Looks a the black and white fight sceneThe issue with the films is they have lost all sense of heart and actual personality.
That's where Shang-Chi succeeded which arguably is the best on the phase 4 because it didn't rely on cameos and nostalgia to get its audience. The movie was focusing on a father who couldn't get over losing his wife which led to a massive neglect for his son and daughter and the consequences of that neglect.
This film was just a film. it lacked heart and personality and dumb Thor is getting old.
The worst part was there was a ton of opportunity for emotional moments in this film given some subject matter and what the characters go through, but there’s so many jokes when it should be a serious moment (just for a few minutes!) and Taika never stopped himself from going over the top here.The issue with the films is they have lost all sense of heart and actual personality.
That's where Shang-Chi succeeded which arguably is the best on the phase 4 because it didn't rely on cameos and nostalgia to get its audience. The movie was focusing on a father who couldn't get over losing his wife which led to a massive neglect for his son and daughter and the consequences of that neglect.
This film was just a film. it lacked heart and personality and dumb Thor is getting old.
A big part of this is because showings now play like it’s not a preview day, but opening day.Apparently it’s the 5th biggest marvel opening.
Yes. Over saturate and what was new, fresh and exciting becomes commonplace and meh..............Speaking of Millionaire, ABC (before Disney ownership) did the same thing with the Adam West Batman. Huge gigantic ratings and they put it on three nights a week. Ratings steadily dropped and it disappeared, until it was syndicated decades later. Funny, that show was Super Hero stuff too.....and the ' Too much social media/screen time generation' has a short attention span as it is.It so refreshing to see Disney do what Disney does. I call it the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire business model or Super Saturation Content. When Disney bought Who Wants To Be A Millionaire it was on TV one night a week and was a huge success. One year later it was on every night and in syndication. WWTBAM is now in the dust bin of history. Super saturation killed it.
Feige was brilliant at corraling the Disney mandate for a while. But never fail, Disney will push it to the breaking point. Everytime.
See: Star Wars
Disney never oversaturated Star Wars anywhere near the way they have with Marvel. I really enjoyed 2 out of the 3 sequels, loved Rogue One, enjoyed Solo and love The Mandalorian. They themselves actually took a step back and stopped saturating the cinematic marketplace. They were successful with 4 out of 5 films grossing over $1B, but realized they needed to take a step back.It so refreshing to see Disney do what Disney does. I call it the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire business model or Super Saturation Content. When Disney bought Who Wants To Be A Millionaire it was on TV one night a week and was a huge success. One year later it was on every night and in syndication. WWTBAM is now in the dust bin of history. Super saturation killed it.
Feige was brilliant at corraling the Disney mandate for a while. But never fail, Disney will push it to the breaking point. Everytime.
See: Star Wars
The Friday numbers for the film came in at $69.5M and on pace for $130-$140M. The concern though is that this film picked up the second consecutive B+ CinemaScore for the MCU and if you take out No Way Home (considering that was a Sony release), this is the third straight movie that Disney themselves have released that has picked up a Cinema Score in the B-range as Eternals had a CinemaScore of a B in November.
Disney never oversaturated Star Wars anywhere near the way they have with Marvel. I really enjoyed 2 out of the 3 sequels, loved Rogue One, enjoyed Solo and love The Mandalorian. They themselves actually took a step back and stopped saturating the cinematic marketplace. They were successful with 4 out of 5 films grossing over $1B, but realized they needed to take a step back.
The MCU is being killed by D+ sort of imo. The constant meh TV shows have started to take away from my overall enthusiasm and I think now that they're putting out 6-8 projects per year, they're spreading themselves too thin and the projects are becoming messier. 6-8 projects per year.
Think about that all it takes is three years of putting out Star Wars content at the pace that MCU content is now coming out and you've released enough content to cover the entirety of everything Star Wars will have released under Disney ownership by the end of this year (21 projects, 11 of them being animated). If it was just 3-4 movies per year, I could deal with a stinker here or there, but when i'm constantly being fed a bad taste in my mouth, it doesn't give me a ton of hope going forward, especially when i'm constantly just getting a directionless feeling out of the franchise.
Star Wars content I was talking about:
- Sequel trilogy (3 movies)
- Rogue One
- Solo
- The Mandalorian (2 seasons)
- The Book of Boba Fett
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Andor
- Resistance (2 Seasons)
- Rebels (4 seasons)
- Clone Wars (Final Season)
- The Bad Batch (2 Seasons)
- Visions (2 seasons)
I'm among those who love TLJ as I thought it was, individually, an absolute masterpiece. The problem with the movie is that as a part of a trilogy, Rian closed off most plot lines, although there was certainly a better way to handle it than how JJ did with RotS, which was basically just throwing canon to the wind and saying screw it.Star Wars may have less content total but all of it is superfluous—we didn’t need a sequel trilogy, let alone ANY backstory on what a bunch of random characters were doing in random slices of time.
At least Marvel still (theoretically) has stories to tell—the problem is stretching Feige, evidently the glue holding the whole thing together, way too thin.
With that said, I haven’t seen Thor yet but I’m still hopeful. The last time a bunch of die hards hated something was Last Jedi and I thought that was great (especially compared to other highly-touted content in the last few years like Joker, Force Awakens, and Ragnarok).
I'm among those who love TLJ as I thought it was, individually, an absolute masterpiece. The problem with the movie is that as a part of a trilogy, Rian closed off most plot lines, although there was certainly a better way to handle it than how JJ did with RotS, which was basically just throwing canon to the wind and saying screw it.
I do blame LucasFilm for not having an overall vision and for not delaying the film because they wanted to get a film out every two years. Think about it, had they delayed it, it would've been pushed into 2020 and then ultimately 2021 or 2022, meaning a hell of a lot more time to give the movie the love it deserved. It probably still would've sucked, but who knows. Maybe they take the Covid break to re-write and reshoot some scenes to improve on a rushed product.
As for superfluous content you mention that we aren't getting from Marvel, i'd argue that Black Widow and literally every Disney+ show is unnecessary. Sure, the Disney+ shows help to introduce us to more characters or to flesh out existing ones, but lets be real, they only exist to keep people subscribed to Disney+.
Yeah, I think the problem is they seem to be:Haha, yeah I think I’m agreeing with you. This AMOUNT of MCU content could be fine if it was any good…the problem is it’s all really superficial. If they went back to focusing on 2-3 major projects a year (and an overarching end goal that audiences could understand) we’d be in good shape.
This was a positive for me at the very least. The ending of the movie feels like they will have him set to literally have to be more mature going forward in either a Thor 5 or whenever he next appears (It's possible we see him in a cameo on Disney+ or something at some point, but we won't be seeing him for quite awhile it would seem because the entire 2023 slate is set and 2024 is looking like we may not see him in anything either. I'd say it's possible we see him in whatever She-Hulk and Hulk get involved in on the movie side? She-Hulk was a love interest of Thor in the comics.As far as "Dumb Thor" - I took it as Thor's Mid-Life Crisis, and he started shaking it off as the film concluded and his character arc completed.
I was a big fan of Moon Knight and very much enjoyed MoM, too. Thor just wasn't it for me.Like dr strange and moon knight before it, I really enjoyed them all more then others