honest to god if a fucking 10 episode miniseries is required to watch your movie you have fundamentally failed as an artist, i don't care about how good of a director you are
and I'm gonna be honest. after a certain point, it becomes impossible for an ongoing story to be entirely self contained. And the stuff that's essential to the plot can be inferred through context
I'm sad they brought Raimi in and it was for Dr. Strange because I categorically will not watch anything where Benedict Cumberbatch is the main character
that doesn't change that this is pretty much a studio hired gun thing on his part, im sure he had genuine passion for the project but there's a really specific mold disney's unwilling to actually break
I don't begrudge anyone checking out because of the actors involved, but I disagree with the idea that standalone stories can't hinge upon ongoing arcs
i very specifically made this plurk to vent about how much i do not like the mcu outside of your plurk because i didn't want to be a curmudgeon there and tagged it with Extremely Negative
I legitimately loved a lot of the MCU for a while, and No Way Home is the first film in more than a decade that I've seen in theaters more than once, but I agree that it's been Too Much for a while now.
It was already overwhelming by the time it started closing in on Infinity War, but I think the inclusion of the TV shows in the greater continuity is what really pushed it over the edge for me.
and with morbius, even as part of another studio, flopping as badly as it did marvel is, like. no longer the Cultural Monolith it once was and has been on the decline since endgame i feel
honestly the morbius flop being taken as a sign that people don't want vampire movies instead of "maybe making a movie starring jared leto as a fourth-string spider-man villain was a terrible idea" is
"How can we show fans that we're still going to release a lot of great stuff even with Endgame over" "idk how about an Eternals movie? or maybe a movie starring somebody who very prominently died in Endgame?"
i like some of the mcu but yes i think the way disney has approached it as a business is deeply disingenious and greedy, and they've created a chokehold on the whole film industry at this point. so even though some aspects of it and some specific movies & shows are genuinely very good imo, i would say the standard that it sets kind of is ruining film yeah.
and i think a corporate giant owned by a company that has a habit of buying out or crushing all its competition is... hard to really call a net positive on cinema as a whole
it's not entirely disneys fault that standalone films are becoming more and more rare in favour of people trying to build a franchise but i would say it's a pretty massive factor
The MCU is not damaging film as a medium so much as Disney's monopolistic practices are damaging film as a medium, and the MCU's just the numerically biggest and most successful example of how that's happening
i only like the mcu these days for rock and roll times in space and then i'm rolling out nothing else emotionally impacts me but that i don't hate the mcu though. it's just 'okay' to me. all opinions are valid tho
they haven't really done a lot of bigger-draw stuff since Covid
"idk how about an Eternals movie? or maybe a movie starring somebody who very prominently died in Endgame?"
nothing else emotionally impacts me but that
i don't hate the mcu though. it's just 'okay' to me. all opinions are valid tho