THE MARVELS (How to Ruin a Franchise) EXPLORED

As many observant KZbinrs have already pointed out, Captain Marvel was one of the most protected films ever released, sandwiched between Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, two of the highest grossing films of all time. And with its lead Brie Larson alienating half of the demographic, Disney was forced to pressure Rotten Tomatoes to change the review scores to prevent quote on quote “review bombing” or what I call silencing dissenting opinions.
Four years after "Captain Marvel" soared into theatres with a staggering $153 million opening weekend, culminating in another billion-dollar movie, its sequel is headed for trouble. With a bloated budget of about $220 million, "The Marvels" grapples with a shockingly disappointing debut, barely eclipsing the MCU's lowest opening day record held since 2008 by "The Incredible Hulk."
The sequel's opening figures are not just a whisper of concern but a roaring signal of changing times. It’s not superhero fatigue, but bad storytelling fatigue. The ludicrous last-minute trailers released over the weeks with Thanos, Iron Man, Captain America and moments from better films stapled on should have been a clue that Disney was desperate.
With an initial haul of $21.5 million from 4,030 venues, including $6.6 million in previews, "The Marvels" is the MCU’s second lowest opening weekend and on track to haemmorage money. This tepid start is a stark contrast to Marvel Studios' once-impervious box office dominance, marking a new low for the franchise.
Initially envisioned as a solo sequel to "Captain Marvel," The Marvels," directed by Nia DaCosta morphed into a broader ensemble piece, a change mirroring Brie Larson’s own shift from being the franchise’s leading figure to one among many. Its safe to say that with the company unsure what to do with Brie Larson and her overpowered character beyond cameos to remind us she existed, this film, more than any in the MCU’s repertoire, has faced its share of production tumult.
So, does the film justify the seemingly endless wait? Does it deserve the low box office receipts? Or is the CGI heavy team-up a sign that Disney’s MCU is on its deathbed? Allow me to break the ICE!
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[@fusionspace175]

The reason Captain Marvel wears the Kree symbol is simple, because the actual Captain Marvel, the male one who died of cancer and who never existed in the MCU, WAS a Kree. He was like the Dances With Wolves guy but humans were his natives. He rebelled against his own people for us, and he wore the symbol out of pride, and an attempt to show that not all Kree were like the ones he opposed. Comics Carol wears it in tribute to him. Why MCU Carol wears it, now that's a complete mystery. I guess she likes the pretty star shape and it fits her space theme.

[@kipsmithers8816]

So you’re telling me the story could be interesting if it was depicted like the comic instead of pandering with a woman empowerment narrative and casting a delusional moron like Brie Larson whose very face is unbearable and brain couldn’t be any more disconnected from reality. Got it

[@MsDragonbal776]

On interesting bit of context lol

[@Aaron-zt5ee]

There was the female Captain Mar-Vel in the MCU. I guess it’s out of respect for her.

[@urrigongreyjoy]

In the same way that Venom got his symbol and spider powers, or that the Joker.....you know exists. And my friends truly can't grasp why I refuse to watch those movies.

[@Fontdizzle]

This comment is not only misogynistic but racist. How dare you. /s

[@PogChump]

They tried copying Space Balls with Mega Maid vacuuming all the resources

[@eatthewoke5170]

SUCK.....SUCK......SUCK. Just like this movie.

[@TheHungrySlug]

It's mega maid, she's gone from suck to blow. as the marvels movies have well passed the Suck stage.

[@freedomsglory1]

It’s funny, the watchmen addresses a overpowered broken character by breaking down how powerless and lonely a character like that would feel. How a character like that would feel so disconnected from humanity that it truly asks the question, “what makes you human and what holds you to caring about the small short little lives of these mortal beings?”. They could have done that here, but asking for any depth from the MCU is a laughable idea at this point is a joke.

[@ShatteredGlass916]

I swear if they attempted to do that, they'd follow that discussion with 400 fart jokes each with it's own snappy one-liner

[@reynutz]

Im pretty sure Watchmen is supposed to be extremely cynical lol. MCU isnt.

[@RetryOfHealGuy]

And then DC ruins it

[@joshuameadows4922]

​@reynutz It isn't about being cynical, it's about the real world consequences those powers would come with. Hell even Invincible handles this way better with Omniman, and he's no where near as powerful as Dr.Manhatten

[@DannyBeigal]

I know what you’re saying, but I think Loki season 2 had depth.

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

The reason why the OG Avengers struggle was so noble and bombastic was cos a lot of them were mortal. Most of the Avengers can be taken out with a well placed, well timed headshot from a gun. Yet still they fight, battling weapons with superior tech, gods with superior power, and beings with better armies anyway, because it’s the right thing. Taking hits, bleeding on the battlefield, and trucking on anyway. You know, *being a hero.* it’s what makes Captain Americas “I can do this all day” so damn iconic. He only says it when he’s eaten a few punches, to tell you his body will give out before his mind does. But when you’re the biggest and bestest and strongest and toughest and fastest EVER, what’s the struggle, the stakes? I’m not worried about that hero, cos nothing can hurt them. Its just a matter of time before they win. It’s just boring.

