Now that the Avengers series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. Each episode following the squad of superheroes from the Marvel universe as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the bland imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects—all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.
The Russo Brothers are credited as director of the final four CapMerica features, but their work has been as poor as what Jon Favreau began and even Ryan Coogler’s, whose steadicam made no difference (how can you make "black" blacker?). The Russos' are what’s known as a shooter. They get it in the camera, but they provide no style or feeling. They have competence but no talent; their inability to inflect this story with the slightest idiosyncrasy exposes the enterprise as sheer commercial hackwork—although of a high budgetary order.
The precedent was already set by J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter debacle—unintelligible fantasy epics that people went to out of consumerist habit and left unable to recount or fondly recall. J.K.’s fantasy overload laid the groundwork for mistaking marketing hype for content. It doesn’t help that audiences are so accustomed to TV banality that they no longer watch or read movies visually; they simply follow dialogue and extol the CGI.
Perhaps the die was cast when Feige vetoed the idea of Edgar Wright directing Ant-Man; he made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody—just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for their comic brand. (Sadly, DCEU’s producers seem to be following this model.) The Marvel Cinematic Universe might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.
So the MCU is duller than Distinguished Competition, Transdisorders, Jurassic Fart and Harry Shitter? Don't make me laugh OP
Adrian Hall
All have infinitely more personality than any Marvelshit No. 472
Jayden Brown
You're a shill if you think MCU isn't bland and unimaginative trite.
Jace Campbell
So liking something means you're a shill now. If there's better shit out there, why is it not the top dog instead?
Logan Brooks
Because Disney pays the most money for exposure (i.e. shilling)
Gabriel Torres
Yeah, we get it, it’s popular so that means you can’t like it, that’s cool, but maybe post this on your blog instead of here.
Julian Butler
>Feige vetoed the idea of Edgar Wright directing Ant-Ma
I know this is pasta, but Wright wasn’t vetoed.
Angel James
Disney made Star Wars go beloved to shitted on in 2 movies, MCU is 22 in and the MCU train just gets fast and faster, because of Feige, Russos and the cast and stuff. MCU is the only Disney property that deserves the praise
>Star Wars go beloved to shitted on in 2 movies Like Episode 9 isn't gonna make a billion anyways no matter what.
Andrew King
Such a contrarian, If something’s popular, you HAVE to dislike it
Dominic Jones
"No!"
Camden Ortiz
No, it's popular AND it's shit.
Isaac Murphy
The Counter Culture is so cool and is misunderstood tho! That’s why Brian Griffin is the best character, he knows that stuff that’s popular is actually sucky
Jaxson Williams
>Brian Griffin is the best character picrelated is.
Why would a board that likes comic books allow such bastardization of the source material?
Ian Morgan
Comic books bastardize themselves
Juan Richardson
Fucking this. With all the revamps, relaunchs, retcons and reboots, how can anyone who read Marvel/DC comics complain about people not getting it right in some other medium.
Lincoln Hughes
The MCU is far better than the vast majority of comic books of any era
William Ortiz
Shazam has a lot of heart and what could become a really good mythos
Jace Howard
Shazam bombed even Grace Randolph a massive DC fan who was fired from Marvel comics said today in her latest video, and that they'll keep Shazam as a streaming service instead
>Less than what the First Avenger made 8 years ago That's bombing in capeshit metrics.
Ethan Jones
It hasn't even finished it's theatrical run yet.
Jayden Ramirez
It is just gonna break even, but breaking even is considered a bomb. They considered JL a bomb and shifted the whole studio because of that movie and JL made way more than Shazam
Jeremiah Nelson
JL was already shifting itself during production by getting Joss Whedon to write more epic comedy scenes.
Joseph Cox
JL cost way the fuck more than shazam.
Cameron Ortiz
Sniderfag detected. It would have been just as bad as originally written, maybe worse.
Andrew Green
Made it few more like the JL/U cartoon to be honest, which is a vast improvement from the tone that BvS set.
Henry Evans
Not saying it would've been good, but it would've at least been more focused. Adding Whedon just made everything messier and inconsistent.
Charles Reyes
Can I take a second to bitch about how uptight people are about Endgame spoilers? I can understand if it's legitimate hints, but when you're knowingly joking about spoilers since it's basically a meme at this point, and still get fucking reeeee'd at... it's just a movie jfc. Normies can't take any fun I guess.
Thomas Peterson
Too bad it couldn't actually be the justice league, because man of steel and BVS already made the two most important characters into sociopathic autists.
