Not really. The fun ones seemed to end with Avengers End Game. Now they all seem to be about the multiverse but the problem there is it lowers the stakes. Any character who is killed can just be replaced with one of their multiverse clones.
Its even more ridiculous to think they actually got rdj back as Dr Doom.
One person, yes. The rest were never into them very much anyway.
I'm not going to jump on the MCU hate wagon. Some of them have been great, others less so. But none have been actually bad movies. There's nothing wrong with making fun and forgettable entertainment.
Whilst I agree with your sentiment I do feel like some of them have objectively been bad movies in a lot of ways. But it is the exception, most of them have been mediocre, some a bit better, some a bit worse. But to say there haven't been a couple of real stinkers is maybe not the whole truth either.
I've enjoyed all of the movies in the moment (except ant man 3) but a few I've liked less the more i think back on them.
Spidey 3, deadpool 3, falcon (mostly), Loki and wandavision were great at release and still are to me (i guess the jury is still out on deadpool with it being so new)
Its mcdonalds of cinema: Its just safely not bad.
Yes!
This is more a reflection of your food standards than the quality of the films. McDonald's is, and always has been, dogshit.
I eat it every once in a while but most powerful drug is nostalgia rather than quality of mcdonalds. same with marvel movies, it's more "WOW THAT GUY FROM BOOK WHEN I WAS KID!!!!". Nerdslop is made to cash in on that.
Its also how children's shows and merchandize is sold.
Hard disagree, I made it about 20-30 min through eternals and had to just shut it off
That says more about you than the movie.
Eternals was the first MCU movie where I was like, this one should have been a miniseries on Disney+.
Telling a story through time like that should take time. Would have been good to do an episode on each of them and then have them reunite and stuff.
Also, like, in terms of the acting... I didn't think it was great. Angelina Jolie is by far the best actor on the cast. So much so, it's jarring. The ending was weird too. Felt thematically like it came from a different genre too.
I definitely wanted to like it more than I did.
I don't think I've seen anyone excited since a couple of movies after endgame. I was likewise - I watched some with high hopes but kept being disappointed, it seems they've run out of story writing and turned to miscellaneous amalgamated cartoon hijinks with random jokes and purposeless CGI.
Watched 'The Incredible Hulk' from 2008 yeaterday.
Man were movies simpler back then. More grounded in reality slower paced while still exciting.
Interest was low after end game, and on life support after Thor 4. Guardians went over well as an end to that series, and Deadpool as a non MCU movie. If fantastic 4 is bad I think that's the end.
The people around me are more concerned with the insanity going on in our government than the movie theaters.
Although I mutter about the Thunderbolts line-up, it does look like it could work well if the story goes the way I hope it does.
I'll be seeing Cap 4 in the next week but I can't say I am looking forward to it.
RJD returning as Doom seems desperate.
However, the Fantastic Four trailer has me excited for it.
It's been mixed over the past few years. I know way more people who've watched the post-Endgame shows than the post-Endgame movies. They certainly haven't been treated as the cultural event they were in the 2010s.
Although, that's been shifting. A bunch of people I know both online and in real-life were pumped for Deadpool & Wolverine. I've been hearing a bunch of excitement over the upcoming Thunderbolts* and Fantastic Four movies. And I'm personally super pumped for Brave New World, although the reports of production woes seem to have tempered others' expectations.
sigh
I was wrong. BNW blows. =/
Side note for Brave New World: I've seen a handful of people online say they've no interest in a jingoistic movie given gestures around. Which is strange to me, since if the trailer is even the slightest bit accurate, it's more in the vein of Winter Soldier, where the US government is the problem. Maybe they mean it's too close to reality? shrugs
It looking like winter soldier is why I've been excited. I've also always liked falcon as cap so seeing more of that is always good to me.
Looks like a mixture of Winter Soldier and Falcon & The Winter Soldier, which both are some of my favorite bits in the MCU
During the reddit API shutdown I grabbed a month of Marvel's comic and read The House of M and Secret Invasion storylines. I was shocked at how good The Thunderbolts were in that run. Captain Britian was really good during Invasion as well.
Im the biggest comic book fan in my life and I have not cared much for any of the media stuff since the doctor strange movie.
My mom's fiance. But he thinks the moonshiners show and wrestling are real, so its possible he thinks the world is actually being saved when he watches them.
What does your mom see in him?
A charming, yet baffling, lack of guile comes to mind.
He means well, he would never lay a hand on her. Pretty chill. Just kinda stupid. In all fairness, her last husband was a giant asshole gaslighter and cheated on her for years, so it wasn't hard to find an upgrade.
So wait, he lit the gas from his giant asshole? Was he in the circus or something???
Its the opposite of mysterious
Yes I still see a few very excited about them. My father watches all of them too. If he watches them, I'll join in if I'm home to spend time with him. Otherwise I don't get watching MCU or star wars. I'll only do it on my own if they have good reviews.
I don't think anyone around me has ever been excited for them. Maybe there was interest around the time of the first two Avengers films, but it's so long ago now that I can't remember. The first one was the only time I ever watched one of these films in the cinema and whilst it was somewhat enjoyable as far as superhero films go, I had absolutely no desire to pay to see another one. They are so blatantly cookie cutter to me I'm not really sure how people can remain excited for them over such a long period of time.
Nope it's been over for years.
Only Cap 4. I personally am mostly excited for Thunderbolts* but I have friends who have been talking about Cap 4 for at least a month or two now, and they're extremely casual MCU fans. I feel like the break in superhero movies has really ignited an unexpected appetite for superhero films again amongst moviegoers. Even I am looking forward to Cap 4 now, even with all of the rumors that it's going to be bad and all the rumors and stuff.
it all looks like schlock to me...
Luckily they never were.
Never has been...
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