[@ManabiLT]

Yep, even Superman was given a weakness in kryptonite so he wasn't completely overpowered. Captain Marvel has no weaknesses apparently, and is stronger than anyone else in the MCU (quite possibly stronger than every hero in the MCU combined)... except when the writers want to ignore that to do a spiffy fight scene or something. There's no tension, no drama, you _know_ she's going to win, because there's no possible way she can lose.

[@ddespair]

Did you even see the movie? They had weaknesses and problems to overcome.

[@D0NU75]

@@ddespair you mean plot devices. having a weak spot doesn't mean having a weakness. they could have very well made Carol afraid of reigniting the sun because she'd knew that would kill her, so she spent decades figuring out some other way despite deep down knowing that was the real solution to the problem, but no, she just does it and she's fine because she has no weaknesses and her conscience only gets the better of her by sheer peer pressure.

[@deadpooldan9862]

You can literally say this about any superhero movie or show. Good guy strong, has weakness, overcomes it, wins. Every single time, no matter the hero or movie or show

[@chaserseven2886]

@@D0NU75moving the goalpost are we? Please don’t break your back

[@hamstriker5383]

The mcu is already in rock bottom that the CGI artists aren’t given a lot of time to make the movies great.

[@raeraeella6426]

The mcu is going to find out rock bottom has a basement.

[@Fyrefrye]

They hit rock bottom and have called for a profesional mining crew.

[@Dravianpn02]

Good cgi doesn't save a film.

[@applegamer20]

They went below rock bottom, down to the core of Earth, and out the other side into deep space never to be seen again

[@OhSayWhatIsTruth]

​@@Dravianpn02​While that's true, the bad CGI does tell us that current Marvel films are not only suffering from bad storytelling and creativity, but that they're being rushed at the same time. It's an additional problem that needs to be fixed if they're gonna get things right.

[@creativegamer9249]

Finally someone says it, "it's not superhero fatigue but bad story telling fatigue" everyone else always says that it's the former!

[@D0NU75]

well it also kinda is super hero fatigue. they are either telling you an origin story, a continuation to an ark that's hard as balls to keep track of or a spin off crossover. but yeah, they'd be more digestible at least properly written.

[@tjhicks3600]

@@D0NU75 its not superhero fatigue

[@D0NU75]

@@tjhicks3600 if you say so

[@aggonzalezdc]

I think it's both.

[@deadpooldan9862]

It’s not bad writing because there is (mostly) no bad writing

[@thekiller7994]

The Marvels: the film that no one wanted or asked for

[@Unpainted_Huffhines]

Not even Brie Larson.

[@moiceslopez8788]

Sometimes movies just happen.

[@artificiallyflavord5588]

Turned out to be an all right movie though

[@chinaman1]

Well some one must have asked. Otherwise it wouldn't have been made.

[@DenLim123]

​@@artificiallyflavord5588 you must be delusional if you think it was good

[@AncestorEmpireGaming]

To be honest, the captain marvel was only relevant because its original release date.

[@Twistingfergus]

People keep saying that, but Ant-Man and the Wasp came out pretty shortly after Infinity War. I don't recall that doing well financially.

[@1Guason3]

@@Twistingfergus Because the cliffhanger from Infinity War set up a new and powerful character.

[@lwandisompembe3521]

​@@Twistingfergus They tricked us into thinking it was important to watch it before Endgame, even putting a cliffhanger about it in Infinity War

[@AncestorEmpireGaming]

@@Twistingfergus because people were done after endgame

[@perredaobry3753]

@@Twistingfergusit actually made over £500 million dollars

[@himmelsturmerIX]

When she yelled "SHAZAM!" and change into a captain marvel was my favorite.

[@filmcomicsexplained]

🤣

[@ZxSpectrumplus]

Maybe a crossover....Captain Marvel vs Shazam. Whoever wins gets back the Captain Marvel title.

[@marcusblackwell2372]

​@@ZxSpectrumplusClever. Send that idea to Death Battle

[@imageaware]

Rotten Tomatoes has a huge number of positive reviews for The Marvels that are strangely similar to each other. If you look at the reviews that use an exclamation point in the text they are almost all rated four and five stars. Chat GPT must like exclamation points.

[@GIBBO4182]

I saw a video where they went through some of the reviews, and apparently there were a lot of accounts that had only left a review on The Marvels and nothing else 🤔

[@chongsfury4358]

It's the same on Facebook with screen rant, and the marvel page. it's just endless praise using the same buzz words "fun" "exciting" it's like these people were paid to say it.

[@eatthewoke5170]

What, you thought Disney wouldn't figure out that people trust audience reviews more than the critics and that they'd start botting positive reviews? Of course they did it.

[@steverogers7211]

Lots of fake reviews. You can tell by the generic positive post that don’t mention any aspect of the movie at all 😂

[@dresca2501]

Rotten tomato critics often alter disney rating to 70% if bad 90% if good. Due to the history of disney refusing critics to opportunity to early scening the next disney project if a bad review was given to the last one. Bullying on rotten tomato works 😂

[@MrGeekFreek]

The part where all the Marvels combined to make the Mecha-Marvel was my favourite.

