Is anyone else kinda disappointed with how the Doomsday trailer rollout has been handled?
to be clear, I love Marvel. I grew up on these movies. Midnight premieres, rewatches, quoting lines, arguing about rankings, all of it. This universe has given me some of my favorite theater experiences ever and I still want to feel that buzz again when a new saga kicks off. But is Anyone else kinda bummed by the Doomsday trailer rollout or is it just me?
And I say that as someone who actually wants Marvel to be great again. There are things here that genuinely rule. Captain America being back is awesome. That should feel like a huge moment.
That’s kinda why this whole thing feels weird to me. After the last few kinda meh years, I really thought they’d come out swinging with this. Like “ok yeah we’re back” energy. Instead it’s been these tiny post credit scene style teases and it just hasn’t really landed for me.
Releasing basically the same tease multiple times and tying it to people having to sit through a 3 and a half hour Avatar movie just to see it feels a little cash grabby, even if that’s not the intention. I get marketing, but I was hoping to feel excited, not just aware that the movie exists.
Which sucks because the ingredients are there. Cap is back, the stakes should be massive, and Doomsday should feel like a big swing. But somehow it doesn't. I’m still rooting for it though.
And I say that as someone who actually wants Marvel to be great again. There are things here that genuinely rule. Captain America being back is awesome. That should feel like a huge moment.
That’s kinda why this whole thing feels weird to me. After the last few kinda meh years, I really thought they’d come out swinging with this. Like “ok yeah we’re back” energy. Instead it’s been these tiny post credit scene style teases and it just hasn’t really landed for me.
Releasing basically the same tease multiple times and tying it to people having to sit through a 3 and a half hour Avatar movie just to see it feels a little cash grabby, even if that’s not the intention. I get marketing, but I was hoping to feel excited, not just aware that the movie exists.
Which sucks because the ingredients are there. Cap is back, the stakes should be massive, and Doomsday should feel like a big swing. But somehow it doesn't. I’m still rooting for it though.
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I feel like Marvel Studios always intended the Avatar exclusive Doomsday scenes to be nothing more than *teasers* to grab the GA's attention, but people (at least in the online space) have spun it to be some trailer. It doesn't also help that leaker/scooper culture can be subjected to a lot of misinformation and disinformation, muddying the waters for everyone.
It has always been cash grabby. Always. Every one of these movies exists as a cash grab. They've just run out of good ideas and people are sick of them so they are resorting to lame tactics in an attempt to drum up hype while making money for a movie that people also don't give a shit about.
Therefore, they DO have to sell us on this film.
Outside of that, this was simply a teaser. The true trailers won't come out until the late spring or summer.
[Avengers: Doomsday (2026) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21357150/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_doomsda)
Mackie is cast as Sam.
[Avengers: Endgame (2019) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154796/)
Evans was always cast as Steve Rogers.
Learning about it a few days earlier honestly doesn't change much.
The Same very fans: It's so dumb that Marvel is hyping up a film a year before it comes out, they should wait until it's closer to release date.
They posted the first teaser on Tuesday.
Again you don't have to go watch the stupid Avatar film if you are Patient enough.
People need to come to grips. There’s only one A-list and it can only be used once before we’ve seen it. The teasers, yeah, pretty meh but I also don’t care.
I don’t want to see a ton of the movie. I don’t want over the top spectacle in an ill-fated and ill-advised attempt at trying to pull off the impossible - trying to surpass what came before.
There’s no build up in the overall Doom story, so at least let the marketing and trailers be a slow burn. Fine with it, there’s still time.
Anyone who turns up to Avatar: Fire and Ash to see any of the teasers are allowed to leave before the film begins and possibly get a refund too. Also, you say it's cash grabby and I suppose it is, but it's like that towards the people behind Avatar, not towards Marvel Studios. So I don't see what the complaint is regarding Marvel Studios. I know Disney owns both, but still.
Look at the tag I've had for years at this point. I am THE hardcore Winter Soldier stan. I absolutely love Steve. But Steve is... Steve. That's all he was between Winter Soldier and the last act of Endgame, a known quantity with predictable choices and a narrow world view in a far more interesting universe than he started. I love Steve, but I don't really care what they want to do with him at this point.
I watched Shang-Chi and thought, "Oh, that's better fight choreography than Winter Soldier." I watched Wakanda Forever and thought, "Oh, this is actually smarter than Winter Soldier." I watched No Way Home and thought, "Oh... hell, that's a crossover." I saw Deadpool and Wolverine and thought, "Oh... I'd rather watch these guys banter than Steve and literally anyone else in the MCU." Now I'm waiting for more Shang-Chi movies, more Wakanda movies, more Spider-Man movies, and more Deadpool and Wolverine antics.
And by the time Nat dies, she's a better Steve than Steve is. She even has to go rescue her serial killer best friend and recruit him to the team, which Steve never actually managed to do with Bucky.
You're expecting these ingredients to make the meal, but deep down you know that "we boiled everything," to quote Steve himself, is probably not going to give you something delicious.
However. Marvel said at the end of endgame basically, we're moving on from rdj and Chris Evans. And 6 years later, here's Chris Evans and rdj to help put money in marvels pockets since no one really cared about anything else.