Bob Iger Says ‘The Marvels’ Failed Because of a Lack of “Supervision”

I don't think adding another superpower to the movie would have helped. Besides, what is seeing farther than humanly possible going to do? 😏😂

Ha! 😄

I'm pretty sure The Marvels failed because in order to understand it, you had to watch two different TV series and a movie.

It failed because people like me, who have seen the two tv shows and the movie, don't care enough to go to the movies anymore. I have a great TV in my basement and more entertainment than I can hope to consume in a lifetime. The teens that grew up on comics and were excited to see Thor hammer Cap's shield and overcharge Iron Man's armor are now parents with soccer games and PTO meetings. I'll watch it when I can, but I'm not going to hire a sitter and go out of my way to make it happen.
It's not the quality of the movies, although Quantumania had me wondering if they actually care about quality anymore. It's a question of value. Seeing the Avengers in Imax was an experience I couldn't get anywhere else. Teens today have a billion more choices, and far less interest in seeing comic book heroes come to life.
Tell good stories, make good movies, and the audience will come back because it's worth it. But it has to be more than just the next Marvel movie.
- all of that, yes. Plus I don't think the MCU is ever going to hit the same heights without Cap, Iron Man, and T'challa.
- It's like the marvel effect wore off. And now they actually have to try again. And they're shocked that this happened.
Which is a shame because it was pretty good and fun. Light-hearted, straight forward plot and ~~cats~~ flerkens. It's a nice change of pace from all the overly complicated plots the last movies/shows had.
Did it?
Yes, you had to have seen Captain Marvel, but a sequel can expect that. Plus I think the opening 2 minutes gives you a recap anyway.
Next we jump to Nick Fury, an established character both in the previous film and the universe at large. He is working with someone "new" (Monica) but really you just need to know, "friend of Nick Fury".
Then we get Kamala, but we don't need to know much about her yet. Just a random fan girl who is involved.
We learn they all have powers, great.
The film will tell us how each got their powers, but it isn't that important.
Spoilers for WandaVision. It isn't important to know that Monica got them from Wanda or what she went through.
Spoilers for Ms Marvel, we don't care (in this movie) that she is a mutant. We don't see her friend from the show. She has a magic band, that's in the movie, that's all we need.
- The movie tells a story about Carol's relationship to both Monica and Kamala. It's already hard to understand the relationship between Monica and Carol if you have seen the first movie and Wandavision. Without that knowledge I would be completely lost.
  Understanding Kamala probably works fine without having seen her show, but also is quite bland. It works way way better if you have all that background knowledge about her character and family dynamics.
No, even though I watched both series and all the other movies, it was still hard to follow. It was just so poorly written and paced. The editing jumped around, moments with critical information were breezed past without enough time to absorb what just happened.
Honestly, it should have been a great movie. It has all the pieces; they were just so badly executed. It's the first MCU thing I was genuinely excited to see in quite a while, and instead I sat there the whole time wondering how this ever made it through any kind of quality control.
Doesn't help the tv shows sucked as well.

No Bob, executive “supervision” isn’t what makes movies good, it’s one of the things that ruins them.

As does insisting your subsidiary pump out content for your streaming service on a schedule rather than waiting until it’s ready.

Marvel’s been shitting the bed here and there lately and I blame Disney for spreading them too thin.

I thought The Marvels was good, but not great. I’ll watch it again at some point. Deadpool’s going to make a billion and you’re kidding yourself if you don’t think so.

It failed because it's the tip of the pandaverse spear.