Mine is that the Disney+ shows should not have any impact on the movies, that they should just be on their own.
It’s always been garbage. Not this multiverse or after im3 or whatever. The movies have always been trash.
They kinda ruined it with the multiverse. Everything feels without consequence. Death is meaningless and there are no stakes now
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
They pushed the stakes so high that when the fights are just everyone punching and kicking each other it’s stupid and silly.
It always makes me think of the reenactment of the battle of Pearl Harbor.
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.
I will back this recommendation - it felt like I finally began to understand the trans struggle with this well made movie. Plays like a fever dream and hits like a truck.
Not very engaging and hard to care about the characters. They put so many characters and fight scenes that it’s hard to care about a any of the even if they technically killed half of them.
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.
“Hot take”
Is this some blogger again looking to score content?
They have good movies… for kids.
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.
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.
When the MCU started I don’t think people considered Iron Man, Captain America, Thor as A list. They were just the properties they weren’t able to sell off yet. Doing these movies was a big gamble. They needed to succeed so they put their best effort into them and it paid off.
The writing for Endgame was lazy crap to just let them wrap things up with an epic battle. The second they introduced time travel and said, “okay, here are our specific rules we need to follow,” I just checked out. It was a lazy deus ex machina so they could just retcon all of the story lines and have the battle scenes. The battle was entertaining, but didn’t feel earned. If they done something with everyone being trapped in the soul-stone or in a parallel universe it would have been so much more interesting. Like if you had both universes working together to rejoin then an epic battle, but no, let’s just time travel and bring everyone back, but also let Tony keep his kid. It was just lazy.
Superhero movies are big budget police procedurals where the goal of the heroes is always to protect the status quo.
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.
Most of these hot take threads do not in fact have many hot takes.
Big loud bang bang movies that do nothing more than dumb down their audience further. And the superheroes weirdly and conveniently save the status quo of an awful world over and over again.
