Meh. We have the Trump cinematic universe now, and it has scarier villains.
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Is there even a hot take you can have on Marvel besides "it's all very good" anymore? What you see is what you get, and I think we're all nauseous of the amount of content being shoved in our faces.
I think the magic is gone - now the shows and movie lack the flair and excitement of the previous era. Now it feels like the we don’t need x, we have x at home meme.
Mjolnir being something that can only be wielded by "worthy" people wasn't one of Odin's best decisions from a practical standpoint.
If Mjolnir can be lifted by the unworthy through their own power - such as Magneto due to his magnetism - it would render the worthiness aspect moot. But if it can't be, it would defy physics.
Defy physics you said?
That list looks like someone gave a badly worded prompt to a GPT-2 model.
Superhero movies are big budget police procedurals where the goal of the heroes is always to protect the status quo.
It should end.
Wait ten years, form some sort of idea and come back to it.
Endgame is one of the worst movies of all time.
Finally I see this opinion somewhere! Everyone was raging about how it was the best movie ever and I was just "meh" right after I walked out of the cinema.
All the defensive I've seen basically boil down to "It's the biggest most important movie ever, it can't afford to waste time being interesting".
The first 30min or so were good. When everyone's depressed and before they launch their rescue mission
Cancel any movies project. And in 5 years start from 0, no connections with the previous movies.
make it a 20 year wait and we have a deal.
They made a pretty good comic-accurate show about a big green lady and a few million extremely online teen boys had their penises fall off. RIP.
It’s ok, they’ve learnt their lesson and won’t be tuning in for further projects.
I also enjoyed the Captain Marvel movie, and even the Marvels was pretty decent compared to the rest of marvel's recent crap. But they have female leads, so I guess they're tainted with original sin.
Most of the female heroes are extremely boring. Not because they're females, but because their writers suck.
Most of the male heroes are boring and poorly written. And yet people are more angry about the female heroes than the male ones. You can't pretend it's about quality at this point.
I enjoyed the MCU up until Age of Ultron. The movies are almost all from the same mold, just with different names and look and that was true even before the first Avengers film. But it was new back then. The newness has worn off and it's way past time the MCU evolves, or retires.
The exception are the Guardians of the Galaxy series. They are better made films that actually made me feel invested in the characters. The beginning of Guardians 3 is probably the best scene in the entire MCU.
Age of Ultron is where I started to check out too.
The last MCU movie I watched was Black Panther (the first). I enjoyed it well enough compared to the recent fair that I decided to go out on a high note.
Really? That awful CGI final act from black panther is so distractingly bad
By that point all the CGI was cringe AF, I can't watch giant battle scenes without my minds eye seeing all the actors pantomiming on a massive green screen set. Really, one or two impressive practical effects and I might have stuck around longer.
At least BP had a couple new plot elements and wasn't just the same movie with different beam colors. Not really new elements, but new for the MCU anyway.
Dude, it was just the lion king but worse. And tchalla character goes backwards, he was so cool in civil war (another overrated movie) but he's punkd so hard in his own movie
The MCU has run out of steam after they got away from the A list heroes. It's not that B- or C- list characters can't do well, it's just that it takes a talented writer/director to do it with a good movie, and Disney/Marvel just isn't capable of getting that consistently on their own, they're too safe & corporate. They're just trying to recreate what made the original MCU run successful, but we've already seen that. I don't know that there's necessarily "superhero fatigue", though trends in movies & pop culture come and go, that's inevitable, but for me it's more been "bad writing fatigue", I'm just sick of their lazy ass shit writing, it's insulting and I'm tired of being treated like that by the MCU.
The MCU did great with Guardians of the Galaxy, which were C tier at best.
James Gunn did great with Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm not sure many others could've pulled it off as well.
I'm not sure how much credit Disney should get for that compared to James Gunn, considering they fired him and he was able to turn Suicide Squad into a hit as a result.
