10 Ways That The Marvel Cinematic Universe Has Ruined Cinema

8. Fewer Self-Contained Movies

Way to suck the fun out of a neat idea, Hollywood: what happened to movies as movies? Motion pictures based on comic books aren't actually comic books, after all; they're self-contained entities, and - all said and done - they need to be treated as such. It's a shame that every big blockbuster flick seems to be part of a Cinematic Universe, in one way or another. Because sometimes less is more, right? And Hollywood seem to have forgotten that. Movies that have to adhere to "rules" of a set universe, time and time again, are inherently less interesting, after all; a self-contained movie is restricted to abiding to the standards, timelines and events that have been established already. And when a movie is forbidden to do whatever it wants, it creates a problem. Do movie-goers really want their pictures delivered in "neat" packages, over and over again? Where's the excitement? Where's the tension? Where's the risk? In absentia, that's where.