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Blockbuster Reform
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Blockbuster Reform

I wish that some Hollywood producers had the balls
To make superhero movies with some chutzpah.

Coming this summer, Clark Kent is gunning for a raise,
But will his neglect of Lois Lane rend them asunder?

Bruce Wayne returns in a psychological blockbuster:
Agoraphobia: His biggest challenge is leaving the cave.

Chris Hemsworth is Thor, God of actuarial tables!
Now your insurance claim is an act of a Norse god.

Paul Thomas Anderson presents: Once an Iron Man:
Tony Stark comes to terms with his bipolarity.

It’s easy to make the extraordinary extraordinary
And to feature apocalyptic, existential disasters is a breeze,
But what’s really a trick to accomplish
Is to make the mundane come alive,
It’s to make the banal extraordinary,
To make heroes of the unheroic.