Could You Be Suffering From Superhero Fatigue? 

While I'm at it. It's gallaher. Not gallagger. The gallaghers

Not to mention the P2W shark cards etc etc

More content for the Content Funnel! Get that content down ya! (edit: just realised that this is an old episode, so Osman & Hyde havent made the content funnel joke yet 😂)

Agreed. I think fans need to remember that there wasnt a direction or alot of connection for a while, until 2012 with thanks introduced. even after that they weren't building to endgame that hard with it, with only minor connections between the film. they need to show that we are building to something, doom or kang or whatever. Endgame was such a definitive event, a milestone, an ending, trying to regain the same magic they just finished is difficult, theyre basically back in 2008 in terms of rebuilding back up to something.

What do you mean by "they behaved younger"? I think your viewpoint is just biased. I've lived in Japan a number of years and my perspective has changed on that. In some ways, I think college kids in the US behave much younger than in Japan. College kids in the US tend to lack respect for other people and act tend to act much more selfish. I would consider that to be a sign of immaturity. And that behavior has gotten worse in the US. I think you simply viewed Japanese people through the biased lens of someone from the US.

Clear cut heroes? Wasnt one film about a civil war between the heroes? Never watched it myself because the whole marvel universe is ridiculousness on top of ridiculousness.

I don't think the Avengers would be considered B-list by anyone even passingly familiar with the comics industry; from a Marvel standpoint yes the X-Men and Spiderman were bigger but with the possible (and I do mean possible) exception of the Fantastic 4, the Avengers would be next on the list. Totally agree about which characters and arcs the streaming services should have gone with though although I'd call them more "street level" than "C-list"; Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Punisher etc. *IF* it ever comes out the Blade (and Black Knight?) movie should have been a series, and Falcon and Winter Soldier should have been a movie. All IMO, of course

@@viperion_nz Exactly, _everyone_ knew who the Phase 1 Avengers were, even if they didn't know the comics (except _maybe_ Thor, but they'd still see a picture of a viking dude with a hammer and make the connection). The X-Men and Spiderman are absolute juggernauts of popularity that would be recognised by people from tribes deep in the jungle that have never had contact with the outside world, but lay people would still instantly recognise characters like Captain America, Iron Man, and the Hulk from things like the cartoons from the 60's and 90's, or the _multiple_ adaptations of Hulk (remember, Ang Lee's Hulk had released only _five_ years prior to the release of the Incredible Hulk) The _real_ "experiments" in seeing if unknown characters could have mainstream success were 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy for the MCU and, probably more importantly for Marvel, 1998's Blade. But I do completely agree that the MCU probably should have finished with Endgame. It was a satisfying conclusion to the arcs of these characters we'd been following for a decade, and NGL, Phase 4 entries lacked the "connective tissue" that made Phase 1 work so well, with each show or series feeling much more self-contained than anything that had come prior, which absolutely spoils the illusion that all these things are happening in the same setting.

As niche as RLM are i don't even think they would cover 3 documentaries about 3 British celebrities...

Because it's not. You make good trailers and promo, doesn't have a lot to do with the movie quality. If you want people to talk about your movie 2 years on as something no one can believe they missed - then make a good movie.

He's a very good actor but not a star in the original hollywood sense, his name alone isnt enough to draw spectators.

@@NeonCinema no actor has that power anymore Leonardo DiCaprio, tom cruise, Harrison ford all floped in 2023 but not Holland every project that he's in it's at the top of the box office and streaming which shows the love of the audience for him

@@parsaalishiri8138I agree, the point is, the reason for uncharted + all the marvel films doing so well is because the branding, in the “old days” all the biggest earning films were because of the stars attached. Not at all trying to knock Tom, just observing that stars don’t exist anymore

Admittedly killers of the flower moon is a better example than Tom Holland, Di Caprio + De Niro + Scorsese, that incredible combo and it’s still a flop :(

@@NeonCinema okay you kinda got my point what I'm trying to say is that the star power of actors isn't as it always is you know Holland has Starpower just like DiCaprio and tom cruise it's just the problem is it's not as strong as in used to be like in 2000s they bring back people to movie theaters just by there names attached yeah but it's just not enough people that guarantee a box office hit

Me too, I also started to resent them slightly as I started to realise they were killing other movies. Used to be that a star wars or James Bond or something came out once a year and of that time that's all a cinema would show. Now with a new Disney backed film out every week there is so much less space for other films

Thank you :)

elegiac

Because woke is an overused buzzword that doesn't have any coherent meaning

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Amen. Poorly made and leftwing propaganda pushing. It's hollow an has no substance.

Nah dude a lot of us are just fatigued and 15 years older than we were when that stuff was popular.

Ruining popular characters like Wanda and Thor is going to be their undoing.

Richard's TV quiz show on the BBC that he used to co-host with Alexander Armstrong

I'd heard of it but didn't know what it was. I don't think we missed much.

🙄 Superheros are by their definition "woke". A non woke superhero is a villain.