Marvel has been in a lull since the release of “Avengers: Endgame in 2019”. Some of the recent movies such as “Eternals,” “The Marvels,” “Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness,” and “Thor: Love and Thunder” have not been as well-received by fans, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
Where “Eternals” received a 47% on the tomatometer, “Avengers: Endgame” received a 94%.
“Avengers: Endgame” was released and became a hit reaching $2 billion dollars in the worldwide box office, meanwhile “Eternals” was released two years later and only made $400 million. Marvel is not making nearly the same amount of money as they have in the past.
COMPASS junior and Film Club Secretary Colten Simons says, “I personally don’t really connect with the recent films because the storyline is in too many directions at the moment.”
The next Marvel movie “Thunderbolts” will be released on May 2, 2025. To understand this movie, you would have needed to watch “Black Widow,” “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp.”
This has been the trend for Marvel since the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) started, with different projects and stories
all tying into one accumulative series. Marvel will release stand-alone origin story movies introducing the characters, later all came together in one team-up movie. For example, the first Avengers movie titled “Avengers,” where all the heroes teamed up to defeat a common enemy.
This formula combines all the confusing storylines in the newest Avengers movies, “Avengers: Secret Wars” and “Avengers: Doomsday.”
“Deadpool and Wolverine” along with “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” have certainly been a bright spot for Marvel in a dark time for their movies. Although Marvel’s recent track record hasn’t been the best, they are still the highest-earning movie franchise of all time.
Gabriel Romero • Apr 22, 2025 at 10:31 pm
I am praising you for writing an article about Marvel and the direction the movie industry is going in. I agree so much with the part where Marvel needs to go back to the original storyline. They are starting to do that with the new lineup of movies coming out in the following years. One thing I wish you added to the article is a summary of the 2024 Comic Con, which released the future lineup of the Marvel movies. I feel like that would have given more information to the audience, giving an update on what actors are coming back, which actors quit, and what actors changed roles. I also would have liked to see what your reaction to Robert Downey Jr (previously Iron Man) switching to the villain role was. That’s some big news for Marvel fans to take in, and is pretty big news. Overall, I loved this article and hope to continue to see more articles like this.
Sincerely,
Gabriel Romero
Daniel Anderson • Apr 21, 2025 at 10:10 pm
On April 21, 2025, Tyler Paige wrote an article titled “Upcoming Marvel Movies”. Paige does a great job of detailing the recent failures of Marvel films, at least relative to their previous films. Paige cites credible sources such as Rotten Tomatoes to reinforce his statement that the recent Marvel movies have not been as well received. Paige also does a fantastic job at giving the readers of his article a guide of what to watch in order to understand Marvel’s upcoming film “Thunderbolts.” Readers will likely benefit from Paige’s explanation of how Marvel releases its films, releasing origin films starring one particular character, and then releasing movies (typically their “Avengers” films) that combine the storylines of multiple characters. Paige could have done a better job at explaining how recent Marvel movies have done at the box office, comparing their previous, so-called “successful” films’ monetary success to the monetary success of their recent films.
Sincerely,
Daniel Anderson
Fabian Sourinthone • Apr 21, 2025 at 8:14 pm
On April 4, 2025, Tyler Paige wrote an article titled “Upcoming Marvel Movies”. This article highlights the “flop era” that Marvel is in and follows up by elaborating on upcoming movies that will soon be released. First, Paige provides a statistic from Rotten Tomatoes that
Movies such as “Eternals,” “The Marvels,” “Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness,” and “Thor: Love and Thunder” are all unfavourable within their audiences, with “Eternals” receiving a score of 47% compared to “Avengers: Endgame” which received a score of 94%. Additionally, Paige provides another statistic, comparing the revenue that “Avengers: Endgame”, which was $2 billion, to “Eternals”, which was only $400 million, showing a clear decrease in revenue. Paige then uses a quote from Compass Junior, Colten Simons, who said that he doesn’t feel like he connects with the recent films because the storylines are all over the place. Paige is using the opinion from another student to help connect with his audience because Simon’s opinion on the current state of Marvel films is what most of us are likely feeling about it right now. Lastly, Paige announces that Marvel is coming out with another film titled “ Thunderbolts” on May 2, 2025, and says that to understand the movie, you need to watch “Black Widow,” “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp” which reinforces Paige and Simons’s claim earlier that the storylines are all over the place. In conclusion, Paige does a great job of reinforcing his claim of the importance of upcoming Marvel movies and what they could mean for the status of Marvel.
Sincerely,
Fabian Sourinthone