10 Movies That Felt Instantly Out Of Date
9. Black Widow
Ever since Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson), aka Black Widow, was first introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2010's Iron Man 2, fans assumed it was just a mere matter of time before the character got her own spin-off movie.
Though it was often suggested that Marvel Studios was anxious about green-lighting a female-led superhero film given the prior failures of projects like Catwoman and Elektra, there was certainly considerable fan interest in seeing Black Widow get her own Bourne-style spy thriller.
And it finally happened in 2021, but the big problem? Black Widow died two years prior in Avengers: Endgame, and so the film was forced to be a prequel side-story taking place primarily after Captain America: Civil War.
By 2021, a Black Widow movie felt like a quaint afterthought - closing the cinematic door after the horse has bolted, or rather, yeeted itself off the Vormir mountains.
Given that Romanoff's fate was already known and Endgame had quite decisively shut the book on the character, a common criticism of Black Widow was that it should've been made about five years earlier when Natasha was still, y'know, alive and all.
After her demise, it was tough to much care about this adventure - which was a relatively mediocre one at that.