Tubi’s commercials and frequency are probably the least annoying, them and Pluto. There are several others that offer a good mix of content not seen on the others but they chop the movies up badly and frequently with loud commercials, usually the same ones over and over and over again. Prime’s Freevie has a lot but once you surf from one end to the other of the scroll list, it feels like they almost never get anything new or good added to it. Tubi’s recommended changes every couple days with new choices. I can’t believe I actually sat thru Mean Girls last night. I wanted something different and felt the need to get used to hearing women talking on and on about stuff again to be ready for dating life.
I’ve removed most of my subscriptions and now down to just Hulu/Disney, Netflix and Max. I switched to the very basic services for all except Max with ads. Kids didn’t even care about the ads since they use them more than I do. Max is yearly and I mostly keep it cause it seems to get most of the more recent movies if and when I get time to watch.
But it was nice to save a crap ton of money each month by switching down to the very basic services and eliminating most of the others. If I didn’t have kids, I wouldn’t even bother with any of them as I don’t watch much television.
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Try Fawesome, Plex, Crackle and CW. All free (and annoying commercials) and I’m at the point now there’s so many free selections to scroll thru from so many free services that some nights, by the time I find something, there’s not enough time left to watch it all. CW’s commercials are probably the least annoying of that group.
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Disney has ruined Marvel … Disney blows and needs to go
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I’m still catching up on the prior phases. I still need to watch the Spider-Man movies WTH holland. I did watch Quantimanium, just to prep for Loki season 2…but otherwise I don’t know if I watched anything after the infinity saga closed other than the Disney plus series.
From what I’ve heard I haven’t missed much…so there hasn’t been much incentive.
I would not agree with this. Disney bought Marvel right before the FIRST Avengers movie so you have them to thank for a lot of beloved movies.
Now, if you’re referring to the comics and how they’ve changed over the years that is a much more complicated subject that deserves some agreement and some disagreement.
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True, but what they had when they purchased Marvel and what they have now are two different things. They have taken too many liberties not just with Marel but with all their properties and most of their choices in regard to all of them have not been well received that past half decade or so. Disney doesn’t need to go it just needs new leadership.
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They have ruined Marvel … Disney ruins almost everything they have touched for a long while now … they got lucky with a series or 2 here and their that had success … but their hit/miss ratio is not very good
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Icons Unearthed: Marvel - Phase 0 | Stream Free (cwtv.com)
If you get a chance to sit thru this for free on the CW ap it really informs a lot of the behind the scenes who did what when and why stuff a lot I never knew. It takes hours to get thru all of them and it’s worth it at least thru the Ant-man movie’s episode.
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If you think Disney has ruined Marvel live action, please remember what the last 15 years of Warner leadership has done with DC.
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I will forever defend the Jesse Eisenberg Lex Luthor as good casting. There were some definite rough spots though. Not so much spots as long periods of time though.
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I tend to agree with you on most things. Not this. He was absolutely dreadful as Lex. Comically bad IMO.
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Other than the Disney+ shows, I have not watched one Phase 4 movie except for Spider-man No Way Home. Without Iron Man and Cap (Steve Rogers), I just can’t watch a bunch of B listers.
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Yeah remember when Marvel made movies for hugely popular characters that were massive success like ant-man, guardians of the galaxy, dr strange , black panther, etc. Pre mcu most of their characters outside of x-men and spider-man were b list or lower characters and the mcu boosted the popularity of a lot of those characters
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When you no longer have the A-listers around, nobody cares anymore about watching periphery characters on side adventures when the writing sucks and a lot of the characters are so far from their source material. How did ole Namor fare? The only reason phase 2 worked out was people knew you had to watch them because they built into the main overall story heading to Infinity war/End Game. How has Phase 4 been doing at the box office? Enjoy more Marvels quality films until the X-men arrive.
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Those weren’t the A listers. Those were what Marvel had left to work with with the rights to the A Listers tied up elsewhere. What made it work was that Feige guy shoe horning stuff into each of the movies to build to a specific goal, the Avengers and from there to build toward the Thanos saga. What’s come since doesn’t have his guiding hand, is scattered about in multiple formats and time frames for release, isn’t new and exciting like it was the first time and rarely has anything that makes you look forward to the next movie. What in Eternals or Black Widow screams excitement for what’ll be on the screen next year? The last Thor movie was a best a space filler with too much humor. If you take an hour or two and check out that series on the free CW ap it goes into all this in great detail. I have no confidence that the current regime will be able to orchestrate a clear path people will become excited about to follow again even with the A Listers finally available.
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They didn’t use the Namor we all know.
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This. When I started going to shops, A-list Marvel was mutant books and Spidey, with Hulk and Silver Surfer a little below that. Iron Man, Cap, Thor were all B-league in popularity. No one cared about Guardians of the Galaxy. The MCU overcame that with good writing and strong casts.
I think the current malaise is due to the writing generally not being strong enough to make people love these lesser known characters.
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If you thought the FF casting rumours were exhausting this is gonna be 10x worse lol
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