They keep making boring content and using progressiveness as a cover, IE: if you find the stories bland and the characters having no depth then you must be racist, homophobic or misogynistic.<p>But I think a larger cohort of people have realised that, no, actually people were not slamming these movies because everyone is anti-progressive.<p>The only issue now is that Disney owns half of all media, so if you like movies or want to go on a date or take the kids to the cinema, you don’t get a seriously large variety.<p>Loki was truly excellent though, so they <i>can</i> do this; they just choose <i>not</i> to make complex and interesting stories and characters.
Its a nice feeling knowing the MCU is faltering because of it's reliance on "The Message" rather than good writing or character development. I hope they have learned their lesson.
Superhero movies might be in need of a breather. Fear not, for those who want pulp commercial pop culture fandom adaptations, this year was a turning point for video game movies at the box office, signifying perhaps the next decade plus of Hollywood:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1iiFYDAxv4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1iiFYDAxv4</a><p>Get ready to drown in video game content in quantities that will dwarf superhero comics, which are adapted by only a mere three studios.
I like to think of myself as an average moviegoer, and I have no interest in seeing this film because of a) superhero fatigue (I know exactly what's going to happen) b) these characters aren't interesting, and c) there's too much MCU shit out there that I'm not going to catch up on as a prerequisite.<p>I did recently beat the new Spider-Man PS5 game, and it was a great time. There were interesting twists on the story, characters I cared about, and the interactivity of it sets it apart from yet another film.
In my huge sample size of A Few Acquaintances, people seem to be turning to the Marvel TV shows instead.<p>I did this for Star Wars... I had basically zero interest in the new movies or really anything but the Old Republic setting, but the SW TV shows are pretty engaging. They're so much more grounded than... Whatever was going on in the new movies.
there are so many movies in this universe—-i’ve given up because i’m so far behind at this point. theyre absolutely milking the content at the expense of quality.<p>i’m also confused about the batman movies. how many reboots at this point? i’ve similarly given up here too.
This was better than Thor4 or Quantumania. Good action, chemistry, and a decent story.<p>Disney+ probably isn't helping. not being able to do promo work due to the strike didn't help, either.
Seems like even the most brainless consumers are starting to give up on the creatively bankrupt leeches across media. I’ve noticed that certain video game franchises that banked on increasingly garbage franchise milking are starting to falter as well.
I really like the Marvel stuff but they have two problems that are well known at this point:<p>Quality and volume.<p>Some of their recent efforts, like Loki season two and (apparently) The Marvels are quite good.<p>The problem is we already got burned by a number of poor entries like Thor: Love and Thunder and The Eternals (I mean, <i>wow</i>). It seems rare I hear about a good movie these days, even when they make one, but the bad ones get mentioned a lot. Or the ones that people just dislike for whatever ideological reason like She-hulk: Attorney at Law.<p>Much like with Star Wars they put things out so fast that it feels like you’re always trying to keep up. Even if DC and others didn’t keep trying to make superhero movies they would have oversaturated the market alone.<p>Combine those and it can feel like you’re always trying to keep up with a bunch of bad stuff in hopes of finding the rare good one. It’s exhausting.<p>And all of that is just Marvel stuff. But they’re also up against great TV, great video games, and everything else going on in the world. Trends away from wanting to go to movie theaters.<p>They drove the audience away with too much cash grabbing. Pure and simple.<p>I 100% reject the nonsense “go woke go broke” arguments, everything that’s going on can be explained without that perfectly, and there is no actual evidence to back it up.