It's a bit different watching 5 movies in a series before the 6th compared to watching 40 movies plus multiple tv shows that all have different titles and that need a guide on how to watch in order.
yes it’s a bit different because one is way longer but that doesn’t make it any less stupid to jump into a story a long way into the story and complain you don’t know what’s going on, if anything it makes it look like even more of a stupid criticism
I kinda agree with you but I also don’t. Marvel has made their cinematic universe more inaccessible to new comers than most of the comic books the stories are based on. When it was just movies it was okay. Now that they’re pumping out two or three shows a year, it’s getting to be an overwhelming amount of content. Since Endgame, I can definitely say I haven’t been super well caught up on my Marvel movies just because they’ve made so much in such a short amount of time. I think they need to soft reboot the universe with their new heroes and stop throwing in “Remember this minor character from that one movie in 2008 before much of our target audience was even born? He’s still here.”
Idk lack of story continuity is how you get a DC film and look how those go. I kinda like the “world” of Marvel and how everyone is interconnected in some fashion.
It’s fine to do it for a while but eventually you start barring entry to the universe. The MCU feels like it’s becoming Days of Our Lives with how much content is being pushed out so quickly. There’s a happy medium.
People keep harping on about how great the MCU interconnectivity is but the majority of MCU movies are absolutely trash (poorly written scripts, shoddy acting bc the actors don't fully know what's going on, overuse of CGI).
People talk shit about DC but their directors/writers/studio doesn't half-ass shit nearly as much as MCU does (just look at the behind the scenes videos where they actually communicate with their actors, use practical effects and shoot in real locations).
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u/FascinatedOrangutan Mar 10 '23
It's a bit different watching 5 movies in a series before the 6th compared to watching 40 movies plus multiple tv shows that all have different titles and that need a guide on how to watch in order.