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Captain America 4: A $400 Million Dollar Dumpster Fire?
In the latest episode of cinematic chaos, Captain America: Brave New World has captured headlines for all the wrong reasons. With a reported budget of $350 to $375 million, fans and critics alike are left wondering: what in the world did they spend all that money on? This staggering figure makes Captain America 4 one of the most expensive films in Marvel’s history, but the early signs point to a potential box office disaster.
Last year, after receiving overwhelmingly negative test scores and leaving Marvel executives underwhelmed by an early cut of the film, the release of Captain America: Brave New World was delayed to February 2025. The film, which had already amassed a budget of $275 million before any reshoots, needed extensive additional filming. The reshoots reportedly cost Disney and Marvel an extra $75 to $100 million, bringing the total budget to an eye-watering amount. Essentially, it seems like they are almost shooting a brand new movie. Comparatively, “Godzilla Minus One,” (one of my favorite movies of all time) was produced on a budget of just $12 to $15 million.
Given these developments, Captain America 4 is shaping up to be one of the biggest box office flops in Marvel’s history. This comes on the heels of “The Marvels,” another recent Marvel release that also floundered financially and critically. The once unshakeable Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) now appears to be struggling, with two potential major flops within a few months of each other.
A significant part of the controversy revolves around the character of Sam Wilson. Initially introduced as a normal guy with Falcon wings and machine guns, fighting alongside iconic heroes like Captain America, Wilson’s character development has been divisive. Many fans were thrilled when he was handed the Captain America shield at the end of “Endgame,” but the subsequent Disney+ series, “Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” left a lot to be desired.
The series saw Wilson grappling with the mantle of Captain America, only to relinquish the shield and then struggle throughout the show. Fans criticized the portrayal of Wilson, arguing that he had been diminished in a role that should have showcased his evolution into a new hero.
The problems with Captain America 4 run deeper than just character issues. The extensive reshoots, which involved redoing three major action sequences, indicate that the initial vision for the movie was deeply flawed. Despite having nearly $100 million poured into reshoots, there’s skepticism about whether these efforts will be enough to salvage the film.
Moreover, the fact that a film with such a significant budget and the backing of Marvel Studios could face such a troubled production process is alarming. It raises concerns about the decision-making and creative direction at Marvel, which was once lauded for its almost flawless execution of the MCU.
As it stands, Captain America: Brave New World looks poised to become a case study in how not to manage a blockbuster franchise. With a bloated budget, negative early reviews, and a narrative that has already alienated a portion of its fan base, the future of this film looks bleak.
In the end, the only question that remains is whether the movie can overcome these immense hurdles and surprise us all. Can the extensive reshoots and additional budget save Captain America 4, or is it destined to become a cautionary tale in the annals of Hollywood history?
What do you think about the state of Captain America 4 and the broader MCU? Is there any hope left for this beleaguered franchise? Let us know in the comments below!
X-Men: Ends Justify the Means
In superhero projects, the hero helps out the world or the community because they feel like since they have the power to help out, that it’s their responsibility to do so. Even though it might be dangerous path to go down, if the hero has the ability to save humanity while tip toing the line of morals, they should do that.
This segways me to my views on X-Men Days of Future Past. First of all, it was an incredible movie, one of my favorite superhero movies of all time, however, I do see one change that could’ve solved the problems of the movie within the first few minutes of it.
The movie takes place in the future where a group of robots called Sentinels are programmed with one purpose, eliminate all mutants. After they completed their mission, they started targeting humans that might contain the mutant gene, and then that snowballed into a total imprisonment of humanity.
The surviving mutants have been running from the Sentinels, and every time they are caught by them, Kitty Pride sends back a mutant’s consciousness into the past a week or so to warn the mutants of the coming attack so they can keep on running.
The surviving mutants come up with the plan to send Logan’s consciousness decades into the past to stop the creation of the Sentinels, thus saving the future from them. Logans awakens in the past and searches for a young Charles Xavier to explain why he’s here and they assemble a team to go save the future.
Now to my moral dilemma. Wouldn’t it have been a better idea to send Logan to maybe back in time to the first or second movie instead? In the past, the young Xavier refused to use his powers and was a drunken hermit for Logan to fix. In the first or second movies, Xavier’s powers are at their peak and he could’ve used the machine Cerebro to connect to the minds of every person in the Sentinel program and stopped it from happening.
Yes, Xavier entering the minds of potentially hundreds of people and influencing their decisions is crossing the line, but do the ends justify the means? If you have the ability to save all of humanity by compromising your morals for a moment, is that worth it?
What do you think?
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Loki : A Variant Mess
I have my own theories watching this show. Overall, it was ok. Disney has their work cut out for them
World War Joe 