Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20180715232450/@comment-29908830-20190221051938

I think Larson gets more flack than the others because her stances are more controversial. Evans engages in leftist policies, but so does the majority of Hollywood, so it's easy for one of them to get jumbled up with each other. I'm not sure what politics Ruffalo holds, but Cheadle's are primarily humanitarian efforts to stop civil war in Africa - a horrifying subject, sure, but nothing controversial. Meanwhile, Larson is primarily focused on sexual assault, and she's been hard-broiled on the matter even before the Weinstein fiasco (having reportedly not clapped when presenting Casey Affleck his Oscar due to the allegations against him). It shouldn't be controversial, but it really is, especially for men who believe this is just the latest underhanded attempt by feminists wanting to feel "special",

LoveWaffle wrote: It is kind of amazing that we're 20 movies into this (21 if you already want to count Captain Marvel), yet the worst of them are still, you know, fine.

Every other long running franchise - all of which but the Bond series only have a fraction as many movies - have put out much worse films than the MCU's weakest.

Yeah, definitely. I'd say Harry Potter was the only one that had it beat, but of course The Crimes of Grindelwald surprisingly backfired, so it looks like the MCU is the only "certified fresh" (as they say) tentpole film franchise around.