Kevin Feige pulled from the best story beats of 50+ years to make a modern retelling of classic comics. There, that's it. That's what he did.
People keep saying the MCU is just cookie-cutter mass-market garbage but if it's so easy to do then why have literally all other attempts to replicate their success failed?
People like Cameron seem to forget that Marvel was rejected by every major studio. They didn't think you could make a good movie out of B-tier heroes like Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor. So Marvel studios bet the farm and made an independent student art film about a second-string superhero featuring a disgraced star on his way down to the gutter, and somehow won it all. Then just to flex on the whole business, they fucking went and made a movie about a giant talking tree man and a space racoon with 70s music and made a shitzillion more dollars.
Now since they've gone off classic Marvel in favor of woke comics they've been flopping. But to say their past success is some kind of fluke or only the result of spending money is sour fucking grapes.
Kevin Feige pulled from the best story beats of 50+ years to make a modern retelling of classic comics. There, that's it. That's what he did.
People keep saying the MCU is just cookie-cutter mass-market garbage but if it's so easy to do then why have literally all other attempts to replicate their success failed?
People like Cameron seem to forget that Marvel was rejected by every major studio. They didn't think you could make a good movie out of B-tier heroes like Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor. So Marvel studios bet the farm and made an independent student art film about a second-string superhero featuring a disgraced star on his way down to the gutter, and somehow won it all. Then just to flex on the whole business, they fucking went and made a movie about a giant talking tree man and a space racoon with 70s music and made a shitzillion more dollars.
Now since they've gone off classic Marvel in favor of woke comics they've been flopping. But to say their past success is some kind of fluke or only the result of spending money is sour fucking grapes.
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True. If it was easy, Justice League would have been as good as Avengers.