[@Menaceblue3]

It's MARVELING TIME!

[@yaldabaoth2]

Go Go Marvelvengers!

[@AbysmalRapture]

It was a truly marvel moment

[@Ryies12]

The worst part of the fall of the MCU is that it's super simple to fix: Just stop and think. Clearly the entire enterprise just needs a rest. And the leadership at Marvel needs to get their writers together and figure out what they need to do next. Sadly, "muh profits" will ensure that Marvel slowly fades away and is forgotten. Just like so much of modern Disney.

[@filmcomicsexplained]

They should have taken 5 years off after endgame to plan and coordinate the future of the MCU instead of just throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks

[@JustinleeBeaver]

Nope, the worst part is it ruined actual comics.

[@DenLim123]

You know how to fix Marvel? Instead of focusing on pandering to the leftists and put liberal agenda first above all else, they should just prioritise writing a good story and character driven stories

[@GeorgeSmith-ze5vk]

No.. they need to stop getting these pink haired force is female types writers….get them out of the writers room and get some people who know comics.. no no not the ones who think ever single person on the face of the earth is gay.... you know…the people who are normal thinking ( not the make Superman gay ones ) .. get people who care about entertaining us not preaching to us….the ones who know how write a character and develop a character.. trust me ..putting a chick in it and making her gay is not character development …. ( I know that’s been memed to death by now.. but it’s true )…Disney needs to understand that middle America is not hollyweird and it’s never gonna be .. and stop spending…errr sorry LOSING all this money trying to brain wash us is not gonna work..

[@chinaman1]

@@GeorgeSmith-ze5vk but superman turns gay if there's a pink kryptonite near him.

[@kingofhearts3185]

Love all the Arnold quotes. Reminds me of better movies that are actually worth my time. Shame what the mcu has become.

[@AllBreaksLoose]

I saw the trailer and knew this was gonna be a mess. Your explanation proves it. Even I was wondering what is this movie about? Marvel studios is making movies for themselves more than for a wide audience.

[@koboldfan3238]

Can hear the laugh when you explained how the new Blade movie had him as just the fourth important character.

[@UnitedFan2]

The big problem imo is how they demand every audience member to have seen Ms Marvel and Wandavision, because otherwise they tell you on what happened through an exposition dump which only confuses them even more which is worse in countries where Disney Plus is not available on there, neither is there any physical media options for any Disney Plus shows. Did Feige not realise one of the main reasons why Serenity didn’t work when it was trying to a big movie continuation of Firefly?

[@TheTriumfAnt]

I made it through 1/2 an episode of Wandavision and 2 episodes of Secret Invasion. If I have to watch all episodes of both in order for this movie to even remotely make sense, then forget it. Just more reasons to not watch it. Good point about Disney Plus not being available in many countries, and even if it is a lot of people don't subscribe to it.

[@Hawk7886]

It's literally pure corporate greed. They asked the board how they can extract as much money as possible from the viewers, and they all cheered when they developed a plan to saturate everything with a constant barrage of TV shows and movies. I honestly hate TV and I'll never subscribe to Disney Plus, so I'll automatically miss half of what they make. It was annoying enough trying to follow a plot through two dozen movies, so at that point, why watch anything at all?

[@ManabiLT]

@@TheTriumfAnt You could probably find summaries of the episodes online to read first, but even then who wants to do homework so they can watch a movie and understand it?

[@TheTriumfAnt]

@@ManabiLT Great idea for some future movie. Just not this one 😂

[@deadpooldan9862]

That’s their fault for not watching them. I’ve seen all the shows and movies, it’s not hard and would only take 2 days at most to watch everything you need to know Edit: not for people who don’t have a way to watch, just people who do. These shows aren’t really bad, and at worst, you just have to watch it once

[@natto4now]

At this point it's a joke how many mcu movies have used the multivers as some kind of plot point Like I can belive it for spiderman sure and can maybe even stretch that belief for loki, but at this point we are way into phase 5 and there's been like 4 movies and 2 shows that use the multivers as a plot point and each time it just takes away the value of the concept of a multivers Like remember how existing it was to think about the x men joining the mcu and how hype it was, yet now it's been confirmed like 3 times in the movies and no one really seems to care

[@Hawk7886]

When it comes to *multiverses,* South Park nailed it with Panderverse: "I'm so sick of the *multiverse!* It's boring!"

[@iceheart1289]

Intro was hilarious! But no surprise, anything after endgame has been a real snooze for the MCU. I still haven't recovered from Love n Thunder...

[@HishamA.N_Comicbroe]

You didn't enjoy NWH or Gotg 3? Loki is fire too.

[@iceheart1289]

@HishamA.N_Comicbroe fraid not, maybe just my own unpopular opinion. I just did not like newer Spiderman or guardians. Couldn't take it seriously.

[@chinaman1]

Loki 1 and 2 is fine. I thought gotg 3 was fine too.

[@chinaman1]

​@@iceheart1289I agree. I find nwh a bit pretty annoying. I don't really like Tom Holland as spiderman. Tobey is still my guy.

[@carson21211]

@@chinaman1 Holland is the most annoying person on screen in any film he's in. Absolutely hate him as spiderman.

