FatDaz wrote:Saw the marvels yesterday. Generic by the numbers action comedy. Some fun fights scenes but I had no interest and the plot was thread bare. The villain was one of the blandest yet and the ending was trying for emotional but fell flat for me. End credit cameo was cool though. If this cost £260million then they need to reevaluate what they are doing.
They’ve lost their edge. They bet it all on IronMan and it was an huge gamble. Same for a lot of phase 1, early flops would have killed the MCU dead. They’ve now made so much money they can afford for films to tank at the box office. They need to go back to basics and focus on story and character not CGI spectacle.
It’s like the plot of rocky 3, they’ve becoming me so complacent they haven’t really had to put the effort in.
I've still not bothered to watch the Marvels.
I was getting them all on 4K when they came out, but this is the first one in years I've not bothered to buy. I'll probably still get it, if just for completion sake.
The problem now is that no-one new is jumping in. Not when you've got 30 odd movies and a handful of shows to get through to catch up.
I genuinely think they're biding their time until they can roll out Secret Wars to wrap up the multiverse mess, then I would expect a "soft" reboot of things with the introduction of X-Men and Fantastic Four. I also think we're probably 4-5 years at most away from a live action Miles Morales Spider-Man movie. Miles is probably the hottest character Marvel have at the moment and he's beyond due his live action debut. Given Iger wants to focus on more "popular" series I think they would be stupid not to be planning that with Sony.
It's really hard to see how they move forward with the MCU at this point. They're not exactly in DCs position, but they're fighting both superhero fatigue and a general drop in the standard of their output. Which is inevitable after so many different projects.