Is Anything A Greater Cinematic Achievement Than The MCU?

There is nothing particularly unique or remarkable about great movies.

Really.

It’s not hard to come up with a list of dozens of truly great movies. A great “cinematic achievement”, each one in its own right. The problem is that there’s so many, you might as well give them all Cinematic Achievement participation awards.

Now, something like the MCU is quite unique. Few (if any) franchises can measure up to the high level of quality and consistency of the MCU. Not a RT rotten movie in the entire bunch, and most of them are in the 80s - 90’s.

A real cinematic achievement has no equals. In this regard, the MCU is clearly at the top of the pyramid.


... and Superman 1978 didn’t “jumpstart” anything. It came, it went, and then the whole superhero thing pretty much died on the vine for 30 years. Any influence Superman might had had on the movie business was squandered by the decision to cash it all in on low budget crap sequels. If Marvel learned anything from the Superman debacle, they learned what not to do. Other than that, Superman was long dead and buried by the time the MCU started rolling. A two movie flicker of potential greatness, and then they went full DCEU. Never go full DCEU.