I like superhero movies, but even I don't want every movie to be one. It's the repetition I am getting sick of. Even if you change the heroes for lesser known ones, the stories are still all kinda the same. It's boring now. You need some new fucking ideas and to take some god damn chances once in a while, Hollywood.
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2025
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I feel like James Gunn is the perfect man for the job to make it less formulaic. He uses the universe as a sandbox to play in. He has tools and characters to play with. Marvel has been so bad that they are predictable and boring. Fantastic 4 sucked ass. Even with Pedro Pascal, I just couldn't care about the characters or story. But James Gunns Superman is the first Superman movie I ever enjoyed. He's an OP character with no personality, but Gunn managed to make it enjoyable, which is hard with a character as bland as Superman. Basically Superman is mayonnaise, but James Gunn made it taste good. Marvel lately has been taking flavorful recipes and making them bland. The only exception being Deadpool. Fantastic 4 was a mouthful of mayonnaise.
I do think GOTG is one of the better series, and those were him too IIRC.
Yup, GOTG was James Gunn. And it was by far the most heartfelt series in the entire MCU, despite it being one of the lowest rated comic series. He's good at what he does because he brings heart to his stuff. I can't say I agree with his soundtrack choices, but that's a very minor complaint. He's a master storyteller, and delivers depth of character, even when there wasn't any before.
Honestly, some of his soundtracks are pretty dank, like Peacemaker and Creature Commandos, but in general I'm just glad he has actual taste and opinions at all instead of making committee-designed market-tested vanilla paste choices like so many other films we see these days.
His soundtracks suck shit but his character development is second to none outside Rick and Morty. I just can't with hair metal.
It's saturation, Disney+, and the inflation/recession combo.
All it takes is a few misses and people will wait for streaming.
Me, I'll watch everything Marvel but I can wait, so when I was ready to go see a movie and it came down to Superman or Fantastic Four, the choice was easy. Superman delivered exactly what I wanted and needed.
I don't think this is superhero fatigue, or at least that's a lower issue on the list. It's Marvel (formula) fatigue especially, and I think they will right that ship soon.
People who make shitty movies like to blame fatigue or wokeness or racism instead of the root cause of poorly written stories.
Simplification that is not true. Thunderbolts was a better written superhero movie but no one went to see it.
Thunderbolts wasn't very good. Stupid Deus ex machinas and 60s timer on a burner what? The characters weren't really interesting and just cheaper versions of characters that have been churned to death by Marvel for years.
James Gunn is good at what he does because he's passionate about the stories and characters. Disney uses characters and stories as profit inducers. That's the difference. James Gunn is going to end the MCU unintentionally by just being better at character development.
Thank God. I can't stand superhero/comic book movies.
Some of the Batman ones are OK. Watchmen and Antman were fine.
I still remember going to see Ironman 1 or 2 in the cinema what seems like 15+ years ago.
There was a scene where the oligarch is captured by the Taliban and he is held hostage in a cave. He then builds an ironman costume (from scrap?) in the cave and kicks the Taliban's ass. I was laughing at the stupidity of the scene.
It's at that moment I realized this stuff is not for me.