Now, before i write this i want everyone to know i do not think The Avengers movie will be horrible, or even bad, I'm simply writing this from the point of view of what we've seen, what we have heard and what might happen.
Having said that, I have heard many people claim that The Avengers movie will be the pinnacle of CBMs, but will it really? Are we over hyping this movie and dooming it before it even starts filming? That's for you to decide, I'm simply going to go through past multiple superhero movies, what we have seen from Iron Man 1 and 2, and what we have heard so far from the storyline of the upcoming Avengers' movies (Captain America, Thor, and Avengers)
X-Men 1,2,3,Origins:
If we look to the past to see the future, we might be a little more worried than optimistic. The X-Men movies are a shinning example of why we might be in for a rude awakening. X 1 was a good movie, started off with a good story and good character development as a whole, X2 followed with the best of the series and added to character development (mainly Wolverine) and added new characters into the mix, X3 as we all know went over board with characters, didn't have any character development and the story lacked. Wolverine was the worst of the 4 in my opinion and was mainly the fault of character development issues and liberties taken with certain characters that didn't sit well with people (Blob, Deadpool). I bring up these movies because they were the first to have multiple characters in the same movie and for the first half did fairly well, but because of too many characters and lack of attention to detail, suffered in the second half of the franchise. Now, i know that marvel has control of the characters in the Avengers, i doubt they will take many liberties they don't feel isn't necessary. Having said that will the Avengers be able to give enough time to the individual characters in the Avengers movie? I don't know, honestly with the big names and HUGE characters in this movie, it is going to be really hard giving the same amount of camera time to Hawkeye than to Iron Man. With Evans, Hemsworth and RDJ all in one movie with the respected characters, will it be too much for one movie? Not to mention Black Widow, Nick Fury, Hulk, and Hawkeye all in the same movie. Will we have the same issues we did with X-Men and focus too much on one character? I hope not but it's up to you to decide.
Iron Man 1 and 2
We all love these movies, i know i love them, although the second wasn't as good as the first for one reason, it didn't focus enough on Iron Man. The whole movie i wasn't focused on Iron Man, i was focused on Avengers and what in this movie will tie in with the others. I didn't have that feeling in Iron Man 1 because I didn't know about the Avengers until after the movie. Now, how will Captain America and Thor feel? Will they have the prequel to the Avengers feel or the Iron Man 1 feel? Will they feel like their own movies or part of the bigger picture? Will we as fans get a real origins movie with no hints towrd future movies to distract us? I don't know, it's up to you to decide.
Avengers
As we all know this movie will be huge. It will seal the future of Marvel films fate either bad or good for a long time. If it is good, Marvel is top dog for years to come. If it is bad, Marvel will have wasted millions on prequel movies leading up to the Avengers and the money they spent on the Avengers movie. It's really scary to think about honestly. Marvel has put all of their eggs in one basket and if they drop that basket, we as fans will be very upset. Sure, we get to see some of the biggest characters together on film but at what cost. Like i said, if it's good we have nothing to worry about. But what if it's bad, what happens to the future movies in the Marvel Universe yet to be made? The individual movies of the Avengers probably wont suffer much, but what about Avengers 2 or other character movies like Iron Fist, Deadpool, Dr Strange? Will Marvel shy away or push forward? Again, I don't know, but i hope they continue no matter what, but who knows...
I want to hear your opinions. I know the majority will say I'm being negative and pessimistic, but am I? Or am i saying things people don't want to hear? Either way, like it or not in the next two years we will know how these movies pan out, good or bad.
P.S. If Avengers is bad, what happens to future Justice League plans? Does this movie effect DC too?