It's not great by any means but it's an improvement.Īnd yes I do get some satisfaction in seeing garbage do badly. There are some indications in the box office this year. I also think the fewer of these franchise films audiences see increases the likelihood they see other things, if they have a limited budget. The reason the theatres accept those terms is because these films do well so without them their bottom line is impacted. Is there any practical solutions you think would actually address the issue or is it just cheering failure because you think it would lead to such an outcome? So this still put others at a disadvantage in the traditional movie markets. They just keep churning out more movies until they make more money. The biggest problem is as you say, a few big companies dominating and abusing that position to force studios to only play their movies, so on and so forth, but a lower box office taking isn't going to resolve that core issue. Instead, I will continue to see films that actually have a creative vision, like Anatomy of a Fall as I did last weekend. It's not like Disney actually cares about diverse voices. I can't say the downside of that is greater than the upside of these films not doing well. Yeah, some collateral damage will be had and chuds will claim this failed because it starred women. Why would I want Disney to succeed when they force theatres to overbook their films at the detriment to other smaller films? I was glad to see Quantumania do badly. What has Marvel shown? That it makes soulless corporate garbage, why would this be any different?īecause Disney's attempts at dominating the film industry and driving out other voices is a cancer on it, so yes I'm glad to see when their films are finally failing. The other factor is looking at company and people involved. What other people think? What a surprise, this method actually is somewhat effective. Presumably you don't see every film being made, right? So how do you decide what to see? What the film is about? Not a good method usually. Really I think thats whats been patchy in the MCU post End Game, I think some of the shows(Loki and Moon Knight espeically) have had some effective drama to them but a lot of the films just feel overstuffed to me falling back to generic "blockbuster drama" which is something the MCU at its best was able to do better than.Īntman 3, Shang Chi, Strange 2 and Love And Thunder all follow that pattern for me, not bad films but not films that go the extra mile to make the characters interesting, my guess is The Marvels will be added to that list if/when I watch it. Indeed I actually think keeping Thanos back and just having the Infinity Stones driving the plots probably ended up being a good thing as it helped keep the lead characters drama front and centre. Thanos actually had VERY little to do with the MCU before Infinity War, side villian in the first Guardians film was pretty much it. It can be saved if they redo somethings and maybe X-men is good, but right now its in a rut and will continue to spin tires till some direction that grabs peoples attention back comes. They needed to go BIGGGG after Thanos with someone comparable ie Doom, Galactus and they went with things that can be very obscure / confusing to all but the people who devour the comics. Add a dilution of more so-so content and you get the current result. The bottom line they chose the wrong villain and to go down the path of multiverse and overall direction. No Way home was a better movie (casting aside) than anything Marvels done in awhile.
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