[@TheHabuma]

If there really was a planet where people communicate through song, some other civilization would immediatley carpet a-bomb it. Even Thanos wouldn't stop at half of them.

[@ZxSpectrumplus]

Thanos will snap twice to get rid of them all.

[@Hawk7886]

​@@ZxSpectrumplusbut that would still leave 25% of the original population left

[@Taczy2023]

What do they expect if they alienate half their viewer base by either calling them racist or sexist if they don't like the poorly written film.

[@Exar_Kun]

They should’ve “batgirl’d” the marvels. I’m happy they didn’t though especially since there are so many incredible videos(including yours) covering it! It’s glorious lol!!

[@John-Doe-Yo]

Man I said the same thing! My only guess as to why is that would be like accepting defeat and too much of a bruise on the people running Disney's ego.

[@Exar_Kun]

@@John-Doe-Yo you’re 100% right! Ego over quality, Disney’s new slogan apparently lol

[@John-Doe-Yo]

@@Exar_Kun I keep thinking we've reached the point where they listen to fans but they just won't. Lol hearing about reshoots used to make me think oh they're gonna fix it but now I'm betting the original would be preferable.

[@domomitsune5920]

I'm glad to see someone is covering the movie for what it really is. You're supposed to be truth in advertisement, but I haven't seen any of that from this Marvel's movie. You're the only one who has done an honest review, and I'm glad to see someone covered it so that we don't have to watch it. Now I can say I know what the movie is about, what happens, without paying Disney to actually see it. You're doing real heroes work, not Carol Danvers Captain Marvel what are the two Side characters

[@LowPing156]

This plot is all over the place. Even with your explanation it's still hard to follow considering they're trying to bring up Monica and this new lame villain while also tying secret invasion, doing a terrible job at that, then explaining how carol committed genocide and possibly just doomed another planet without trying to save it. What's the main plot of this? Why are they bringing two races into this?

[@DomesticAnimo]

I am so glad I am not the only one who was thinking this plot is chaotic. I am trying to sit through this video and I cant stay focused lol...thats a bad sign I love watching reviews on movies...this one is hard to sit through and its not filmexplains fault this plot is crappy.

[@LowPing156]

@@DomesticAnimo God no, he's doing his best to explain a convoluted plot

[@Hawk7886]

My ADHD makes it literally impossible to watch this movie. It's like different writers are fighting for control of the plot and nobody is winning.

[@LowPing156]

@@Hawk7886 I know right? I have ADHD too and super annoying since they keep adding new things to the plot midway through like how carol committed genocide but then never talks about it or how they just abandoned the ocean planet

[@derekedwards5390]

It's not super hero fatigue it's bad writing fatigue!! So very true!!

[@Reereez4795]

I haven’t watched the video (yet), but the reason I believe most of Marvel’s recent movies have suffered is that they put no emphasis on quality villains. The Avengers level threats? Loki? Thanos? Kang? They all receive not only incredible storylines but impeccable character development. To the point where freaking THANOS, the Mad Titan, has viewers who actually agree with his reasoning. Every other Marvel movie? Outside of Killmonger and a couple others, they’ve all been largely “villains of the week.” And yes, that’s very comic-esque. Here’s the big bad for someone to beat up until the Avengers level threat arrives. But this trivializes soooooooo many quality rogues in many Marvel comics. Clearly the center of the story is the hero. But every great hero needs a great villain. A great antagonist. Someone to elevate the story from “a day in the life of a superhero” to “now THIS is a story worth telling.”

[@chronoshin8597]

Recent marvel movies are heavily controlled by woke narratives. This limits the creative freedom in writing story because there are too many things considered offensive in woke culture. This is why we end up with boring characters and scripts.

[@Reereez4795]

@@chronoshin8597 Eh, idk if I would call them “woke” narratives. I think that’s a narrative itself that’s spread around without a lot to back it up. But I will agree that movies will try to win “woke” points, hoping that makes up for bad story telling, which it doesn’t.

[@Zerphy08]

It’s not working anymore and I hope Disney loses their ass. It won’t matter in the end because Disney is a monster and has money that doesn’t even make sense but still for them to shell out ~250 million only for it to not even make 10% back on opening weekend just puts a smile on my face. I honestly believe most comic book movies are shit to begin with, but the woke narrative in the last 3-4 years has just left a bad taste in mine and lot of other comic fans mouth. Maybe Disney will wake up but I seriously doubt it.

[@TheNightman.]

Since phase 4 the m-she-u has been in full effect, it's not just no villains, but no quality period. Activists were hired instead of actual writers, they shat on and called their fanbase racist, sexist, ists and phobes for not instantly loving their new ethnicity swapped, gender swapped, sexuality swapped garbage. Just like in the comics, it falls over because there is NOTHING to the characters at all, just garbage

[@demonzabrak]

@@Reereez4795 please understand that you described a woke narrative. Adding in woke points to make up for bad story telling IS controlling your project with woke narratives. Shit fam, the first Iron Man had Tony being a womanizing misogynist and easing off that lifestyle choice as he changed his life. We (mostly) all know treating women like sex objects and not people is fucked up, and Tony started like that, then moved to being less like that over several movies. No one calls that a woke narrative because it isn't written like one, it's written like a character arc.

