BINGO. People seem to forget Feige was definitely in charge or oversaw some of the duds prior to the launch of the MCU. The guy isn't some genius that just stepped out of no where.
Feige was Avi Arad's assistant on all of those films and since they were not Marvel films, he had little creatively to do with any of them.
You are right, he did not come out of no where. He was hired as Donner's assistant on X-Men because she wanted a guy who knew comic books. By the time the first FF was in production, Arad had taken him under his wing. It was not until the creation of Marvel Studios and Arad leaving to form his own production company that Feige moved into a position of creative power.
So most, if not all of those duds listed, were not his fault.
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