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White Light
Dec 19, 2012

Pirate Jet posted:

I agree with everything you just said! I just wasn’t talking about Madame Web, I was challenging the common explanations as to why superhero movies as a genre have had such a downturn lately.

If you're talking about why the non-MCU movies have been bad, like one of the posters mentioned above it was stone-faced business suits creating shovelware with the IPs they managed to own and splattershotting films until one hopefully sticks, but none of them really did so it padded out your genre with a huge amount of glut.

In regards to the MCU, it's more a case that it simply was no longer sustainable to maintain. For this next saga they had absolutely no long-term battle plan, no easy jumping in point for casuals, had practically exhausted their entire catalogue of heroes, and went with the worst plot decision imaginable of a Multiverse, where the stakes could not possibly be any lower in your narrative. They lost the trust of the casual viewer and I doubt they'll ever get it back.

White Light fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Feb 14, 2024

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White Light
Dec 19, 2012

What is Madame Web's whole thing anyways? The only passing knowledge I have of this lady was from that one episode in the 90s Spiderman show where she sat in a chair to make exposition dumps over something I can't be bothered to remember.

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