Watching the first Transformers and it occurred to me that the exact same style of almost slapstick humour mixed with great over the top action set pieces is what the MCUs bread and butter is. Does anyone else see the almost carbon copy of structure here? Which begs the question of why are the MCU films so celebrated and the Bay films so despised critically? Whats that one minor difference that separates these two franchises that couldn't be any differently received critically.
The first Bay Transformers film was actually great.
Unfortunately he never captured that magic again with the sequels. But the popularity of the first one seems to have kept the franchise going all this time.
As to Transformers though, it doesn't matter what people seem to think of the quality. The last two, which are arguably the worst two, are the two that broke a billion at the box office. And the next one will probably make over a billion as well, regardless of how good/bad it ends up being.
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Also, the MCU is very character-driven. They actually have characters you invest in emotionally, and want to see succeed. The Transformers movies had Sam Witwicky (instead of wanting him to succeed, I wanted him to get crushed by rubble during one of the extremely long battle scenes) and whatever Mark Wahlberg's character's name is (the fact that I can't even remember his name shows how forgettable I found him).
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He and Snyder can have "most destruction in one battle" competitions.
Though they'd still lose to Singer, with X-Men: Apocalypse. Magneto probably killed millions of people during the final act. But hey, he helped rebuild the X-mansion, so it's all good.
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Marvel hasn't always been great and DC hasn't always been pitiful. The balance seems to fluctuate every now and then.
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I clearly said that the balance of which side is better tends to fluctuate. I'm not sure how to make that any clearer. That doesn't mean I am saying at the current time Marvel isn't doing better films.
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I wasn't relegating it to just combined films. I was thinking of films like "The Dark Knight".
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