Disney did what Disney does and killed it. They always take these big IPs and then stack so much bureaucracy around them that nothing ever gets done without getting approved by a committee that is approved by another committee which kills the artists original intent and messaging. They know that they can’t get experienced and talented artists to create their content anymore because they aren’t malleable enough so they either have to shove 10’s of millions down their throat or hire some wanker off the street. Then the wanker they hire off the street is always like “I don’t read the comics, lul XD!” And they right some shitty girlboss Mary Sue movie that no one likes then call all the fans racist, sexist, homophobes. Who was Agatha all along for? Some imaginary audience of post 40 wine aunts that also love marvel and pay for Disney+?
Some imaginary audience of post 40 wine aunts that also love marvel and pay for Disney+?
Who do you think writes half the stuff on AO3? This audience actually exists, and is fairly sizeable.
If it's not for you, that's fine. But a Marvel universe intended only for teenage boy nerds is pretty dull and repetitive; the MCU didn't get that big by aiming solely for them.
And yeah, when you start gatekeeping, saying "those people don't exist" and "you don't belong here", maybe it is time to take a look at your prejudices.
The AO3 fandom checked out around the time Steve ditched Bucky and Sam.
The only hot take for these types of surveys is: i don't hate them.
What ever the subject is doesn't matter. When you ask a group for input on their "hot take" devolves into a forum to shit on whatever the topic may be.
So my hot take is: I enjoy some of the movies while others I do not.
Right answer.
i think i have seen multiple of them, some even in theater, but the only one i remember is the first iron man one.
so my hot take is that they're... not very interesting.
They're consistent.
Which is not great when it comes to making compelling art (IMO), but it makes for a predictable experience with a known value which appeals to many people.
Not really my thing, but I'm glad people like it. Everything doesn't have to be for me.
The Marvel universe is mainly there to create possibilities to make more money, not to tell a good story. Granted I have hardly seen any of the movies/series, but after Avengers I never saw a reason to. Marvel realised Avengers was good and now they pulled out as much stuff out of the universe to fill a seemingly endless stream of "storytelling".
The MCU should have ended a little after Endgame. The MCU Earth is now fundamentally different than current Earth to the point where it is harder to write resonant stories in that Earth.
That the MCU had to reach into the idea of multiverses is a symptom that the plot baggage of the MCU is now a drag on the franchise.
Overall? Meh.
I don't hate it, but they're not great either.
They are extremely boring with little to no real threat and tedious fights where you know who's going to win anyway
Character development? Probably the only actual thing that dies
With the first wave of movies I was really excited and enjoyed them immensely. Now the novelty has long since worn itself out. The cinematic universe plot is convoluted to a point of blandness. The multiple universe angle is stupid in comics and aggravating in cinema. The streaming series (across the board) instead of getting me interested in the movies has instead inoculated me against all of the Disney IP''s.
Not exactly Marvel related, but I'm an adult now. Where are the movies dealing with mature themes and relatable plots?
Where are the movies dealing with mature themes and relatable plots?
They're rare but are out there. I watched I Saw the TV Glow last weekend, really really nice film.
We need a new movie where the guy denied claim of life to CEO plays the anti hero
That was the first two thirds of The Batman.
Always has been meme?
Not really. Most of the earlier movie Batman villains were rather over the top villains that may have an axe to grind but were depicted as more outright evil.
The Riddler in the The Batman honestly comes across as more of a hero in the first two acts of The Batman based on who he is targeting. All of the Riddler's victims are causing massive harm to Gotham and the city's political system seems unable to really address it. This includes Bruce Wayne's complicity in the corruption of the city by being a derilect chair of the charity that is supposed to be improving the city.
If you end the movie when Batman and the Riddler are in the jail cell, you would be hard pressed to identify the Riddler as a villain; he is just a kind of vigilante that Batman is. It isn't until the Riddler attacks Gotham as a whole when the Riddler actually becomes a villain.
Marvel was cool until i was around 12 or 13.
Later it was a little eeek.
Nowadays it's just plain sh*t.
Marvel movies are mostly dogshit. The Marvel multiverse is just an excuse for them to keep churning out dogshit movies indefinitely cause "LOL MULTIPLE UNIVERSES MAN, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, NO NEED TO RETCON"
Yeah, it is kind of a plot hole cheat code, but I'd rather they come up with fun new ideas under that premise, than just keep doing the same thing, or half-assing retcons like soap operas do. (That was actually Steve's evil twin the whole time, and THIS is the real Steve)