'Minions' Nabbed The Meme Crowd ដែល 'Morbius' ខកខាន

នាទី៖ ការកើនឡើងនៃហ្គ្រុយ enjoyed an incredible weekend at the box office, with media coverage amplified by the TikTok “សុភាពបុរស” trend, which inspired tweens, teens and young adults to watch the movie in suits and ties, clutching cigars and bananas.

While the “gentleminions” meme isn’t the sole driving force behind the film’s success, those suit-wearing kids actually showed up, and aside from the occasional rowdy, banana-tossing crowd, contributed to positive discourse surrounding the film; it’s generally a dumb, harmless gag.

ខណៈពេលដែលភាពជោគជ័យនៃ Minions is being compared to the failure of Disney’s ឆ្នាំពន្លឺ (Buzz Lightyear, it seems, is infinitely គួរឱ្យចាប់អារម្មណ៍បន្ថែមទៀត as a toy), the memeification of Minions also makes an amusing contrast to Sony’s មូបារ៉ាស។.

សម្រាប់ មូបារ៉ាស។ also inspired a massive wave of memes, to the point where Sony actually re-released the movie in theatres, hoping that the ironic fandom would show up (ពួកគេមិនបានធ្វើទេ).

មូបារ៉ាស។, a mediocre superhero movie starring a famously unlikable actor (who killed the meme with a single tweet), became internet-famous by virtue of being soulless and boring, a movie that nobody wanted to watch.

នេះ មូបារ៉ាស។ fandom were parodying the cloying enthusiasm of hardcore Marvel fans, who obediently consume, and hype up, whatever comes next on the MCU content pipeline. Sony, it seems, was tricked by the ironic fandom, mistaking the surge in online interest for legitimate enthusiasm, which might be funnier than every single one of the មូបារ៉ាស។ អនុស្សាវរីយ៍។

Minions, on the other hand, have been prime meme fodder for a very long time, having inspired an unholy amount of unhinged Facebook posts over the last decade; Minions memes are notorious for being ឈឺចាប់ មិនកំប្លែងដូច្នេះ horribly executed that they become, paradoxically, គួរឱ្យអស់សំណើច.

But the suit-wearing youths showing up to theaters in droves aren’t as ironic as they seem – I’d wager that a good number of them genuinely enjoy these movies. After all, the គួរឱ្យស្អប់ខ្ពើមខ្ញុំ franchise has been around long enough to be nostalgic, and the Minions, with their slapstick stupidity, are genuinely charming.

And that’s the difference between being an ironic មូបារ៉ាស។ fan and a Minions fan – one of those movies is actually worth watching.