[@marlz11]

Mr. Niat from FilmComicsExplained please give your editor a raise. Those Ahnuld inserts were so perfect and hilarious. We now live in a world where former blockbuster bait is now fuel for more entertaining and clever KZbin content.

[@Filterdissman]

I’ll say it right now. The only way you can successfully create a cinematic comic book accurate franchise/universe is to animate it. I’m talking about incredibles, titan A.E. Projects that take millions of dollars. You won’t have to worry about actors aging. Actors getting arrested or injured. Best part, you can literally create anything. Disney, sell Marvel to Sony. Let them have a go. Cheers mates.

[@smurfie8412]

No only anime is good

[@animezilla4486]

​@@smurfie8412no it's not

[@Hawk7886]

​@@animezilla4486eh, for the most part. A killer anime studio making a marvel movie would be awesome and could easily fit into the overplayed multiverse thing.

[@lizardpeople]

Never thought I'd say this but I wish Fox still owned the X-Men

[@greenkoopa]

Chill tf out, I saw Dark Phoenix in theaters 3 times and I didn't see you anywhere. I don't want to suffer anymore rn

[@j_m_b_1914]

@@confessionsofamoviefreak9580 You mean you don't go into movies looking for random youtube commenters?

[@greenkoopa]

@@confessionsofamoviefreak9580 my point was that at the end of the FoX-men there was only me in the theater. Wow you're so cool cause you're literal

[@greenkoopa]

@@j_m_b_1914 what you don't? You're cringe

[@HishamA.N_Comicbroe]

Need a Loki video too dude. It was such a breathe of fresh air

[@MelGibsonFan]

Yeah tbh I was kind of surprised by the Loki series

[@Reereez4795]

Been the only thing I’ve liked about Marvel post-End Game. Great story, great handling of Kang (got me actually hyped for him, before… hyper intelligent ants defeated him in Ant Man).

[@CoolDee933]

The most problem that I had with is the villain. So unacceptable.

[@TWAnime-fv4fo]

We need a video on the new Blade. Also great content as always

[@Unpainted_Huffhines]

Dar Benn was race and gender swapped to be, _totally coincidentally,_ exactly like Loki's real life fiance. What a coincidence!

[@enoyna1001]

Didn't know Loki existed in real life

[@theseanwardshow]

Zero percent chance that they're not going to race and gender swap all of your favorite X-Men and Fantastic Four characters

[@jsav4269]

You wanna bet? DEI is one hell of a drug, and all the writers are rabid leftists feminists cuckolds, their idiotic message is way more powerful than profits

[@marcusblackwell2372]

But they gender swapped Silver Surfer in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie

[@deadpooldan9862]

100% chance they won’t

[@ElderNewt]

Thanks for this really good break down video. I didn't realise just how much of a hot mess this movie was. It's really crazy to see how Hollywood continues to hire those who can't write a good story.

[@TheNightman.]

Activists. They hired activists who care for nothing else than buzzwords such as diversity and representation. Except for them, the buzzwords mean black gay disabled trans female etc are good, white straight male is bad. Down with the patriarchy and all that bullshit, and except the twitterazi to come out in droves to support them. They don't, and the vast majority of the watchers *were* men, because it's always been a male dominated franchise. I say were, because now they don't bother watching for the obvious reasons.

[@animezilla4486]

To be fair you can't blame all writers you got to keep in mind that they just write the stuff it's the higher ups at the studios that approves it or sometimes meddle

[@tehmorgan9653]

I don’t get the hate I really enjoyed it, leaps and bounds better then the eternals, infact don’t think last few films have been that bad. Agreed franchise took a nose dive after endgame but all been enjoyable

[@SKy_the_Thunder]

tbf, comics Carol is just as all over the place for the most part. She got her powers from some wish-granting space magic device because she wanted to be like her idol, Captain Mar'Vell of the Kree (aka the original Captain Marvel). For the longest time she was more of a D-lister as "Miss Marvel", with no writer knowing what to do with her, even though her power set makes her one of the heavier hitters - especially during some of her space adventures, including her time as the original Binary. Until relatively recently, she was mostly the Captain Marvel fan girl, who was drifting around the Marvel landscape looking for validation. Then she finally decided to take up the mantle of her idol (after it had passed through half a dozen other hands), and immediately started the second Civil War event by arresting tons of people before they even committed any crimes, based on some young guy's precognitive visions from the future. Now she's mainly in reserve for when a writer wants to invoke the heavy hitters of earth, but not as much that it would end their story quite yet...

[@Beam67]

comics captain marvel also sucks but at least she’s established and actually means something and has a developed backstory. she also has her shitty personality which actually helps her standout as shes not a big fish in the comics shes a low tier heavy hitter which isnt anything crazy in the comics. her personality and values help her standout among other avengers. none of this exists in the mcu

[@jakemcconnell1645]

I feel like captain marvel would be a more liked character if they treated her kinda like Saitama in one punch man. They’re both ridiculously op but marvel just has no idea what they’re doing with their characters so they inevitably just have to weaken her to fit into the story

[@velvetelvis999]

Great video! I love all the Arnie clips. I thought I was the only one who saw Hercules in New York 🤣 You gotta see Pumping Iron you'll get some good clips there. Keep up the good work 👏

[@filmcomicsexplained]

Arnold Schwarzenegger : "Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer." - Pumping Iron haha

[@internziko]

Every Arnold quote was perfectly placed. Amazing video!

