[Marvel] There Is No Getting Back On This Ride

As a casual Marvel fan, I feel like people need to get over themselves now. And allow Marvel movies to settle into a niche after like 10 years of domination at the cinema. Not everyone has to like everything all the time (on a side rant: this is something that pisses me off about the anti woke crowd too, acting like fucking everything has to revolve around them at all times and like people aren't allowed individual tastes and options).

Let comic book fans enjoy comic book movies. Good for you if you don't like them, here's a trophy for your stunning bravery in displaying that you too have individual tastes that don't always match with the crowd. You're half way there to realising that you're not entitled to everything all the time and that people should be allowed to enjoy things even if you don't.

His loss.

I've been asked a lot over the last few weeks whether I was going to go and see Thunderbolts, and every time I'm asked I give the same answer: lol absolutely not.

I’m all for reading a whole piece before casting any judgement on the author or content, but when your opening line comes off as snotty, sarcastic sixteen year old who’s way too cool to watch a comic book film, it’s hard to give them a fair shake.

I get the marvel fatigue for sure. but damn, getting to the last EP of Loki season 2 and not finishing it is a real disservice to yourself

This opinion is over the top... I find myself to be a casual fan. I don't really watch the trailers, or lookup theories. I barely read the comics as a kid either, like stated in this article, but i did know enough of most characters because I was a kid and grew up being exposed to them one way or another. I still enjoy them to a degree. There is way more hit or miss these days, but I don't find myself overwhelmed by it all either. Maybe I'll look one or 2 things up after the movie if I forgot or ask one of my friends who are way more into comics and pretty much know what's probably coming.

This one part in the article tells me they spent way to much time thinking about it. "Every hour of the last three years that I would have been stuffing Marvel slop into my brain I've instead been doing quite literally anything else, from playing with my kids to helping run a website to watching, gasp, other types of movies." Like who is not playing with their kids or getting work done because of a hobby? Sounds way more like a bad obsession and probably best that they stepped away. It's still solid entertainment if you choose not to take it so seriously.

Only siths deal in absolutes.

You, and everyone who's ever liked a Marvel movie, should go and watch this one because it's definitely on the good side of MCU movies. It's very refreshing in several ways.

I understand that the MCU has been bad to mediocre after Endgame. There are some things here and there that were good. But when it comes to movies... (I don't count Spider-man nor Deadpool because those are fun meta movies that play a different game) yep, all movies have been cheap cashgrabs... Until we got Thunderbolts.

Do not kill the possibility for you to enjoy a new MCU movie just because.

The author starts off a bit immature in their commentary, but I pushed through and they touch on a simple point that I relate to:

All of this stuff feels like homework now and Disney and Marvel have pumped out far too much minor stuff that all intertwines in one way or another. I want to like it and I do make exceptions (Loki), but I’m too casual of a comic reader to bother with the remainder of what we have now. Endgame was the cliff where I drove off and lost interest (and to be fair, that’s a pretty big void to fill).

This movie in particular interests me but mostly because of the cast. I couldn’t tell you much about any of the characters. The reality is that it’s going to be a really hard sell to get surface-level comic enthusiasts and general-superhero-movie-lovers to buy into stories about minor characters they’ve never heard of.