Thoughts on the MCU event films so far?

Thoughts on the MCU event films so far?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    A1: Pretty lame
    Ultron: Actually pretty good
    Civil War: Awful
    Infinity War: Pretty good
    Endgame: Eh, ok
    No Way Home: Didn't see, i'm checked out of the MCU at this point

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Ultron: Actually pretty good
      nah
      Ultron is an excellent villain and imo of the best renditions of the murderous AI trope in fiction
      Here though he was just plain boring
      Plus I will never forgive them for not having Pym be his creator
      I heard originally Hank and Jan where meant to be part of the original Avengers movie, but they shitcanned them because.... reason?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Ant-Man got axed since his solo film was still in active development, and Wright wanted to keep the character for himself (it was always meant to be Scott tho). Whedon intended to use Wasp only if ScarJo couldn't reprise her role.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    they're pretty good, aside from AOU
    Full Whedon is never a good thing

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    They all got their moments

    Infinity War is the best

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nah civil war is best, that airport scene was epic

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        They literally just stand in a fricking line and charge directly towards one another with no tactics or battle plans

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    There all great, except for AoU, which is ok.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    All are dogshit except for Infinity War which is kino

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >>>>>>>Wrong board

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Infinity War is still tied with The Dark Knight as the greatest superhero films ever made.

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Infinity War is still tied with The Dark Knight as the greatest superhero films ever made.

    Bump

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I hate having to watch 30 movies and several tv shows just to understand everything.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I have no idea how they're gonna do The Kang Dynasty & Secret Wars at this point with all the new characters & plotlines introduced in the Multiverse Saga + all the characters still around from the Infinity Saga + all the multiversal characters from other non-MCU Marvel film series

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        They really did bite off much more than they can chew with the endless stream of Disney+ content
        ngl the MCU would've been far better off if Disney+ didn't exist and it was just movies like the Infinity Saga

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          They had tons of TV shows back when the early MCU was going. The difference being the TV shows existed to supplement the movies, whereas now the movies rely on the Disney+ shows just to have a basic knowledge of what's going on.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I really can't see a scenario where The Marvels succeeds given how it's a sequel to two D+ shows

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              I can't see any way The Marvels doesn't flop HARD

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              *3
              Ms. Marvel, Secret Invasion, WandaVision (all the Monica stuff)

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone like the first Avengers movie the best?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      ye. plot was simple but the character writing was at its best- characters that play well of each other, no bloated cast or action scenes and the whedon humour is tolerable. takes me back to a much better time

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        the Whedon films aren't great but they're the only film where the Avengers actually feel like a team, like a family
        Endgame ig also kinda aside from the final act

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Nothing after Endgame except for GOTG was/is worth it. No Way Home was somewhat enjoyable for its inclusion of legacy characters, but the first third of that movie is pretty boring.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Avengers
    Schlock kino
    Kinda basic, and shot like a TV movie (thanks, Joss), but it's real damn fun. The character work is all great and Loki is an entertaining villain.
    >AoU
    Mediocre crap
    Tries to be bigger than the first one, but gets too obsessed with both sequel set-up and Whedoning all over the place, and falls flat. There's some good scenes here and there, but Ultron being so absolutely fricking wasted just leaves a bad taste in the mouth
    >Civil War
    Alright, I guess
    Better than the comic, though that's not the highest bar. Main problem is that, despite the whole concept of the film, it all feels slightly weightless. The Avengers breaking up never really gets addressed or explored after this. It also suffers from a severe lack of style; it's all so fricking grey. Aside from Giant Man, the airport fight is a really boring action scene clearly shot on a greenscreen lot to stand in for an airplane parking lot. But it's the best both Spider-Man and Black Panther have been in the MCU though, those two are great
    >Infinity War
    Capekino
    Genuinely fantastic
    I'm surprised they pulled this one off so well, considering how big the cast is and how many moving parts there are. Thanos is a quality villain, and it's got one of the best fight scenes in any capeshit movie (the one on Titan). Thor is the real standout here, probably the only time they really nailed the character. He has a perfect level of godly seriousness to him that they never got before or since. My only problems are how they fricked Hulk, how poorly used the Earth characters are, and some bad greenscreen. Absolutely kino ending
    >Endgame
    Really naff and navel-gazing
    A real letdown after IW. Half this superlong movie is spent on a fetch quest, most of which is round places we've already seen. The time travel plot genuinely sucks, and the Thanos here is way worse. The amount of CGI is ridiculous, and the final battle is ugly as sin. It's basically everything bad about Civil War on a larger scale