[@marcamusprime9513]

They did this instead of another Shang Chi?

[@shainewhite2781]

This movie should be a lesson for Hollywood, for which it will never learn, but hopefully it will someday: Don't Ever Make A Superhero On An Insanely Large Budget, Because The More You Spend, The More You Lose.

[@chinaman1]

I mean they must be paying the same amount to the female leads as they did to the 3 male leads in endgame.

[@DenLim123]

This movie lesson should be: "stop pandering to liberals and leftards"

[@CSestp]

​@@chinaman1because they brought in the same size audience?

[@ThePartisan13]

The lesson should be to make quality movies that people will like.

[@corning1]

The office clips were killing me lol

[@corvustiberius3591]

Just write a good story. Take your time. Love the work. Obviously, when so much money is on the line you got a lot of hands in the pot, but labour of love is key. I remember that line in the original X-men, "What did you expect yellow spandex?" Something like that. YES! First Class and Deadpool figured it out. This, to me, was Bryan Singer speaking through the dialogue. Dude didn't even respect the source material. I mean, they performed well those X-men films, but I always had issue with them. You want to make money, love the thing and take your time. Lol, 4 leads in Blade. WTF. You have Mahershala Ali! And HE went to YOU! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

[@annegirard3697]

Fantastic analysis/talk through of this film and how it just doesn't make sense.... funniest bits are all the Arnold edits!!! Solid video!!!!🖤🖤🖤

[@twiceshy9773]

If they eff up "Blade" I'm just gonna cry😂😭

[@natto4now]

Okay I think that what they tried to do or at least implied to do with captain marvel is interesting That since she's the most powerful character in marvel universe her story themes and character plot stems from the fact that alot of her actions hold deep consequences and her having to deal with those consequences but no they are just brushed aside Remember how motivated Tony stark felt after he found out the true consequences of his arms dealings, to the point that he himself decided to take care of that problem and put his life on the line even tho he was just a man in an armor, that being enough to change his way of life and his morals Yes now compare that to captain marvel and her actions having resulted in planets being destroyed and whole cultures being left stranding, yet the writers don't apply the same character growth to her for some reason

[@TheNightman.]

She's not the most powerful character, she has no character or plot, she literally has nothing. There's a reason "she" has been rebooted (considering the actual marvel was a man, Mar-Vel) over 10 times at this point. Nobody cares, it's been flop after flop. They gave "her" all the powers because they thought people would read it. They don't.

[@newrev9er]

I think there may also be some super hero fatigue...

[@Empress_Theresa]

Nope. There's only good and bad movies.

[@Dravianpn02]

No. Doesnt exist. Its Bad movie fatigue.

[@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343]

I don't know if it ruined the franchise. But it definitely is the movie that is the straw that breaks the camel's back after too many mediocre projects.

[@pharaohavalon8566]

I refuse to watch any movie/show that has carol danvers stronger than Monica Rambeu. Its bad enough they took away Monica's father (who was a cop and is where she got her sense of justice from) and made her look up to carol. She was the first female captain marvel and came before Carol not only that but she was the LEADER OF THE AVENGERS!!!! WTF marvel!

[@redt3788]

I want to see you talk about the horror game franchise The Evil Within

[@filmcomicsexplained]

Adding it to the list!

[@blaquengold0]

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[@TJRymer89]

Why has nobody pointed out that probably the only reason Zawe Ashton was even hired is her being Tom Hiddleston's fiance?

[@kreigguardsman3355]

It was?

[@SenseiSeagal420]

I genuinely like how you put that eerie background music up.

[@tripbreaker]

Oh boy! Clips from “The Office”… again. And again. And again.

[@MrHandsy]

That slap edit flaired up my addiction to your channel

[@OpEditorial]

I get that there's an unspoken agreement among the geek community that "superhero fatigue" isn't a thing, but superhero fatigue is a thing. Especially when it comes to movies that feel like they're being procedurally generated by an a.i. does anyone (over the age of 30) care about what happens to these characters? Be honest.

[@YngDub3319]

Im sure it's better than Inhumans😂

[@filmcomicsexplained]

lol

[@kolbyerickson9475]

I do feel bad for the girl who plays Miss Marvel because she deserves better she’s actually a very good actress and seems like a very nice girl

[@muhammadrisky4757]

What are your thought on loki season 2 ?

