I’ll be interested to watch the series, but I’m not convinced the decline in MCU quality was because Kevin Feige had less direct control. The movies that put the MCU in its current position - especially “Thor: Love and Thunder,” “The Eternals,” and “The Marvels” - were ones Bob Iger approved during his first tenure, and that Feige was presumably on board with. And the roots of the MCU’s current problems - its over-reliance on humor, its embrace of “current year” political cliches, and its attempt to replace the original Avengers with unpopular legacy characters from the comics - go back even further than that.
I think you make some valid points here, but there’s a lot more to it. Each of those movies looked very different in their initial stages. A lot of the character replacement was to meet new DEI requirements at the studio as well.
i’m hyped for this new series y’all are working on 🙌. lmk what ya think abt this and feel free to address in the series: i personally hold a special place in my heart for “The Avengers” (2012). at the same time, my fav ensemble “Avengers” project has to be “Infinity War.” “Endgame” was alright and “Age of Ultron” was honestly my least fav and the most forgettable. ofc everyone will have a different ranking system for these ensemble films but i have a feeling that the leading creative decision makers of this franchise have often been quick to change course based on how these flagstaff projects perform at the box office. have y’all also observed that to be the case or is it a bit more complicated than that?
Every Avengers movie- because each has outgrossed the next- has allowed the company/Kevin Feige to take more and more risks. The Avengers (2012) allowed them to make Guardians of the Galaxy, still probably one of the riskiest bets they ever made. Age of Ultron (2015), despite middling reviews, still gave them the confidence to go ahead with Doctor Strange and Civil War. This culminated with the greenlighting of Eternals, Marvel's first "arthouse" film that ultimately was overhauled due to nervous Disney execs wanting more action sequences.
After Endgame, I knew that the MCU wouldn't maintain the quality level of Phase 3, so I wasn't really disappointed when the movies became more inconsistent. I think it was unreasonable and even unfair to expect that to keep going on indefinitely. I'm still into the MCU and I am looking forward to Doomsday very much.
In my (uninformed) opinion, I thought they took on too much with all those Disney+ shows and their resources were stretched too thin. Will you be exploring that in any way?
I much prefer text but since you mentioned your video essayist friend, I wanted to ask. I didn't know who Bob Chapek was so I didn't make the connection. I will eagerly await this series!
I’ll be interested to watch the series, but I’m not convinced the decline in MCU quality was because Kevin Feige had less direct control. The movies that put the MCU in its current position - especially “Thor: Love and Thunder,” “The Eternals,” and “The Marvels” - were ones Bob Iger approved during his first tenure, and that Feige was presumably on board with. And the roots of the MCU’s current problems - its over-reliance on humor, its embrace of “current year” political cliches, and its attempt to replace the original Avengers with unpopular legacy characters from the comics - go back even further than that.
I think you make some valid points here, but there’s a lot more to it. Each of those movies looked very different in their initial stages. A lot of the character replacement was to meet new DEI requirements at the studio as well.
i’m hyped for this new series y’all are working on 🙌. lmk what ya think abt this and feel free to address in the series: i personally hold a special place in my heart for “The Avengers” (2012). at the same time, my fav ensemble “Avengers” project has to be “Infinity War.” “Endgame” was alright and “Age of Ultron” was honestly my least fav and the most forgettable. ofc everyone will have a different ranking system for these ensemble films but i have a feeling that the leading creative decision makers of this franchise have often been quick to change course based on how these flagstaff projects perform at the box office. have y’all also observed that to be the case or is it a bit more complicated than that?
Every Avengers movie- because each has outgrossed the next- has allowed the company/Kevin Feige to take more and more risks. The Avengers (2012) allowed them to make Guardians of the Galaxy, still probably one of the riskiest bets they ever made. Age of Ultron (2015), despite middling reviews, still gave them the confidence to go ahead with Doctor Strange and Civil War. This culminated with the greenlighting of Eternals, Marvel's first "arthouse" film that ultimately was overhauled due to nervous Disney execs wanting more action sequences.
Will this series be text, audio, or video?
After Endgame, I knew that the MCU wouldn't maintain the quality level of Phase 3, so I wasn't really disappointed when the movies became more inconsistent. I think it was unreasonable and even unfair to expect that to keep going on indefinitely. I'm still into the MCU and I am looking forward to Doomsday very much.
In my (uninformed) opinion, I thought they took on too much with all those Disney+ shows and their resources were stretched too thin. Will you be exploring that in any way?
Mainly text but you never know...
And yes, we will definitely be exploring the ramifications of Disney+! (Hence why I included that picture of Bob Chapek).
I much prefer text but since you mentioned your video essayist friend, I wanted to ask. I didn't know who Bob Chapek was so I didn't make the connection. I will eagerly await this series!
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Very excited for this!