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Stevpies — 9 years ago(May 04, 2016 05:10 PM)

We had to make a decision early that we were OK losing virgin audience member. If you dont know some of these movies before you walk in you might be lost, but hopefully youll still be entertained. We cant do a previously in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, because it will take 25 minutes. [The MCU] isnt a new thing, its an ongoing story thats organically evolving movie to movie. In the beginning I think [Marvel] did operate as, If this is your first one, it should be as fun as if it were your third one. Its a dense ongoing novel at this point."

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    Honestly, I think after 12 movies with the reception and success they have had so far, they've earned it.
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Makes sense. After you've made so many movies, it's kinda pointless to try and recap everything.
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Good!
Comic book installments aren't generally made for 1st time readers. The MCU is breaking traditional "film" dogma and creating an entire universe of interwoven movies. It will literally be impossible to progress, without heading into territory that won't make sense unless you know what came before it.
Thank God, for that!

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How often can you watch a sequel to a film without seeing the first film and fully understand it? Obviously after 12 films, you'll need to have watched at least some of those films to understand it.

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Pretty much. It would defeat the object of having a shared universe if every single movie was it's own self contained thing.
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]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/722918https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/722918Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:58:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Marvel is no longer making movies for 1st time watchers on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:58:06 GMT]]>Max_cinefilo89 — 9 years ago(May 07, 2016 12:06 AM)

I'd say Harry Potter 3 was still relatively newbie-friendly. Goblet of Fire is when it shifts to full blown serialized storytelling.

]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/722917https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/722917Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:58:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So Marvel is no longer making movies for 1st time watchers on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:58:05 GMT]]>lukecage92 — 9 years ago(May 05, 2016 04:16 AM)

Yeah, it makes sense. It is a franchise 13 movies in so there is no need to cater and if you haven't watched any by now, you wont watch it in the future. The Harry Potter movies don't cater to first time viewers since the second one.
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