I know I'm getting there.... I'm aware that they're massively popular and make more money than Disney can count but I feel like they're starting to over saturate movies and T.V to an extent where even I, as a fan of lots of the source material, am getting really bored with them.
First of all, there's no stakes to most of these movies now. Marvel and DC have shown us the movies they both have slated so many years ahead of where they are and made such a big deal out of how many movies the lead actors are contracted to that very rarely am I able to suspend the disbelief that the main characters are in any kind of peril or danger. For instance, because there's another Thor, Captain America and Iron Man movie in the works I knew that while I was watching Avengers 2 that pretty much everyones going to be walking out unscathed. Don't get me wrong, Avengers 2 had bigger problems than that but it's starting to make these films seem like filler...
Secondly, it's contributing to the downfall of the summer blockbuster almost as much as Michael Bay has. Almost every big movie this year has been either a remake or reboot of an old franchise like Terminator or Jurrasic Park, a sequel to an existing franchise or a superhero movie.
I can't even watch some good T.V and ignore the issue because now there's Daredevil, Gotham, Flash, Arrow, Agents of Shield, Agent Carter, Powers, Heroes Reborn... The list goes on and on.
I loved comics when I was younger, the animated versions of Batman, Spiderman and the X-Men in the mid to late nineties were a massive thing for me too as a kid and I know this might be a pretty outspoken opinion but I really feel like we're getting too much of a good thing and that it's not even that good a thing anymore. Iron Man was great, making Thor work in a cinematic universe was an impressive feat and there've been some great movies like the first Avengers and Guardians of The Galaxy that have followed on from those successes but recently we've had a mediocre Avengers sequel, Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Ant Man... With each one being seemingly more middle of the road than the last and I can't help but think Marvel in particular are shooting themselves in the foot.