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >NWH
      Fan service to the extreme
      You can tell Sony/Disney made this for money, and money alone. The plot is fricking asinine, and relies on both Peter and Dr Strange being fricking idiots. Almost the ENTIRE appeal of the film is predicated on you knowing and caring about the previous incarnations of Spider-Man more than the MCU one. Tellingly, they're the best part of the movie. Dafoe is a kino villain, Molina is good again, and it's nice to see Tobey and Andrew back as Spider-Man. But it all feels utterly hollow. They're the main reason anyone wanted to see the film, but it's not actually THEIR film. I had a good time while watching it, but as soon as I walked out of the cinema I was thinking about how weak the film really was. There's not much substance to it at all, and it just goes to show how poorly they've failed MCU Spidey when it comes to making him his own thing. They've relied too much on linking him to Iron Man and using guest stars that he's not had any real time to come into his own, both in-universe and to the audience. The emotional core of the movie tries to be around MCU Peter and his friends, but I don't think anyone really cares enough about Zendaya, Aunt Marisa, and the fat guy for it to work. Holland sells what he can with the material, and the ending potentially sets up a good new status quo for the sequels (if they don't frick it up)

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Avengers (Hot take but I really don't think these holds up)

    AoU (Everything is good up until the third act)

    Civil War (Dog shit movie that can't even keep it's story straight)

    IW (The perfect event film)

    Endgame (It's alright)

    NWH (Watts cooked with this)

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why do none of the battles feel big?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Brainlet directors lacking vision

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Only so much the CGI monkeys can do when you just film the actors on greenscreen American Gladiators sets and tell the monkeys to do everything else.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Brainlet directors lacking vision

        This is why endgame was so funny to me. Tiny battle for a supposedly universal battle

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Endgame was okay for me, it was a surprise attack, the Avengers had zero time to prep and Thanos thought he had the drop on them. It was Infinity War that had the foolish battle in my opinion. They had fricking prep time and could have prepared way more defenses, and instead, it resulted in a fairly small field battle.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I mean the whole plot of deleting half the universe population was moronic anyway

            I still think the airport battle in civil war was just comically bad. Like come on now

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Avengers
    Great, I can see why it led to the MCU catching on. A fun as hell blockbuster.
    >Age of Ultron
    Very bad. I don't think there's anything redeeming about this movie. I hate the characterizations of everyone, didn't feel like a proper follow-up to anyone's stories in Phase 2. A real shame as the first trailer made it look like it would surpass the original. Whedon deserved to be ousted for this.
    >Civil War
    Good time but not as good upon rewatch.
    >Infinity War
    Peak MCU. It's very difficult to have so many characters in one movie, yet make the plot work. They structured this well and did enough to make each character feel like they mattered.
    >Endgame
    Not so great. I didn't like the resolutions to anything. Time travel always makes for a mess when it comes to narratives that introduce it late and this was no different.Killing IW Thanos, horrible idea. I really hate the ending for Steve. The final battle against Thanos is very hype but how we arrive there and what comes out of it sucks tbh
    >No Way Home
    I hate this movie. I haven't been into the MCU portrayal of Spider-man and this was the nail in the coffin. Nonsensical plot where Dr. Strange endangers the multiverse doing a spell for a teenager.Villains lacked any nuance they had in their original films, serving only as fan service. I cringed when Norman said he was something of a scientist himself. There's no substance here. It's a hollow film and frankly as a longtime Spider-man fan, this felt like a spit in the face.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >I cringed when Norman said he was something of a scientist himself
      homosexual

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        You really need to go back if you thought that ebin meme reference was in any way good

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Avengers peaked with Infinity War.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      *Civil War, there's no topping that battle

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        airport scene or Iron Man vs Cap/buck?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Airport scene when they first clash

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >A1
    All-time classic, its insane to believe this movie defined a whole decade and people's perception on humor, capeshit truly broke into mainstream, we could've potentially reached a renaissance here
    >AoU
    Not as bad as everyone says it is, kinda comfy but unfortunately its definitely better then the first since its just that but with more names and action to it but only on a technical level, people just hate it because the first movie opened a lot of possibilities which this movie didn't take advantage of, we could've had the leap to Phase 3 with it, if only we got Ant-Man and Doctor Strange before then we would've potentially witnessed a faithfully realistic adaptations to the jack kirby runs of the 60s to 80s, one or two delays would've done so much wonders, marvels even.
    >Civil War
    That's where they dropped the ball, that's where everything got cringe, if they didn't bring back spiderman and had that airport scene snydergays would've unironically won, they had baron zemo but he's just some tragic victim, where's the purple hoodie? Where's the fricking aryan authority? Frick the dead family shit is great but did we really have to step down to DC's grittyness? You could still have him act as a notorious villain and be tragic
    The conflict felt forced af too, how do you have general ross intervene and not have him be turned into the red hulk or at least angry? Winter Soldier killing Tony's parents was also very phoned in, Black Panther would've worked if the UN bombing was in AMERICA and at the movie's start since it would present a good conflict; after all the movie is about captain AMERICA and his whole character is what AMERICA (formerly) stands for, and he is in conflict with the new policies, "muh security" oh ffs if people die, they will die anyways, it would be heavily OOC for tony to be like this unless they get someone like ross, maria hill or carol to staple his balls to the table, frick since you have spiderman you could also toss in norman there

