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After seeing Black Widow and Shang-Chi, my answer is still Thor: The Dark World. That movie seems destined to forever remain at the bottom for me.
I'm always surprised how vehemently hated Captain Marvel is on a lot of Internet corners. I genuinely enjoy that movie a lot.
I think a lot of the characters and actors involved are great. I loved seeing Coulson again and the movie is definitely still fun at times, but the script is just incredibly weak for an MCU movie.I'm always surprised how vehemently hated Captain Marvel is on a lot of Internet corners. I genuinely enjoy that movie a lot.
The vitriol towards Captain Marvel is really unwarranted. I think it's a middle of the road MCU movie but it's not bad at all. I'm just still scratching my head as to how it grossed $1 billion when the reception from critics and audiences was pretty lukewarm compared to something like Ragnarok, which didn't hit the billion dollar benchmark. I guess it mainly had to do with Endgame hype?I'm always surprised how vehemently hated Captain Marvel is on a lot of Internet corners. I genuinely enjoy that movie a lot.
The vitriol towards Captain Marvel is really unwarranted. I think it's a middle of the road MCU movie but it's not bad at all. I'm just still scratching my head as to how it grossed $1 billion when the reception from critics and audiences was pretty lukewarm compared to something like Ragnarok, which didn't hit the billion dollar benchmark. I guess it mainly had to do with Endgame hype?
Ant-Man and the Wasp came out two months after Infinity War compared to a month and a half before Endgame like Captain Marvel. Infinity War's post credits scene also built more hype for Captain Marvel whereas Ant-Man and the Wasp was part of a pre-established Marvel franchise with the lowest stakes of any MCU film prior or since which made it less of an event film.Endgame hype didn't do anything for Ant-man and the Wasp. And the Endgame bump only gave Spider-man 250m extra for FFH compared to Homecoming - if you take 250m off Captain Marvel's gross, she still made more money than Ragnarok.
Ant-Man and the Wasp came out two months after Infinity War compared to a month and a half before Endgame like Captain Marvel. Infinity War's post credits scene also built more hype for Captain Marvel whereas Ant-Man and the Wasp was part of a pre-established Marvel franchise with the lowest stakes of any MCU film prior or since which made it less of an event film.
And Spider-man is the biggest superhero in the world and had the massive hype of being the first look at the post Endgame MCU.
There is no logical scenario in which Captain Marvel magically went from a 500-600k movie or less to a 1.1B movie just because of the hypothesized Endgame bump. In the worst possible scenario, it still is on the same level of popularity as Thor Ragnarok.
That's a good point WRT sequels doing better. That being said, MCU was in a growth stage and I'm not sure that's the case anymore. TDW did better even though IMO it was an inferior movie because of The Avengers; which I think really established MCU as must see movie going. Post pandemic will be difficult to gauge, but I could see CM2 and BP2 doing worse than the originals.Every MCU sequel has done better at the worldwide box office than its previous film with the sole exception being Age of Ultron, but that's still nothing to sneeze at since it grossed $1.4 billion compared to The Avengers' $1.5 billion. If the pandemic is more under control by then, Love and Thunder will be the first Thor film to pass $1 billion based on how popular Ragnarok was.
I'm always surprised how vehemently hated Captain Marvel is on a lot of Internet corners. I genuinely enjoy that movie a lot.
I was more okay with Fury losing his eye like that than I was with the vast change in his personality compared to every other appearance of his. Sure, he's fired off a quip every so often in the MCU but in Captain Marvel he acted like a goofball jokey dad which didn't fit the established hardass future director of SHIELD that we had come to know by that point.The hate mostly comes from incel losers who are butt hurt over Brie Larson's various statements which they deem as misandric.
There are also some people who soured on the movie because they think it made a mockery out of Fury's eye loss (not MCU's finest moment, I'll admit that).
I was more okay with Fury losing his eye like that than I was with the vast change in his personality compared to every other appearance of his. Sure, he's fired off a quip every so often in the MCU but in Captain Marvel he acted like a goofball jokey dad which didn't fit the established hardass future director of SHIELD that we had come to know by that point.
I have to say personally for me Iron Man 3 was the worst. A lot of it was how hyped I was about reading up about The Mandarin and how awesome the powers of all the rings sounded.
Tried watching it again a few months ago and even knowing the story its just as bad.