No, because the film wasn’t bad because of the ending. It was bad for a bunch of reasons including but not limited to:
1. Its best scene was the opening one, and I’d already seen a version of that done better in two X-Men films.

“Star Wars is a series that deals with stories on an intergalactic scale...”

No it doesn’t and making this mistake is one that can create unreasonable expectations for this kind of fiction, like here. Star Wars stories are in a SETTING that is galactic in scale, with STAKES underlying the conflicts that can be galactic…

This bites into the same lore/theme/characterization problem that Attack of the Clones had in the latter part of the Arena battle: When we see fully trained and empowered Jedi, we should feel like they are using lightsabers because blasters would be LIMITING; in AotC the lightsabers felt limiting. A Jedi should feel…

I’ll say it, Game of Thrones belongs on a Best Of list, not Worst Of. BUT you have to have liked what it was doing thematically. In a perverse way I’ve actually become sort of glad so many people have come to hate it because it means I got one of the greatest deconstructionist narratives of all time funded by HBO…

1. “Jaime just runs back to Cersei” Yes, that’s the point. It’s calling BS on Darth Vader style redemption (it’s fine if you don’t like the theme, but it was done right); they even say it earlier in the series (“the good act does not wipe out the bad, nor the bad the good.”) Jaime is both the man who loves Brienne and…

Yes, Blockers. I LOVE Superbad, but Blockers is a better movie and just as funny, albeit in a different way.

I think the biggest issue I can see is having the 4 still slated “lead into” Chapter 1. That suggests that the DCEU that produced Batman v. Superman, Wonder Woman 2, and The Justice League is still canon and has to be reckoned with and accepted. Unless the plan is to use the Flash movie to reboot the whole thing…

You’d obviously need heavy CGI for some of the characters, but Disney Star Wars and Marvel and showing that’s not as far out of reach as it used to be. But off the top of my head:

Shepard: Gwendoline Christie
Capt. Anderson: Andre Braugher
Saren Arterius: Mads Mikkelson
Garrus Vakarian: David Harbour
Ashley Williams:…

Just like bringing back the 70's Spider-Man theme has worked very well I’m very very happy the MCU seems like it’s resurrecting the 90's X-Men theme for its mutants.

Game of Thrones didn’t shit the bed, it ended as it started, as a brilliant subversion of the tropes that build modern fantasy.

Also, there is a qualitative difference between the streaming services and the trades, and that’s the subscription model and how weird human psychology is (i.e. the rational actor model used by some branches of Poli Sci, Law, and Economics is total BS.) 

Well for a new datapoint the subject of the article, Multiverse of Madness, which absolutely is so steeped in lore you have to have seen prior movies AND shows to fully appreciate it, just did 185 million domestic, 450 million worldwide opening weekend. Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score is currently 87%, and IMDB score…

I think there are some fair points there, but there’s a tech difference that impacts how we consume media that changes the game, namely streaming. More specifically, (Spider-Man notwithstanding, though given Sony’s inability to get Spiderverse off the ground give it time) all of the MCU content becomes available on a…

As for business, that remains to be seen. Certainly phase 1-3, which interwove multiple narratives into an eventual culmination, was ridiculously successful financially.

No. You do realize “film” as an art is more than just the creation of a 1.5-3 hour narrative committed to celluloid/digital and then screened in isolation on a theatre screen? Pretend film snobs who don’t actually have a grasp of the history of film and the multiple ways it’s been used would be hilarious if they…

I’m quite aware of the serials, but this is different in part for exactly the reasons pointed out; the serials didn’t do complex long form plotting specifically so someone could be caught up with a couple lines of exposition. This is a fundamentally different narrative project than that. I disagree with your…

If that happens, it happens. This is the first time in film/TV combined history something like this has been attempted on this scale. I’m not confident making any predictions about how it will go long term positive or negative. At minimum the MCU showed you can make a 22 film story with multiple subgenres and interweav…

I’m not sure you’re getting what I’m saying.

The MCU isn’t about standalone films you can pop in and out of. If that’s your expectation then this entire project isn’t going to be your jam. And that’s FINE, but it also means as a reviewer there’s an irreducible bias about the project from the get go. If we’re going to have reviewers who don’t buy into the core…

The difference is that the National Association of Physics Educators isn’t trying to pass off a 4 hour self-congratulatory awards event as must watch televised entertainment. The Academy is trying very much so to do that and has recently found waning success in the enterprise.