Counter-point, I'm a picky eater but love trying new things. I often don't enjoy them, but I'm still happy for having tried them.
So I don't think I'm limiting myself. I'm genuinely excited and curious and want to find more things I like. I don't feel like the biological sense of taste I have no control over is my fault.
I still believe that half this swell is artificial, supported by an entire greedy industry that is blatantly price-gouging. Yes there's a real boom, but just like egg producers who artificially inflated their prices during the egg crisis well beyond the new stress point, the same thing is happening here. We're all being fucked and swindled at every possible opportunity.
The first of the Holland Spider-Man films, Homecoming, is excellent. The only reason I didn't recommend the Spider-Man series to you is because I think the second and third entries are a little shakier, and as a comics fan a bit "more Holland than Peter" to me, but this most recent fourth entry in the series is just as excellent as the first. So if you like the character already, check 'em out.
I mean, don't take this the wrong way, but I don't work for Marvel Studios marketing department so I don't really feel much incentive to sell you. I got no vested interest here, I just thought it was odd that the dude could acknowledge THING could and has been great in the past but while thinking THING couldn't be great again despite the prior acknowledgement. That's all.
That said, I am a comic book diehard and I am also still very onboard with the MCU. I'd say the new Spider-Man is one of my favorite films in the greater universe.... but it's also absolutely not a film you should go into blind. It requires at least having seen the previous Tom Holland Spider-Man films, bare minimum.
But if you're at all interested in the MCU and haven't dipped your toe in yet, my recommendation is simple: Watch Guardians of the Galaxy vol.1-3. These are, imo, the peak of the MCU (GOTG vol.2 is one of my favorite movies of all-time, in fact) and they're also in some ways the most self-contained, so they don't rely on a lot of connective tissue for their impact.
Comics have always waxed and waned. Some of the great storylines in comics happen between some of the worst. Imo it makes sense that the films following this model could do the same, and writing all of the off forever because you haven't been 100% satisfied every time seems silly.
It's okay to not like the MCU, and it's okay to be done with it. But you seem to be suggesting that the MCU was once good in your eyes - why do you think that somebody that has been proven to you to be good once is not capable of being good again?
This. If you want to collect analytics for in house decision making, merchandising, whatever, I say go for. But as soon as you start selling that data or the conclusions thereof, it becomes a currency, and if I'm paying that currency you better not be asking me for another.
And you're fucking wrong. We don't need the sterility of traditional social media because that only existed in the first place to be advertiser-friendly.
You aren't better, more correct, or more valid because you play the respectability politics game, you're just bitter that the game isn't as effective here without the incentive of advertiser-friendliness to wield as a cudgel.
Either grow up and learn to meet people where they are instead of expecting people to play by and cater to your personal preferences, or fuck right off.
Get a thicker skin. The world is not designed to cater to your specific sensibilities. Taking a shitty opinion and gussying it up in pretty language isn't some magic spell that makes you immune to push back, and the fact that some people are less than polite doesn't invalidate their response.
You want to be able to push buttons with your edgy "it's just a debate bro" opinions while being spared impassioned responses. Too fucking bad, bro. Either man up and get thick enough skin to wade in the water or stay the fuck off the beach.
I will never understand why we keep letting obviously disingenuous right wingers act like wizards casting spells by finding the right magic words. It's this weird debate culture/internet argument behavior pattern thing that has somehow conditioned society to conflate making a defensible argument with being right.
It is possible to be not incorrect while still being entirely wrong, and I swear it feels like society not understanding that distinction is paramount to the strategy and culture of the right.
I think Jackman Wolverine is a very strong casting choice as evidenced by his success.
But I think Simmons as J. Jonah is one in a lifetime, peak casting.
Other people could play a comparably great Wolverine; I don't think anyone is ever gonna top Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson