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Out of the two franchises, which do you think is best?
Which franchise is the best, Star Wars or MCU?
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This question is probably moot since Captain Marvel is all about Rey snapping in mirrors, or so I am told...
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if you can stop at the first three star wars movies made, the answer is star wars. if you include anything else, it is easily marvel
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When picking franchises you cannot dissect shitty movies from their franchise and pretend they don't exist. So TLJ is in the discussion as well as Thor Dark World.
Overall, MCU win because Star Wars had more shitty movies in it.
Overall, MCU win because Star Wars had more shitty movies in it.
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Gotta include hulk and the iron man with the wrestler too lol.
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People talk about “burn out “ with how many sw movies they have done lately.
What they don’t mention is mcu has had at least two movies a year, and sometimes 3 with 2010 bejngthe only exception with just an iron man movie.
What they don’t mention is mcu has had at least two movies a year, and sometimes 3 with 2010 bejngthe only exception with just an iron man movie.
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I am only using 1 from each franchise as an example. IMO Star Wars Ep 456 were great, 3 and 7 were good, the rest were terrible.
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STAR WARS = great songwriting
MCU = the Led Zeppelin of cover bands
MCU = the Led Zeppelin of cover bands
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Star Wars has the best movie (ESB).
But as an overall franchise, the MCU is killing it. Even their "worst" movies are actually pretty good, just not really good/great like their others. Star Wars has a couple movies that are okay at best.
But as an overall franchise, the MCU is killing it. Even their "worst" movies are actually pretty good, just not really good/great like their others. Star Wars has a couple movies that are okay at best.
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MCU, because aside from one or two misses they’re pretty consistent. On the other hand besides the original trilogy for star wars I haven’t cared for the rest.
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Starwars has mostly either been excellent(the originals and Rogue One) or crap(the prequels and sequels), Solo is just about the only "ok" film in the franchise for me. Marvel on the other hand has I think specialised in "ok" a lot of the time and whilst it has had some great entries I don't think there on the level of something like Empire Strikes Back.
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This thread is so 2016, when SW fans were generally pretty excited about the future LOL.
I guess my answer is obvious.
But The Empire Strikes Back is the best movie of all of them..such a lightning in a bottle sc-fi fantasy movie. On paper Irvin Kerschner was not really the type of guy to direct a SW movie, but somehow it worked out great.
MCU has surprised me by getting better with each phase. I thought Avengers 1 would be the peak of its popularity. Russo brothers did something I thought was impossible in Infinity War. I thought the movie would be divisive. I thought it would be a clusterfuck and a complete mess given that it had to juggle around so many characters. But I left the theater happy. I was thinking "Ok, this is how I should have felt after TLJ"
I guess my answer is obvious.
But The Empire Strikes Back is the best movie of all of them..such a lightning in a bottle sc-fi fantasy movie. On paper Irvin Kerschner was not really the type of guy to direct a SW movie, but somehow it worked out great.
MCU has surprised me by getting better with each phase. I thought Avengers 1 would be the peak of its popularity. Russo brothers did something I thought was impossible in Infinity War. I thought the movie would be divisive. I thought it would be a clusterfuck and a complete mess given that it had to juggle around so many characters. But I left the theater happy. I was thinking "Ok, this is how I should have felt after TLJ"
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I'll take the OT + ROTS over anything in Marvel's entire catalog with maybe the exception of the first Guardians Movie. The problem is the ST and the other movies drag down Star Wars quite a bit. I find Marvel to extremely formulaic and bland, I only think a few of their movies are great, but at the same time I only think a few of them are shitty. Most are just decent but they are pretty to look at. I'd never feel the need to watch them again like I do with the Star Wars OT or LOTR Trilogy.
So going Star Wars overall because the higher highs. Although right now Marvel is clearly better with their current content.
So going Star Wars overall because the higher highs. Although right now Marvel is clearly better with their current content.
