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Originally Posted by GGG
I see the difference. I don’t see why you attribute the success of phase 3 to not Disney and the failure of phase 4 to Disney. You’ve just arbitrarily decided that the corporate overlords and not the guy in charge is at fault.
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I think partly the success of Phase 3 is to blame for the failure of phase 4, and both Disney corporately and Feige deserve the credit/blame.
They pumped up Infinity War as the big final battle movie that was the culmination of the entire universe. Then they rug-pulled the ending, setting up an even bigger, more final Endgame.
But the storyline required for that kind of wrote them into a corner where they had to do timetravel/multiverse, which is fundamentally less compelling, imo.
Also, I think some of the movies from the start of Phase 4(eg Eternals, Black Widow) were stuff they knew would be less compelling and they put it out then because they knew there'd be a hangover. Black widow should have had a standalone movie in Phase 2/3, because having an origin story for a character once we've seen her whole arc is too late.
Some of it is just bad luck - Black Panther was likely one of the biggest names coming into this phase, and so having him die unexpectedly cost them some momentum as well