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Spoilers Marvel Cinematic Universe spoiler-heavy speculation thread

What grade would you give the Marvel Cinematic Universe? (Ever-Changing Question)


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I ended up falling behind and not being able to continue, but I watched the first halfish of the first season of the current Spider-Man series and I thought it was great. Maybe not quite up to the quality of Spectacular Spider-Man, but pretty close.

Yeah... It's not as good as the '94 series or Spectacular, but I'd say it's the third-best animated Spidey. It is interesting how it brings in elements from the more recent comics, like Horizon Labs (reinterpreted as a high school) and Max Modell, the Spider Island stuff, and so forth. That makes it different from its predecessors.
 
https://www.vulture.com/2019/12/every-movie-of-the-2010s-ranked-sort-of.html#theworst

Avengers Endgame found to be the absolute worst movie of the decade.

More like ridiculous clickbait website throws together totally random 'ranking' of thousands of films which is deliberately designed to praise/denigrate a few specific choices without making any effort to justify why they're better/worse than the vast majority that simply gets described as 'mediocre' with no further effort whatsoever.

They're taking perfectly pleasant and fun/interesting films - not just Endgame, but Miss Sloane, Saving Mr. Banks, Glass, Ocean's 8, Mary Poppins Returns, Now You See Me, Passengers - and ranking them not just on the same level as Twilight or Transformers or even the Tom Cruise Mummy, but on the same freaking level as *Human Centipede* for f$#k's sake. Yet stuff like Ready Player One, Prometheus, Game Night, Oz the Great and Powerful, Batman v Superman or the Red Dawn remake somehow rank hundreds or thousands of spots higher and are considered perfectly average. It's easily the most idiotic list I've ever seen.
 
Yup, that's Vulture in a nutshell. Stupid crap like that is why I stopped reading them ages ago (although admittedly they do occasionally write a good interview).
 
https://www.vulture.com/2019/12/every-movie-of-the-2010s-ranked-sort-of.html#theworst

Avengers Endgame found to be the absolute worst movie of the decade.
Not a fan of Endgame but it wasn't THAT bad. I've seen far worse. Looking at this list I have to disagree with Into the Spiderverse being the best superhero movie. It was good, but if we're going to use the words BEST OF THE DECADE I'd put Avengers 1, The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy or Infinity War above that.
 
I think the fact they had Fury Road at #2 is nearly as absurd.

None the less, I thought Endgame was one of the best MCU movies. What am I missing?
Fury road gets praised a whole lot by the pinky up movie reviewers. I haven't figured out why...
 
Fury road gets praised a whole lot by the pinky up movie reviewers. I haven't figured out why...

It's really just a bigger budget take on Road Warrior, IMO.

I think it's less the story and that they enjoyed the crazy imagery, the practical effects, etc.
 
Just Jared has set pics from WandaVision of Elizabeth Olsen and first look at Teyona Parris as adult Monica Rambeau. Apparently, the set is supposed to be the offices of SWORD, a counterpart agency of SHIELD that focuses on extraterrestrial threats, but I'm not sure where that information comes from in these pics.

http://www.justjared.com/2019/12/16...with-teyonah-parris-aka-adult-monica-rambeau/

ETA: upon closer inspection I see the symbol for SWORD in the background of one of the pics. I wonder if Monica is working for SWORD due to her connections with Carol Danvers. That could explain Darcy Lewis's presence as well, given her association with Thor. And perhaps Jimmy Woo transferred from the FBI to SWORD.
 
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That's sounds like good supposition there, despite my lack of knowledge of SWORD. Hell, I hadn't even heard of them until people speculated that SWORD might show up on Agents of SHIELD after the season 4 finale stinger.
 
Kevin Feige has said that work is "well underway" on the next team up movie. I noticed right away that he didn't call it an Avengers movie, he just said "it's fun to see them come together in a master plan".

He didn't even say it was a team-up movie at all; that's just an assumption. Maybe they've thought of a new way they can "come together." Like, maybe an arc where the different heroes all separately fight the same villain, with each film's events influencing the next. That could be a cool way to introduce Dr. Doom, say -- maybe he's a power behind the scenes in the first couple of films, then he emerges as a more overt adversary in the next few films after he's exposed, and it all builds up to a final confrontation with the Fantastic Four, who have perhaps been seeded over the previous few solo films.
 
He didn't even say it was a team-up movie at all; that's just an assumption. Maybe they've thought of a new way they can "come together." Like, maybe an arc where the different heroes all separately fight the same villain, with each film's events influencing the next. That could be a cool way to introduce Dr. Doom, say -- maybe he's a power behind the scenes in the first couple of films, then he emerges as a more overt adversary in the next few films after he's exposed, and it all builds up to a final confrontation with the Fantastic Four, who have perhaps been seeded over the previous few solo films.
I would like to have Dr. Doom gather these different adversaries into a villain team. Then Spider Man says to the Avengers "So is legion of Doom's is going to challenge our Super Friends?" and then all the older heroes just give him the side-eye. and he says "What???"
 
I would like to have Dr. Doom gather these different adversaries into a villain team. Then Spider Man says to the Avengers "So is legion of Doom's is going to challenge our Super Friends?" and then all the older heroes just give him the side-eye. and he says "What???"
It wouldn't be the first reference to Super Friends in the MCU.
 
I hope its the real Defenders!

That end of Marvel productions deserves a second life, along with The Punisher. As I've always said, the Bernthal Punisher in a Spider-Man movie would be something to see, as the cold, serious nature of his character would be a major--and welcome--tone change for MCU Spider-Man.
 
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