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There's not much upside for these TV shows or films in making the viewer work harder across multiple platforms to enjoy a television show. I always enjoyed the guest stars from the movies, and desparately wanted to see SHIELD agents in the movie - but I'm already invested in both.
My guess the whole Matrix-esque season and the alternative future Kree prison season were both efforts to avoid creating any plot conflicts with anything in MCU Phase 3.
I would hope the CM sequel would deal with her helping found a Skrulls homeland and fending off some Kree, and laying waste to an incorrigible Yon-Rogg and explain the reason for the Kree signing a peace treaty with the Nova Corps. (That does feel a lot like Solo. Or Rogue One.)
I also find it weird that she's not in the team shot with the white suits. Banner isn't either, which I also find odd.
Anyway, I trust this is going to be awesome.
Quantum Suit Deadpool...
Quantum Suit Ghost Rider...
Anything Quicksilver...
A She-Hulk...
And everyone loves to rampantly speculate on who should be cast as our favorite X-Men, so I'm sure Disney will want to start from zero. And they have an affinity for origin stories...
The movie has now already grossed over USD 750M worldwide, so fortunately lots of people seem to have been capable of ignoring the manufactured controversy.
No, the problem was Brie & her need to make Captain Marvel into a political statement.
As for trying to tank the film prior to it's release? How exactly did anyone try to do that, when you couldn't rate the movie prior to it's release, you can't leave review before cinematic release. Originally, the want to see score had a yes or no option & it was getting more no than yes responses, which caused Disney to pressure RT to change it to a simple click if you want to see.
As for showing the film to empty cinemas, I can't say much on that, but it wouldn't be the first time that a major motion picture studio pulled strings to save face. I have noticed that Captain Marvel gear isn't really selling, most of the stores locally still have pretty much what they had when the stuff first landed.
The "controversy" started long before Brie Larson had even opened her mouth and made any kind of statement. More details her on AP and in this Bloomberg article.
I myself bought an opening night ticket with a friend, since I'm totally on this MCU train. I found the movie pretty generic - it was the Marvel formula, but nothing else added. Captain Marvel has no real character arc, was played woodenly (I'd blame the writing, as Brie certainly has talent), and felt invincible - ergo, it felt like there was no danger. Positives - the Skrull story, plus Fury and Coulson were a delight. Overall, 4 or 5 out of 10.
I'd suggest if you want to get a better picture of what the controversy is, perhaps don't rely on the MSM, who are again painting the whole situation as a small bunch of 'trolls' that are just angry white men, just like they did for TLJ/Solo, just like they did for Ghostbusters, just as they did for Black Panther (btw, Black Panther was mostly MSM trying to make it sound like there was massive controversy, I have yet to actually meet someone who didn't like it). That Star Wars Girl & the Quartering on YouTube would be a good starting point, or possibly Computing Forever, if you want to know what is actually going on with this...
And to think Disney ostensibly scrapped the Star Wars Stories due to the risk of Star Wars fatigue! Disney threw away an easy $1B in revenue per year just because it couldn't (and still can't) acknowledge just how badly The Last Jedi f**ked up the sequel trilogy and fans' goodwill towards the brand. Disney seems to have avoided that with Captian Marvel, despite Brie Larson and (to a lesser extent) Sam Jackson's best efforts.
AMatW was plain boring, it had no interest, no solid plot, and even from the comedic stand point (in which AM was good) it failed. It's only purpose was to introduce something for Endgame and that could have been done in 5-10 minutes. For me it was one of the MCU's worst movies.
I also don't think BP was great. It was solid, but not the masterpiece everyone wants it to be (just because it has a black cast and it wouldn't be politically correct to criticize a movie with a black cast). Even MBJordan, which I find a great actor, was below his standard in this one.
I still have to see CM, but it's rating on IMDB isn't very flattering... Thus, I decided to wait for a dvd release to see it instead of going to the cinema, since tickets aren't cheap.
