“The MCU works because the MU works and that’s how the MU has always worked, it’s a tightly integrated universe.”
Marvel had a vision (no pun intended) starting with the first Iron Man movie with Nick Fury talking to Tony Stark about The Avengers. They’ve been building a plot toward Infinity Wars at least since the first Captain America movie with the introduction of the Cosmic Cube. Feige has done a masterful job in building a franchise. I can’t think of another movie franchise that comes even close.
I also agree with you about the DCU movies. Besides making a lot of mediocre movies (Dark Knight being the exception, only because of Heath Ledger) their attempts at integration seem forced and their movies pretty lousy. I can’t even think of one that had good action scenes. The two Russo brothers’ Captain America movies, in my opinion, are among the best action movies of all time.
We’ll see about Spider-Man. In the first trailer I saw, he looked too much like Gumby in the action scenes. The latest trailer I saw made the movie seem more appealing.
Didn’t you like the Abbot and Costello Universal monster movies? As I kid, I thought they were great.
Abbot and Costello are different. Their entire franchise was built on old sets. That’s why they crossed over so much, it was all about using the sets of a movie that just wrapped before they got torn down for the next. Never really got into them though.