What’s your favorite and/or least favorite MCU Phase 4 project? (For those asking what I expect, I expect good movies, that simple).

Pretty much in a nutshell Disney is having all of their companies do a quantity over quality plan since their pumping out movies and shows like it’s an assembly line and their no longer focused on telling actual good stories. Pretty much their focused on making crowd pleaser/dumb fun films.

I agree. Phase 4 is just too overwhelming. There’s too much going on all at once between the movies and the shows, but at the same time there’s next to no major overarching plot progression. I’ve only seen a few of the projects in phase 4 because at this point it’s pretty much entirely lost my interest. Once the Infinity Saga wrapped up, it quickly became obvious that they didn’t have a clear-cut direction to take the franchise any more

As a Star Wars fans, it’s pretty saddening to see Marvel going through the same thing we’ve been going through, Disney prioritizing merchandise and having a show out every month instead of actually having a plan and telling good stories.

These aren't movies anymore, this is a corporate product that they sell to their consumers

If wanda can turn Mr. Fantastic into spaghetti, and alter black bolts mouth, why does she fight captain Carter in hand to hand combat? How do her reality altering powers even work? If makes no sense

Shang chi was a lot of fun. I loved everything about it except the "the world's gonna end if we don't beat the big cgi dragon".

I agree. Phase 4 is really overwhelming. As much as I love the MCU, it’s definitely getting out of hand in terms of production due to the VFX artists speaking up about it, too much content releasing, a lack of direction, lack of quality, oversaturation, I could go on. I really do hope the next Phase can address these issues and improve the quality in terms of the narrative of each movie. However, I’ll say this, the Phase 4 problem is nowhere near as bad as the entirety of the DCEU.

I remember how so many of my friends in school wanted a standalone film about Black Widow. But after her sacrifice in Endgame, I felt like it was too late for her to get a Movie. Starting Phase 4 with a Black Widow movie was kind of odd to me. Even if it's supposed to take place between Civil War and Infinity War, it still didn't feel right. Be careful what you wish for, I guess.

The fact that the Black Widow solo movie was the beginning of the MCU phase 4, should’ve told everybody what they needed to know😂it set the tempo/tone to come😂 Phase 4 needs 3 things to get back on track… 1) better stories 2) a New “it” character to kick start things that everyone can root for like Ironman. 3) A new Thanos/ new big villain final boss to build up to.

In my opinion one of the worst things to happen to marvel was the Disney plus shows, theirs way too much content, You literally have to do homework to understand story lines.

I'm mostly sad that they're pumping these movies and shows out so fast. Everything feels rushed and unable to reach its full potential. It's becoming glaringly obvious in the quality of VFX and the scripts. Sadly this probably isn't going to change given the insane amount of money the MCU's making throwing content out like this, even if it means sacrificing what could be really great stories given the time and investment in talent.

Also it has been confirmed by Feige that without the Loki ending that What If, No Way Home (without the multiverse the spell would've worked), and Dr. Strange 2 dealing with the multiverse wouldn't happen because there would be no multiverse

Disney+’s mandate is to churn out “content” in quantity at the cost of quality. has hurt Phase 4. Too much bloat. They need to revert back to Phase 3 frequency

The problem this phase 4 was that because of the pandemic they feel kinda delayed with everything, and they and to put alot of thoose things fast so they still can match their original plans for the future.

I personally think that the MCU is slowly beginning to run out on its course. I mean I think it's about time that all good things must come to an end at some point. Sure a phase 5 has been confirmed but who else do you think is going to hold up the MCU now that our main heroes are gone or retired? The Young Avengers? The X-Men? Fantastic 4? Knowledge Hub has made a video about the predicting the downfall of superhero movies in general and concluded that Avengers endgame would be a catalyst to this downfall. As for DC, the Snyder verse is said to be coming to a close because of individuals like Erza Miller. I don't know what The Flash or Black Adam would bring but all I know is that the DCEU is currently in a worser spot than Marvel and may be subject to a massive overhaul.

"Edgar Wright has probably made films better than any MCU movie". Iron Man 1 and Winter Solider - "Hold my beer".

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Phase 4 in a nutshell: Quantity of Quality

The problem with Phase 4 is franchise fatigue and just a lack of direction. I think that people are just getting tired of the MCU, possibly superhero media in general. Finally, Phase 4 has the same problem with DCEU currently has in the sense that it’s setting up so much without a clear direction.

