10 Biggest Mistakes In The Marvel Cinematic Universe

It ain't all Marvellous.

Is Guardians Of The Galaxy far enough behind us now to mention that it had some flaws? Before you reach for your digital pitchforks, that's not suggesting that GOTG wasn€™t a very good film indeed; it was fun, funny, exciting and the same but different in the best possible way €“ a perfect summer movie. Almost. Freddy Got Fingered aside, there€™s no such thing as a perfect movie. Ronan was an imposing but rather empty, 2D nemesis, Thanos looked like an unfinished character from a computer game cut scene and Nebula was a nebulous presence, and that€™s without going in to some of the more general criticisms that tend to recur in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There are now ten entries in the MCU, and as much as it€™s tempting to award the studio a perfect ten, this position doesn€™t stand up to scrutiny. This year alone, Marvel Studios released two of their very best efforts to date, with Captain America: The Winter Soldier and GOTG both hitting the twin targets of critical acclaim and box office success that every tentpole movie aims for. That being said, even its most ardent advocates would struggle to argue that Thor: The Dark World belongs in the same company. The recent arrival of the Avengers: Age of Ultron€™s first official trailer kicked off the countdown to Earth€™s Mightiest Heroes coming together again in five months' time, and a couple of months after that we will finally lay eyes on the long-anticipated Ant-Man. Some more superb entertainment is all but guaranteed, but we€™re reaching a critical juncture in Marvel€™s grand design, and if ever there was a time to address a few shortcomings, that time is now. So let€™s put the fan worship to one side for a moment and dare to explore some of the MCU€™s errors to this point.
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