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Post by coldenhaulfield on Oct 27, 2018 19:19:04 GMT
Nah, it still matters. It will always matter. The MCU -- no matter how many hilariously cringy-high RT scores they get; no matter how many stupid, stunted New Money fans who've never read a floppy convince their parents to buy them a ticket; no matter how many Oscars Disney buys for BP; no matter how much longer they drag it out -- will ALWAYS be built on a foundation of lesser characters unworthy of filmic adaptations at all. It is their great Original Sin. Years away, when the MCU is synonymous with true A-listers like the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, movies like Ant Mang, Homecoming, and Black Panther will be considered a disgrace to the entire industry, that moviegoers were subjected to such awful dreck at the cineplex -- in particular Homecoming, a criminal misuse of an actual A-lister. Innit? You are missing One HUGE factor. Nostalgia. All the kids, teens, and 20 somethings that have grown up on the MCU will see it through the fog of Nostalgia when they are older. If anything it will make them later in life hold MCU in Higher regard to negate what the next generation says is good. I personally hate 1.5 of the Prequels in Star Wars. I have 20 something relatives now that hold the Prequels in higher regard than the Original because it was their Star Wars. Even with all the flack we gave Jar Jar there are millions of kids that loved him and still do. The same way I loved the ewoks because I was a child when I saw Return and my older 20 something relatives at the time hated them. Nostalgia is a helluva drug. I think the MCU will age poorly, be looked back on as hacky crap in the vein of (live-action) Transformers, and everyone will move on after it finally collapses under the weight of its already-broken continuity. And I'll laugh my ass off. Innit? |
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Post by Vassaggo on Oct 28, 2018 0:39:05 GMT
You are missing One HUGE factor. Nostalgia. All the kids, teens, and 20 somethings that have grown up on the MCU will see it through the fog of Nostalgia when they are older. If anything it will make them later in life hold MCU in Higher regard to negate what the next generation says is good. I personally hate 1.5 of the Prequels in Star Wars. I have 20 something relatives now that hold the Prequels in higher regard than the Original because it was their Star Wars. Even with all the flack we gave Jar Jar there are millions of kids that loved him and still do. The same way I loved the ewoks because I was a child when I saw Return and my older 20 something relatives at the time hated them. Nostalgia is a helluva drug. I think the MCU will age poorly, be looked back on as hacky crap in the vein of (live-action) Transformers, and everyone will move on after it finally collapses under the weight of its already-broken continuity. And I'll laugh my ass off. Innit? Joking aside I don't think it will. After Avengers 4 they will have to scale back the stakes. Start a new over arcing story. And in 2020 they'll pump new life in the series when some how they introduce the X-men. When RDJ and Chris Evans leaves the series will take a hit the rest will shoulder some of the work load, but whoever they cast in X-men better be spot on. That's probably going to be the difference in the series slowly sputtering out vs 5-10 more years of success. |
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Oct 28, 2018 0:42:34 GMT
I think the MCU will age poorly, be looked back on as hacky crap in the vein of (live-action) Transformers, and everyone will move on after it finally collapses under the weight of its already-broken continuity. And I'll laugh my ass off. Innit? Joking aside I don't think it will. After Avengers 4 they will have to scale back the stakes. Start a new over arcing story. And in 2020 they'll pump new life in the series when some how they introduce the X-men. When RDJ and Chris Evans leaves the series will take a hit the rest will shoulder some of the work load, but whoever they cast in X-men better be spot on. That's probably going to be the difference in the series slowly sputtering out vs 5-10 more years of success. And you can bet they'll try every dirty Disney trick in the book getting their inevitably terrible and subpar X-Men over. Innit? (Innit, summers8?) |
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Post by Vassaggo on Oct 28, 2018 0:44:01 GMT
Joking aside I don't think it will. After Avengers 4 they will have to scale back the stakes. Start a new over arcing story. And in 2020 they'll pump new life in the series when some how they introduce the X-men. When RDJ and Chris Evans leaves the series will take a hit the rest will shoulder some of the work load, but whoever they cast in X-men better be spot on. That's probably going to be the difference in the series slowly sputtering out vs 5-10 more years of success. And you can bet they'll try every dirty Disney trick in the book getting their inevitably terrible and subpar X-Men over. Innit? (Innit, summers8 ?) LOL |
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Post by scabab on Oct 29, 2018 3:48:01 GMT
$508 million now.
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Post by Power Ranger on Oct 29, 2018 5:41:05 GMT
Wow. If Morbius is any good (big IF) then this franchise is on track. |
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Post by Agent of Chaos on Oct 29, 2018 8:18:06 GMT
Not bad.
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Oct 30, 2018 17:33:35 GMT
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Nov 5, 2018 0:52:37 GMT
$541,563,348
Going to unstick this thread.
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