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> It's easier for me to believe in superpowers than to believe in people that have the psychological complexity of houseplants.

You must not get out much then?

Well, it's an adaptation of a comicbook. They didn't have believable personalities there either.

Sure, I get it. It just feels so awkward to me to watch actual real human actors behave in such a weird artificial way.

You have to find a way to not think of it as behaving, but acting like the characters they’re meant to portray. If they weren’t comic book characters, literally two dimensional :), then it’d be different. Maybe live action superhero films just aren’t your jam?

I do like superhero movies—i.e. films about characters with supernatural powers—just not the MCU flavor of them.

I enjoyed Unbreakable, Chronicle, Birdman, Fast Color, Freaks, etc.

This reminds me of the uncanny valley.

I can't watch superheroes or read American comic pretty much for that reason.