I decided to post this in the Geek Out Zone rather than in Sights and Sounds, because...well, even though the subject is movies and t.v. and threads about those things are normally posted in the latter, this thread is about superhero movies and since not everyone is interested in such things - and even fewer will admit to it on a political message board - I'm putting it here, for my fellow fanboys (and fangirls) to hopefully enjoy and participate in.
By the way, if your planned "contribution" is to inform everyone that you "don't care about superhero movies", please save everyone from having to be embarrassed for you and just don't do it.
I've been filling in some at-home-far-more-than-usual time by re-watching most of the big ensemble movies from the first three phases - CA:WS and the four Avengers films, and I've started to look more closely at the projected (and delayed) Phase Four projects. To be very honest - and I started this thread mainly to see whether anyone agrees with me on this - I'm not really seeing all that much to get excited about.
Yeah, it's always great watching Black Widow kick ass, but the fact that we know it's a flashback movie and we also know what's going to happen to her in Endgame sort of puts a damper on the whole thing...am I wrong? The Eternals and Shang-Chi? Eh. Aren't these the cinematic equivalent of the comics Marvel puts out that get scrapped after a few issues because no one is buying them?
I'm a little more jazzed about the Spiderman and Thor sequels - probably because I like both characters and Thor is one of the few original film Avengers not to be dead or a hundred years old. Hopefully the Thor film will be a light-hearted entry like Ragnarok and not a dimly lit, soporific like Dark World.
I love Cumberbatch, but I'm not a big fan of magic and mysticism in movies, as opposed to fireworks and butt-kicking, so my anticipation for Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness is mainly because of the concept of the Multiverse being, one would presume, being introduced into the Marvel Cinematic Universe by this film. Now that Marvel/Disney own the Fantastic Four and X-Men franchises, rumor has it that those two super-groups will be revealed to be active in alternate Earths. Doctor Doom, the FF's main villain of course, is rumored to be an element in the planned Black Panther 2, and some are suggesting that Wolverine - not Hugh Jackman, of course - may pop up in the Falcon and the Winter Soldier series at some point.