I'm only really looking forward to Wakanda Forever and Guardians 3. That trailer for Black Panther was perfect and I truly hope Disney doesn't destroy it.

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I was with marvel for those 10 years of build up. I was a teen in high school when iron man came out. And I saw every movie in theaters. The hype was so real for me. It made me feel that thing your stomach that makes you want to scream, like the moment captain America held thor's hammer. When he said avengers assemble, When iron man said I am iron man and did the snap! It was stuff like those moments I could feel myself so happy I cried. And now I can't help, but feel happy that Iron Man, Captain America and black widow are dead now. They keep making the og characters especially the males dumb idiots next to their female replacements. The story is everywere. The characters are very two dimensional. I don't feel attached or even want to know them. As far as i see It. To me it ended at end game. Like naruto shippuden should of ended after sasuke and naruto's final battle! Now it's ruined. Just like star wars. I grew up with star wars. I watched the old saga when I was a child on VHS. So yeah that's ruined too. And I'm honestly really upset :( seems like all the stuff I grew up with and truly loved has gone to woke shit. They don't care about true fans who have been with it for ever. They only care about pleasing a stupid woke mob that doesn't even understand or watch the content.

The only thing that left me wanting more and got me excited for the future is loki, and ironically I went in with the lowest expectations when I started watching it

I literally just watched Doctor Strange from 2016 for the second time! To be honest, I still don't know much about Marvel's mystic side enough to warrant a second watch for Easter Eggs but after watching it, it made me really sad that the sequel to the 2016 flick was Multiverse of Madness. It's too bad that we didn't get a Doctor Strange sequel before Infinity War, I really think that Doctor Strange works best as a series of self contained stories...there's so much interesting stories that was established in 2016 Doctor Strange with dimensions (previously called multiverses) and Mordor as his motives aren't evil but I guess since Wong is now a big part of the MCU, I don't expect to see Mordor coming back as Strange's partner. Just seems that the events of Infinity War and the blip radically changed what we were supposed to get for Doctor Strange movies.

As an older nerd in his 30s, it’s absolutely amazing to me how there’s a generation like yours that literally grew up with this juggernaut of a franchise. Bar none, there has NEVER been anything remotely close to this outside MAYBE Pokemon, but that’s like comparing apples to a gigantic fruit basket. You and your generation really had it made my dude

Great video! I agree, the MCU is in a very tough spot right now and I'm extremely worried about the future. Not only is Pjhase 4 extremely oversaturated, but it seems like Marvel doesn't exactly know how all of this tie in together in the future. Phase 4 is introducing way too many ideas and concepts that will not benefit them in their favor. The only thing that I thought connected beautifully was Yelena's appearance in hawkeye, but that was at an extremely small scale. Right now we have some magical rings which apparently serve as a beacon, a new mysterious realm of monsters where Shang-Chi's mother is, celestials, the TVA, Egyptian gods, whatever the hell the realm is in Ms Marvel, and a character that can pretty much open portals to any universe. Wtf

Surprisingly well done analysis. Refreshing perspective. Thanks. Solid editing as well.

This video is great and it goes through my frustrations with the MCU. Glad to see someone has the same opinion as I do. Btw 14:03 made me die of laughter

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To me what I hate about Phase 4 is just how much every single project has to make heavy leaps in order to tie in to the MCU. Most of these projects are spin-offs from previous franchises. And none of them are really good outside of Spiderman. The movies that do stand out, wether good or bad, are the origin movies. Shang Chi, The Eternals, Moon Knight and Ms Marvel are all original projects that didn’t do too much work in order to tie itself in, because it didn’t need to. And I love all of them (except for Eternals cause… duh) with Moon Knight and Ms Marvel being my favorites for just not repeating the same tropes and mcuisms the studio has been doing for the past 10 years. And to be more specific, the reason to me why fans and critics actually liked Ms Marvel and were genuinely surprised by how good it is was because it literally did basic superhero story tropes and just owning them. People who say it’s generic don’t realize that yes, they’re the same tropes, but in context where for 10 years now the MCU has been constantly ignoring/avoiding these basic tropes. Ms Marvel stood out for just doing the ordinary. And that to me is what makes me sad about Phase 4. They’re trying way too hard or way too little when they can just go back to the basics or experiment on new ideas.

