10 Things Movie Fans Find Too Distracting
3. Constant Attempts To Build A Universe
Though the MCU has definitely been responsible for a whole lot of good when it comes to the world of cinema, it's also to blame for one of the most infuriatingly distracting tropes knocking around most blockbusters today.
Admittedly, it didn't create the initial idea of a shared movie universe; that honour goes to the Universal Classic Monsters world which started back in 1931. However, Tony Stark and the gang definitely made popping up in each others movies cool again, not to mention incredibly profitable.
That second element ultimately forced other movie studios to start forging their own shared universes and that's exactly why it's now so incredibly rare to sit through a mega-money feature in 2020 without it somehow trying to plant multiple seeds for a lucrative future.
Yet, the reason Marvel's Cinematic Universe took off in the way it did was down to the fact the studio recognised they needed to make fans care about each of the characters individually before bringing them together. This was something the likes of the DCEU and the Dark Universe failed to do. In the end, ans were left rolling their eyes at unearned teases and constant nods to the sequels to come, instead of losing themselves in the worlds of Batman, Superman or the Universal Monsters.