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[Marvel] There Is No Getting Back On This Ride (aftermath.site)
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Because I work in a nerd-adjacent field, I've been asked a lot over the last few weeks whether I was going to go and see Thunderbolts, and every time I'm asked I give the same answer: lol absolutely not.

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Here is my reason for not being interest after endgame:

It was called infinity war, with infinity stones that let you do anything. Given that it was executed well, there really isn’t anywhere else you can go from there.

I thought they were gonna change their pace and maybe take some artistic risks.

Nope, multiverse now, making things far less consequential (ironic cause they used time travel but without changing the past being an option).

I disagree with the author though, you can still enjoy good films as standalone if they truly are good films. Guardians 3 was spot on.

[–] Ankkuli@lemdro.id 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I’d say Wandavision and Werewolf by Night were artistic risks if you missed them.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Wandavision was pretty fresh in the beginning and made me think that Disney understood their limitation, then they ruined it.

I really liked Loki though

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A very good rundown. I feel the same way. The infinity saga was ana amazing triumph, where ever movie made you want to know the next step, hoping for a cameo, following details. And then it ended triumphantly.

And it should have stayed ended. It was over. We had closure. But money says why would they pause? Why would they even take just a few years break to let people enjoy it for a second? Hell no, 2 months later the next continuation starts. And the next, and now we have to watch the TV shows, and we have to watch the next one.

Author was spot on. The excitement was over, so it's now a chore to follow along.

[–] philophilsaurus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think there was room to continue other characters’ stories. However I don’t think they left it quite long enough for everyone to really miss it. Then the quality and quantity of what they were putting out quickly proved they weren’t up to the task.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 points 1 day ago

Exactly that. It's not that we didn't want more, but it just all happened so suddenly that we didn't really get a chance to just absorb the end of infinity war either. It was just immediately into the next thing

[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

It made big money. Just like everything with capitalism, it needs endless growth. Once it hit those big heights of earnings, Disney couldn’t help but to cannibalize its own product to attempt to grow the profits. Investor capitalism always leads to enshitification eventually.

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I don't even know what the movie is about. I've seen an ad for it a few times. It didn't give much of an indicator of the plot. I remember it saying something to the effect of "it's the best Marvel movie since Endgame" and showed a high Rotten Tomatoes score. Which all felt to me like them saying "this one is good, promise!". It left me with an overall poor impression.

All that said, I'll likely still watch it. I still generally enjoy them.