Disney's "influence" on Marvel movies
 

I have a friend who has a narrow-mindset who tells me that he has a friend that works at Marvel who is supposedly telling him that Disney is the one responsible for ruining the Marvel movies. This baffles me because for one thing, he has not watched any of the Marvel movies because this friend of mine has a vendetta against Disney.

I really need you guys' help to convince him otherwise. Do you think that it is Disney's fault that Marvel movies are "screwed up"?

Marvel movies irk me to some extent, but in the mind's eye of the general populace so far they are not all that "screwed up", and generate the necessary bucks. Could they be better? Yes, but you take what you can get, there's always a later opportunity (and patience is rewarded, like with Winter Soldier)

sounds like he wants Marvel movies with Oscar caliber acting and stories in them.

I don't like how some people, in there mindset, They only wanna see good acting in movies and such, They should just enjoy them for what it is, entertainment.

The Marvel movies are done in such a way, That even the non comic book fans can enjoy them.

This isn't just about pleasing the comic book fans, But the average person who has never read those comics.

Define "screwed up"?

I also don't think Disney is involved to the level your friend thinks.

I don't think they are screwing up...

in fact can Disney make more animated marvel movies please~

I'm sure they will, Big Hero 6 did pretty well and its based on a Marvel comic.

As in responsible for the Marvel movies' directions in comedy, tone, and everything. Even says the comics have been going downhill because of Disney. Also, saying they messed up the Amazing Spider-Man and X-Men movies when we all know that is the work of Sony and Fox. He hasn't even read the comics or watch any Marvel movies besides Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 1 and 2, and the first 2 X-Men movies. He's literally annoying me with this mindset of his. He would tell you that his only source is his friend who works at Marvel. :roll:

If you don't like him why is he your friend?

Why do you need to convince him? Is he not allowed to have an opinion you don't agree with?

I'm sure as much as Disney let Marvel and Pixar and now Lucasfilms do their own thing and run "separate" as they say you can bet they have a much bigger role making decisions than what they say they do. We've seen plenty of reports come out that say otherwise. I wouldn't say they screwed up Pixar or Marvel though, I don't think pre-Disney owned Pixar/Marvel were that much different.

Lucasfilms released there own animated film called, Strange Magic, But its gotten a lot of bad reviews. its 20% on rotten tomatoes at the moment.

So terrible that Guardians of the Galaxy was a (the?) top dog last summer?

I dunno, sounds to me like your friend may have done this out of some chosen "loyalty" thing. If that's his schtick then might not really be any convincing him.

The comics have gone downhill because the writers are hacks, the editors are lazy, and event fatigue has pissed off the audience

Speaking of event fatique, Marvel is planning another one, Earth 616 and the Ultimate Universe are gonna come to an end, Everything you knew about them, will cease to exist, Marvel is creating a new universe. Its basically a new 52 style reboot. Its gonna combine elements of 616 and Ultimate Universe into one.
http://marvel.com/news/comics/23961/...wars_last_days

I didn't want to admit this but "my friend" is actually my younger cousin. It's my younger cousin who has a hatred for Disney. I love him but he has a mindset where if someone tells him something he likes, he is easily convinced.
He will flat out say that GotG is horrible without watching it.

Y'know... if you swap just a couple words around, that statement becomes:
"I don't like how people appreciate quality. They should just settle for stupid things. None of it matters anyway."

It's not exactly what you said, but... actually yeah, that's exactly what you said. :lol: What a thing to say.

Well I've got to say it's a valid point when considering the rest of the world is normally not allowed to be bad at their jobs. If someone is going to make limelight actor level of pay they could at least be good at their job.

In my mind, that already happened back in 2007 when Spidey said okie-dokie to Satan and reality was rewritten.

This. So much this.

I'm not too keen on the Disney Marvel films, but they always manage to make their movies a decent way to kill time. That doesn't mean their movies are great though.

Sounds like he hasn't even read any comics since 2007. Sorry, but Marvel comics started going downhill when "Joephisto" Quesada thought it would be a good idea to have Spidey make a deal with the devil. That was long before Disney ever even TOUCHED Marvel.



Yup. That about sums it up. Gods, I miss JMS and Peter David. Bendis is still good, though, isn't he??!



Yeah, I'd say that's what started the ball rolling downhill. I'd even venture to say the editing staff has basically torpedoed the comics just to cater to their own personal tastes.



Ditto.