I never thought I would get to this point but I think I’m
starting to get burnt out on all these Marvel movies. I’ve mentioned before how
much I love superhero and comic book inspired films, and I still stand by all
of that, but as more time passes, I’m beginning to realize that my zeal to see
these films in the cinema has severely diminished. Yeah, I’ve still seen all of
the MCU to date, but I ended up getting to some of them like Captain America: Civil War and Spider-Man: Homecoming far later than I would have expected.
Whether it’s down to the sheer volume of releases per year, the fact that all
of them are interconnected so that they all need to be seen to get the full
experience, or just down to me discovering other sub-genres that interest me
more, some part of my subconscious is hesitant to keep seeing these. Not that
it should be; I mean, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 is still an astounding
work, Homecoming gave us the first real
Spider-Man movie and even Doctor Strange has some of the greatest effects work
I’ve ever seen full stop.
So, yeah, maybe it’s less that I’m losing my love for
these films and more that they are starting to feel more like work. No change
there then, honestly. Anyway, enough waffle; time to get into this latest MCU
offering that seems to be taking the franchise in a different direction. A very
weird direction.
