Love and Thunder was such a disappointment, which was surprising, because Waititi juggled tone so well in Jojo Rabbit, but it’s kind of hard to do a cancer/godkiller story combined with “Russell Crowe’s silly accents and screaming goats.” Those things just did not mesh well at all.

I agree with all of this, but I feel we may need to change “Russo Brothers” to “Markus and McFeely.” They wrote all those great entries and that’s not to diminish the Russo Brothers’ work on them, but everything they’ve touched since Endgame has been kind of crap, (Yes, I know they also collaborated on the screenplay…

The answer is so evident but everyone is far too afraid to say it, clearly.

What’s working:

I remember when I stopped reading X-Men comics when Jean Grey died the...12th time? I think she has died 16.  I am not sure but I just couldn’t anymore. 

I disagree. The live-action remakes were never fun.

“Scorsese probably doesn’t care to get involved”

There’s another common thread with the MCU’s best films that is now missing: the Russo Brothers.

They should have never killed off Tony Stark/Iron Man in this matter and they killed off Captain America way too soon. The decline started right there.

The MCU doesn’t even need someone as idiosyncratic as Matt Reeves or Martin Scorsese. They just need to trust the directors and screenwriters they hire. Quantumania boasted a writer who’s a Rick and Morty alum, and the only thing Rick and Morty-ish in the movie was a few jokes from William Jackson Harper’s character.…

The AV Club overlords also don’t want to pay writers to review every episode, which was the reason I came to the AV Club in the first place.

while not untrue, the fact that it was just a little thing in the background is why it worked.

It’s not incels, it’s the general public. I just don’t think women in general are that interested in watching female led superhero movies. I do think they will go out to see a movie with muscular men though and there’s nothing wrong with that.

for me, personally, the disney+ stuff just ruined the whole operation.

It’s not just major events and soft reboots readers are rejecting. It’s the constant LGBT pandering too. The recent gay Superman and Green Lantern comics were dismal failures, sales-wise.

I’m incredibly bored watching characters shoot energy beams. I miss the early days when Iron Man’s suit had to make power compromises and fired rockets. I get that Marvel feels like they have to keep upping the stakes, but you’re right, all the universe destroying stuff somehow just feels so inconsequential.

Am I alone in just not finding the villains in the Captain Marvel stories all that interesting?  After the thrill of the bus scene where anyone could be a threat, I just didn’t really get all that worked up for them.  Tried to watch Secret Invasion but just couldn’t get interested.  Could that account for the lack of…

Funny how ya’ll just skip over GOTG3 like it didn’t happen.
Funny enough that when that movie came out, the show at the time was awful.
And now Loki did amazing TV.
Just seems to me that if you’re going actually talk about the state of the MCU, talk about the whole damn state.
If you only focus on Florida, of course…

I mean, just look at the upcoming offerings. It’s one lackluster offering after another:

Would like to see a hard reset. Instead of the Avengers, build up X-Men or F4. Don’t use legacy actors, start afresh. The beauty of the original X-Men and Iron Man movies was we didn’t know what to expect, what the actors would bring. Using legacy actors or bringing back Thor for a 5th time takes that away.