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I haven't seen any of the Marvel stuff since Endgame, except for perhaps the deadpool movies. It went from fun, cheesy, and lighthearted to just depressing.
And the blatant product placement really got on my nerves as well. Fucking Audi.
Oh man, and BMW. They devoted a whole scene in the second Avengers movie to Black Widow riding one through the streets so she could contribute to the fight by grabbing Captain America's shield.
It was portrayed as so epic, too. The way Hawkeye said "Give 'em hell!" You'd think she was about to deploy in an iron man suit or something and actually start kicking ass.
Nope, she's just the maid. Gotta get that bike in the movie somehow!
I haven't watched a lot of MCU stuff but for a while they were basically a summer blockbuster a group of friends could go see without anyone vetoing it. Guardians was probably my favorite for being wacky and entertaining. When I started to see Pop Figure shrines in people's offices etc, it was interesting to see how these MCU movies had successfully commodified these things from nerd culture and made them mainstream.