I'm a bit bummed that it sucks to be honest. I was looking forward to this movie. Thor Ragnorok was really fun.
The movies are hilariously low effort now. Even before covid it was really apparent that they just get the actors into a green room because that’s easier than going outside, and post-covid they don’t even bother getting them in at the same time. Most of the stars are out or in the process of being replaced by characters who nobody cares about. They make everything uniformly ugly, even when they occasionally dare to hire a director with some flair. Then they run out of ideas 90 minutes in so end in a final battle where they’re all fighting identical mooks on a featureless flat plain before a giant laser shoots into the sky or whatever.
It just feels directionless and stretched thin by shitting out five movies and half a dozen Disney+ shows a year now.
This is coming from someone who, for all its flaws, admired the achievement of building everything into a production on the scale of Infinity War/Endgame. That just felt like an ending and I’m happy to get off the train now.
Yep, Disney is just spread too thin across too many projects and franchises.
Last I counted they currently have about 20 Marvel projects in production, ranging from a sequel to Captain America and a TV mini-series about Groot to a spin-off show of WandaVision.
Same with the directors. Taika Waititi is directing/writing about 6 movies right now as well as various TV shows and doing voice acting for a bunch of Disney movies.
Seems like it's all being done on a production line schedule with CG artists crunching away at trailers, shows and movies to meet their deadlines.