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this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2024
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Something tells me that a movie with a character that represents the "American spirit" won't be super popular right now, no matter what the actual subject matter is.
People don't care about politics so much as to boycott a good movie because they aren't feeling the "American spirit"
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.
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.