Wolverine, Martin Scorsese, and Thor
2019 wasn’t a terrible time to be a fan of superhero movies, especially thanks to the overall high provided by Avengers: Endgame, which felt like a fitting conclusion to a decade’s worth of MCU movies. But there was a sense of oversaturation brewing throughout the last few years of the 2010s. Some superhero movies missed the mark pretty badly, and then the early 2020s saw a handful more high-profile critical misfires.
DC-wise, though, The Flash represented an attempt to get a little multiverse-y, in a way, though it was arguably more of a time travel story where altering the past led to the universe changing drastically. There are still questionable cameos, an over-reliance on nostalgia, a messy third act, and an overall feeling of chaos found in The Flash, though; things that perhaps led to it under-performing dramatically.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, on the other hand, has some fans, but it is harder to defend overall. It’s a much noisier film that’s generally pretty messy, throwing two iconic superheroes together, making them fight, and then ensuring they put aside their differences in a way that can eventually lead to more sequels.
The film was fortunate enough to come out at a time just before people might've known better. Suicide Squad was successful financially, but it was also dissatisfying, in many ways. The reluctance to be adventurous was clear here, and that’s something that Scorsese and other superhero movie detractors have brought up before; the safeness and unwillingness to take risks found in various superhero-related films.
Thor: Love and Thunder more than doubled down on making the title character funny, and the world around him became a joke, too. For the most part, at least, with jarring serious scenes dealing with grief and terminal cancer also being in the movie, with absolutely no regard for balancing such things alongside screaming goats, childish action, and weird Russell Crowe accents.
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