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MCU films are the same movie repeated endlessly for the most part. I gave up before the big Thanos set pieces—at about the time of either Black Panther or Captain Marvel, whichever came last—and I genuinely can't recall which remembered scene or dialogue snippet came from which movie. (And increasingly I can't even remember scenes or dialogue).

One that gets a lot of my friends angry with me: The best Star Trek was the original series. The second-best was Enterprise. The rest aren't Star Trek.

Forrest Gump is not a movie about a kind-hearted, if slow, man whose perseverance and innocence allow him to succeed despite his limitations. It is instead a pretty damning portrayal of the "American Dream" showing that being lucky and being in the right place at the right time is far more important to success than is hard work or aptitude.

Thelma & Louise is not a feminist road movie and definitively not a bold statement about female friendship, liberation, and resistance against male oppression. It is instead a bleak view of how dominating patriarchy crushes every attempt to rebel against it to the point of self-destruction. The "triumphant" finale is not a liberating act of empowerment but the inevitable despairing outcome of those who would dare tackle the injustices of the partriarchal world order.

The MCU films are at their worst when they're trying to be funny. James Gunn is the only one who managed to pull it off well, and even then it felt out of place.

Also Thunderbolts is a solid "meh" at best. It felt like an extended tv show, not a movie. It ended once it finally got interesting.

Rising Tide was right