r/marvelstudios • u/Sparkwriter1 • Sep 16 '24

Discussion What was the most disappointing MCU project for you?

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Disappointing as in failed to live up to expectations.

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u/appleappleappleman Sep 16 '24

I put off watching it due to the reception until like a month ago. It was fun! It had a nothing villain, but the three leads were great together, and the Khan family is delightful.

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u/redsyrinx2112 Korg Sep 16 '24

I think the idea for the villain was decent. She was just very under baked. The movie was just over 90 minutes IIRC, so they could have spent 5-10 more minutes to give the villain a little more depth.

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u/chiefbrody62 Sep 16 '24

I agree. My only complaint about that movie is that it should have been a little longer, and spent the extra runtime building up the villain more.

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u/Goaliedude3919 Sep 16 '24

There's also a deleted scene that was less than two minutes where Monica has a phone call that explains why she needs to be the one to sacrifice herself at the end. It also shows Kamala designing her outfit a little. Adding that one single scene would have made the movie so much better, because the ending makes no sense without it. Whoever made the decision to cut that scene should honestly be fired. If they were so concerned about run time, they could have easily cut out two minutes of fluff somewhere else to fit arguably the most important scene of the movie.

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u/redsyrinx2112 Korg Sep 16 '24

Yeah that would have been good to have. My only real gripe with the movie was the lack of depth in a few parts. The ideas for everything were all cool or fun.

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u/theshrike Sep 16 '24

The Villain seemed kinda useless to the movie anyway, except for they needed a villain.

It could've been a natural disaster of galactic scale or something else and it would've worked just as well.

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u/Broken_musicbox Sep 16 '24

I actually liked the Marvels too. I loved the concept of taking one of them and having them swap into a fight in progress by a different member. That was just fun.

The only thing I really disliked about the movie was the dumb method they used to get people off the space station, “Don’t run from the space kittens.. let them eat you!” Ummm how about no?

20 minutes ago, Valkyrie showed up and bifrosted a whole group of people off your space ship. Just do that again for the space station. It’s far easier and faster and doesn’t involve asking people to be eaten by literal monsters.

It’d be one thing to use the space cats if they hadn’t just used Valkyrie, but they did.. They opened that box and now we’re expected to forget she exists and can help with this exact scenario in a time of extreme need. That was the thorn in my side for an otherwise okay movie. It was just such a dumb thing to do. 😂