To be clear, Thunderbolts hasn’t sunk to the depths of “The Marvels,” which remains the MCU’s lowest-grossing film at just $205M worldwide. But it’s still the second-worst performer in franchise history.
I started skipping a couple of marvel movies after endgame and now the trains kind of left me behind. Interconnected movies are awesome until you fall behind. Then you’ve got a bunch of movies you have to watch first. Or at least that’s what my brain feels like I have to do (even if it’s not true).
And not just prior movies, hours and hours of TV series content. The movies (marvels, brave new world specifically) starting to feel more like climatic crossover events of the shows, less like their own stories.
This behavior tracks closely with the comic books medium unfortunately, but I hoped they’d do better to keep the films insulated from “homework”.
I started skipping a couple of marvel movies after endgame and now the trains kind of left me behind. Interconnected movies are awesome until you fall behind. Then you’ve got a bunch of movies you have to watch first. Or at least that’s what my brain feels like I have to do (even if it’s not true).
And not just prior movies, hours and hours of TV series content. The movies (marvels, brave new world specifically) starting to feel more like climatic crossover events of the shows, less like their own stories.
This behavior tracks closely with the comic books medium unfortunately, but I hoped they’d do better to keep the films insulated from “homework”.
That’s the problem with Phase 5, very few of the films were interconnected.
The next big thing is the Multiverse stuff, the films that touched on that you can pretty much count on one hand.
Antman and Wasp Quantumania
Multiverse of Madness
No Way Home
Deadpool + Wolverine
That’s it. The other 10 films in Phase 5 are individually unrelated. I loved Guardians 3, it has fuck all to do with the multiverse.
“Are there going to be any multiverse movies in this multiverse saga?” -Dr. Ian Malcolm
There was also Loki, but yeah they should have with Secret Invasion as saga instead of a crappy TV show.