Overall, excluding Infinity War (which was good but not Civil War great), all the other recent MCU movies are kind of disappointing and below the level of their predecessors.
It was just my opinion - like I said, plot with no interest, boring.
My guess is that there'll be grumbling that the MCU is declining if Endgame doesn't literally break every box office record. Nevermind that it fuels a completely separate billion dollar marketing and media enterprise.
People may not like TLJ or Solo, but those were still profitable films. I'm not going to worry until there's a Mummy-sized flop. Executives are not going to complain about a $200M production that generates $450M every six months.
Until you insult your audience with total garbage (Transformers: The Last Knight) or just accept that a certain audience wants mindless action (Fast and Furious), these movies will keep coming.
It's also not a coincidence that James Gunn is back on GotG3. There's your Phase 4 stuff - two Spider-Man sequels, GotG3, BP2, CM2, DS2, BW and maybe another Ant-Man. And who knows - another Avengers movie? After that you can expect some sort of Mutant Universe to be developed.
I'm also not convinced they will necessarily kill off original Avengers. They can have smaller roles in future movies. Who doesn't like money or being relevant?
I hope CM passes WW as the highest grossing female superhero movie. Only because WW is not the groundbreaking female lead it purports to be. Frozen (and CM) is a much better story of female empowerment than WW.
We all derided Episode I, yet Episodes II and III did just fine, sold lots of tickets, merchandise and continued to elevate the value of SW. And Episodes VII through IX exist. And a couple of side-movie that generated billions of dollars also seem to have sneaked by...
Still, it's better than most recent MCU movies.
Fatigue, like another post said. It's the same reason TV shows eventually get cancelled. There's only so many stories you can pump out before nothing seems new.
And then you get remakes (aka reboots) that don't pretend to do anything other than tell the same story over again. Sometimes the remakes work. I mean, the 1932 Mummy and the 1999 Mummy have basically the same story but, boy, are they really different in tone and presentation.
I love the Marvel movies and have seen all of them but two (Thor 1 & 2). But I eventually stopped reading comics and I won't feel bad if I eventually stop watching them. But, just like LEGO, there are always people for whom the movies will be new and exciting so I hope they continue telling stories new viewers can enjoy.
Also hoping to see Shazam when that comes out - but when it comes to comic book adaptations I’m still waiting on Dredd 2 (and definitely no risk of fatigue there).
DC tries hard, but the movies are markedly terrible. I'm starting to think it's the source material. Anybody know if the Aquaman comics had an octopus playing a large bongo?
I like the Thor movies, if only because Thor actually has meaningful character growth. He is definitely not the same vapid prince from the first film when he makes his return with Stormbreaker in Infinity War. Nobody probably cares, but it boggles my mind that such a well-defined character exists in a silly comic book movie. And it's friggin' Thor.
(I think DC could do the same by making a few tweaks to a few characters and just replicate the overall arc of MCU.)
(Jar Jar, CGI Yoda, Shmi, Jake Lloyd, inexplicable C-3PO, lack of Maul...)
And I think this is a comparable amount of hatred to the new trilogy. Don't you remember all of the anti-Hayden Christiansen nonsense? As I ironically remember - purists wanted LucasFilm to remove Lucas from production of the movies.
Although I definitely get the sense TLJ is going to stand out as the oddball in the nine movies. I'm sure there is plenty of regret in handing over Episode VIII to someone not JJ Abrams.
For those who don't know, Brie Larson tweeted what was essentially a response to reviews of A Wrinkle in Time, believing that over-representation of white men in film criticism led to a skewed consensus. What she was getting at was that she wanted greater cultural diversity in that aspect, but what she actually wrote was something like, "This film was made for black women; it's not meant for white men." (not a direct quote.) Some people thought, Oh, yeah, fair point, while others thought, Wait, I'm a white dude! Why can't I watch it? Picture it like a chemical reaction: you've got a bit of harmless caesium, doing pretty much nothing to nobody. Someone drops it in a bit of water, also harmless, but you see, when the two combine... boom.