[Yves S L]

Hello Mark,

For me, sounding so throwaway and causal within the iambic pentameter, the talk of contemporary super-hero movies is too breezily dismissive to act as a rhetorical counterweight to the film-noir stuff, so it leaves the poem unbalanced in such a way my mind just glibly skips over all t"he superhero movies are trash" lines because the lines themselves are not that compelling as lines.
Personally, I would go heavier at the start:

It isn't what I'd call a picture show,
But flying clowns are what will pass for gods.
More bouncing spandex arseholes... Poor sods,
The kids who lap this up... But RKO!


I reckon the balance is better if the poem works its way into the breezy dismissal tone.

Yeah!