Herbie is being put into the movie to appeal to young children, which is not the direction the mcu should be taking. Prove me wrong and bust this bucket of bolts into a million pieces. I know that I would cheer.

As bad as the new avengers movies might be, they were going to be so much worse if they had not gotten rid of this horrible actor and lame character. He who remains was God awful and Victor timely looks like freaking Don king.

You have got to be kidding us! Skaar is by far one of the lamest characters ever depicted on screen in any mcu project. A movie about his being born and growing up would have been beyond awful!

A better fit... Like the way the director of brave new world was a good fit despite only having directed bad movies. But if you look at his photo it becomes obvious why they hired him.

This supposed post credits scene is Incredibly cheesy and deceptive with the audience reaction added. It somehow managed to fool google's AI as I asked Google if the doom / thanos post credit scene from thunderbolts is real and it answered that it is real and even went on to describe it. Absurd! I then asked Bing co-pilot and it answered that it is not a real post credit scene. I had to find out for sure because the MCU has went so far downhill the last 5 years I don't know what it's capable of anymore. That said, this was lame!

The lessons they really need to learn-- stop making these movies straight comedies. Outside of gotg, the sillier the movie the harder it fails. Stop casting actors for their name recognition. The early actors cast were NOT cast for name recognition and they made the mcu great. Stop hiring directors with no experience in the genre or no experience making full length motion pictures.

Thunderbolts fails in every one of these categories. One of their ads for this train wreck is that it's HILARIOUS. well mcu fans want to laugh occasionally but we are not down for the mcu being comedies. Russell and Harbour make for terrible uncharismatic superheroes, and schreir had never directed a movie. Massive bomb in coming.

Very well said. The movie failed for many reasons but the main reason is that this movie went way in the direction of childish comedy. It felt too much like a "Disney movie" for children. Mcu movies rarely felt like that before this. Post endgame the films were more adult, felt like they had stakes, and only had a smattering of comedy. They changed the formula in a big way, with this movie being the most blatant case. The "HILARIOUS" Thunderbirds will also fail, just not on this level.

All these fan boys that were trying to make an excuse for this train wreck were saying that they would switch silver surfer back to a man for future movies. Clearly that is not in the cards. Marvel's big wigs may just be too oblivious to the silver surfette sinking this movie

Why I am unhappy they are embracing her character - because they hired her because she won an award or got rave reviews in another project, NOT because she was the best possible person for the role. If the MCU used the criteria it has used over the last 10 years to hire the early actors- Olsen, Evans, Hemsworth and RDJ ALL would have been ed over for bigger or hotter names. No one would have ever known how successful a film franchise could become. The movies would have been nowhere near as good. Why did they change the formula of hiring the best possible actor to the hottest possible actor? I do not know but the movies are suffering greatly at the box office largely because of it. Thats not the only problem though obviously. Pugh is a good actress but her being celebrated helps justify in these people's minds that "hotter" was better. It wasn't better. They may never learn that

That's an incredibly cheesey scene playing the entire avengers series for cheap laughs. How could rocket even survive getting through that portal and know he could survive on the other side? Certainly he had zero experience with an energy portal being held open with one of the infinity stones. Iron man's plan was perfect. GREAT AI written article you have there!!