They certainly need to do something. While I think superhero/genre fatigue is overrated, it is certainly a thing. More importantly in my eyes they've just had a bunch of middling and poorly...
They certainly need to do something.
While I think superhero/genre fatigue is overrated, it is certainly a thing. More importantly in my eyes they've just had a bunch of middling and poorly written films/shows (a smart thread through them with a lot of tropey filler junk filling out the runtime). Worse they wasted potentially great plotlines with all this (secret war) or characters (daredevil/kingpin).
And that's before the nuke that was Jonathan Major's and everything that happened there.
If they want to do this sort of thing they need to keep up the quality, and I think that's 100% why the first "phase" or whatever up to thanos worked. Shifting into mass production mode and just vomiting out poorly made content has done them no favors.
Imho the Thanos plot worked because it was contained. You had the Avengers and their movies and then the team ups. If you missed one it didn't matter much. But House Mouse is public and needs to...
Imho the Thanos plot worked because it was contained. You had the Avengers and their movies and then the team ups. If you missed one it didn't matter much.
But House Mouse is public and needs to grow. So expand the scope, more movies, more shows, more interconnection. You can't keep up unless you give them all the attention. Plus the increased volume of content will quicken fatigue development.
James Bond works for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that he only shows up every couple of years.
They’re having trouble nailing a Director. They asked Shawn Levy (Deadpool and Wolverine) but he turned it down, which is weird since he’s a studio hack and should have been an automatic yes....
They’re having trouble nailing a Director. They asked Shawn Levy (Deadpool and Wolverine) but he turned it down, which is weird since he’s a studio hack and should have been an automatic yes.
JFC PLEASE let this happen! These two brothers have made the most impactful of the MCU films. Can you remember the absolute silence in the theatre at the end of Infinity War? SPOILERS Cap,...
JFC PLEASE let this happen!
These two brothers have made the most impactful of the MCU films. Can you remember the absolute silence in the theatre at the end of Infinity War?
SPOILERS
Cap, stunned, gasping out, "Oh, god."
Captain America: Winter Soldier: a spy thriller with a failed friendship at its core
Cap: Civil War
Infinity War
Endgame
Apart from Black Panther (the first one), IMO nothing else in the MCU has come close.
Hell, they've been saying, since as far back as Endgame, they'd be interested in coming back if Secret Wars was in the mix. This was long before Secret Wars was even announced!
I'd argue that the success of the initial MCU cycle came down to producers and the writing more than the Russo Bro's directorial talents. The Russo's helmed some of the best movies in the MCU, but...
I'd argue that the success of the initial MCU cycle came down to producers and the writing more than the Russo Bro's directorial talents. The Russo's helmed some of the best movies in the MCU, but I can't really see a "style" that connects their films.
Compare that to Michael Bay, whose style (however grating it is) is infused fundamentally itself into the Transformers series. With the Russo's, their post-MCU movies have been a bore. I fell asleep twice watching The Gray Man and didn't bother with a third time.
The writers of Infinity War and Endgame (Markus and McFeely) were the writers responsible for Captain America: The First Aveneger, The Winter Soldier, and Civil War. Before that they had written...
The writers of Infinity War and Endgame (Markus and McFeely) were the writers responsible for Captain America: The First Aveneger, The Winter Soldier, and Civil War. Before that they had written the screenplay for The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe as well as the screenplay for Pain and Gain (speaking of Michael Bay).
Yes, these guys. I forgot their names. The Gray Man (haven't seen it) does seem the exception to the Russo's + writers formula, judging by the film's reception.
Yes, these guys. I forgot their names.
The Gray Man (haven't seen it) does seem the exception to the Russo's + writers formula, judging by the film's reception.
That's the thing with the Russo's: they settled on a different theme for each of their films. You can see the same in their Community episodes: they're often wildly different from each other,...
That's the thing with the Russo's: they settled on a different theme for each of their films. You can see the same in their Community episodes: they're often wildly different from each other, totally and directionally.
Marvel does have a heavy hand so, almost certainly, you're right by some measure. But look at the data: the Russo's and their favorite writers (names elude me here) are the pairing that has been the constant success.
Names are proper nouns, which become plurals the same way that other nouns do: add the letter -s for most names (“the Johnsons,” “the Websters”) or add -es if the name ends in s or z (“the Joneses,” “the Martinezes”). To show possession using an apostrophe, add ’s for individuals (“Smith’s car”) and just the apostrophe after the s for plurals (“the Smiths’ car,” “the Martinezes’ dog”).
