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[QUOTE="AXX°N N., post: 4286, member: 99"] I was big into the MCU because franchising has always had a certain appeal to me--Star Wars being the prime example with its shared universe of games, comics, etc. There's just something neat about different media filling in pockets of a narrative. But there's got to be some kind of variance and distinction to those little pockets. MCU doesn't really have anything quite like Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars, or Knights of the Old Republic--things that stand on their own and are genuinely creative. I don't know when or why, but during some finale of one of the MCU entries I zoned out and that was the end of it, like suddenly involuntarily realizing a relationship isn't--or more like, never was--working out. No matter what illusion of difference one of the movies teases (and inevitably undermines, wastes, contradicts or forgets about) each plotline is the same pattern and most of the runtime is spent on special effects sequences, loud noises, and forced "clever" barbs. I think it was only worthwhile as an experiment and experience in feeling out the pathway to its crossover gimmick, and then accomplishing it--the Avengers is probably as exciting as I remember. But I think it lost the plot along the way in all the deliberations that must have occurred re: how to keep it going like a steam engine. Comic books themselves, the only real analog to the conveyor belt of superhero plots the MCU is nowadays, were worthwhile because no matter how many generic entries there were the industry would frequently give license to an Alan Moore or Grant Morrison. But the MCU, given its huge budgets, can't afford to let anyone get deep with the material. At this point, given how big the MCU has grown, I would genuinely rather watch all of the SAW movies, because at least there's only 8 of them. [/QUOTE]
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