Forget psychokinesis or X-ray vision – here’s a superpower that would come in pretty useful these days: being able to instantly distinguish the decent superhero entertainment franchises from the enormous morass of dross we’ve been promised in the years to come.
Because while the last 15 years has proved a real golden age for comic fans, recent announcements – Legion! Hellfire! Krypton! New Mutants! Venom! – have had our Spidey scepticism senses tingling. Can we even summon the strength to care?
And yet eagle-eyed readers will have noticed a pattern to the above list: there’s not a Marvel Studios entry on it. But why? What is it that gets us excited about Marvel’s grand movie schedule when all we can do is raise a tired eyebrow for Sony’s female-led Spider-Man spinoff? Read on and find out…
Why Marvel is Hollywood’s only reliable superhero studio
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So far, the only movie that’s actually great is The Winter Soldier. Everything else is a jokefest. Seriously…
Oh and let’s not talk about the way they use their villains.
Ultron became a joke, Ronan got distracted by a dance-off, Yellowjacket was mad because he didn’t get what he wanted. It’s all about Loki and eventually Thanos.-
Whats so bad about jokes?
The dance off was so hilarious and i didnt saw that one coming, okay ultron was messed up but still i think they do a good job.-
imminent danger and the fact they straight up murder people and laugh it off. I get MCU (minus Netflix series) there isn’t much of a blur between good and evil, so its easy to just laugh when a faceless bad guys gets thrown around by hulk or electrocuted by Thor, but shouldn’t the good guys at least a little more hesitant at taking lives?
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Laughter! What a joke
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Yeah marvel pushes out movies that have undeveloped villains and very predictable plots. The constant jokes actually take away my enjoyment. Everyone rips on man of steel but look at iron man 2 and iron man 3. Joss obviously cracked when developing AOU and we all could tell. To the uninitiated marvel films are great and that’s cool they gross so much but don’t get it twisted they aren’t producing the best movies.
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That’s because they only make superhero movies, unlike WB which has put out big movies such as TLOTR, Matrix trilogy, Inception, etc. FOX with Avatar, Aliens, Planet of the Apes, Titanic, etc. And some people have the nerve to say they should learn from Marvel Studios… the point is, those big studios CAN make those flavor-of-the-week movies, but they got a reputation to uphold. Movies also need quality.
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And yet their mediocre products make them a ton of money which, in the end, is what really matters to studios (Warner, Disney, Sony, Fox, etc). So they definitely are doing something right.
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Depends on what you are going for. I prefer quality over quantity, any day. Transformers made a lot of money. Doesn’t mean they are great. Marvel movies are just Transformer movies with superheroes instead of robots.
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And if Transformers makes a lot of money is because they are doing something right. Not saying the movies are good, just saying they are managing to attract people to the theaters to see those movies. From a studio viewpoint, those movies are successful, and there’s no way they’re going to stop making them until they have sucked the franchise dry.
And please, Marvel movies are not Transformers movies with superheroes. I have yet to see any movie from Marvel that has such a bad plot, incoherence and bad acting like those Michael Bay movies have. Well, maybe Thor 2.
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Well, you can argue we allow these studios to get lazy. Once they find a system that works, you can be sure they will abuse for as long as we keep buying. Though if they’re expecting me to sit through at least 2 movies a year, it would be nice if they’d change the formula a little more.
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yeah, not unlike michael bay and his transformers movies
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So basically what is to be gained from this article:
1. Bias
2. Feige payed you
3. You’ve been reading lots of Anthony Mackie interviews lately.
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Disney/Marvel is ‘reliable’ in the same way that McDonald’s is.
Whether or not you think this is a sign of quality or a sign of mediocrity is really a matter of personal taste. It’s certainly a decent business model.
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Nice to see you took my analogy and ran with it.
Marvel Studios is the “fast food” equivalent of the film industry.
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It’s reliable, it’s clean, it’s always available, your kids will love the plastic toys that come with it, and it will just leave you feeling vaguely nauseous and hungry for something more substantial.
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Reliable in terms of a financial return? Sure.
Reliable in terms of delivering kid friendly and at best “good” movies? Yes.
Reliable in terms of taking chances to further what comic-based movies can be? Not that we’ve seen.It’s up to the viewer. I started off loving how the MCU was forming but anymore I’ve gotten tired of their movies. I’ll own Age of Ultron if I receive it as a gift and I’m only planning on renting Ant-Man.
I didn’t read the full article but I like that other studios are taking chances with the genre. The DCEU has me more excited than anything else.
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MOS in my opinion is better than any MCU movie and I’m happy to take on any negative criticism about the film. If you actually think and talk through what we got from it, and how it sets the stage for the DCEU, I argue that its nothing short of a masterpiece.
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this is the most biased article i have ever read. did marvel paid you SHH to redirect us to that crap?
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I couldn’t say that better.
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Can`t Wai`t “Split Avengers”(Russian title Civil war LOL, worst naME EVER:D and
Two season Daredevil.
BvS DoJ, Suicide Squad, Deadpool and X-men Ivan Oze :DNot Can`t Wai`t- Dr Camberbach, Gundian of Shitalaxy 2, Tor Shitarek, Kidy-man reboot- this is movies Kidy crapfest.
