GotG3 is definitely worth seeing. Doctor Strange 2 and Ant-Man 3 were pretty missable.
I think the lesson I’ve taken from this is that the massive multiversal stakes of the latter two - which I assume Marvel thought necessary to try to top what they’d already done with Thanos - just don’t really work. They can’t top Thanos eradicating half of the universe, and they shouldn’t try.
Whereas GotG3 was pretty low stakes by comparison, but as those stakes related to a specific character we had come to care about then it just worked so much better.
I might be the only person who didn’t hate Quantummania. I thought it was actually a return to form for the MCU; we forget this, but most MCU movies are actually just okay: not bad, but not terrible either.
I think that multiverse stuff works better if you care about what’s in the universe. We care more about Earth if Iron Man is still alive and has a family waiting for him at home than if he’s already dead and gone. Marvel should have focused on building up likeable characters before diving into this multiverse stuff.
I am getting tired of Disney’s influence though. Not everything needs a feel good teaching “moment”… The whole thing with Drax and being stupid and Nebula learning his worth was SO overplayed.
I thought it worked, but not completely. Maybe because it’d make more sense if Nebula kept ridiculing Drax because she likes him the mot but is afraid of long-term emotional attachments.
I thought it was okay, which as you said is almost par for the course, but it felt like a generic Marvel movie whereas the first two had some fun heist elements to them. Gave them a unique feel within the MCU that I missed in this one.
GotG3 is definitely worth seeing. Doctor Strange 2 and Ant-Man 3 were pretty missable.
I think the lesson I’ve taken from this is that the massive multiversal stakes of the latter two - which I assume Marvel thought necessary to try to top what they’d already done with Thanos - just don’t really work. They can’t top Thanos eradicating half of the universe, and they shouldn’t try.
Whereas GotG3 was pretty low stakes by comparison, but as those stakes related to a specific character we had come to care about then it just worked so much better.
I might be the only person who didn’t hate Quantummania. I thought it was actually a return to form for the MCU; we forget this, but most MCU movies are actually just okay: not bad, but not terrible either.
I think that multiverse stuff works better if you care about what’s in the universe. We care more about Earth if Iron Man is still alive and has a family waiting for him at home than if he’s already dead and gone. Marvel should have focused on building up likeable characters before diving into this multiverse stuff.
I liked quantummaina also.
I am getting tired of Disney’s influence though. Not everything needs a feel good teaching “moment”… The whole thing with Drax and being stupid and Nebula learning his worth was SO overplayed.
I thought it worked, but not completely. Maybe because it’d make more sense if Nebula kept ridiculing Drax because she likes him the mot but is afraid of long-term emotional attachments.
I thought it was okay, which as you said is almost par for the course, but it felt like a generic Marvel movie whereas the first two had some fun heist elements to them. Gave them a unique feel within the MCU that I missed in this one.