Should Marvel take a break?

[Best]

Age of Ultron just shows Marvel is losing it.




What happened.




They should totally take a break.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

Should they? Yes.
Will they? No. They're making lots of money.
What else is there to do, then? Allow more creativity

This seems right to me.

 

[First Avenger]

As expected.

While you are SO impartial and with such a constructive and your 'YAY!YAS!F4NT4STIC!'.

 

[Gingervitus]

No. If anything I think they should be doing more like making me a damn Marvel game worth playing, it's been 6 years people!

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

They can't, even if they wanted to. Not with their main competitor in WB greatly increasing production of CBMs. If they take a break, WB will steal the market.

 

[The Whizzer]

After IW Marvel should take a break from all out 'got to top the last movie' mentality and concentrate on more focused self contained movies.

This is why I'm more excited about Ant-Man than Avengers 2. It feels like its own movie, and not "here's what you need to know to get to Thanos!"

As for the OP...I really think 3 movies a year is pushing it, especially with DC and Fox planning to flood the market. It really is going to be way too much.

 

[PROLIFIK1]

You mean should they take a break and let their competitors build up momentum?.

My thoughts exactly. Taking a break will only allow DC and Fox to catch up. Not going to happen. There are millions of stories to be adapted into the MCU. Why stop when Phase Three ends?

 

[zlucamanz]

I'll take a break from superhero movie for awhile after phase 3 is done.

 

[samsnee]

Good article on what happened behind the scenes with Ultimates

http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/secret-history-of-ultimate-marvel.html

The point of making this thread is that I wonder if the MCU is making the same mistakes of too much too soon. It will collapse under the weight of its own continuity.

 

[Eddie]

Good article on what happened behind the scenes with Ultimates

http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/secret-history-of-ultimate-marvel.html

The point of making this thread is that I wonder if the MCU is making the same mistakes of too much too soon. It will collapse under the weight of its own continuity.

I think they could use Kang to possibly "adjust" the continuity in a future Avengers film, what with time travel being his whole thing. He's also one of the biggest Avengers villains they haven't used, so he's pretty much a shoe in to show up someday.

 

[samsnee]

I hated when Star Trek and X-men did that. It's cheap.

 

[Dasher10]

Every film they've made so far has been profitable (The Incredible Hulk the least so but it was still mildly profitable) so why stop? No business that's making money is going to stop doing what they're doing.

 

[Docker2.0]

They can't, even if they wanted to. Not with their main competitor in WB greatly increasing production of CBMs. If they take a break, WB will steal the market.

I honestly don't think WB will do as well as Marvel. Why? They have no Fiege to run the company. They seem completely lost and have no clue when it comes to their movies and DCCU. I do think BvS will make money but I'm on record as saying that JLA will only make MOS money. Their characters are not as popular as people seem to think. But don't get me started on that.

 

[Godzillasaurus]

Well at least they have everything planned out from now until Infinity War at least, including a few of the years following Part 2. When Infinity War is over, they will have more time to focus on less popular films/characters (save for Spiderman of course), as IM, CA, Thor, and probably Hulk will all be done in the MCU.

To be honest though, I stopped giving a damn about Pixar a long time ago. Is that new Inside Out s*** a Pixar movie or what? I don't know

 

[Eddie]

Well at least they have everything planned out from now until Infinity War at least, including a few of the years following Part 2. When Infinity War is over, they will have more time to focus on less popular films/characters (save for Spiderman of course), as IM, CA, Thor, and probably Hulk will all be done in the MCU.

To be honest though, I stopped giving a damn about Pixar a long time ago. Is that new Inside Out s*** a Pixar movie or what? I don't know

Inside out is Pixar, and the early buzz is incredibly positive. There have already been screenings.

As for the current MCU lead characters being done after Infinity War, I think there's a good chance they'll just take a break from those particular heroes for a phase or two and then recast (unless the current actors actually want to stay on, in which case they'll probably be in Phase 4 as well).

 

[Aztec]

The MCU is on fire on the big screen and I hear DD is fantastic (next week I'm watching) so no there is no need for a break there. Their last three films have been three of their best.

I would however reconsider the ABC shows. The quality is just not there and it all feels very forced and unneeded having no impact on the larger story. Netflix allows for much greater quality and focus and besides they are actually about SUPER heroes.

I do however agree that after IW Marvel is in a bind. You just can't top that level of epic spectacle. They are going to have to rethink their entire approach at that point. They also need to decide what they are going to do with The Inhumans. There doesn't seem to be any point in releasing a Phase 3 film AFTER IW. There is no way that won't feel completely anti-climatic. Either push it to Phase Four and start over or move it before IW part II.

 

[starscream22]

If only Marvel could make a movie as good as the last X-Men movie. They sure didn't do it with the Avengers.

And yet only the last Avengers got my money.

TWICE!

Will Fox-men receive any of my money next year?

NO!

So I guess it seems your opinion has no effect over my wallet.

 

[starscream22]

I'd put all 11 MCU films ahead of the last X-men movie. In a heartbeat. There's a reason DoFP is basically just Franchise Management: The Movie.

You, me and so would Hugh Jackman apparently! LOL!

 

[metaphysician]

Eh, I'm willing to put DOFP ahead of Incredible Hulk, at the least. "Mess of a plot, but a bunch of good actors chewing the scenery" is still better than "empty bland hole where a movie should be". Its probably about equal to Iron Man 2 and Thor 2, as well.

 

[starscream22]

Eh, I'm willing to put DOFP ahead of Incredible Hulk, at the least. "Mess of a plot, but a bunch of good actors chewing the scenery" is still better than "empty bland hole where a movie should be". Its probably about equal to Iron Man 2 and Thor 2, as well.

I love IH.

It's number 6 on my list of MCU films.

 

[Destructus86]

The MCU is dependent on the films to keep coming. You can't slow this train down now without derailing it.

 

[Godzillasaurus]

I do however agree that after IW Marvel is in a bind. You just can't top that level of epic spectacle. They are going to have to rethink their entire approach at that point.

Infinity War is a very fitting end to the MCU, I agree with that statement. But that doesn't mean that new villains cannot "arise from the rubble" and capitalize on the situation.

There doesn't seem to be any point in releasing a Phase 3 film AFTER IW. There is no way that won't feel completely anti-climatic. Either push it to Phase Four and start over or move it before IW part II.

They still have the new Spiderman movies to focus on, for one; that will be a huge money-maker from the fact that it is about Spiderman alone. And second, who is to say that all of these movies have to take place after Infinity War? Hell, they could take place decades before First Avenger (would any of these movies fit that qualification? I do not read comics so I would not know)

 

[Eddie]

I'm telling you guys, Avengers: Holy ****, Here Comes Dormammu™. 2022.



@Godzillasaurus

Marvel does have characters that exist pre-WWII. In particular, some of their Western characters (Two-Gun Kid, Phantom Rider, etc.) would be from before Steve's time.

 

[Klank]

Good article on what happened behind the scenes with Ultimates

http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/secret-history-of-ultimate-marvel.html

The point of making this thread is that I wonder if the MCU is making the same mistakes of too much too soon. It will collapse under the weight of its own continuity.

As the article points out if was Ultimates 3 which was the major force behind the downfall of the Ultimate line.

As long as Marvel Studios doesn't start gruesomely killing it's characters I think they'll be fine.

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

Good article on what happened behind the scenes with Ultimates

http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/secret-history-of-ultimate-marvel.html

So, as long as they keep Loeb away from the movies everything is save?