Mainly because a lot of the problems these guys are talking about just not materilaizing within the franchise have existed since like 2012.

Too many quips? Avengers 1, Dark World and Age of Ultron were infamous for this.

Every new movie is a sequel hook? Iron Man 2 was a 3 hour trailer for the Avengers, and this series popularized post credits scenes

Bad Special Effects? Phase 1 films looked like they were cooked up in about a week because their sets were so cheap.

Bad writing/Too much bait and switch? Remember how mad fans got over Iron Man 3 with the Mandarin twist?

I think all this discourse is less about Marvel “not being good anymore” and more about people starting to unconsciously realize that mindless corporate shlock isn’t actually that gripping once you start holding it under the microscope. Like this series has been going for 16 years and hasn’t actually changed, of course you’re sick of it.

  • @CountryBreakfast
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    121 year ago

    They do this with every movie. Most of them have terrible opinions similar to how the predictions for the next movie are so obviously not going to happen. If you ask me the movies are better now that Iron Man is dead. Don’t forget these tubers make bank just by complaining about pop culture and pretending to be movie critics. They realized it was a cash cow to trash movies after people had a stroke that star wars had an Asian woman in a major role. There is always some hyper cringe title like “an unmitigated disaster” as if they didn’t graduate high school two years ago.