Jesus.
This girl is a God damn genius. She just beautifully deconstructed why Feige's formula is a steaming pile of dog **** and how the fandom has finally figured out that there's nothing new or original coming out of the MCU anymore.
My fav part is when she compares the future of the MCU to Doc Strange's battle with Dormammu - a bland, repetitive, safe encounter with the same formula over and over and over.
IMO the MCU began its descent into mediocrity with IM3, somehow allowed the fluke of quality that were TWS & GOTG and then pretty much died afterwards with everything since AOU.
I don't know man, I think the MCU has been hit and miss from the beginning. I think phase 2 is about on par with phase 1.
Phase 1:
Iron Man - Very good movie
Incredible Hulk - forgettable
Thor - okay at best
Cap 1 - mediocre
Avengers - in my opinion was horrible and the epitome of playing it safe.
Phase 2:
Iron Man 3 - horrible movie
Thor 2 - horrible movie
Cap 2 - solid superhero flick
Guardians - fun space adventure that felt fresh
Ant Man - bad forgettable movie
Age Of Ultron - horrible movie
Yea, I think Phase 2 might actually be worse, so far phase 3 is okay, I didn't think Civil War or Doctor Strange were horrible movies, but they certainly were forgettable.
That should be the tagline for MCU movies from here on out:
From the studio that brought you IRON MAN, THE AVENGERS & GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY...
Comes a movie that's okay. Could be much better, could be WAAAY worse...
Marvel Studios Presents
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
When people talk about the MCU being formulaic and mediocre, what are they saying about the DC films? Are are we comparing to the fox films? Or the Nolan batman films?
I'd be thrilled if BvS was at decent MCU quality. Nolan Bats is a different level but they don't feel like comic films. Fox has had some winners especially recently, but they've also had some of the worst ever.
Who did the Ghost Rider and FF films?
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FF is Fox, and Ghost Rider movies were Sony I believe.
I agree with most of your post, because at the moment, as much as I criticize the MCU, most of their movies are Oscar Worthy compared to the DCEU in my opinion. MOS and BvS are better than the worst of the worst from the MCU in my opinion, but Marvel hasn't come close to making the abomination that was Suicide Squad.
As bad as the movies Fox and WB have been releasing lately, both studios have released truly great movies in the past and even Sony for that matter. In my opinion, the Nolan trilogy was great, and even if you didn't like those movies, at least it wasn't your standard superhero movie. Fox has released X2, FC, and DOFP, and while those 3 movies have the same characters, and actors, each of those movies felt vastly different than the last, same with the Nolan Trilogy actually, meanwhile with the MCU, you have all these different characters, with different directors and yet, all these movies just feel the same in tone, direction, and scope which is most likely because of Feige and Marvel's in-house writers.
Yeah that's true it did make a ton of money while still be true to it's ranchy self .
Maybe it's just me but for example was disappointed with the force awakens because of that same mentality they played it safe and just rehashed the old movies and repackaged it in to this soft reboot , makes good business sense since we basically don't need to know they history of the previous movies , but it makes for a predictable movie.
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The Force Awakens was certainly mediocre, but so was Return of the Jedi and really that series overall. Only the first two movies are really good in my opinion (Empire is great). I'll take Jedi over TFA Awakens though because TFA Awakens has absolutely nothing going for it, the characters are cliche and boring, the action was forgettable and generic, the score was the worst in the series, the visuals were the worst in the series, plus it holds the worst light saber battle in the series by far.