One thing I’m really excited for is the Guardians Holiday Special It’ll be almost an hour long, and hopefully they’ll let Gunn make it really good

How can you love the first Avengers and the show Disney calls Loki? Loki in Avengers was a great character, a guy you love to hate, Loki in Loki is a mess. Loki transforms into a completely different character in a few hours, it was like Darth Vader turning to the good side the moment he realises Luke is his son. And you say Wandavision crashed in the final episodes, but you like Falcon and the Wintersoldier? Falcon and the Wintersoldier went off the rails a lot sooner than the final episodes, what was that show even about? At the end of Endgame you see Falcon getting the shield from Cap, and it seems like Falcon and the Wintersoldier was a 6-hour-version of that scene... take the shield... I don't want it... take the shield... I'am not worthy... take the shield...stop asking me... take the shield... okay I'll take it. The world had to accept Falcon as the new Cap, so they needed that show. I still think it is stupid to make Falcon the new Cap, Falcon is Falcon, but Disney will be bringing back a version of Ironman too, because... they do not have enough characters in the MCU?

Welcome to growing up..it’s nostalgia, you’re always going to love the things you grew up watching more than the contemporary version.

couldnt agree more, these are the words i've been wanting to shout out since after endgame.

Have to disagree with Shang-Chi. Destin Daniel Cretton did a great job with telling us a story of a new character that most people never heard of. It felt like the Chinese version of Black Panther’s African esthetic. And you can see some of the kung fu elements that inspired it. As with the rest of phase 4? Yeah, terrible. WandaVision started off unique and beautiful, same as Moon Knight, but you could see they didn’t have faith in the writers and directors and had to MCU-ify it. No Way Home is also the only exception, although it’s mostly a Sony product, and the best one at that. But I guess Disney can’t help but fatigue everything it touches, Star Wars and Marcel just won’t be that special anymore since they’re not made with love and hundreds of hours and passion poured into it, but instead just products that need to keep being pumped out.

1) I love all the points you've made and it feels really good to know someone under the age of 25 also feels that the writing has gotten weaker and these Marvel projects lately feel more like products to sell the next product than ever before. 2) I'm not gonna lie, part of my soul did take a hit when I heard "I saw Avengers in 3rd grade" and I realized "damn, I'm getting old. lol. 32. And 3) In my opinion, the best choice to direct a Fantastic 4 movie would be Brad Bird! I mean fuck, he technically already directed the best Fantastic 4 movie ever in The Incredibles.

It’s just oversaturation and burnout. After Endgame they should have taken a long break, maybe not release the next movie until 2023 so the movies would line back up with the current timeline of the universe. Or if they HAD to capitalize on the franchise’s popularity just do one movie per year for a few years. No shows. (I know they didn’t release anything in 2020 but that wasn’t part of their plan. They absolutely would have if they pandemic didn’t happen.)

It’s funny how you can see that in the first 3 phases, movies like ant-man only seem important in retrospect, even though they where surprising at the time, but you can’t see the same thing happening with the current run? Give it some time mate.

Does anyone know the name of the song playing during the first 2 minutes?

Having a blast going from mcu hate essay to hate essay im lovin it

I like the connectivity between the movies and the other MCU projects that build up the bigger overall plot and I did not see this in any of the Phase 4 films so far. I mean it is barely connected at best. Plus not mention of Uncle Ben in the MCU by the actual MCU Spider-Man.

It’s as much of a mess that phase one was. The reason why they aren’t really connected is because they’re setting up the rest of the saga. It’s dragging on because it needs to set up a bunch of new characters and groups.

WandaVision for me was awesome. But I agree with everything else you said!

Agreed. Back in the first three phases, I would avoid spoilers as each movie was released. Here in Phase 4, literally the only movies I cared about were Dr Strange and Spider Man: No Way Home. Every other movie, I didn't even care if I accidentally read spoilers, as they were not exciting at all

I know I'm late to the party but is there a chance you can make a video of The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks and your opinion about the studio similar to your video on Illumination

I used to be a fan of mcu but it got boring and I just question my self why I’m I not enjoying marvel now but then watching mcu phase 4 sucks it make sense the creator needs to fire the new writers because it was their making the mcu worse

I totally forgot that Black Panther two was even coming out because I have felt so swamped with trying to catch up on everything and I’m kind of losing interest of the MCU. I’ll just stick with reading the Comics

It’s had it’s day. It had it’s zeitgeist moment, around the time of Infinity War. Even if they had maintained the quality (which they haven’t) it still would’ve been on a downward trajectory. That’s how culture works. After being a pretty keen infinity saga fan, I now can’t even pretend to be interested in anything coming out. A lot of those early phase movies also relied on charismatic stars and their interactions, like Downey Jr, Evans, and ScaJo. Unfortunately I don’t think the combo of remaining heavy hitters (Holland, Cumberbatch, Hemsworth, Pratt) is ever going to be enough. Just doesn’t seem to have the same wow factor.

