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Me watching people take MCU seriously after endgame 7 years ago in which it became painfully obvious Disney ran out of ideas just like they did with every other franchise they own.
Comics have always waxed and waned. Some of the great storylines in comics happen between some of the worst. Imo it makes sense that the films following this model could do the same, and writing all of the off forever because you haven't been 100% satisfied every time seems silly.
It's okay to not like the MCU, and it's okay to be done with it. But you seem to be suggesting that the MCU was once good in your eyes - why do you think that somebody that has been proven to you to be good once is not capable of being good again?
If you want, you can try to sell it to me.
I was a teen when the very first Spiderman movie came out, and I found it quite entertaining at the time. (Kirsten Dunst might have had something to do with it)
I was also ok with the X-Men and saw Iron Man, which still was okayish but started to feel a bit silly to me.
I've kinda lost interest in those kinds of superhero movies. Sure I kinda liked Watchmen, if only for the great soundtrack, and ofc I've seen the praised Batman Trilogy (Begins, Dark Knight, Returns), I also kinda enjoyed Kickass for being partly a parody of its own genre. But after that era, I've never really felt the urge to watch any of these movies.
What am I missing out on? Which movies do you consider a must see (or at least great entertainment) even for someon who doesn't know a whole lot about the MCU beforehand and has never read a comic book like that?
I want to try to sell you on X-Men based off your likes of watchmen and the DK trilogy. I have the same taste. X-Men hasn't been great. The 90s cartoon and the reboot X-Men 97 is better than any movie that fox or the MCU has produced.
There is meat on the bone though. I am hoping that after the secret wars and battle world the MCU can introduce good storylines for the X-Men. Each X-Men movie has had good scenes but never a good complete story. For me, I'm enjoying the cartoon way more than anything the movies have showed me.