Scrolling through the thread, there are a few points I want to address, but I want to start with this:
Kolby Jack said:
Marvel has kind of a self-contained "bad" for me, because no Marvel movie yet has been outright bad. Some were pretty average, but I've never been bored by any of them.
Pretty much this. I have been bored by Thor, but that's about it. The MCU movies are fine, for the most part. They're average. They're sometimes even enjoyable. But when you keep producing one average film after another, it starts to weigh you down. A series of bad movies would turn me away, but the MCU is in that sickening middle ground where they're not so bad as to turn me away, but rarely ever "good."
So to address another question:
Neverhoodian said:
If you're sick of Marvel movies then...stop watching them. Crazy concept, I know.
Well, I haven't seen every MCU movie, but at least for me, there's a number of extenuating circumstances:
1) Very few people on the net want to talk about movies outside franchises, at least for any particular length of time. For instance, here's a list of every movie I've seen in cinemas this year:
Passengers
Sing
Assassin's Creed
The Edge of Seventeen
A United Kingdom
Perfect Strangers
Lion
Jackie
No Man's Land
Patriots Day
Hidden Figures
Silence
Jasper Jones
Logan
So, that's 14 films, but how many of them became discussion worthy (for this site) in general? I'd say, Assassin's Creed (a game movie), Passengers (only because of the ending), and Logan. That's about it. That's not to say that these movies weren't reported on, but discussed at length? No, not really. It also doesn't help that living in Australia, the release dates are skewed, so I saw Patriots Day long after its run ended in the US for instance, while I'm guessing Jasper Jones is getting an Australian release date first before heading overseas (could be wrong there). So, when everyone is talking about a certain film, or a book, or a game, or whatever, I (and I'm guessing others) do want to get in on the action, so to speak. MCU films are released at roughly the same time globally, and are ubiquitous enough to generate discussion. I mean, sure, I could create threads for these films, but how many are going to come to them?
And maybe I'm on the wrong site, but of those films, only Perfect Strangers could count as indie - I'm not really that much of a film buff.
2) Second reason is that a fair amount of my filmgoing habits are based on what's on at the time. Sometimes, I may go to see a film with my family, but that's going to boil down to only a few select films based on common interest. When I go alone, it's usually the cinema near where I work on some days, and at some times. So, in essence, I'm more likely to be able to see popular films, because popular films show at more times, so if I want to see a different film, I'd have to wait hours. Such is the case for Logan - saw it after work yesterday, because of the times available to me, it was either that, or Alone in Berlin. Chose Logan because of a higher RT rating, because my family are more likely to want to see AiB than Logan, and there'd probably be more people to discuss Logan with than AiB.
Hence, the MCU. Good enough to make them tolerable, not so good that I jump at the chance to see them, but at this point, it's kind of out of a sense of obligation, plus limited selection.
3) There's also the fact that for me, every so often the MCU releases a genuinely good film, in my case, being Iron Man, Iron Man 3, and Doctor Strange. Three films out of a lot, but spread out far enough to give jump 'jumpstarts' in the franchise.
