Marvel exec: “Hear me out. We literally just bring back all the Sam Raimi supervillains”
Fellow ghoul: “Oh, like write the same characters?”
Marvel exec: “No I mean literally the same actors portraying those particular versions of those characters coming from the Raimi universe”
Fellow ghoul: “......I love it!”
I like the concept of the MCU, I just wish the movies weren't so formulaic. The most exciting Marvel movies are the ones that step outside the norm in some way, but most of them are just "good guy uses macguffin to stop bad guy while dealing with a personal issue" and that gets stale after a while.
Yeah that’s fair, but also that’s kind of like, most sci-fi and fantasy plot line at a basic level, is it not?
Yeah, I oversimplified it a bit. It's more that there is a collection of traits that are common to most MCU movies, which make them look, sound, and feel very similar, and having watched a bunch of them I'm thoroughly tired of those traits so unless an entry goes outside the box in a notable way I can't get excited for it even if it's a character I like like Spiderman.
All tension must be interrupted by the music dropping out and someone making a quirkily awkward dad joke before continuing. Gets a few laughs in the theaters because people view them in groups and then they just break tension and flow because they happen so often
I would be satisfied if they were just color graded less boringly. I loved Doctor Strange just because the spectacle of it had some variety. The fractal shit they did in that movie was badass