Don't get me wrong, up till before Captain America Civil War, the majority of the films were enjoyable and actually focused on character development. Hell, Iron Man, Captain America and Thor basically showed not only the origins of the characters but their gradually growth towards the heroes they eventually become at the end of each film, and while the sequels to those films certainly have been a mixed bag, the development of the characters continued forward but all that pretty much stopped when someone at Disney or Marvel realized that they can sacrifice good story telling, character and world building with pretentious preaching and even more flashy visuals and really bad comedy because the 'herd' was going to pay to see it... and if they weren't, hell Disney could just buy mass-bulk of tickets for any first weekend showings that didn't have sell out crowds to inflate the numbers while also claiming they haven't made an actual profit on any MCU film since Captain America Civil War.
So what killed my interest in the MCU, well it was two films... the first being Doctor Strange and the second being Captain Marvel. With Doctor Strange it was an overly long drawn out mess of a movie that tried to cram what was essentially all the character development Tony Stark got over several films into one, because they needed to not only have the character of Doctor Strange introduced to the general public but to get him established firmly and show how powerful he can be as a literal Deus Ex Machina. Then you got that pretentious and preachy mess of Captain Marvel which not only had the same problems as Doctor Strange while also being longer, but also was a prequel to the entire MCU that basically undermined 10 years of continuity to say at the last minute that the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe revolves around the character of Captain Marvel, who established in their own origin film as to be nothing more than basically another Deus Ex Machina. Between those two films I basically said fuck it with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, because I really got the impression that those overseeing the MCU really didn't have a clue of how to get themselves out of the literal corner they were writing themselves into with the debacle that ended up being Infinity War and Endgame, where everything felt rush in an effort to pass the torch to the 'next phase ' of films while rewriting and erasing even more continuity to make things more in line with a vision of style over substance.
But the real sad thing is, because of the unique status of Sony having the rights to Spider-Man and Universal having the film rights to the Hulk, their presence in the MCU basically have been regulated to being side-characters, they are part of the ensemble because Disney/Marvel can't make solo films involving them... which means they have to be teamed up with other characters. You know who else basically was used in that same format within the MCU, Black Widow, Hawkeye, War Machine and Winter Soldier, Black Panther, Falcon, Vision, Scarlet Witch, all of whom are introduced were or are apart of the on-going narrative, actually ADDING the proceedings while not being a detriment to what's going on, they either have a plot of the film (or two) revolve around them like Winter Solider or help advance the story going forward while eventually getting their own film like with Black Panther. If Doctor Strange and Captain Marvel were used like this, basically integrated into the MCU where one felt rushed and the other basically had everything re-written to be all about them, I probably would have better feelings towards the MCU going forward.
Unfortunately we got what we got, and well I don't trust those over seeing the creative aspect of these films to want to waste my money on them going forward.
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