The last movie I've watched from MCU was "Captain America: Brave New World". It was alright I guess, but my interest in marvel movies has pretty much ended with Avengers Endgame in 2019
I'll save you 300 hours: I've seen Iron Man, Antman 2, and the Chinese rings movie so I'm pretty much caught up. If I had to guess, Avengers Doomsday is about a bunch of super heroes (Iron Man, Spiderman(?), Spandex Boobs, Lightning Man, Dr. Magic etc) who have to save the universe by teaming up and beating the ultimate baddies (i.e. Dark Galactus, Mutant Man, Killbot, Planet Killer, Killstroyer etc.).
Spoiler - the good guys win, but hang around for the credits because Planet Killer....HAS A SON! 🤯 And you'll never guess which of the good guys is actually a double agent (it's Spandex Boobs) 🤯🤯
I tried watching some of those new Marvel capeshit. They felt like undiluted slop. I'll return to my Chris Reeve Supes movies and DC cartoons.
Here's a shitty flow chart i made. If you read this flowchart, it'll only take you 30 seconds per movie. So, in total, it should only take you 20 minutes or so.
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Only thing it is missing is them namedropping another superhero in an upcoming movie so you want to go see that one too.
catch up with what? Its like 1 sentence to summarise each movie that wasn't even worth watching to begin with.
Grinding my own toes would be a more productive use of my time then watching Avenger movies.
All for a 30 second conversation with laser beam guy John Dick, in a movie that won't be worth watching either.
capitalist excess. the concept of a shared universe between massive Hollywood blockbusters is cool. Even better if you can spin it into different media types. A huge shared universe is cool!
Oh fucking woops you did it too much and now there's 300 hours of content to watch, and its all the same shit. mediocre movie with a post credits stinger. over and over again.
a restrained approach probably would have unironically stopped after the first avengers movie. they achieved their goal by then, everything after is just excess.
I can't believe they're still at it! If they'd taken a 15 year break, they could have cashed in n nostalgia and rewatches
you're 100% right, if they waited longer, the kids who watched until Avengers 1 will be "omg I loved that" and buy up whole theaters at 22 years old or something.
I don't even mind there being a huge elaborate web of relations and context, the real issue imo is that it's all just fucking slop and self reference and The Reddit Idea of Being Epic, meaning that the movie isn't here introducing you to a whole mythos of connected stories like it purports, it's just giving fucking homework of watching old shitty movies and and shows to get shallow references in new shitty movies and shows, and there's no real purpose to it except to make you pay more money to consume more product. It doesn't have interesting ideas or messages, it just wants you to clap when the thing explodes and action man says the line that he said 5 movies ago and also 3 movies ago.
The first Avengers movie is when it went beyond post-credits scenes. A restrained approach had stopped at endgame. And also it wouldnt have made age of ultron, that thing was pure filler.
That’s such a good way of putting it.
Those movies aren’t an artform: they’re just…content.
These movies also look like pure shit, they want to make them so quick they don't even bother with acting or VFX (compare the effects of the 1989 Batman Movie or even the 2002 Spider-Man Movie with any modern MCU movie), hell even the lore in these movies are sometimes not even close to the comics.
I was so confused after watching Marvel movies. Not including X men, I've only seen guardians of the galaxy vol. 1, black panther, one of the captain Americas, and the spider man that had Toby Mcguire come back. All CGI souless junk.
My favorite hero movie is Chronicle
These movies also look like pure shit
No way. They're pushing CGI technology, bro.
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Doesn't each one just dump actors in front of a green screen and say "ok go?"
Close, they built like a giant dome of screens that they display the background on
I remember when people made fun of George Lucas during the Prequels for the mass usage of CGI, and nowadays the MCU movies look worse than those movies.
I remember when Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was held up as the pinnacle of bad movies and widely mocked. When the more recent Star Wars sequels came out, I watched them and they were terrible. I mentioned it to someone recently and said that the new films are so bad that they make The Phantom Menace look good, which they rejected based on a weak memory of TPM that is tainted by all the fan hate from the era. We ended up watching TPM together, and they were bewildered by how good it was compared both to their memory of it and to the newer films.
I can only imagine what it's like compared to modern Marvel films.
I think TPM is a ok movie, it does look pretty good for the most part, the plot is ok. It does have some fun stuff and and a lot of nerdy politics stuff too. A lot of it aged really poorly (the accents specially and a lot of the cgi), but I think it's a fun movie to watch. Attack of the Clones had a lot more boring stuff and no one talks about it. RoTS is good though.
I can only imagine what it's like compared to modern Marvel films.
For all the hate George Lucas get, I think at least he knew what he wanted when he started the Prequels and how they would end, unlike the Marvel movies. Lucas' problem is that he clearly didn't knew how to direct dialogue or how to say what he wanted without really boring loredump, and there was very little pushback. Marvel stuff nowadays is just radlib pro-us propaganda (even more than the comics were), with really cheap and bad cgi and barely any acting besides saying funny lines.
many of those scenes were blended with practical effects and actually hold up today. Some scenes not so much.
