This fall, The Marvels take flight.Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Inte...
The trailer explains pretty much the whole premise right there. Each of them has powers (who cares where they came from?), and they’re all entangled so they swap places when they use them.
If you want deeper backstory, the upside is that the two shows that contain it are among the best shows Marvel has done so far.
That’s an avoid for me. Marvel and DC were fun and entertaining when they first came on the film scene, but now they’re just movie mills rehashing the same old slop. Box office performance indicates I’m not the only one who feels that way. But nothing against people who like their stuff, I’m just done with it, like listening to the same old song too many times.
I don’t think the rehashing is the problem, but the world building. When MCU started out it was just a bunch of dudes who can punch a little stronger than the average guy or wore a special suit. Nowadays the MCU is three layers deep into multiverse, quantum realms and time travel magic and has heroes that can reshape reality. It’s very hard to care about anything when literally anything can happen and nothing follows even remotely consistent rules. Even within the same series they f’ things up beyond believe. Remember when quantum realm was this spooky thing of indeterminism? Nowadays it’s full of regular people, cities and looks no different than any other alien planet.
When the MCU stays more grounded it is still watchable, e.g. No Way Home had plenty of good or even great moments, but if you try to figure out how the multiverse logic of that movie works or how to reconcile it with everything that came after, it’s a complete unfixable mess. Also doesn’t help that they can’t follow their own setups (Thor joins the Guardians… for 5mins).
The trailer explains pretty much the whole premise right there. Each of them has powers (who cares where they came from?), and they’re all entangled so they swap places when they use them.
If you want deeper backstory, the upside is that the two shows that contain it are among the best shows Marvel has done so far.
They’ve lost their appeal to me. I think the last Marvel movie I saw was The Eternals which I actually liked but I haven’t seen the new ant man or guardians movie. I also like the She-Hulk show. For some reason I feel like I relate to Jennifer Walters more than I should.
The general reaction to the eternals turned me off Marvel. I was down for the tone shift, the slightly more mythical aspect as well as cosmic all through a more subtle family style drama.
Even if it wasn’t for you, it was a different tone and a different kind of story, made well. And the mainstream reaction was something like “that’s not Marvel” or “that’s boring, what’s the point”, all while beginning to bemoan Marvel fatigue and repetitiveness else where. I realised Marvel was somewhat destined to be monotone and shallow, as it has been probably from the start TBH.
I don’t pay to much attention to the franchise and it’s fans, but I suspect retrospectives in the future won’t be glowing.
I actually really enjoyed Ms. Marvel. I’m a SA first gen from Queens and it was incredibly relatable and actually taught me a few things even I didn’t know about the partition. The actress is very charismatic and likable as well. The supporting cast complimented the show (the dad is MVP). My only real complaints are her powers just being very… boring lol. Hopefully they expand on that in the movie.
Her powers were supposed to be really different I was so bummed that they changed it to some weird light power thing and I guess it was neat that it was connected to her culture but personally I liked the alien origin more. I feel like there needs to be a balance between using a characters culture and using pop culture and I feel like they did too much. The comic books did it much better imo.
I absolutely love the actress who plays her though she’s great and her energy and enthusiasm is infectious.
With Guardians 3, I've now gotten everything I wanted from the MCU. If they manage to get things back on track I'd be game to catch up but my hopes aren't high. While flashy, there's nothing here that doesn't look like the same old MCU.
As a big fan of the Marvel Cosmic comics, I am really sad we didn’t get to see Nova Prime - though Fillion being in Guardians 3 was supposedly a nod to that
I’m excited to see Kamala again because while it wasn’t really my demographic the Ms. Marvel show was pretty good. But I’m still underwhelmed by Brie Larson as Captain Marvel.
It looks like the villain is Dar-Ben which is kinda a second-rate Ronan by my understanding.
