MARVEL Multithread

[OmegaZilla]

Ok, I see your point

my man Kradan

[Magegg]

I definitely feel very letdown and nervous about the MCU's future after Phase 4.

The movies I don't really have much of a problem with, they were at least "ok" (ETERNALS and SHANG-CHI), we had a couple great films (DOCTOR STRANGE 2 and SPIDER-MAN 4), and while BLACK WIDOW was too mediocre and THOR 4 was straight garbage, that was to be expected.

My big problem is with the TV shows. WANDAVISION was great and HAWKEYE pretty good, FALCON and MOON KNIGHT had their moments but they could have been much better, but LOKI, MS. MARVEL and WHAT IF were pure garbage, so I'm very disappointed in that department, and I don't have very high hopes for SHE-HULK.

I guess best thing I could do is just focusing on the movies and ignore and not watch the TV shows (or binge watch them after the finale, because this agony of waiting for a new episode every week and just find it every time worse than the last is very exhausting) and pray not to miss anything of importance.

[KiramidHead]

At least the shows are for the most part pretty short. Although I can see the people who couldn't take 13 episodes of the Netflix shows getting antsy over Daredevil getting 18. God help them if they ever had to watch regular TV with 20+ episodes. 

[Crazy Rich]

I think I have to clarify that I have nothing against people themselves who like Marvel movies. It's just the  MCU itself I feel should've ended at least 3 years ago

Now why would anyone take a criticism of something they enjoy personally?

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As well, my counterargument to the comparison to Godzilla and Bond is that Godzilla's total runtime (which has margin for some error) is about 52 hours from 1954 to present and Bond's is about 60 hours from 1962 to present, whereas the MCU is now at about 99 hours already in an incredibly smaller time window of 2008 to present.

[Kradan]

At least the shows are for the most part pretty short. Although I can see the people who couldn't take 13 episodes of the Netflix shows getting antsy over Daredevil getting 18. God help them if they ever had to watch regular TV with 20+ episodes. 

Old TV at least had the benefit of each episode being pretty much its own self-contained story. But nowadays they smeer it out throughout at least 6-7 hours and you have to watch ALL OF IT

 

I definitely feel very letdown and nervous about the MCU's future after Phase 4.

The movies I don't really have much of a problem with, they were at least "ok" (ETERNALS and SHANG-CHI), we had a couple great films (DOCTOR STRANGE 2 and SPIDER-MAN 4), and while BLACK WIDOW was too mediocre and THOR 4 was straight garbage, that was to be expected.

My big problem is with the TV shows. WANDAVISION was great and HAWKEYE pretty good, FALCON and MOON KNIGHT had their moments but they could have been much better, but LOKI, MS. MARVEL and WHAT IF were pure garbage, so I'm very disappointed in that department, and I don't have very high hopes for SHE-HULK.

I guess best thing I could do is just focusing on the movies and ignore and not watch the TV shows (or binge watch them after the finale, because this agony of waiting for a new episode every week and just find it every time worse than the last is very exhausting) and pray not to miss anything of importance.

For me it's not even the question of quality, it's quantity. There's just so much of it, there's not enough time  and space for each individual product to "breathe" and to get amount of attention it deserves, as soon as one comes out, you begin hearing news about next one coming out. MARVEL is a Juggernaut (pun totally intended) that dominates modern cinema landscape and looms over everything else

[Local Trouble]

Just consume product!

[Kradan]

Then get excited for the next one 

Side note: only thing that excites me about MCU movies is RLM reviews

[Magegg]

For me it's not even the question of quality, it's quantity. There's just so much of it, there's not enough time  and space for each individual product to "breathe" and to get amount of attention it deserves, as soon as one comes out, you begin hearing news about next one coming out. MARVEL is a Juggernaut (pun totally intended) that dominates modern cinema landscape and looms over everything else

Well, like you said, for you, maybe.

For me, I could (and I do) watch Marvel every week, I just feel most of the shows have been quite disappointing when it comes to the quality. So much that I almost feel like not keep on watching them.

[Kradan]

That's fair, I guess

[ace3g]

https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1552400664843599873

[Magegg]

Have the feeling that maybe? the creation of the "SHE-HULK" franchise/branding could open Marvel the gates to adapt some Hulk arcs into movies, maybe that way managing to avoid the legal hurdles they have with Universal?

For example, to produce a "WORLD WAR SHE-HULK" movie (or maybe titled something like "SHE-HULK: OMEGA WAR"), adapting the classic WWH, through the technicism of not using Hulk's name or him being the protagonist (even when we all know we'd go watch the movie because of Banner and not Walters?

Maybe they could get away with it this way, and not having to pay Universal the distribution slice of the cake?

[bb-15]

I saw the series. I rate it 3/10.

It tried to put too many story genres together; from a soap opera, Bollywood, historical drama, a silly kids story, mixed with the usual Marvel action.

Some points for some clever CGI graffiti.

[Magegg]

Agree. The show was a terrible disappointment.

[bb-15]

It was OK. I don't know the comic but as a fan of Egyptian mythology, that kept me interested in some of the story.

[bb-15]

Been mostly underwhelmed by the MCU shows so far, certainly Loki and (to a lesser extent) Falcon and the Winter Soldier. This looks promising though.

I thought Loki and Falcon/Winter Soldier were enjoyable.
Hawkeye? Pretty forgettable for me.