The Prequels unironically pioneered how films are currently being made. They got some things wrong because that's what happens when you're on the cutting edge, but everything people were complaining about when those films came out is standard practice now and when somebody films a mid effect with an actual model that's all it takes to get all of the pain piggies in movie message boards clapping.
Most of my fanfiction takes place in the same universe because..... I don't actually remember why I decided that.
Does mean my "Romance novel" happens in the same world as my Rats of NIMH, Redwall, and RWBY fanfictions. Although the latter three occur in simulations, and the "romance novel" and Redwall simulation happens hundreds of years after my author self insert character dies.
......Who needs drugs when you have autism? Now that I've written it out, this is all incredibly convoluted!
I've enjoyed every Marvel Movie Ive seen. I have the guardians of the galaxy movies, Thor ragnarok and the first tom Holland Spiderman. I'm not ever gonna see any more
Actually existing trickle down economics, marvel money trickling down to "AVENGERS Lore Explained!" youtubers.
Imagine all the things you could do with three hundred hours. All the people you could meet, the skills you could learn, the places you could go.
Or sink into the slop till your thoughts stop.
Or I could just not do any of that, stream it off some sketchy site while I'm higher than eagle balls, and enjoy shitting all over it with friends
I kind of liked the first iron man. It wasn't great or anything, but it was a fun little romp.
If it's on TV im not gonna change the channel unless there's an ad break
I had issues with the military propaganda and the messaging in that movie, especially given the war the US was engaged in at the time.
I agree even seemingly innocuous movies have propaganda, I watch everything with a critical eye.
Well you were 1000% right about the MCU and it's only gotten worse
Do people actually like these movies? Besides children and redditors. Are these now like those Adam Sandler Movies that he makes to launder money and to hang out with his friends who have no real relevance anymore?
I enjoyed the first wave where they had no idea what they were doing yet, so Captain America was kind of a spy movie and Thor was E.T. But Hot. Once they settled in on a formula, it became impossible to give a damn.
Honestly I think the main market for these movies is people who say "let's go to a movie" and then have no idea what's coming out so they just look at what's currently playing and they pick the thing that they figure is the most safe bet.
that's for theaters, when it's streaming slop the main market doesn't matter because people are rarely actually watching what they're streaming that's why Netflix now mandates that you restate the plot of the film multiple times to make sure people can follow along.
I had a friend who loved them and she'd make me go see every one and I'd find ways to make myself incredibly drunk before heading into the screening.
launder money and to hang out with his friends
I'm not a Sandler fan but I respect that grift much more than I do whatever Marvel is doing
Watching a movie? Nah, don't have the attention span.
Spend multiple hours squatting on the floor programming microcontrollers? Yes!
idk I'm sure my cousin loves them, he's got a comic book collection that's worth buy a house money. The only super hero movies I ever found enjoyable was sam rami's spider-man, dredd, first couple of x-men flicks. Back before these movies started with the shared universe shit and you had to do homework in watching other movies, to follow along. Oh an Blade, Blade 2 also, can't forget those, probably the best marvel movies.
he's got a comic book collection that's worth buy a house money.
I'm really glad the fandoms I'm interested in are like, that one small book series by a perfectly average writer, the Rats of NIMH, and some of the older Call of Duty's. Stuff that's pretty cheap to get into.
This one guy I know has a similar flavor of autism to me, and he has a bunch of Warrior Cats stuff, especially the books. And Warrior Cats has a LOT of books in it.
The only super hero movies I ever found enjoyable was sam rami's spider-man, dredd, first couple of x-men flicks. Back before these movies started with the shared universe shit and you had to do homework in watching other movies, to follow along. Oh an Blade, Blade 2 also, can't forget those, probably the best marvel movies.
Lol these are the same Marvel movies that I like. I also did enjoy the Hulk 2003 and the Punisher 2004. With DC stuff I think the old stuff is mostly good or ok, I just really hate Zack Snyder and Gal Gadot. The new Superman movie was cool too.
Oh an Blade, Blade 2 also, can’t forget those, probably the best marvel movies.
This two are good because they are also vampire movies, vampire + action is a rare genre of movies.
And the third one sucks because of deadpool. I can't watch more than 10min of the movie.
And the third one sucks because of deadpool. I can't watch more than 10min of the movie.
Fun Fact; Blade Trinity was supposed to promote a spin-off movie called Nightstalkers with Hannibal (the deadpool actor) and Abigail as the main characters. It didn't work out because no one liked those characters and the movie was bad.
This two are good because they are also vampire movies, vampire + action is a rare genre of movies.
It's good to see someone finally give Morbius its flowers
I watch it cuz I like superpowers and fantasy. I also like those "character X power scenes compilation" on youtube. It's empty entertainment, if it was smart I probably wouldn't like it. Sometimes you just need something dumb and visually stimulating to catch your attention for a while. I'll also watch movies and shows if there's a really hot guy in the cast or if there's a lot of overacting. That movie with the alien soap bubble and the mutant bear screaming help is honestly one of my favorite movies of all time just for the visuals, I watch it from time to time but I can't even remember the name. That's how little I care about movies.
When I want to watch visually stimulating images, I just watch random speedruns cranked at 2x speed. Marvel slop isn't even that good as visual stimulation.
