Sadly the only way for an American to get a new thought is to be spoon-fed it through a screen.
This is why the Nolan Batman trilogy (really the first two films) resonated so well with the global audience.
It was an ordinary guy against systemic corruption, something that a majority of the global population lives in every day.
Not a superhero against an externalized villain whose motives can be boiled down to either "evil because I deserve it" (the main antagonist) or "evil because of necessity" (every thug and extra who gets beat up).
Iron Man was also basically a giant ad for the US military in Afghanistan lol. Marvel never brought back the Taliban ten rings in Shang Chi
the Nolan batman trilogy is just how the public are sheep and they need a super badass Seal Team Six operator to save them from themselves
dc is more guilty of this than marvel, but yeah.
Most Marvel movies suck.
They didn't use to.
The problem is the studios have gotten lazy and risk adverse.
The reason why Endgame was so huge was because the studio took some risks and did the work to set everything up for that payoff.
There were movies in the first few phases that fell flat, like Thor 2, but even that movie pushed the plotlines forward.
Post Endgame, marvel hasn't really had a unified plan. They've also become so risk adverse that if any given movie underperforms, it kills the entire plotline.
Which leads to movies that don't have meaningful character growth, so who cares about those characters? Or those movies?
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