Telling someone to put their money where their mouth is, when they want other people to be violent, is not 'advocating for violence.'

It's calling out morons who want other people to fight their battles. ;)

Nice try though.

Okay keyboard warrior.

Lol, sure bud.

In this thread.

My dad was never around growing up, and when he was he was a shell of a person thanks to PTSD.

Disney movies absolutely fill that void, for both parents. Their movies always have good moral lessons for kids (and adults) to learn from.

When people attack Disney for things, it always just comes off as pious and looking for a fight. Sure, they're a big company, but they still are one of the few companies that actually tries to do some good and let people experience some magic once in a while.

You know that gay people are treated like shit in all Muslim countries, right? Including Gaza.

Same. I put in like 3 hours into Breakpoint and I was like 'where's literally all the flavor gone from this game? So glad I waited until it was like a 5 dollar steam sale. Even then I tried to refund it but was past the 'trial' period.

Film fans have zero grace when it comes to this franchise.

Lets examine a few things, and talk about why quality dropped off.

Chapek and his blundering accounting decisions from hell

Chapek told Marvel to effectively double their output of productions, without giving them subsequent staff, creatives, and resources to keep their quality control they had (for the most part) maintained over the course of 25 some movies. Ask yourself, how is ~~Kathleen Kennedy~~ (wrong nerd rage target) Kevin Feige and the storytellers at Marvel supposed to maintain quality while having effectively double the work.

You're all probably adults, and have had more work tossed on your pile than you can handle. How many people here can honestly say they kept the quality of their work up when they have had staff turnovers, more responsibilities, and increased output? I'm guessing none of you, and if you're saying you kept it you're a liar.

Marvel was kneecapped from a greedy accountant. Not the creatives fault.

Covid

Here's also a big one. Any of you guys work in film and television? I do. And I can tell you, we all had to learn, from the ground up, how to shoot movies again while following a bunch of TSA level security theatre charades on set. So from Covid, issue number one. We can't shoot the way we have shot movies for over 100 years anymore, lets see how this works out. This happened in all films during this pandemic as well, not just with Marvel. But oh just you wait, there's even more Covid bullshit that fucked Marvel up.

Release orders and shooting orders were all changed around multiple times because of the pandemic.

What's the one key thing that Marvel has had that no franchise before it had? A concise A-line through all the films weaving together a bunch of movies (and now shows thanks to D+) into a singular cohesive story. This was taken away by shuffling the release order (which is an understandable solution studio side of things, because they need movies to come out even during Covid), but still, a studio decision not a Marvel decision.

Untimely outside events

So another sad part of this is that outside events really hampered the MCU as well. Chadwick was supposed to be a really large part of the next phase and he unfortunately passed, requiring extensive reworks to multiple projects. On top of this, John Majors also had a major controversy which effectively killed off an entire major villain arc (and good for them, did it mess up some films? Sure, but I'd rather them can someone than pull a Spacey and ignore the scandals).

Added thought

For a lot of people, the shows were too much. Totally get it, but what I respect is that they tried numerous formats, styles, run lengths, release schedules, to see what people liked and what people didn't like. The only one universally disliked was Secret Wars, and there was some actual good ones. too. Again, I get it, but I do respect that they at least had the balls to try different things and see what works and what doesn't. Looking at Daredevil, I think the future in this part of the franchise is very bright.

Is there some fatigue for Marvel? Sure. But to act like they aren't popular, or that they're just 'bad' now is just a sophomoric view of the problem, why there's a problem to begin with, and where the franchise is going as a whole.

Ok I'm going back to my scotch now.

I live in LA. You can find apartments here for cheap if you look.

The whole reason southern California and the Bay Area are both expensive, is because they are some of the most desirable places to live in the entire country.

Simple as that.

Precisely.

Honestly I'm glad the sleigh is gone. It was so bad in my mind.

I'm also interested in seeing where the fluff is going. From the releases so far it doesn't look like we're going to get Russ though, which I think is a good thing.

I agree both of those would be awesome!