Marvel TV Shows are on the Rise, but are MCU Movies Getting Worse?

A lot has changed for Marvel in the last 10 years. Their incredibly woven story leading up to Avengers and the Infinity Wars/Endgame saga after that is a glorious thing of the past. Now they’re stuntin’ as the golden standard of modern superhero movies and there are no more questions about how good these stories could be. No more worries about the box office appeal dying down. Nah, Marvel has bigger problems now – a mouthwatering new division of tv shows and a rising number of poorly written, shitty movies.

As I walked into the movie theater to watch Eternals, I genuinely thought I’d be making some dope social media posts praising what I saw and shitting on the haters critics who have been blasting the movie. Then I walked out of the theater, and I simply had one thought on my mind, “That was not a good movie.” I didn’t have many expectations when I decided to check out Shang Chi, but I knew I had to see it for the representation culture. While there were some missed opportunities to turn TLotTR into a top 10 MCU film, there is no doubt it stuck the landing, when you take into account the difficulty levels of being the first Asian character led and martial arts Marvel movie. Black Widow ain’t have me buzzing before or hype afterwards, but the movie had some pleasant moments here and there. I liken Marvel’s 2021 return to homeostasis, because all it did was “actively maintain fairly stable conditions necessary for survival,” and I can’t help but be a little shook about the …