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@nessisonett You're right insofar as I genuinely don't understand how a movie could be significantly worse than «Thor 4» or «Ant-Man 3» or «Dr.Strange 2» (that's coming from somebody who thinks that the very best MCU films are 7/10's) and I'm inclined to think that any MCU project (shy of an «Avengers» sequel) released in that period was pretty much destined to underperform in the wake of those stinkers. A shame, then that it was «The Marvels» that took the pummelling (giving ammo to the «get woke, go broke» troglodytes) but as I said, it needed to happen at some point in order to give the creatives a moment of reflective pause. With precious few exceptions, everything since «Infinity War» has been dreck.
@LN78 Hey, at least Doctor Strange 2 has all the Raimi schlock to make it hilarious. The millionth dolly zoom still doesn’t get old. The cameos were awful and felt like they were from a different film but when it played into the horror elements it was close to being a decent movie. That’s the problem I think. Feige wants directors and writers with their own style but it can never interfere with his plans and ideas of what movies should be. So it always comes across like a neutered version of what it could be, with the same brand of humour shoehorned in. Apart from Thor 4 which is mostly irredeemable. I’m convinced the ex-wife is the talent since every single Waititi project after he dropped her for Rita Ora has been rubbish.
@nessisonett Give the «MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios» book a read. It's a little bit showbiz raggy in places (especially early on where Feige is made out to have Spielberg like quasi-messianic powers) but in the later post «Endgame» chapters (where the wheels at the studio start to come off) there are some fascinating insights into how the earlier creative decisions (such as predetermined effects sequences and story committees) came back to bite him on the arse.
PS I hated «Strange 2» even more because it represented the weakest of the weak
