AVClub: How can we make a format worse than the slideshow?

I’m deeply confused by this as well. I wouldn’t think transatlantic travel would be high on the priority list for restoring in the post apocalyptic zombie world. And Daryl doesn’t exactly strike me as a goes to Europe kind of guy.

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Billy Batson’s gonna be 30 by the time Shazam vs. Black Adam comes out.

[insert DCEU property here], the superhero who kills people

The Batman Returns.

I sort of thought we all stopped being salty about Wonder Woman 1984 being released on HBO Max when it turned out it was fucking terrible.

But the solo films weren’t always as big. Especially in Phase 1. It’s a studio problem. They are no longer content with making some money. They have to make all of the money, and if they aren’t doing that immediately it’s a failure.

There is literally nothing else on television that had the range of genres it could adopt literally one week from the next.

It’s hard to believe now, but every single movie in Phase 1 of the MCU has a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, even the ones like Hulk and Iron Man 2, which get brought up in conversations about the worst movies in the franchise. The first movie in this 14-year effort to receive a rotten score was Eternals, six months…

Yeah of all the two dozen MCU films (and growing), five of them have involved the Avengers. And yeah, those made the most money, but the solo films aren’t slouches either. You gotta play the long game instead of betting everything on one big payday. 

Not only that, but Tom Cruise basically got superpowers out of it, which made it easier for him to fight back against her.

What I find interesting is that none of the copycats have actually tried to follow Marvel’s formula. They think they can just get any directors and any actors and any IP with more than one main character and just throw them in a blender. Marvel made sure the solo movies like Iron Man and Captain America were good…

To be fair, Cruise looks a decade younger the Crowe but that’s because his Xenu cult is pumping him full of young blood 

Because to do that you have to be happy with making a handful of moderate hits before you can cash that Avengers level paycheck. These companies just want that Avenger box office and think they can just skip the work of making us care about these characters.

It’s especially cool how every time you die, that character really is just dead, and from then on you’re playing someone else. And you have to fight them as a zombie to get everything you picked up while playing as them.

I still don’t understand why everyone didn’t just copy the MCU format beat for beat.  They knew how to do it:  develop the characters in stand alone movies.  Build up references to the big crossover movie.  Then, do the crossover movie and move on from there.  But NO!!!!  Universal and Warner Bros. wanted their own…

Fringe, created by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.

It’s fairly miraculous that they pulled it off. Not only the whole concept of so many interconnected movies each building on the last, but keeping that many superstar egos in check to the point that basically everyone involved remains on very friendly terms.

A lot of it probably goes down to very astute casting, but…