*mild spoilers ahead, nothing too relevant*
“this is what a collective, anonymous body of majority wants to see on television”
- Werner Herzog, about Wrestlemania, in some interview.
We have, I think, reached a point where languorously lamenting the deleterious effect that the near-ubiquity of sequels, franchises, and above all, superhero movies has on pushing cinema firmly towards the “advertising” end of the art-product spectrum is not only falling on resistantly deaf ears, but is more or less perceived as…