It’s not always the same amount of homework though, and it’s cumulative. The first two GotGs and Ant Men were kind of like auditing a college course. It was better if you’ve done the reading, but not doing it wasn’t going to affect your grade. Plenty of time to catch up at your own pace, if you want.

It’s like you said in that its becoming more and more like the comic books which is funny because one of the ideas behind the MCU in the first place was to avoid it becoming convoluted like the comics.

Man, I hope you never do anything like, read comic books (or consume any serialized content ever)!

Well, according to that movie, all “gods” from every culture are really celestials and eternals, but my thing is that Moon Knight hasn’t yet made that connection or how this afterlife connects to all of that. And if it doesn’t, then there is a whole other can of worms the MCU just opened up that’ll have be explained…

i paid money to see spawn opening weekend! and i liked it!

Just reading this gave me a massive headache. 

This is already my favorite season  

Speaking of Moon Knight, that introduces Egyptian Gods and mythology, but they haven’t explained yet how that ties into the MCU universe. Are they Celestials/Eternals too?

I’m over here shaking my cane as I tell my nephew about the old days, when there was one comic book movie a year, and it was usually released to line up with Free Comic Book Day. I was but a wee lass when I saw X2. Hugh Jackman was too tall and handsome to play Wolverine, but we loved him anyway...

Marvel’s/Disney’s fervent desire to the contrary, a movie should be self-contained and capable of telling its own story. If it’s a sequel, sure you can expect your viewers to have seen the previous entry or entries, but expecting them to also watch through a bunch of (paywalled) limited TV series is a bridge too far…

I’ve never seen the point of these takes. “Why didn’t they get someone who was more predisposed to like the movie I want to like to review the movie so I can feel justified in liking it?”

Moon Knight is a bit clunky, it took 5 episodes out of 6 to make any sort of sense, but Oscar Issac is the best actor I can recall in ANY MCU Disney+ franchise I have seen. 

Honestly, not really. I watched through all the MCU through to Infinity War—after starting with Doctor Strange, in fact. Some of them absolutely needed that homework; the Captain America sequels, naturally most of the Avengers movies. And there’s definitely a category of ‘you’ll be a little lost if you aren’t watching…

Not really bagging on this movie. But Everything Everywhere All At Once is out there, has a multiverse storyline and it’s fucking good.

I lost interest midway through Phase 3, when the movies lost any thematic connection to reality and became entirely about character conflicts that stretch across multiple movies. It became impossible to not give a shit about Bucky, for example, which was my cue to cut ties.

Or maybe they just aren’t really important beyond being fanservice. Todd seems pretty focused on whether or not the central story works for him, and it sounds like it just doesn’t, with none of the fanservice really linking in to elevate it.

I’ve seen (nearly) all of the MCU movies, split between theatre and streaming viewing, but I’ve not been willing to pony up for Disney+. So, yes, this is the point where I’ll be part of that split that no longer bothers keeping up with the MCU.

I’d also put “The Batman” and the Marvel-adjacent Spider-Man 3 Two-Point-Oh: Home Something, Something high on the list, too.

This is a sequel to What If and Loki too. I mean, good or bad, this is the realization of Feige’s vision (not a pun) of an actualized “comic book” movie universe. I want them to put in the corner of one frame: “*See Uncanny X-Men #349. - Ed.”

Yes, as you can see from my other comments I am extremely upset and feel very passionate about this. Oh, grrr, so angry. Please, fight me.