I love his campy directing style. I know that a lot of people got "Taika-d" out, but directors with unique style are what the MCU needs. When all of the movies look and feel the same, the burnout happens. Have your tent poles with Avengers and Infinity War, but let the other films be a little off the beaten path so we get a breather.
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Taika was fun until success got to his head and he kept dialing it up instead of letting the ridiculousness just exist.
When Taika added the goats to "prank" Gunn, you might have to much power.
The goats were the best part of the movie
I don't even remember any goats in Guardians 3
I know that a lot of people got “Taika-d” out, but directors with unique style are what the MCU needs.
Thor: Ragnarok was great. The problem was them going "more of the same please". They'll just milk the cow to death if they could rather than learn the actual lesson - they should be letting directors with talent and vision loose in their toy box.
Then, if they must (and they must), build the franchise on the side, don't make it the main reason to greenlight the film.
I'm tired of 3 hours of explosions. I want Wes Anderson's Fantastic 4 or Darren Aronofsky doing a Daredevil movie.
Wes Anderson Sinister Six movie would be sick idk but I see it.
I don't mind his style but let's not act like it did any favors for DS2
Good news, if true. I enjoyed DS2 even if it got a bit messy in the collision with Wandavision (best of that Phase). Giving him a clear run at DS3 should really help give him the best opportunity to deliver as good a film as he can.
Agreed. Sam Raimi is perhaps the most consistently good comic book film director. He just gets the campy tone.
Also that Bruce Campbell cameo was 🤌
Also that Bruce Campbell cameo was 🤌
They all are.
For sure. I just love how great he is at the possessed hand bit.
Should have won an Oscar just for that.
Right? Maybe make up for Evil Dead 2's lack of acknowlegement
Who is he gonna go up against? Team up with Shang chi against fing fang foom, Mordo or Mephisto
Just as I thought I was out... They pulled me back in with Doctor Strange 3
Seriously, while MoM wasn't as great, the original Strange was one of my favourite Marvel movies.
The scene where he wrecks his sports car was awesome
Does anyone actually watch MCU movies anymore...?
Honest question, I saw every film from mid phase 1 to Endgame, in theaters.
Then came Disney Plus, Loki was great, Wanda vision was different, and the rest range from forgettable, to complete garbage.
I would rewatch Agents or SHIELD, and any Netflix Marvel show (sans Iron Fist), a dozen times each, before I ever paid for another MCU movie.
Before you dismiss me of some hater, I used really enjoy the MCU. I even tried to watch Agatha, and gave it like 2 1/2 episodes before I couldn't take it anymore, it's bad.
These aren't director movies, their producer and studio movies. There's only so much turd a talented director can polish up, and all of these movies are gigantic stinking studio turds.
Does anyone actually watch MCU movies anymore…?
Deadpool & Wolverine grossed 1.3 billion in the theatres.
And you really think that Deadpool's performance has reversed the fortunes of the MCU….?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think audiences have forgotten that the Deadpool franchise that was made successful outside of MCU, much less X-Men.
Point is, call me skeptical that that the enthusiasm for that one off event, will be carried over into the next MCU turd they plop into theaters.
The Marvels grossed 206.1 million. Guardians 3 grossed 845.6 million. Quantumania grossed 476.1 million.
I'm not trying to convince you to like them boss, I'm just answering your question of "Does anyone actually watch MCU movies anymore...?" which is a resounding: Yes, they do.
I wasn't really sold on the MCU from the beginning, as I wasn't a fan of the Iron Man comics. I saw it anyway, at the behest of a good friend (who actually did like the comics) and I was blown away. After that, if a Marvel movie came out, I went and saw it, whether or not I cared for (or even knew) the source material. This got me to some great experiences I would have never imagined liking, ie: Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man.
But for me I started looking a bit more critically after the release of Iron Man 3. I thought it sucked, so I realized then that although the MCU has a disproportionate number of real winners, it can still have losers, it's not a given. So I would wait to see what public opinion was before I'd spend money to see it in a theater. I still saw a lot of them in the theater. Most of them. Right up until Avengers Age of Ultron. I hated that movie so much that I've never seen another Marvel movie in a theater since. I've seen most of them after their theatrical run, streaming - some have been quite good, most have not.
So yeah. Big fan of the comics when I was a kid. Reluctant fan of the MCU turned enthusiastic - then turned reluctant again. I still haven't seen Deadpool and Wolverine yet, but it's on the agenda.
Does anyone actually watch MCU movies anymore…?
Plenty or the wheels would come off such expensive productions (they have lost a chunk of change from a few recent films but, overall, aren't suffering). Personally, I'll go and see every one in the cinema - I've liked a lot, disliked a few (The Marvels gets a lot of hate but I rather enjoyed it, which can't be said for the most recent Ant-Man and Black Panther films).
You know they have canceled the majority of the Disney Plus shows they had in the pipeline, and in production, right..? The wheels came off, a year ago.
This article takes a rosier view by not listing all the shows they canceled or permanently delayed, like Iron Heart, but you can find a complete list if you're so inclined to search for a few minutes.
~~It was posted here a couple of days ago.~~
Edit: different issue (that one is from a few months ago). The cancellations and delays are the right move - as I've said many times on here, they were generating content not actual producing quality films and TV shows (if some of them were good it was almost by accident) and the same applies to Star Ward too (which has been badly managed) - no-one was curious about what Kenobi did between then PT and OT, they just spotted an opportunity to bung out a few hours of TV.
Moon Knight is amazing. Hawkeye and She-Hulk are good.