[@suvinani3450]

I was so confused at the start of the explanation of the movie all I got from it is “time messing BS”

[@Link_Skywalker007]

Honestly the marvels could have been salvaged with BETTER WRITING. Idc if kevin feige was getting pushback about not having more female leads, he should have stuck to his guns and creates a plan. This phase was a failure. And disappointing because i loved capt marvel. This story should have been about her in space and going through a dark story the challenged her psychology and BECAUSE of that challenged her to the point of needing help i.e the other 2 marvels and needing the aid for some more male popular character set up and an actual selling villain. I KNEW as soon as i had no idea who the villain was this was going to bomb. If they would have done these things and made this story more of a downer note then it would have sold. People love spiderman 2 for a reason, yes spiderman sells because hes a broke, struggling superhero, but the point is that we love these heros not of their powers, but what they do with it creativly through challenges. Example: Batman and Superman. Hate people say superman is boring not realizing that he could easily rip off his bosses head and correcting him for talking down on him everday but thats not the point of superman. Its the fact that he could but doesn't. This movie was "made for women by women" and it shows

[@just_b_chillin1632]

Why isn’t there video abt the creator? The lore seemed very in depth and could make a great video

[@filmcomicsexplained]

Thats on the to list for sure! Should be covering it in the next week or two :)

[@hutch1319]

Love your intelligent deep dives, never change!!

[@donaldsimmons4526]

Only thing positive about this movie is the economic boom that bot farms felt when marvel needed to try and counter the negative reviews.

[@thepubknight6144]

And going out of their to keep shitting on Johnathan Majors despite he's proven innocent You can tell no one at Disney likes that he's getting the most praise out of the actors and actresses so they're having their content farm plants constantly trying to "replace" him They didn't go that hard at Erza Miller or Amber Heard in fact they go out of their way to excuse why the Wb keeps them on the payroll They're not woke , they're very much prejudice at everyone except groups that have capitol with them And there's videos about it on here if you can get past the algorithms

[@lindon1419]

I recently watched blue eye samurai on netflix which has a female lead and she is very well written which surprised me, it shouldn't but it did lol, shes a badass swordsman but she struggles and realizes that she cant win every fight, she startes off as cold and heartless but over time you see why she is like this and also the people she meets and befriends she starts to open up.

[@averiesoto4042]

Lol! That opening! Too good, so accurate XD

[@sirjonsmithiii992]

Honest review (seems few and far between).

[@dsadik666]

The only thing shocking about the Marvel movie is all the Disney Bots trying to promote it on Facebook and the predictable nature of men being called a sexist bigot for not buying a ticket for a movie that was not made for them.

[@kda7]

What makes no sense about the Cree or Skrulls not just finding a new planet is that THANOS by himself found a beautiful life filled planet and chilled in that 5 year gap after the snap…..I’m supposed to believe the god ai couldn’t do that for the cree

[@pictureperfect3211]

I finally watched the movie and to be honest, the biggest issue that I see narratively with the movie is that short runtime. When the water planet is attacked, you never see what happens to them, we just jump to The Marvels jetting to the space station to save Earth’s sun…And the connection to Ms. Marvels powers that the bracelets actually have. Whereas the Ms. Marvel series made it seem as though she gets the powers from the bracelets, but when Dar Benn takes it from her, she still has powers. Once Dar Benn is defeated, Ms. Marvel doesn’t take/use both bracelets. There’s also some explanations that the audience needed going in such as jump points and some of the small details that people may not remember. Now, the singing planet was added for levity and agree that it could’ve had the same impact if it wasn’t a musical planet, but I think the biggest issue is that we spent zero time there. All of the time and money spent with the evacuations from SABER could been spent with the water planet, like the evacuations could’ve taken place off screen. That would’ve saved like 20 minutes of screen time. But again the bulk of this comes down to the decision to make the movie the shortest in the MCU. There’s just too must not fleshed out and or explained. Dar Benn’s motivations I think are actually much better than most of the MCU villains who are either just outright evil, or think themselves to be God. But I do agree a LESS complicated plot and more time to flesh out what plot there is would have made this stronger. That and a tonal consistency. I blame the fans who hated the darkness Thor 2 and thus brought the ONSLAUGHT of MCU comedies. The one criticism I would say about arguing that Carol committed genocide, is that you also said that the people on the planet were fine, struggling, but fine. I think more than anything the clarity of what actually happened changes how the characters and Carol herself views her actions. The Sun was destroyed accidentally and she didn’t have a way to fix it (that she was aware of) and she didn’t try to help them relocate the same way she wanted to help the Skrulls. That could’ve been simply mitigated by saying the destruction of their Sun happened recently, and Carol is dealing with the fallout in realtime. Saying this happened 30 years ago, and everyone on the planet that we see is still alive makes it difficult to decide whether or not to fault her. I’m just convinced that the writers are just over worked and underpaid, because everything I’ve listed could’ve been fixed and resulted in a much better, cheaper and longer film.

[@elizabethpawley1516]

😂 I had to rewatch certain parts because it is just so convoluted it made me say, "WHAA?!?" and I had to make sure I heard you right.

[@lonewolfMI]

Thank you for your sacrificing hours of your day to provide us with great content. ❤

[@filmcomicsexplained]

My pleasure!

[@Clutch275]

If you didnt watch 3 tv series... you dont know who these people are..........

[@pixelchu]

Actually was wondering if you were going to do a video about it. I don’t know if delighted would be a good word to fit it though lol.

[@Lensman864]

The plural of spacecraft is spacecraft. Captain Marvel has to be moving way WAY beyond light speed (somehow) to reach a distant planet in hours or even minutes.

