I'm so done with superhero films.
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Same. I considered myself a superhero movie fan. Saw every MCU movie for years and everything.
I think after Eternals, Synder Cut ... I just lost the desire to watch them. I liked Shang Chi, I even may want to see The Marvels because it looks fun, but I haven't seen GotG3, Multiverse, Quantimania, Thor Love and Thunder ... Alongside the DCEU movies as well.
GOTG3 is great so at least go for that.
GotG3 is definitely worth seeing. Doctor Strange 2 and Ant-Man 3 were pretty missable.
I think the lesson I've taken from this is that the massive multiversal stakes of the latter two - which I assume Marvel thought necessary to try to top what they'd already done with Thanos - just don't really work. They can't top Thanos eradicating half of the universe, and they shouldn't try.
Whereas GotG3 was pretty low stakes by comparison, but as those stakes related to a specific character we had come to care about then it just worked so much better.
I might be the only person who didn't hate Quantummania. I thought it was actually a return to form for the MCU; we forget this, but most MCU movies are actually just okay: not bad, but not terrible either.
I think that multiverse stuff works better if you care about what's in the universe. We care more about Earth if Iron Man is still alive and has a family waiting for him at home than if he's already dead and gone. Marvel should have focused on building up likeable characters before diving into this multiverse stuff.
I thought it was okay, which as you said is almost par for the course, but it felt like a generic Marvel movie whereas the first two had some fun heist elements to them. Gave them a unique feel within the MCU that I missed in this one.
I liked quantummaina also.
I am getting tired of Disney's influence though. Not everything needs a feel good teaching "moment"... The whole thing with Drax and being stupid and Nebula learning his worth was SO overplayed.
I thought it worked, but not completely. Maybe because it'd make more sense if Nebula kept ridiculing Drax because she likes him the mot but is afraid of long-term emotional attachments.
This ought to be good. But not in a good sense.
I don't know why, Gunn is turning out absolute bangers for superhero stuff.
Guardians of the Galaxy 1-3
The Suicide Squad
Peacemaker
Anyone who can do a live action Starro the Conqueror and legit make it horrifying? Come on!
A fan asked Gunn if his “young Superman movie” is set in the past. Gunn replied: “I was never making a ‘young Superman’ movie, just a Superman movie!”
This implies he is making GERIATRIC SUPERMAN!
Faster than a speeding snail! Able to leap the tallest curb! He can see through very thin pieces of paper with his X-ray vision!