Why does comic book movie feel like a shell of it's former self? It feels empty... hollow... It feels like someone turned the lights off and forgot to turn them back on. The website has comepletly changed from what it once was. Before, it was a news site/forum hybrid that made articles that would draw in creative disscusion. It allowed people to converse about who their favorite comic book character was, or which of the big two made the best comic books. Batman or Superman? Are Robert Liefeld and Scott Snyder friends again? Was Captain America right? Is Marvel better than DC? All of these were once topics of disscusion on a once great domain. But now, the landscape has evolved. It's turned into a husk of a once mighty and powerful creature. A creature that made other places such as SuperHeroHype and Comic Vine look like small potatoes in terms of how much good traffic it would garner on a dead day like Monday. A day when you'd expect few people to even think about a movie, much less a comic book movie.
But here we are. Here lies the remains of Comic Book Movie. Instead of being a unique location for people to either have intelligent conversations, or just troll others for the heck of it, CBM is not a place that consists of "Top 5" and "Heres what we learned from ____" articles. The comments section is one massive powderkeg of insanity, which isn't to different than it was in the past, but now it lacks heart. It lacks that genuine interest in stuff like it once had. It feels as if everybody on here is just some ai that was created to say specific things at certain moments. Now, no one feels like they have and rhyme or reason behind what they say. "I love Captain America" but do you? Do you truly love the classic american hero? Or are you just saying that because you feel like you need to say something on an article regarding the character?
Where's the passion?
Where's the interest and speculation?
Is it dead?
I've been perodically making visits here and there to simply check up on the website, like you would if your grandmother was deathly ill and in the hospital. You love the woman, but you know she isn't going to be making it out of that place. So you decide to spend her last moments with you by her bed. You deside to watch after her, and make sure she's taking her medicine. But in the back of your mind, you know she isn't going to make it. Comic Book Movie is that grandmother. I feel like I'm on auto-pilot everytime I check in to see how it's doing. I don't have the slightest interest at all whenever I click an article, and see the comments. I just scroll, click, and continue.
It shouldn't be like that.
This website shouldn't have turned out the way that it is. This isn't even Comic Book Movie anymore. This is just "Unnamed Comic Book Website #2,039,385,867".
R.I.P ComicBookMovie (or ComicMovieBook as some called it)
Since Life Was Created - 2015
This has been a Pasto joint.
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