[ SECRET POST #3052 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3050 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Falcon Densetsu/F-Zero GP Legends]


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(Stephen Paul Manderson aka Professor Green, Never Mind the Buzzcocks)


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[Elysium]


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[Jeremy Renner]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 020 secrets from Secret Submission Post #436.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not going to dispute your personal feelings, but I find it weird to be worried about Marvel and their financial future specifically at this time.

Remember late 2013? Iron Man 3 had made all the money but most people agreed it had several huge missteps. Thor The Dark World was just... meh on so many levels. And Agents of Shield Season 1 was almost universally reviled. That was all Marvel had to show for in Phase 2 at the time, and coming off of the mega-success of Avengers, fans were concerned for the future of the MCU.

Then in 2014, they released The Winter Soldier. They released GOTG, which few people had expected to ever be as successful as it became. AoS chugged along; I don't think it got any better but it certainly couldn't have gotten any worse, but that doesn't matter because in 2015 we got Agent Carter on the small screen, and better yet, Daredevil. Before AoU dropped, Daredevil was all anyone could talk about. Everyone seems to think it's literally perfect, AND they're actually watching it.

Age of Ultron is a financial home run any way you cut it, and for all its issues (which casual moviegoers don't care about anyway), it's still a better, more watchable film than IM3 and TDW. So yeah, I think saying that AoU's problems are basis for concerns is a little premature. The real test for Marvel's longevity is likely going to be Ant-Man, or Doctor Strange next year. If those movies don't do well, it's probably not going to spell anything good for the other small properties.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not a Thor fan, really, but TDW >>>>> AOU. That movie is a mess, whereas TDW had only minor problems.

[(Anonymous)]

Since the secret is framed around the question of "Will the moviegoing public tire of the MCU?", I'm trying to approach this from the angle of a casual viewer, not an invested member of the fandom. And I feel like Ultron's issues are the kind of things that bother the latter, but wouldn't even ping with the former. TDW had only one problem, really. It was incredibly boring.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I don't know about that, what I've heard from casual viewers is that AoU's plot didn't even make sense to them and it just seemed like one action scene strung together with the next action scene.

That said, I do agree with your overall premise. But I think Marvel needs to show us that they care about quality AND quantity soon if they want to keep the entire MCU thing going.