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People who enjoy comic book movies are constantly talked down to by others for enjoying them.

The diehard DC comic fans who started the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut campaign and pooled their money together to buy billboards during Comic-Con were called similar things by the rest of the Internet for doing so.

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Only in niche circles: those are huge, industry-transforming blockbusters so they’re inevitably going to get some negative reaction but that’s because they’re so mainstream now. The dynamic in the 90s was more like what you’re talking about but that was 3 decades ago.

Was Twilight not a huge, mainstream, industry transforming blockbluster? The film series pulled in billions of dollars, and led the way for quite a few high-grossing YA series adaptations.

Yes, but unlike with comics, the mainstream has never stopped mocking Twilight, its author or its fans, despite its success.

I'm not sure what you mean. I can certainly point to examples of actors, directors, and journalists who've said that comic book movies are dumb and everyone needs to grow up. It's not the socially dominant view nowadays, but I don't think Twilight hatred is dominant either.

I think Twilight hatred is dominant, to the point of being a mainstream cultural stereotype. Comic books have mostly gained mainstream success, whereas Twilight, which has also seen success in its field, has never not been hated by the mainstream.

What about the "Twilight Moms", are mom's not mainstream? For that matter, I'm not sure what mainstream is if an entire generation of children doesn't fall into it.

Comic book movies are in a weird space where they completely dominate the advertising and big studio budgets, yet somehow without being "cool".

Coca Cola and McDonald’s advertise and sell a lot, and I don’t think anyone would accuse them of being cool.

coca cola is about as "cool" as a beverage can be without containing alcohol. mcdonald's I'd agree on.

I'd argue Red Bull is much cooler.

Which is controlled substance in some parts of Europe

At the (novel for me) risk of showing my age, they certainly used to be: https://youtu.be/MpizkWEmg1g

>People who enjoy comic book movies are constantly talked down to by others for enjoying them.

Only by adults with adult taste - which is increasingly a rarity.

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