60.00% - Hollywood acquires great independent work, sands off its edges, and scales it up until it's palatable to the widest audience — what made the original interesting is usually what gets removed.
40.00% - The MCU works when singular creative voices drive it and fails when it's made by committee optimizing for franchise continuity over storytelling.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has flattened individual superhero stories into franchise delivery mechanisms.
40.00% - Blade was the first major Marvel theatrical release, and without Snipes's charisma and its commercial success, the modern MCU era might not have happened.
100.00% - The Marvel Cinematic Universe has flattened individual superhero stories into franchise delivery mechanisms.
0.00% - The Marvel Cinematic Universe has cheapened the individual stories of our favorite superheroes.