Is Marvel killing its own nostalgia?
If you had asked me 10 years ago, I would have told you I loved Marvel. But now, especially after 2012, my opinion has completely changed. It feels like you took all the nostalgia I had and stomped on it right in front of me. I see characters I once believed had depth and real potential, yet Marvel never gave them the chance to actually grow. They let them fade into nothing… and then, five years later, they come back with a third Spider-Man multiverse — and if you ask the actors themselves to explain it, even they don’t know what’s going on.
My question to the fans is this:
What do you honestly find interesting in the newer movies? Besides the nice visuals, the editing, and the effects — is there anything that actually stays with you? Or are you watching out of habit at this point?
And also: What matters more to you quantity or quality?
My question to the fans is this:
What do you honestly find interesting in the newer movies? Besides the nice visuals, the editing, and the effects — is there anything that actually stays with you? Or are you watching out of habit at this point?
And also: What matters more to you quantity or quality?
Commentaires
Personally, I think Tom Holland's Spidey is the best. I've also liked most of Marvel's other movies and series, with the exception of The Eternals and Secret Invasion.
I enjoyed Thunderbolts and the discussion around mental health.
FF was a fun movie that discussed what it means to be family.
I could go on and on (loved Shang-Chi and Agatha).
From my perspective, they did what the DCEU did and tried to push characters out for a larger storyline and didn’t focus as much on the individual stories. Ms. marvel was fun. The Marvels could have been so much more. The Infinity Saga told powerful individual stories that had an element of the larger story. I think Kang was a great idea and Majors is a great actor(sans alleged abuse); however, I do not think they were ready for Kang. It seems like Doom is shoe-horned in. And as much as I love RDJ, I wonder to what extent they brought him back as Doom to try and reignite the fan base.
I still have interest in Marvel, but I don’t have the excitement. I prefer going to live theater than to the cinema any more (though I plan to see Wicked part 2 soon).
Not sure how big of a Marvel fan you were back then, but but getting Spiderman in the MCU was just a fantasy. Us fanboys were saying “if only we could be so lucky…”. It’s wild how times have changed.
It’s been amazing to see comebacks from MaGuire, Garfield, Jackman, Reynolds, etc… I don’t see how you could call it “killing their own nostalgia.” More like the opposite. Never thought in a million years I’d get to see my own childhood heroes on screen again. Actually **Tobey’s Spiderman crossing over with Foxverse X-men is something I thought about before the MCU even existed**.
The best part is, it’s mostly comic accurate. “Multiple Spider-Men” is a major thing (the Spiderverse), as is the multiverse altogether. The only reason we’re so lucky to get these storyline adaptations is because Feige is a true fan of the source material. The MCU is literally a franchise made by Marvel nerds *for* Marvel nerds.
Each character had their own moment. Just how it works in a scene like that.
And then it all ends in the worst way possible: killing off the most interesting character in my opinion, Iron Man. But I guess at some point the actor has to retire too.