Mentions (7)
"Apparently the new Antman is their biggest flop ever. Lost 70% from its opening weekend box office. Will apparently lose money. Every movie they've released since 2020 has been critically & comercially underwhelming outside of like Spider-Man and the Elizabeth Olsen Disney streaming show."
"I've watched some of the newer MCU slop at my friends' request whenever they come out, including the big 'spectacle' Avengers movies. And they're always so lifeless and dismal. A mixture of nobodies and A-list superstars delivering totally flat, wooden deliveries all to string along a list of yearly"
"It seems like every action movie out there right now (and more than a few TV shows) wants to be the kickstarter of a new MCU and dear god does it show. And not just sequel hooks, I don't mind those. It's all just call-backs, call-forwards, cameos, references to references, and so on. Even works that"
"Maybe this is limited to American pop culture but clearly the post 2008 period of MCU/Taylor Swift is going to age poorly in my view. They will have the numbers but legacy wise people are going to be lost at the popularity... As for the MCU well outside the Downey films there basically glorified tel"
"And MCU is not so much an affirmation of a particular type of taste so much as it is a natural capitalist reaction to an increasingly brain-fucked consumer market"
"i like mcu movies. theyre really well done and creative. translating comic books to live action is really difficult and marvel movies are a really cool technical achievement. there are way too many of them and i havent watched one in a while because they are stale but i still think theyre pretty gre"
"Disney cycles back into a corporate down period, similar to the 1970s-80s and early-mid 2000s. Perhaps overextended by enveloping 21st Century Fox and suffering from a less-popular MCU."