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Cont.
      and we all know how much of a sleazy c**t norman is, he could definitely get some ties with ross to further push zemo's authoritarian corruption, iron man and cap teaming up to fight iron patriot is perfectly fitting for the movie's conflict seeing as america's internal struggle is about the state vs the individual, this also doesn't mean you can't have heroes fighting heroes
      War Machine, Black Widow, Black Panther, Red Hulk/Abomination, Captain Marvel and you can even have Shield dial up Hank out of retirement
      So much wasted potential, this shit is just segway filler to explain the setting in Infinity War and compensate for what new ideas Age of Ultron didn't bring to the table, its Avengers 2.5
      Also its most memorable quote is borrowed from the first captain america and it eternalized as a corny catchphrase within the populace
      >Infinity War
      This is what they were actually working on, but lets be real a lot of things in it are just setup, did we really need conscious hulk, did we really need wakanda to have this much prevalence in a movie that got hyped for its cosmic scale? when the guardians split did they seriously not learn from yondo's death?
      Thanos' character is interesting, but i feel like there was something missing between his shift from the comic accurate portrayal we saw in post-credits
      and GotG to this supposedly tragic big bad, he still rocked ass tho and this can be seen when you look back into the cultural impact this movie had, thanos became a household name, the hype was so big that it was the year where people on here hated on it so much the whole soi narrative started resurfacing as what was easily deemed to be contrarianism right or wrong you can't deny the fact that this movie having effect on society (me)

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Cont.
        shit resurfaced why nerds and geeks were treated like shit in the past, it was an even more cruel time to admit you enjoy anything that wasn't in your DMA because even if you did you'd feel the embarrassment and lack of enthusiasm from the people of the web as they deemed all integrity in art was assimilated by mass appeal, the age of irony had begun as people would belittle any form of straightforward artistic sincerity
        >Endgame
        Okay NOW this is what they were actually working on in 2012 to 2017, actually goes back to its comic book roots and introduces wacky ideas like time travel and undoing tragedies, it all mashes together to create this dopamine orgasm that kevin was planning all along for, nothing else mattered but that final fight and i fricking screamed when i watched it with my father, yes he looked confused at me and was embarrassed by my enjoyment and i was self aware of that but dammit i don't care that shit was DEFINITIVELY EPIC, IT WAS ART, POETRY, SOMETHING WAS CREATED OUT OF NOTHING, A DREAM WHICH IS A LIE CAME TRUE.
        The cynicism didn't leave however, as matter of fact it probably just dilated the void in the hearts of many, kids trooning out, chuds return to the shadows and all that remained was a messy memory
        >No Way Home
        With peter parker's luck Spider-Man's late for the party, the MCU has fallen, its an empty shell of its former self and the only way it can redeem itself is through expanding on what the individual everyman wants, a story, no more mythologies, no more lore, no more references
        Just something grounded, since less is more
        It was pretty good, i love me some sandman and seeing generations re-connect to each other is always heartwarming
        Spider-Mania is back so im hoping we at least move on from that cuck to someone more cool and unexplored like hulk or iron man

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Avengers
    Pretty good. Whedon kept under control. Decent balance between action and character moments. Lame CG finale. 7/10
    >Age of Ultron
    Whedon out of control. Awful metahumor villain. Characters not likeable. Good effects though, but that's become a minimum bar. 4/10
    >Civil War
    Fine. Plot messy but character writing decent. Didn't get spoiled about Spiderman so very much enjoyed that in the theater. 5/10
    >Infinity War
    Better than expected. Spectacular, full of storylines yet not absurdly messy. Interesting villain. Good climactic battle. Incomplete story. 7/10
    >Endgame
    Big mess. Does a surprisingly good job of having its huge cast get good moments but turgid and silly. Time travel sucks, as does having your main villain be an alternate version from the one you've watched. 4/10
    >No Way Home
    Not sure it's really an event movie. Fun time. Best if you turn your brain off and accept the fanservice. Lots of out-of-character stuff but Dafoe was having a fricking great time. Enjoyable climactic action. Goyslop is popular because it tastes good. Just don't base your whole identity around it, whether loving it or hating it. 6/10

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    i found Age of ultron rather boring Civil war AKA Avengers 2.5 was much better

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Overall pretty good, their worst was Ultron but it was still fun. Avengers 5 will probably break their winning streak though, should've gone with Wanda instead of KANG.

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