Just from the preview I have no inclination that anything is really at stake. Three super powered heroes, one of which has a reputation throughout the galaxy. What’s at stake? There’s a throwaway line about destroying worlds but that’s not really stakes when the viewer knows there won’t be any “Snap/Blip” event because that kinda of thing they’d save for a Avengers movie.
I don't think it was bad but it was super redundant to use it for the second trailer as well as the first. Part of me wishes that they went for an entire different tone for the second trailer
I was excited for what they were going to do after Endgame as I really thought they were going to take things to another level, but ultimately each one feels like the same movie to me at this point.
They suffer from the same issue that every movie/show faces; needing mass appeal, following the same formula, and being afraid to have anything definitive happen.
The last bothers me the most. If I’m watching a show and a character dies, I barely react at this point; I just wonder how long until they’re back.
I’ve missed the TV shows and a bunch of the movies after endgame, at a certain point I was too far behind and couldn’t be bothered going through them all to get all the interconnected lore so just stopped watching all new content, it’s just too much effort to even try to care about it at this point.
It’s a common sci fi / fantasy trope, which a lot of these stories are. When you have beloved characters, and they’re in a world of magic and advanced technology, it’s really tempting to use the magic and technology to bring the beloved characters back.
Example - Star Trek. Spock, Kirk, Data, Picard, etc. They’ve all be resurrected at some point.
I just don’t see a way to top the build up and ending to Endgame. A decade of movies with great actors, fun action all leading up to the huge gut punch of Infinity War and the absolute spectacle of Endgame.
After you reach that high, building up again from step one is extremely difficult. And the movies just aren’t of the same quality. Besides a few good movies like No Way Home and Black Panther 2 and a few shows with strong starts or premises like Wandavision and Loki, they’ve all been very mid.
The overuse of death tropes was exactly why I left.
Infinity War
spoilerhit me with a double whammy. It pulled the curtain to show that it was actually part one of a two parter. Also, it pulled the “death is reversible” card - both the death and the immediate promise of reversal - on half the galaxy’s population.
I feel like even if a comic got away with such things, it’s almost better to ask if the movies are a time to revisit those tropes.
You’re forgetting Loki. Don’t worry, he’s okay though! And Vision. Don’t worry, he’s back for Wandavision!
And, even with Black Widow dead, thankfully they can make a prequel movie!
Just to age myself a bit: One thing that I really liked about Aeris’ death in FF7 is: There’s no dying speech. There’s no ghostly message from beyond the grave. You don’t even really get to see her face in wistful memories. Everything about that character is completely ”ended” from the media the moment Sephiroth strikes her. Post-launch media tended to ruin this, but at the time it was an important treatment of death to make it impactful.
We all know magic like prequels, time travel, Lazarus pits, cloning, etc, can bring back dead people. That usually misses the point because death in media is usually meant to hold an emotional power that relates to its certainty - it’s not specifically reliant on logic.
Another death that was so “final” that has always stuck out to me was in the terminator show, “the Sarah Connor chronicles” when Reese, one of the 3 main characters, just gets shot in the back as the characters are all making their escape from a regular terminator situation. The other characters look back but have to keep running because otherwise they will get shot too, and ……that’s it. He’s dead. No speech, no drawn out death scene, no elaborate over the top death with foreshadowing - he just gets shot and he’s dead.
Yeh the multiverse completely ruined the marvel cinematic universe. I get why they did it, but I think it was a terrible decision. It’s not really a coincidence that almost every movie since they introduced it has flopped.
As you said, it just takes away any and all shock and drama. Oh spider man got turned to dust and died? Strange because we know he has a solo movie set after endgame coming out a few months after it, so I guess he isn’t dead.
Not to mention that the movies are all now just basically filmed entirely on a green screen, while having worse and worse CGI.
Seems like it will be a fun one to take the kids to. I wonder what will happen if Kamala gets her hands on the bracelet the Big Bad has. She has its twin on.
in a parallel universe and in the past! during the Pakistan/India partition! it’s like the writers were like, “so is it time travel or the multiverse?” and they just did both.
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