I came up at rhe perfect age for them since the first Iron Man movie came out when i was in middle school. It was cool seeing a studio build off of that and create a whole universe with intentional tie-ins, teasers, and references since it had never been done before. The allure really started to diminsh after Ragnarok, but it was good enough that i felt compelled to watch it through the end. I have had zero interest in any of the movies after End Game since that's what it was all building up to.
The actual core group of characters (Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, ect ect) are fun enough characters and the actors they got to play them have good chemistry. I think that's why it worked. Think is you got two problems, 1) actors age, die, get tired of playing the same role, 2) if you keep expanding the cast you're gonna end up with characters and actors that don't play as well off each other.
You also have Disney thinking they can make Avengers money in perpetuity and oversaturating it even further. I actually think that the MCU could still have legs if they didn't release so much and make them all CGI-filled fights in apocalyptic sets.
Especially because superhero comics aren't all big massive crossovers in destroyed cities, there are plenty of more grounded stories that explore the characters.
They also have way too many tie ins, where you need to have seen everything in order to understand what is happening. I'm not watching 3 seasons of shitty tv shows so i can follow the plot of a shitty movie.
Also because all the TV-shows sucked ass and refused to make any real plot-progress for the overarching story, while still somehow making you confused if you missed them.
Spider-man Homecoming showed them a potential alternate path that they completely chickened out on. These movies don't have to end in giant citywide battles and/or have the literal fate of the multiverse at stake. That movie is mainly a coming of age highschool story and the big climax is literally just him stopping a heist. After Endgame Phase 4 could have been a reset back to a certain relative peace. Would have been interesting to see the whole universe, earth included, kinda chill for a bit after everything that happened. OBV there'd be a big bad threat again eventually...but we could have gotten some lower stakes palette cleansers introducing us to the new guys and letting the old guard kinda relax and start transitioning into more advisory roles.
I came up at rhe perfect age for them since the first Iron Man movie came out when i was in middle school. It was cool seeing a studio build off of that and create a whole universe with intentional tie-ins, teasers, and references since it had never been done before. The allure really started to diminsh after Ragnarok, but it was good enough that i felt compelled to watch it through the end. I have had zero interest in any of the movies after End Game since that's what it was all building up to.
The actual core group of characters (Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, ect ect) are fun enough characters and the actors they got to play them have good chemistry. I think that's why it worked. Think is you got two problems, 1) actors age, die, get tired of playing the same role, 2) if you keep expanding the cast you're gonna end up with characters and actors that don't play as well off each other.
You also have Disney thinking they can make Avengers money in perpetuity and oversaturating it even further. I actually think that the MCU could still have legs if they didn't release so much and make them all CGI-filled fights in apocalyptic sets.
Especially because superhero comics aren't all big massive crossovers in destroyed cities, there are plenty of more grounded stories that explore the characters.
They also have way too many tie ins, where you need to have seen everything in order to understand what is happening. I'm not watching 3 seasons of shitty tv shows so i can follow the plot of a shitty movie.
Also because all the TV-shows sucked ass and refused to make any real plot-progress for the overarching story, while still somehow making you confused if you missed them.
Spider-man Homecoming showed them a potential alternate path that they completely chickened out on. These movies don't have to end in giant citywide battles and/or have the literal fate of the multiverse at stake. That movie is mainly a coming of age highschool story and the big climax is literally just him stopping a heist. After Endgame Phase 4 could have been a reset back to a certain relative peace. Would have been interesting to see the whole universe, earth included, kinda chill for a bit after everything that happened. OBV there'd be a big bad threat again eventually...but we could have gotten some lower stakes palette cleansers introducing us to the new guys and letting the old guard kinda relax and start transitioning into more advisory roles.
Instead we got Eternals.
Or even the first Deadpool movie. It was not some apocalyptic threat. It was just Deadpool after some guy he had a grudge on.