A rare movie night last night – rare for me, as the GF watche something almost every night, while I find it hard to do so. We watched Into the spiderverse, probably the Marvel film I’ve liked best though admittedly that is not the highest bar ever as they just don’t resonate with me. It could have been half the length (true of most films, and certainly all Marvel films) and lost the family sentimentality as well as the extreme Americanness and fetishisation of New York, but still enjoyable. I wondered as I watched about the immense cultural knowledge needed to watch it, but then thought that this is true of all art really; look at shadow theatre or kathak, and realist theatre is probably inexplicable to those without the language.
That said, it wasn’t really the most conventional superhero film so I suppose out of those the best for me is Black Panther. Admittedly, I have watched very few.