#gotg 3 was such a welcome departure bc they let james gunn tell a story. about CHARACTERS. which is somehow an insane and revolutionary idea

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what has ruined the mcu in my opinion is that i feel like they used to have creative people make the movies they wanted to make with a few tiny little notes from one guy with a plan about characters or events or concepts they should briefly mention and now they feel like they were made entirely by executives who just crunched the numbers on what made the most money and shit out movie after movie after movie desperately asking "do you like this?? is this what you like???? you like doctor strange right what if we put doctor strange in this movie will you like it will you go see it will you give us money please please please give us money". and i will not because they're not making movies anymore they're making content.

#gotg 3 was such a welcome departure bc they let james gunn tell a story. about CHARACTERS. which is somehow an insane and revolutionary idea #if i'm honest as much as i hate to say it bc i really love it it feels like a lot of this came from eternals flopping #both commercially AND critically like it didn't make much money but it was also their first rotten movie on rotten tomatoes #for the first time in a little while they took a risk on an auteur with a distinct style they let her change up the formula ever so slightl #and for the most part she made the movie she wanted to make and it was a colossal failure the likes of which they'd never really seen befor #and instead of realising that a) it was 2020 no movies were doing well and b) it's okay to have a divisive movie sometimes #they panicked. and now we're stuck with focus group executive ai movies.