It's carzy how spider man across the spider verse is the only marvel relative thing that I'm existed about because my god phase 4 is a complete mess (in a bad way)

I noticed a more cartoon comic book style to a lot of the movies in faze 4 and I feel like that, that throwing most people off now, especially the people who grew up watching it because they expect more of an adult style but getting exact opposite now

I wonder how their CGI will look like in Phase 5 with all the tired VFX artists and the overuse of movies

Love the Sonic the Hedgehog Music being used as the BGM here

Great video and I agree bro I hope phase 5 is a lot better

Arent we kind of in the same situation now as we were with ant man tho? yes the line up of movies and new characters is pretty bloated but how do we know that the characters introduced now arent necessary to the bigger story like ant man was? In the begining of phase 1 the movies felt like they were standalone until the big teamup came. Hopefully phase 4 is like phase 1 with a lot of set up for phase 5/6. As of now it dosent look like it since there are no avengers or seemingly big team up movies until the kang dynasty. The whole start of this saga feels very confused with too much content

Also when Thor beat up those Korbinites in Hulk 3 was an awesome cameo and an awesome moment for Thor

I blame Taika more than Disney for Love and Thunder specifically. Disney has definitely put quantity over quality and hopefully they figure it out

Oddly enough I actually enjoyed Love and Thunder, maybe it was low expectations but I wound up coming out pretty satisfied. But yeah aside from No Way Home and Wandavision (yes even the later episodes), Phase 4 has been very sloppy in my opinion. The continuity is really messy now, and there just isn't a clear through line like in previous phases. I'm hoping it gets better, but given a lot of Disney's latest releases, I can't really say that I'm holding my breath.

I also am part of the generation that grew up with the original Avengers characters from on the early phases of the mcu and it's kind of disappointing seeing how the majority of the mcu has been like and probably will be like now😔

Spiderman was kind of a boring movie, it was a nostalgia trip, it was entertaining but shallow, It reminds me of the new star wars movies, I don't agree it was fan service done well, it was just fan service

No Way Home is THE best phase 4 Marvel movie, and it looks like that's not gonna change anytime soon. I'm glad Sony has somewhat independence from Disney's studios so they aren't as much "assembly line mode", which is what Disney has been doing for a really long time now. It honestly sucks to see this massive, potential-filled story go to a waste. However I am glad that out of all the characters we have, Spiderman is the one that still has a really good future in store. 13:59 personal timestamp

Thinking critical and several other Comics review KZfaq channels have been going over this sort of thing for years. Phase 4 didn't have any plan and neither will face five or six. Normies don't want Multiverse stuff, they want a good story

No Way Home is actually Terrible too.

If I were to summarize Phase 4 of the MCU into two words, I would say it has been nothing but "Set Up." Aside from Spider-Man: No Way Home, and maybe Thor: Love and Thunder, every single Marvel movie and TV Show feels like set up and nothing sticks out as a stand-alone movie anymore, when compared to how the MCU treated their properties in Phase 1.

There have been some good stuff but I can definitely see a dip in quality I hope for phase 5 they can get it together

Well said bro

There are just too many shows and not enough good movies, hard to keep up. Nothing is really tied together, so it's not really necessary to watch everything.

Spiderman far from home should’ve been the first film of phase 4, it would’ve seemed like a passing of the torch from iron man to Spiderman of being the mcu’s main character

The thing with No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is that the cameos in NWH worked and had a purpose of being there and being a part of the story. The cameos in Dr strange were there and then died like in five minutes

I think you’re right about people raving over cameos but, I think scoopers make it worse.

even though black widow was not my fav she was integral for the end of the first major saga of a decade , after iron man of course. it was like paying respect to a character that played a major supporting role for the last 10 plus years Also phase 4 is a cooldown phase used to stall for another high flying major phase which is 5 and with that being said it was still relatively entertaining

Was that intro a Hi-Top reference? Lmao

I'm binging through Marvel movies in order and am on Phase 3 and I'm very impressed with it. The other phases definitely had good movies but Phase 3 imo is the best even with some of the duds like Captain Marvel. Imo Phase 3 is the strongest.

we didn't get any version of spider-man until no way home which coincidentally finally happened in phase 4, that doesn't equate to phase 4 and especially not no way home being good though

5:25 But Ant-Man (Hank Pym) is an integral member of The Avengers in the comics. However I don't know why they didn't decide to go with Hank Pym in the MCU. Maybe they felt there were too many scientists?