[@Coramelimane]

wait, if Monica lost her mother during the blip, wouldn't she have reappeared after the blip was undone?

[@TerraEmperor1]

Monica was the one that got blipped. Her mom passed during that time. They showed it in WondaVision

[@bofawhatsbofa4593]

The singing planet is just badddddddd. Imagine singing “babe can you get a roll of toilet paper please”🤣

[@ArlanKels]

The moment I saw the Miss Marvel costume for the movie I had severe doubts about the quality of the movie. The "TV" series Miss Marvel had her steadily acquire pieces, finally acquiring a costume that was fully prepared and set up for. It looks good, fits her character, and is a point of pride. Then along comes this ugly as hell version for the movie....

[@ChuckBerrington]

We got to get this guy, mauler and Gary together. Seriously.

[@gjtrue]

That clip of Blade there got me lmao. So true. 😭😭🤣🤣 @3:30

[@Mike__B]

Also knew this movie was in for a bad news when the movie previews that I normally get just did not happen. Review embargos, changing the trailers to represent the movies people liked, the writing was on the wall before the movie was released.

[@bv_7766]

The intro to this video is gold.

[@terminallove3531]

Off topic question: From what movie is "Oh God,please no" from?

[@christianortiz4520]

It’s a show called the office very hilarious. First season is kinda boring but you learn the people and then second season it gets a lot better

[@filmcomicsexplained]

Its from the TV show, THE OFFICE!

[@jdawn1810]

It is from a American TV show call The Office, it takes place when the office manager who hates the HR rep discovers the HR rep returned after being gone for awhile.

[@terminallove3531]

@@christianortiz4520 Thank you!

[@terminallove3531]

@@filmcomicsexplained Thank you!

[@lethalbacon510]

I wonder if there'll be a Loki season 2 video. The finale released for it released alongside The Marvels, and it is one of the best Marvel projects of recent years.

[@Seven_Kingdoms77]

This is why I just stick to the comics where the writing is way better!!

[@greenkoopa]

Symbiote Spiderman isn't very good writing, the whole Clone Saga with Ben Reilly was pretty bad too Injustice is the best series I think I've ever read tho

[@Hawk7886]

Comics aren't much better tbh.

[@PacRimElectric]

So by Thanksgiving or Christmas time we will expect this movie to drop on Disney+ ?

[@Iscream4j0y]

People watching Secret Invasion "Earth isn't allowing aliens? What about New Asgard!?!" The Marvels: "Hold my beer"

[@ATJonzie]

I saw this failure a mile away. And I guess I wasn’t wrong.

[@danielduncan6806]

When they showed a trailer talking about characters from other movies; that was what alerted me. They had a stinker of a movie, and they knew it. They knew this movie was bad as they were making the trailers for it. THEY KNEW.

[@lysandriah8290]

This is not the one that ruined Marvel as a brand. That happened a while ago.

[@arthurballs9632]

007 is a Marvel character now?

[@HenriqueLSilva]

Captain Marvel's villain really pulled the "no you didn't kill me because I have magic armor that stops all the damage" move.

[@Falconer22]

Who tf hired the villain? She was terrible! Brie was her usual nothing, the other two were putting me to sleep, but that woman who played the villain was a joke.

[@zeratulcraft]

You probably spent longer on this video than the AI did on the Marvels script.

[@addywayenberg9504]

Plots used to be: character opening, plot development, climax, character developement, conslusion Now: "yeah thats cool! Yeah thats cool too! Ooh thats cool!cool,cool ect. Lets put it all into a 2 hour movie and shove it all together with a far fetched villan, who's reason for villainy is souly to make these cool things happen and nothing else... yes. Perfect."

[@gadgettherobotstudios6055]

I was planning to see this this weekend, tho im not so sure anymore.

[@MrChupacabra555]

13:54 : been a long while since I saw 'Captain Marvel", but was this scene in the movie (where they show a 'Comic Accurate' depiction of the Supreme Intelligence)?

[@TheEricZ]

Ive always thought that Marvel was setting Carol up to be the main bad in a Civil War 2, like the comics.

[@OurKindofEntertainment]

Honestly, I don't think Monica was even needed in this movie. I think it would've been a cool project where Ms. Marvel learned that her 'shero' isn't everything she thought she was. Carol is carrying around guilt for her mistake that granted her the 'Annihilator' title. This could've made for a GREAT concept. Kind of like Peter & Tony's dynamic in Homecoming. Spidey wanted so bad to prove he was up to become an Avenger, but screwed up big time. Kamala thinks the world...no the universe of Carol but she screwed up majorly to the point of whole planets paying the price. We could've finally gotten some true character and development for Captain Marvel, but instead we got...this...

[@toddbarber7590]

Super hero fatigue is a myth. Millions of people line up every year to watch mcu movies. But only when theyre good. Awful plots, pushing agendas and not having anymore likeable characters

[@RippedDiscs]

my fav part ot the movie was the ending when those credit rolled i was so glad my hell was over

[@MrBogo83]

Been with this channel since start your language changed for the passed few years me liked it as usual its plesure good job haha sad mdf xd