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There are some uncited assertion in there. Where did female cast members "bash males"? The Brie Larson quote cited in the article listed upthread had nothing to do with the MCU, and was nothing close to male bashing, and it's the only thing presented so far.
 
As Ternaugh pointed out, Captain Marvel was a blockbuster, by any reasonable definition. As to why Black Widow is doing so relatively poorly, that's really complicated. I sincerely doubt it has anything at all to do with anything Johansson has said in interviews. The movie is about a character that is already dead in the continuity of the series. It was released simultaneously to streaming and theaters, and it was released a year late due to the pandemic. All those are almost certainly bigger factors than folks caring about whatever Johansson said.
 
Regarding Dr. Strange being cut from shows, do you have an example beyond WandaVision? Otherwise, that's one show, and I've got to say, making the decision to not have the powerful man come in and save the day at the end of that series was a solid one. Having any character show up and Deus Ex Machina the ending would have been bad, but having a man do it in a show that's otherwise been mostly centering women would have sucked.
 
This whole panic over more diversity in the MCU makes me laugh. There was one female super hero for the entirety of phase one of the MCU, and she's the one who didn't get a solo movie (until just now), while there were four male-led solo movies. In phase two they added two more women. Wanda only became a hero at the very end of the last movie of phase 2, and Gamora was added as the one woman in a crew of five. There were once again four male-led solo movies, and zero female-led. Phase three gave us our first female-led movie, and five male-led movies.
 
As the original lead actors retire, their characters are getting replaced. We got a black Captain America. We're going to get Iron Heart instead of Iron Man. We know we're getting a female Thor in Love and Thunder, and rumors say that Hemsworth's Thor may be going to die, but I haven't heard anything solid on the future of those two characters. A lot of fans want Shuri to be the new Black Panther, but, once again, Marvel seems to be playing their cards close to their chest, so who knows. This year we get Shang Chi, a new male lead, our first Asian lead in the MCU. Someone in one of these threads said that Dr. Strange is going to die in Multiverse of Madness, and that Hawkeye is going to die in his Disney+ series. I've seen nothing to back these up. 
 
But the thing is, if the MCU becomes no longer completely centered around white males for a while, it's not the end of the universe. White males have dominated lead roles in these movies so far (and in all of Hollywood, for that matter) for a long while, and it would take a long time of that no longer being true to reach even close to parity. It would be okay to let some other folks take the spotlight for a while.
 
 

I found Momoa's Aquaman an improvement on "talks to fish".....
Just saying.

The MCU is definitely not the Ultimate universe. It's more a soft reboot/modernization of the regular comic universe. There are some Ultimate elements, especially involving Fury, SHIELD and  Hawkeye but not having rights to Spiderman, Fantastic Four and the X-Men caused some major breaks from that alternate Earth. Feige took some of the best elements of both but the MCU versions of our heroes are far closer to their traditional Marvel versions than their Ultimate ones. 

Unlike comic book characters who can remain the same age for decades, actors get older, they want to move on to other things, or they social-media their way out of a job. Clearing the decks of one set of characters to make room for the next generation of characters is an unfortunate necessity of live action cinema. Until we perfect digital actors who look 100% real, with no uncanny valley effect, and can be performance-captured and voiced by numerous actors over time, we won't have superhero characters that continue on for two, three, or more decades. The Iron Mans will have to give way to the Ironhearts, and one Captain America (or Black Panther) will be replaced by another, and then another, etc. All we can hope for is that Kevin Feige does a good job of this. I, for one, have no problem with Kate Bishop taking over for Hawkeye, to take just one example. As long as they do a good job with these new characters, I'm still all in on the MCU.

Funny pics might not be the best place for this, but I'm not sure where else it would fit.
 
 

Black Widow is a super-spy thriller with the secondary theme of "What is family?".
 
However the main villain is the most misogynistic despicable bastard we've seen in any MCU film to date. Only the Red Skull comes close to him on my evil podium.

CM is a mythological movie but it is not a hero’s journey mythological movie. It is more a ‘amnesic goddess that falls to earth and later remembers she is in fact a goddess’ movie. Goddess is symbolic of the divine feminine archetype/symbol. That this goddess is an earth woman makes it even more impactful, as symbolically, it is that the divine feminine that has been reawakened on Earth.

ZZ Top Bassist Dusty Hill Dies at 72

I realize this is an old discussion, but having been seeing previews, wanted to make a comment. Back in the day, we compared Carol Danvers to Maverick from Top Gun and the argument against was that He went through a heroes journey. I then said that just because you come back and do what you have done the whole movie to save someone doesn't stop you being the a$$ you were the whole movie. Well, judging by the new preview of the new top gun movie, he is still the same arrogant jerk he always was, including, apparently giving attittude to the commanding officer of the flight school. Just saying.

Much of the really cutting-edge drama these days is being done for television, while movies tend toward broadest-appeal films. It used to be the reverse, when television was the medium targeted for the masses. But as the range of channels and services has proliferated, television has more and more had to find niche markets appealing to specific tastes and expectations; whereas films, more and more obsessed with blockbuster box office, is aiming for as many targets as possible with every release.
 
I'll just add that one person's junk is someone else's treasure, one size does not fit all, etc.

Wow. That's so utterly different from my experience. When you include direct to streaming content, I think we're in a golden age of video content. There is so amazingly much good stuff out there. That's not to says that there isn't a lot of amazing stuff from the past, too, of course. It's just that there's more of it now. Is there a lot of crap being made? Sure. But that's always been true. Sturgeon's law and all. 
 
The thing is, even the stuff that isn't all that great in a critical sense is often a lot of fun. 
 
 

It should have been made and released in the timeframe it was intended for.

Not just another "female-led superhero blockbuster." As far as movie superheroines go, Black Widow was the only name in the game for years. Fans have been demanding she headline a movie at least since Avengers. Marvel/Disney dropped the ball by waiting so long, IMO mainly because we already know Natasha's future and ultimate fate. There's no real suspense surrounding her in this movie, making it harder even for her fans to get excited over it.
 
 
My guess is that Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle meets The African Queen will pretty much cover it.

I’m rewatching Babylon 5, Batman: TAS and Hercules: The incredible Journey.

Does anybody know where a guy can find a person to hang out with, talk to, and enjoy spending time with?
 
Asking for a friend.

Pulled off the Heel thing great. Made an excellent "muscle" to people like Heenan and DiBiase.

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Elton John has bought his pet rabbit a treadmill.
 
It’s a little fit bunny.