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I’ve had essentially 0 interest in the MCU since Endgame. They wrapped up that story quite nicely, but even by that point I was starting to get fatigued by the whole thing.

Watched the recent Deadpool movie last week and enjoyed it, but it offers something different to every other superhero movie.

Reality is often disappointing.

Sorry I couldn't help myself. I saw every MCU movie from Shang Chi to Iron Man. I stopped afterwards.

I can't describe why? I think I have such a fond memory of Endgame and beforehand that when I hear these movies do poorly I don't want to soil my memory of it.

The "why" is because that's what happened in the comics, and it was a huge deal. Black Captain America was as divisive on the page as it was on the screen, but not giving Wilson the shield would have been a major deviation from the source material, one that looks a lot like caving to pressure from racists.

In my opinion, they shouldn't have tried to do a pure standalone Captain America movie. It should have been worked into the Secret Wars event, and filled with additional Marvel characters, similar to the Captain America: Civil War treatment. In the comics, Sam Wilson deals with major insecurity and imposter syndrome. Shit, that would have been a great subtitle for a Secret Wars story. Captain America: Imposter Syndrome. Following the events of FatWS, Sam is struggling with the weight of the shield, and then Fury and Talos come to him for help with the Skrulls. They can't trust any other Avemgers, not Rhoady, not Thunderbolt, not anyone at SWORD. And then Wilson, with no superpowers, has to duke it out and prove himself against the Super Skrull with all the powers of the Avengers.

And he can't, because he's just one guy, but he keeps getting back up. And that's when he remembers that Steve's superpower wasn't strength or speed or intelligence, or even the shield. Captain America was resilience, defiance, and inspiration personified. That's what the world needs against an unseen, invasive threat. People need hope, courage, and leadership. And that's when people rally to help Sam defeat the Super Skrull, regular soldiers and coexisting Skrulls, maybe hint that Eli Bradley inherited some super from his Grampa. And Nick Fury can have his final blaze of glory before officially definitely for the last time no cap retiring.

You need the passing of the torch, because the idea of Captain America can't die. Expecting the current team at marvel to properly handle such a thing though, is the real problem.

SAME

I actually liked Falcon/Winter Soldier for the most part. Enjoyed the cast, it explored issues I care about from wealth inequality to racism and immigration.

Wonder how much of it is just bad writing for him? Altered Carbon season 2 was really meh that he led. Then I imagine the original actor in his place and realise I just didn't like the plot that much compared to season 1.

I can't think of anything he's been in though where he's nailed the role outside of Falcon/Winter Soldier, where I'll admit there was lots of supporting roles. Man's either cursed with D-list writers, or, as you mentioned, lacks the charisma to carry it.

My first thought was that Mackie's bland acting killed Altered Carbon and now it's killing Captain America. He has absolutely no charisma on his own.

another bland script from the goofs that brought us Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Wait, are you telling me they didn't all get fired after that atrocity?

I liked the series, but mostly because of Bucky and more backstory for Zemos.

Captain A is a hard character to play or write because he is so one dimensional - he is good, no what ifs or buts. Chrias Evan did a great job, but you also need a good villain that carries the story. And without great writers, its hard to make something fun and entertaining.

And now set to release in "fuck you, it's February". When stinkers get thrown out to die.

(and the TV series that set it up)

And here’s my problem with everything Disney is splooging out these days; the interconnectedness has very rapidly gone from being a fun feature to an obnoxious ask on our time.

The last season of The Mandalorian actively annoyed me when I realised that a bunch of the action between it and the previous season had taken place during the Boba Fett show. I didn’t bother with that because it looked dull, meaning I had to go away and find out what I’d missed.

You watch any of the movies now and there’s some element of them that you’ll miss if you haven’t watched a selection of attached series and three previous movies.

Mate, I’m not doing fucking homework just so I can give you ten more hours of my life.

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 was good

No need to pretend Marvel movies stopped being money generators. Newest Deadpool & Wolverine generated worldwide 1.3B USD, ranking it 21st top grossing movie of all time. Domestic 633M USD, China 60M USD. It's 7th highest grossing MCU movie.

Yeah, I think it's telling that even the Disney+ series that setup Mackie taking over as Capt. America didn't even really "star" his character, it was Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Falcon has never been that big of a character on his own in the Marvel universe, he's just some guy that flies, even Baron Zermo and John Walker were more interesting than anything else in that series. Mackie seems like a nice, funny guy, but I don't know that he has a big enough personality to play a leading role. I could see a "buddy film" with Winter Soldier, since they seem to have good screen chemistry with Sebastian Stan, but that would just be a repeat of the D+ series.

The Zombie Era was heavily concentrated on The Waking Dead, which due to how many episodes and seasons it had sucked all the oxygen out of the genre, and people are still tired of zombies. People say the videogame era of adaptations is about to begin, but even then Borderlands was a failure.

There are 5 movies and a TV series for The Crow...

They've been hammering out the trailer in cinemas for a few weeks now. It's not filling me with enthusiasm.

"You may be Captain America, but you are not Steve Rogers."

That may come back to haunt them.