie?

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There's a huge portion of the movie going audience that mainly watches things like superhero movies or big franchise films. Do you not believe that that's te problem? I then people should' watch what they like. There are a lot of really good superhera movies out there. Black panther is about many things, but it is fundamentally about this tension between the black community wanting to sort of shudter itself off and and sort of intigrate into the world. And literally, the climactic fight sene happens on a literal underground railroad. Thor ragnaro is meditation on refugees and the displacement of peoples.

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