Even with word of mouth, when movies like Indy IV & IM are up to $200 Million when your movie is coming out, people are gonna continue to gravitate towards said two. Then when said two are out of the picture & you're up to $100 Million comes TDK. 'nuff said.
It's hard to say. What is easy to say is that Hulk is more famous and popular as a character than IM.
Fact is, TIH just didn't impress people, which isn't surprising when you look at Letterier's filmography.
Because of the SHIELD meet & greet, the second act went straight to the ninth circle of hell & both villains became nothing more than cardboard (that's what happens when you waste time developing SHIELD instead of Vanko & Hammer).
Developing SHIELD? What? Hammer got plenty of development and was a great character. Vanko? Not so much. IM2 was a mess, SHIELD isn't the reason for it.
So then Tom Rothman is responsible for the MCU. He placed a Wolverine cameo in the first Fantastic Four movie that was cut. Let's start praising Rothman for "the brilliance & majesty of the MCU." Oh God.
If Rothman set up the villain in X-Men to be a villain in F4 where they both had to team up to stop it? Yea, maybe.
The way Asgardian mythology was linked in Cap and Thor was well done. The way Cap set up Steve's story in Avengers is apparently well done. The way Loki's fall from grace in Thor, making him a more violent and twisted villain in Avengers, is apparently well done.
These things are a little bit more complex than simple cameos. To deny this is just being a silly little blind hater.
FACT: Marvel Studios has not been able to make IRON MAN numbers since IRON MAN.
FACT: Marvel Studios has not been able to make a film as critically significant as IRON MAN since IRON MAN.
If you ask me, Feige's done anything but improve the franchise.
Why does the blame fall to Feige for those things? It's actually ridiculous how your AUTOMATICALLY attribute any short coming to Feige.
And IM2 made more than Iron Man. Who in ****s name would have thought a character like Thor would have a movie that made half a billion dollars?
Wrong again. Arad conceived the notion of the inter-connected films/universe. He offered Cap & Thor to Favreau first, but Favs wanted Iron Man. He next turned to Cassavettes for Cap but that fell through. The above deal(s) were made by Arad 3 years before Iron Man was released.
Incorrect. He didn't have any intention to make an interconnected universe to set up Avengers. He had the intention to do those solo movies sure, but it was mainly Feige who was like "Hey hold up, what if we have these movies connect to each other?"
There have been missteps and sacrifices along the way, but like with all experiments, they will be sacrifices and missteps. This is inevitable. If it all pays off with Avengers, which it will financially, and seems to be so far critically, you need to shut the **** up.
