What do you think of the post-Endgame Marvel movies? [[the mega poll!]]

[S'mon]

I thought Black Widow was really bad, after the first half hour. I'm surprised the reaction seems mostly positive. It cured me of my phase of going to see every Marvel film, now I wait for the reviews. Liked No Way Home a lot.

 

[Ryujin]

The post-"End Game" stuff has been mostly good, but I would say not as good as what came before. Perhaps it's legitimately so and perhaps it's just overload speaking. I really wanted to like "The Eternals", but just couldn't.

 

[wicked cool]

Thor was probably the only 1 I would rate as really bad. Other than Spider-Man and portions of dr strange these movies were just not very good. Signs of a bad movie are I don’t take the time to stay on the channel to rewatch parts and I will do that for lots of movies . I have t seen antman but I’m going with trusted sources that’s it’s a mess so I will watch on plus but you’re not getting me in a theater. Too gun honestly has been the only movie in last 2 years that I was glad I saw in theater

 

[DorkForge]

I've not seen all of them, I've overall enjoyed them but have some heavy criticisms. Love and Thunder and Multiverse of Madness were too much their directors movies, not marvel movies. Doctor Strange got progressively more a Raimi movie, to the point where the last act was just 80s nonsense that was completely out of place in a modern MCU movie (up until that point the horror bend was nice). Love and Thunder was too much an over the top joke, Thor has always had integrated humour, but it felt like they gave Taiko way may leeway and it went poorly.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

It had its moments, but I think I'm largely fatigued on the formula. I'd say the same for Black Widow--the humour between the two leads was great, but the rest wasn't. Maybe it is just the CGI battle endings?

I don't really believe in "Superhero fatigue"... but I absolutely believe that we could get fatigued by the formula they are using. (They don't NEED to adhere to the formula, they just do because it's safe).

And they've really got to cut it out with the boring CG slugfest at the end. That's the worst part of the formula, IMO.

 

[Mercurius]

I've only seen two of them, one "meh" and one "bad." I haven't seen any of the others because, well, the thrill is gone.

Marvel has a problem. Their tried and true formula has run stale. IMO, they need to get back to roots: that is: STORY AND CHARACTER first, effects and gimmicks second. Meaning, the problem of over reliance on CGI set pieces that lots of folks have talked about.

I do look forward to seeing how they do Fantastic Four, especially if they include my all-time favorite comic hero the Silver Surfer, and also how they bring forth mutants - so pretty much, I'm waiting for Phase Six and 2025. But I've lost all interest in everything else -- as I said, I have only seen two of the last eight films and only Moon Knight among the series, and found that blandly disappointing (despite loving Oscar Isaac and reading MK as a kid).

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I have enjoyed watching them all and don't think any of the MCU movies are bad, especially when compared to the streaming pile that is the DC movies. Even too much Taika/Korg could not ruin Love and Thunder for me, but he came close.

 

[MGibster]

The only ones I haven't liked were Thor Love and Thunder and the Eternals. How you could make a movie with the most beautiful woman in the world, Salma Hayek, and be dull is amazing to me. But the movies are getting a bit forumlaic and I don't bother seeing them in the theaters any more. I still haven't seen Wakanda Forever or the new Antman and Wasp. I havne't seen Wakanda Forever because I don't know if I want to without Chadwick Boseman.

 

[ART!]

Looking at the list, Black Widow is starting to look like the best of this bunch to me. I liked or really liked aspects of all the others, but despite some stuff toward the end and payoff that didn't quite work for me, BW is pretty solid.

Shang-Chi would be a close second. I kind of dislike that Shang-Chi has overt super-powers now with special effects and everything (and their utility seems too much like Thor's hammer for my liking), and after the great hand-to-hand fights earlier in the film I don't like that the whole thing becomes a big cgi fight at the end.

Over all, No Way Home was really fun in the theater, despite some story clunkiness.

MoM made a lot of odd story choices, but I really like Elizabeth Olsen's work as Wanda, and I love funky multidimensional stuff.

Eternals was disappointing, but I'm looking forward to watching it again, maybe is half-hour chunks or something.

I really like Thor: Ragnarok, so Love and Thunder seemed really promising, but it was very disappointing. It feels like a good movie and a bad movie had a child.

I was really looking forward to Quantumania, because the Ant-Man films are some of my favorite MCU stuff, but I feel like I was mislead by the trailers and the whole thing feels unfocused.

 

[Bagpuss]

They need to do something about the Spider Man titles. Far From Home and No Way Home?

I honestly couldn't remember which one was which. I liked the one with Andrew Garfield.

Really?

Far from Home was clearly the one where they are aboard, I mean it is clear from the title.

No Way Home - Again as he is outed so can't go home (calls on Dr Strange).

Makes perfect sense.