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God I’m so tired of Marvel.
I know people like it, and that’s okay, but every action movie is now Guardians of the Galaxy. The earlier marvel movies are fun too, but by Ironman 2/3 there was so much product placement and it all felt very stale and sterile.
You're trying to tell us you wouldn't be thrilled to go see "Jeff Bezos' Amazon Presents Amazon's James Bond™: The End of The World Is Not Enough: Part 1: When James Met Q: Part 1?"
Can't stand those films. I like the Raimi Spider-man films and the first Iron Man. That's it. All the other Marvel films are repetitive and boring. I stopped watching them around Iron Man 2/3 as well.
Same goes for Star Wars. Rogue One was good. Stopped caring about the franchise after episode VIII (which I actually enjoyed). There are too many shows and spinoffs now and I got burnt out. Never thought I'd see the day when I'd stop being a Star Wars fan but I literally can not stand any of the shows. They're all boring.
You didn't like the first Guardians of the Galaxy?
Also pretty much agreed on Star Wars. Rogue One was great and it's been a lot of slop since. I did enjoy the first season of Mandalorian and the episodes of Andor I've seen so far.
Guardians was okay but nothing special. I was turned off from the film from the very beginning, when the "Awesome Mix" consisted of nothing but the most basic bitch, overplayed songs in existence. I know it's nitpicky but it sent the message that this wasn't going to be the kind of film for me.
Which is fitting because Marvel films are the KISS-FM of Hollywood. If Top 40 was a movie franchise, it would be Marvel.
I defended the Marvel offerings post Endgame longer than I should have, there’s some good stuff in there like No Way Home and Shang-Chi but it’s reeked of producers trying to rush the build it took to make the final two Avengers films so anticipated and fun. Even if you hate all of those films and think they are bland you have to admit there was something exciting about the long form storytelling they were doing and the experience of seeing those in the theater was a cool shared experience with so many people around the world. I hope they can recapture that lightening with the Russos coming back but somehow I doubt it
Long way to say, I love the MCU and still agree that’s the last thing Bond, LoTR, Star Trek, fuck name an IP and it shouldn’t be trying to Marvel itself. Let Marvel be Marvel
I really enjoyed Loki. I haven't finished it yet but I was happy to have the context when I watched Deadpool and Wolverine.
Those are both offerings i really enjoyed too, like I said, hoping they can right the ship, now that they are ditching the multiverse and pivoting towards Doom they may have an avenue
They tried to milk it too much. The initial MCU was good. Phase 1/2. Now it's just exhausting. Too many characters, too many shows that either don't seem to be canon or are completely ignored by the films, too many characters to keep track of.
Marvel peaked with endgame. It's been downhill ever since
I say it every time this comes up, and it sparks anger, but the movie that did it was Civil War.
Iron Man flinches from a punch Cap throws. A human with peak capable strength does that to the same goddamn dude who took a fucking tank round and just had scorch marks on his armor.
Then in infinity war, the Two stone wielding Thanos frightens Hulk? Bullshit, get out of here. Hulk would have flattened him.
I'm tired of marvel as well but comparing movies to guardians of the galaxy attempting to make it seem like a bad thing isn't really doing what you think it might. GotG is now a gem in the marvel movies cuz it's doing it's own thing and telling it's own story and does it very well.
Yes but if every movie is copying that template, they're no longer doing their own thing.
The complaint isn't about GotG, it's about everything being the same.