Maybe the time is right for Marvel to do a flick with the Squadron Supreme. 
Dazzler apparently shows up in the upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix.
I liked Logan, but not because it was a “more mature theme” but because it was a smaller story, rather than the typical superhero movie in which the greater part of a large city is destroyed in the climactic battle. Those movies rarely talk about the impact of those battles on the civilians, who are presumably dead, injured or at least traumatized by the destruction.
Am I alone in thinking that the Dr Strange movie generally sucked?
I mean, that’s basically the plot of Civil War. Technically it was the driving force behind BvS, but not that well handled.
I think Marvel is start to go more towards stories that are either A) Small-scale or B) Have a lasting impact.
Spider-man was pretty small scare. Thor: Ragnarok ends with
The destruction of Asgard
They’ve already stated that Avengers 3 and 4 will pretty heavily alter the landscape of the MCU.
I thought it was… okay. In a vacuum I think it’s good, but it was basically Iron Man with Magic. I would rather watch Iron Man.
I think most people, including me, think it’s okay, average.
I don’t really see any way of introducing X-Men into the MCU without them going to alternate universes. Fortunately (?) traveling between alternate universes is something they do sometimes.
I have to admit that I have been dreading sitting through yet another spiderman origin story, and I found the fifteen second spiderman origin recap to be much more palatable.
I thought it was alright, but I have a few friends who think it was one of the best of the MCU movies.
The comic books have fifty years of history to mine for ideas. They won’t run out of new characters and epic plotlines to introduce in the movies for quite a while.
It was pretty good for an origin story, and featured an ending that subverted the trope of superpowered entities essentially punching each other into submission. (“Dormammu, I’m here to bargain!”) Cumberbunch is basically perfect casting for an entitled, arrogant, yet highly competent character, and it made very effective use of what is often an excess of computer-generated imagery with the dynamic geometry of the Mirror Dimension, as well as setting up a future conflict between sorcerers based upon the moral ambiguity of access to such world-altering power (Mordo’s post-credits scene and comment about how the problem being that there are “…too many scorcerers.”) My biggest complaint is their misuse of Rachel Adams in an almost negligible role, which is the same comment I have about Judy Greer in Ant-Man. Hopefully both actresses get more screen time in their respective sequals and are called upon to do more than just nag the protagonist into taking action.
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That’s true, except I expect at some point audience enthusiasm for these movies will cool. I think there are several Marvel movies each year, plus a couple of DC movies, and of course multiple TV shows on broadcast and streaming services.
They’ve done a fairly decent job keeping the plotlines fresh. If they start just going back and doing the same thing over and over again (star wars), then things may get old quickly.
It’s not just a matter of the plotlines; perhaps at some point people tire of seeing FX-driven blockbuster films.
Maybe, but that prediction has been made over and over again and so far it’s shown not be slowing down.
The various television and streaming properties have been recieved with varying degrees of critical and popular approval (from the nearly-universally liked first series of Daredevel and Jessica Jones to the widely abhorred Inhumans and Iron Fist) but the films have pretty consistently been ranked as much better than average with the exceptions of The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2 (which was really the first film to set up for the wider frame of the now-spawning MCU, but wasn’t very good in and of itself) and the forgettable Thor: The Dark World.
The recent films have just been getting better and better; even Avengers: Age of Ultron, which was not as great as it should have been given who co-wrote and directed it, was stll an eminently-watchable movie with some great character momemts. As I’ve said before, the really smart thing that Marvel Studios is doing with these films is making them more than just superhero films; they all reference and often subvert tropes from other genres which makes them feel distinct and provides much-needed comedy and tension despite the inevitable CGI battle scene between villain and hero(es) at the climax of the film. We know that Dormammu isn’t going to destroy the Earth at the end of Dr. Strange because there are future films on the slate, but it doesn’t detract from the more personal conflict and the humor of Strange learning how to master his powers and integrate into a world that mocks the arrogant self-importance of his previous stature. Kaecilius: How long have you been at Kamar-Taj, Mister…
Dr. Stephen Strange: Doctor!
Kaecilius: Mr. Doctor?
Dr. Stephen Strange: It’s Strange.
Kaecilius: Maybe. Who am I to judge?
Great dialogue, memorable characters, and good screen presence in the heroes and (sometimes) the villians goes a long way to making up for the largely cookie-cutter plots of the films, and Marvel Studios has cultivated an understanding of that. They’ve also invested in the long term, including a program to develop screenwriters to write specifically for their films rather than just hiring whomever is the hot name of the year, and looking for young directing talent who can both hew to the overall scheme of the MCU while injecting their own personal vision into their films. It is a model that Disney and Pixar have done very well with in animation over the years, and that Marvel has applied to “superhero” films.
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No doubt. My point is that audience interest will wander off to some new genre before superhero movies run out of ideas to use. So lack of new ideas won’t be what kills the genre.
People still flock to those J.J. Abrams-produced shitfests, and those movies are basically nothing but FX, excessive lens flares, and gratiutious fan-pandering. He’s now shitting all over the two major science fiction cinematic franchises and still making money despite the critical bashing and inconsistency with prior canon and characterization, so it is clear people will watch pretty much anything as long as it is familiar and comfortable. People will also drink Bud Lite and eat pink sludged pressed into cylinderical shapes if you put mustard and relish on it, so this is hardless surprising. Marvel films are actually good stories with interesting characters rather just a fan-service rehash of the previous films. I will personally watch James Gunn’s vision of a classic space opera universe of vast alien empires and immortal ancient celestial beings fighting it out as long as he keeps writing and directing them, even if it is just a CGI trash panda and The Giving Tree arguing about tape.
I don’t know what to say about the DCEU except that they need to sign Gal Godot to a twelve-picture contract and basically make their strategy along the lines of “Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Some Other Superfriends Who Are Here to Fill Out The Roster”. Maybe they can get Ryan Reynolds to make a cameo as an in-universe foul-mouthed fan who explains why The Green Lantern doesn’t work on film and that they should find a gruff guy with extensible claws to lead their team.
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And even the worst of the Marvel movies have had their good points. I’d call Thor: The Dark World the weakest of the ones I’ve seen (I didn’t see The Incredible Hulk), but even there, the chemistry between Thor and Loki was great.
Yeah, can’t argue with that. It’s one of the reasons that Loki remains a villain at the level of Darth Vader. He’s more than just a foil for the hero’s journey; he’s an actual entity with his own motivations, some good, some bad.
Tom Hiddleston is without a doubt one of the best casting decisions made by Marvel (out of a lot of suprisingly good casting of little-known actors). He was actually recommended and then cast by Kenneth Brannagh based on having done some stage work and the BBC adaptation of “Wallander”, and has turned out to be the most memorable villian/trickster in the MCU, and his switch from murderous villian to reluctant but untrustworthy compatriot in Thor: Ragnarok seemed pretty organic and fodder for incidential comedy.Bruce Banner: [on Loki] I was just talking to him just a couple minutes ago and he was totally ready to kill any of us.
Valkyrie: He did try to kill me.
Thor: Yes, me too. On many, many occasions. There was one time when we were children, he transformed himself into a snake, and he knows that I love snakes. So, I went to pick up the snake to admire it and he transformed back into himself and he was like, “Yeah, it’s me!”. And he stabbed me. We were eight at the time.
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