Well, one obvious point people in the topic seem to forget is that the people who were young men in 2015 aren't young men in 2025. The former young men, like myself, have seen many reboots of different franchises during the years and are not that interested anymore, while the the Tiktok and Fortnite generation isn't interested in seeing the movies because the films fon't cater to them.
When Endgame became the highest grossing film of all time, there really was only one way to go and it was down. Clearly they thought that in order to keep growing, they need more female audience as the Marvel audience was mostly male. But what happened was that the films became uninteresting to men. Maybe the old fanbase was watching the movies but not new audience. Also because of the high expectations, new films are made with huge budget and when they don't meet the high expectations, the sequels get axed.
Then there's huge difference between male and female psychology. Men think growth is being a good person and to learn skills how to be a better or stronger good person, whereas women think growth is having the the skills already and to learn to use them for good. Anakin spent years of training to learn to use the force and lightsaber whereas Rey just knew how to use them without any training. It took nearly three movies for Thor to reach his power, Captain Marvel had hers right in the first film. Ironman died at the height of his 10-year development in MCU, as he was getting better and better.
Someone pointed out that the first Marvel films weren't that good to begin with and they really weren't. But they were the origin story where the characters were introduced to audience and based on how they reacted, the story and character was written to that direction.
About the politics part, there's a difference between using real life politics or events as a source for your story and making the story about politics. As much as the SW prequel trilogy was about Anakin growing to become Darth Vader, it was about the beginning of the empire and how Palpatine gained power. You need to draw from real life politics in order to make it believable and have touch with reality. We know Nazis gained power in real life much the same way Palpatine did in Star Wars.
Part of the problem Disney has is them following an agenda some people try to push in the internet and elsewhere along with the people in deciding positions being out of touch with the audience. If they want young men to watch their movies, Disney needs to make movies for young men. Many films don't seem to have tragedy anymore, which is good people making bad decisions that lead into something horrible. What I especially liked in Alien Romulus was, that it had good people making many bad decisions that lead into tragic events, you don't usually see that these days anymore. It was kind of loyal to the first films in the franchise.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