Disneys advertising Marvel too much yet they don’t advertise their TVA animated shows like The Owl House or Amphibia, and those don’t even have official merchandise yet. That’s bullshit.

I think the loki series and other two multiverse movies are sort of connected. Since its because of kang's death the multiverse was created.. so all those events occurred between the death of one kang and the rise of the other..

10:55 Hey everyone which is the best Iron Man suit? (Iron Man 2008) or (Iron Man 2018)

Shang Chi was 10/10 for me.

So whens the minions 2 review

MCU phase 4 in a nutshell: we want our fans to eat shit and call it caviar

Yea only except doesn’t that back and forth between strange and America kind of prove in fact people do absolutely remember him and what happened? Or at least certain people do still remember?

11:53 To be fair though the Toby thing for Doctor Strange was mostly because of Raimi directing. At least for me I just wanted to see the two of them working together again.

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Literally everyone I'm subscribed to dislikes this movie. Also literally one hour after this 24 frames of Nick titled his review "Thor 4 sucks and the mcu is dead".

I personally don’t think there’s anything wrong with phase 4. I think people just have their expectations way too high, and they’re not liking the new changes that Disney is taking. This phase is different than all the other ones, and that pisses people off. This one doesn’t have a big badie , each one feels like its own singular storyline, but if you look at the bigger picture you can see how they’re all connected.

When equality is more important than quality 😖😩😴

11:46 to be fair Ghost Rider was originally going to appear in Doctor Strange 2

Thor: "WTF? My fan girls need to sit

I feel the same when I watch these MCU movies. I was born when the MCU started. Which is why it hurts me seeing how the MCU is going down in a downward spiral. No Way Home stopped the MCU from going into a downward spiral. But it only paused it for the time it was out. Once No Way Home's story was looked at the downward spiral was starting once again. And after the Spider-Man phase the MCU has gown back down into a downward spiral. It's even worse now. I remembered when i first saw The Avengers movie. I don't remember anything behind it. But I just feel like I'm being disappointed everytime a MCU movie or show just flops. Bad character writing, messaging, etc. It just. Really disappoints me at the MCU's failure. After Endgame things could have gotten better. But it got worse. I remember when phase 4 was starting and whenever I saw a movie, or the shows. I was excited. I had no doubt the movie or show would be good. But now. I can't go into a marvel show without thinking that it's going to be bad. The LAST MCU movie that I truly went in with high hopes was Moon Knight. I liked it. But seeing other people's opinions. Yeah. The show's not good. After that I've never given anything that Disney makes any chance of hope that I used to give. I just can't wait until the MCU just dies. I know I shouldn't be thinking that. But the MCU has only one. ONE good movie in phase 4 was No Way Home. And even that was bad when you look at it carefully. This almost feels like my own writing. I'm saying almost. It's just that I KNOW what I'm doing. The plots are wonky on each book. But I have SOMETHING. They are just drafts. I just either hope that the MCU gets better or that it just dies. (Sighs) Til all are one.

Is the next video about minions?

They got Thor right in Ragnarok? They got him right in his first movie. After that, he slowly became a parody of himself(outside of infinity war)

if they manage to mess up black panther then i'll we officially done with this phase.

I never felt the need to follow the entire timeline, so I only watched the first Iron Man and Thor movies. After that, I skipped right to the Avengers movies and stopped watching after Endgame.

It hurts seeing my favorite film series go down hill honestly...

The biggest problem for me is... I can't afford Disney plus to keep up with the Marvel Shows.

Disney ruins childhood dreams..

First off let me say , great video. Second of all, it’s upsetting to here Kevin Feige act that way with Edgar Wright. After reading about how the She Hulk writer and director we’re allowed to have full range with the show ( it’s not the best ) she mentioned how Kevin is ego-less and allows her to do what she wants . Which makes me wonder that Kevin is either one of two things . 1) A man who learned to give up the knife or 2) A man who is afraid to tell a woman no .

usually you wanted to watch every movie and you got to wait months for an amazing movie, now you choose what movies/shows look like garpage and you choose one that seems like it would be a little less meh

I agree, but Shang Chi was fire