I took Meyer to see Shazam! (which was quite good) last Sunday morning, and on the way back he was comparing it to all the other superhero movies he's seen. He likes to rank things. It came in tied for #2 with Captain Marvel, behind Aquaman which remains the gold standard for superhero movies. I asked him if he thought anything would ever knock Aquaman out of #1.
"I don't know, I mean I guess I have about...oh, 50 more years of watching movies before I don't watch them any more."
"What do you mean? Why would you stop watching them?"
"Well, I mean some day you get old and you don't watch the same movies you did when you were a kid. I figure I have about 50 years before that."
I told him "I think you can pretty much watch whatever you want for as long as you want. If you want to watch super hero movies for the rest of your life, you can."
"So maybe I can watch them for...another 91 years. If I live to be a hundred."
"You might live to be older than that. People are living longer all the time."
"So maybe I can live to be TWO HUNDRED."
"Well, I don't know about that. Maybe a hundred and twenty? I don't know."
Meyer thought about that for a bit. Then, "I wish they could upgrade people to live longer about...two years every year. Then I might make it to two hundred if they start when I'm 50."
