What do you think of Marvel post-Endgame?

[Blue]

@pukunui , Eternals panning is a bit much. It's one of the weaker movies of Phase 4, but as a baseline all of the MCU movies are fun. It does have one stand out character to me, Karun, and several that had a lot of potential to be (/will be?) good with more development. They all needed more focus and screen time, but Phastos and Gilgamesh also had a lot of potential.

 

[Argyle King]

I thing Eternals was a pretty good sci-fi film.

I can see potential for it to tie into the rest of the MCU in interesting ways, but that depends upon which way the writing goes with certain things.

 

[Thomas Shey]

@pukunui , Eternals panning is a bit much. It's one of the weaker movies of Phase 4, but as a baseline all of the MCU movies are fun. It does have one stand out character to me, Karun, and several that had a lot of potential to be (/will be?) good with more development. They all needed more focus and screen time, but Phastos and Gilgamesh also had a lot of potential.

Yeah, the biggest problem is we're just not given enough time with any one of them because, well, there just isn't enough time.

 

[RuinousPowers]

There hasn't been a powerhouse actor like RDJr in any of the new stuff. All the heroes feel like the B list. I just don't care about them. They don't seem interesting, and neither do their villains. It certainly isn't helped by the Disney+ formula of "2.5 good hours stretched out to 6".

 

[Older Beholder]

There hasn't been a powerhouse actor like RDJr in any of the new stuff. All the heroes feel like the B list. I just don't care about them. They don't seem interesting, and neither do their villains. It certainly isn't helped by the Disney+ formula of "2.5 good hours stretched out to 6".

There are plenty of actors as good as Robert Downey Jr in phase 4
Black Widow alone has Scarlett Johansson, Rachel Weisz and Florence Pugh
Not to mention Oscar Isaac’s performance in MoonKnight being a tour de force.

As for B list heroes, I think they’re well beyond that. They started with their B-list after selling off A list characters Spider-Man and The X-Men.

This has been a big part of the appeal for me at least, new characters. I only really started going to see Marvel films with Guardians of the Galaxy, as it was something I hadn’t heard of before. Maybe this has helped hold off the superhero fatigue, although I get why people get burnt out on it.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Black Widow alone has Scarlett Johansson, Rachel Weisz and Florence Pugh

David Harbour is pretty good too. But the villains? They were so forgettable I can't even remember who played them.

But the big problem was that MCU had already done a much better espionage movie in The Winter Soldier (several Mission Impossible movies have done it better too). Which is the general problem: they have used up all the good ideas, and every movie has the same third act: there is a big fight with lots of explosions.

Not to mention Oscar Isaac’s performance in MoonKnight being a tour de force.

Certainly one worthy of the Dick Van Dyke award.

 

[Zardnaar]

MCU has maybe 5 or 6 good movies and most are average to above average.

There's no outright terrible ones.

They've become formulaic and predictable though. Several shows behind watch the first 3 and lost track.

Didn't mind eternals fine popcorn movie.

 

[Mezuka]

I've lost the interest in paying full price for MCU. I wait for the movie to be 'free' on Disney+.

I'm starting to question if D+ is of any value, on a year round basis. Probably better to wait and binge watch several series during the three worst winter months.

 

[Staffan]

Hooking a power source to an infinity stone and causing it to discharge powers seems like it would be something that advanced technology could duplicate after it was seen to work.

I mean, Strucker was doing it to the Maximoffs as well, and it was implied that they went through a lot of candidates before they found any where it worked (and Wandavision implies it's because Wanda had her witchiness before, and the Mind Stone just boosted it).

 

[Stalker0]

There's no outright terrible ones.

Thor 2 is a pretty darn bad movie