- My first pick is “What If…?”. In a multiverse of infinite possibilities, we ended up getting the same old same old. We could have gotten a nice, episodic, self-contained anthology series that had nothing to do with the rest of the MCU (as it was originally marketed as) but then they had to go and add a huge, connecting storyline. Not to mention the animation style could have been a bit better.
- And then there’s Secret Invasion, which by all accounts was a complete mess. A lot of people say that this should have been the main story arc of Phases 4 to 6 instead of the multiverse. They could have slowly teased the presence of Skrulls invading Earth (perhaps by revealing that some of the Avengers were Skrulls all along?) and maybe used the plot of Secret Invasion as a feature film instead of a series.
Thor Love and Thunder by a mile.
What If? had a phenomenal season 1, even if it wasn’t great after that.
Secret Invasion had potential. But it would have needed to be very careful to get the most out of it. I never really had high expectations from it.
Someone said Doctor Strange 2, but IMO it was everything I wanted out of a Doctor Strange movie. DS1 was more of a letdown.
Eternals should have been a show. But it was well made and had some top-notch CGI.
Thor 4 though was the most frustrating because it’s so close to being an awesome movie. Just look at the deleted scene with Zeus. It’s so much better than the orgy conversation. And Gorr was fucking awesome, I just wanted to see more of him. I want them to spend some money, patch it up, and re-release it. I would go to the theaters again for it if they did.
They’d also need to take out the weapon relationship garbage and the screaming goats, and some of the excessive potty humor.
That’s the bulk of what I’m talking about. The core of the movie is A+. Just give us more of that instead of the juvenile humor.
And toning down the humor would make anything left in funnier. Like, give me screaming goats once, then don’t have it again