finally got to see Wakanda Forever and boy, was that that an utter mess.
I know losing a charismatic lead that carried the first movie (which i liked) and anything wakandan that was good put them in a difficult position with re-writes etc but that doesn't excuse what they ended up with. personally i think they'd done better recasting the role. the only thing i liked in the whole thing was the very final montage, which was moving and showed the stark contrast between what was lost and what replaced it. Literally seconds of a montage carried more weight than the whole fucking movie (and i dont mean cos of his death but because of his presence, a genuine character with presence, something the movie never had). Yes, Angela Bassett was great (she always is) but that's not a character of presence to carry a movie, which it sorely needed.
was a fitting end i guess to phase 4 which was garbage and it's aging worse across the board. The only exception is the Spiderman movie, which was good and gets better with age. Other than that in phase 4 the only merit i can find is a great costume in Moon Knight and the first half of Wandavision (before it fell apart when the real world kicked in).
however, they have greater problems than a shite phase as i see it. I've recently watched Dr Strange, Reed Richards, Charles Xavier, Wanda and more die and it means... utterly nothing. It doesn't matter who fucking dies now, they just go get another one. There's no real repurcussions that matter, no consequences that really impact, oh he's dead, no worry, here comes another one.
They have to shutdown the multiverse thing quicktime or work into it some rules that brings back a sense jeopardy cos as it is, it has none. It's become a parody of itself, almost everything looks and feels the same, continual use of 'humour' that isn't funny, with characters of little substance, including their A listers with Thor a joke and hulk whatever the fuck he is now, just a great green giant of blandness.
A good start would be to get some writers in who know what the fuck they're doing and then let them do it.
Cos as i commented in the DC thread, i wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments of Gunn et al. It's not superhero fatigue, it's bad movie fatigue.