I think LittleDas means to say movies use to have a consensus of being good by both critics and regular people, like the Golden Era of Hollywood and the 90’s.
I believe The Avengers ruined movies. When companies like Disney realized they could get people to watch twenty movies about each character to watch and understand the film with all of those characters, a la Avengers, it became popular to write poor stories with major omissions and gaps, and if fans complain, they say “another spin off is coming or a book to fill in that gap.” Bad writing is not lauded, because it allows companies to make entire mini-series, books, video games, and etc to fill in the holes.
I was watching the original Terminator and Kyle Reese ecplained the whole premise and story in less than 5mins to Sarah Connor.
Gone are those days. Now we will have Avengers style everything. Even Godzilla’s movies are called Monsterverse after the Marvelverse. I bet the Jurassic films will be called the Jurassicverse. Ugh.
I am not alone in my criticism of The Avengers and how it changed movies. Martin Scorsese agrees.