Anthony Russo, Joseph Russo. Collectively, the Russo Brothers. Plural, the Russos. Singular possessively, the Russo's. Plural possessively, the Russos'.
"The Russos attended the premiere." Plural. Meaning: the two brothers attended an event.
"The Russo's car broke down." Possessive. Meaning: a car associated with a Russo had a mechanical difficulty.
"The Russos' car broke down." Plural possessive. Meaning: a car collectively associated to more than one Russo had a mechanical difficulty.
We have such a lovely forum here, with lots of people who know how to communicate and write correctly. It's so refreshing. Let's not encourage the Reddit slide into incoherence please, where the posts just become increasingly incorrect over the simplest conventions of English.
Just talks for now, but the powers that be must be getting real antsy about the MCU's future if they're bringing back the Russo's.
They certainly need to do something.
While I think superhero/genre fatigue is overrated, it is certainly a thing. More importantly in my eyes they've just had a bunch of middling and poorly written films/shows (a smart thread through them with a lot of tropey filler junk filling out the runtime). Worse they wasted potentially great plotlines with all this (secret war) or characters (daredevil/kingpin).
And that's before the nuke that was Jonathan Major's and everything that happened there.
If they want to do this sort of thing they need to keep up the quality, and I think that's 100% why the first "phase" or whatever up to thanos worked. Shifting into mass production mode and just vomiting out poorly made content has done them no favors.
Imho the Thanos plot worked because it was contained. You had the Avengers and their movies and then the team ups. If you missed one it didn't matter much.
But House Mouse is public and needs to grow. So expand the scope, more movies, more shows, more interconnection. You can't keep up unless you give them all the attention. Plus the increased volume of content will quicken fatigue development.
James Bond works for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that he only shows up every couple of years.
They’re having trouble nailing a Director. They asked Shawn Levy (Deadpool and Wolverine) but he turned it down, which is weird since he’s a studio hack and should have been an automatic yes.
Seems like a job no one wants lol.
JFC PLEASE let this happen!
These two brothers have made the most impactful of the MCU films. Can you remember the absolute silence in the theatre at the end of Infinity War?
SPOILERS
Cap, stunned, gasping out, "Oh, god."Apart from Black Panther (the first one), IMO nothing else in the MCU has come close.
Hell, they've been saying, since as far back as Endgame, they'd be interested in coming back if Secret Wars was in the mix. This was long before Secret Wars was even announced!
I'd argue that the success of the initial MCU cycle came down to producers and the writing more than the Russo Bro's directorial talents. The Russo's helmed some of the best movies in the MCU, but I can't really see a "style" that connects their films.
Compare that to Michael Bay, whose style (however grating it is) is infused fundamentally itself into the Transformers series. With the Russo's, their post-MCU movies have been a bore. I fell asleep twice watching The Gray Man and didn't bother with a third time.
The writers of Infinity War and Endgame (Markus and McFeely) were the writers responsible for Captain America: The First Aveneger, The Winter Soldier, and Civil War. Before that they had written the screenplay for The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe as well as the screenplay for Pain and Gain (speaking of Michael Bay).
Ironically they also wrote The Gray Man.
Yes, these guys. I forgot their names.
The Gray Man (haven't seen it) does seem the exception to the Russo's + writers formula, judging by the film's reception.
That's the thing with the Russo's: they settled on a different theme for each of their films. You can see the same in their Community episodes: they're often wildly different from each other, totally and directionally.
Marvel does have a heavy hand so, almost certainly, you're right by some measure. But look at the data: the Russo's and their favorite writers (names elude me here) are the pairing that has been the constant success.
Now here’s a man who knows how to reference Community. And yes, I realize that’s a reference after the Russos were no longer directing Community.
Oh my Gosh, I just can't take it. Especially as it keeps being repeated. Friendly reminder follows.
Russos. Not Russo's.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/what-happens-to-names-when-we-make-them-plural-or-possessive
Anthony Russo, Joseph Russo. Collectively, the Russo Brothers. Plural, the Russos. Singular possessively, the Russo's. Plural possessively, the Russos'.
"The Russos attended the premiere." Plural. Meaning: the two brothers attended an event.
"The Russo's car broke down." Possessive. Meaning: a car associated with a Russo had a mechanical difficulty.
"The Russos' car broke down." Plural possessive. Meaning: a car collectively associated to more than one Russo had a mechanical difficulty.
We have such a lovely forum here, with lots of people who know how to communicate and write correctly. It's so refreshing. Let's not encourage the Reddit slide into incoherence please, where the posts just become increasingly incorrect over the simplest conventions of English.