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They get shit on for "making the same movie over and over", then they get shit on for deviating from the standard formula. Some are better than others, sure, but I've been at minimum entertained by all of them /shrug
EDIT: Apparently I didn't make myself clear, the rot is at the top. Disney does this shit with all of their major IPs, Marvel, Star Wars, and their bullshit live action remakes.
There's a lot of space between "let's try something new" and letting Rian Johnson take a hot, steaming dump on your IP because he feels like being an iconoclast. Disney fucks up every property they touch.
At every turn Disney execs seem to be in a terrible fucking hurry and keep going off half cocked instead of working methodically and preserving the integrity of the IPs they spent billions acquiring. You'd think that if you spent enough money to build a moon colony you wouldn't shoot from the hip as much.
Bruh I'm talking about the MCU, are you ok?
Yeah, I'm saying that Disney doesn't know how to responsibly manage an IP, including Marvel.
Ok, but everyone else in the thread is talking specifically about the MCU. Disney has absolutely had issues with Star Wars specifically because they didn't plan things out, but that's not a complaint you can make about Marvel.
That's my argument: that Disney gets impatient and squanders their IP. They paid billions of dollars for Star Wars and fucked it up. They have been fucking up Marvel and will continue to fuck it up in similar fashion.
I don't agree they've been fucking up Marvel, certainly nothing like what's going on with Star Wars. No matter which direction they went in people were going to complain, I happen to like the different flavors of movies they've tried of late (epic fantasy "Eternals", semi horror movie "Multiverse of Madness" etc). And most of the tv mini series I've loved, Loki was AMAZING and I loved WandaVision. Also the MCUs least profitable movie still made 50 million plus, so it's not like even their misses are hurting them much.
I think it would be fair to say that Marvel post acquisition has much less direction as a whole. Disney's track record of not having anything resembling a plan for their IPs makes "experimentation" look a lot more like "floundering".
Fan loyalty will keep things going for a while, but I don't think we'd be hearing the phrase "superhero fatigue" nearly as often if Disney wasn't running the show.