Universal monsters were some of the first to terrify audiences in the 20s. Here's the thing, if Universal want to build your own cinematic universe surrounding famous horror characters, that's fine. All of this brings us to Universal and their, supposed, Dark Universe. I think even Hasbro, a company that makes FUCKING TOYS AND BOARD GAMES, was attempting to start its own cinematic universe. It's just their attempt to close the gap in quality, and financial, success between the two brands. If their execution of these movies are to be believed, this wasn't planned out this way. The only reason the DCCU is even a thing is because Marvel made it successful. Basically, DC Comics was caught off guard by the success of the MCU and they've had to play catch-up ever since. And, yet, you could say that their attempts at creating a cinematic universe has been an utter failure, outside of the Wonder Woman movie (which I've yet to see). DC Comics has more iconic villains than Marvel and some of the most famous characters in MEDIA belong to them. Case in point, the DC Cinematic Universe. Once something is massively successful, countless other people try to copy it without understanding why it worked and why the company originally behind this successful concept took their sweet ass time setting everything up. Marvel's patience in slowly building its world and the characters that inhabit it has paid dividends for them. It's one of the great achievements Hollywood has had in a long time.

Personally, while I'm not in love with the universe itself, I've gotta give credit to Marvel for knowing how to successfully ensure that all its characters exist in the same universe, even if they're doing things separately. Now that I've said all of that, let's talk about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But considering the breadth of stories to tell with these mythologies, that they've been used, essentially, for summer blockbusters is highly disappointing. What I mean by creatively is exploring these characters in depth, not that these are bad movies. Since the first two Mummy flicks were very successful. Which is why it's so frustrating that, realistically speaking, Hollywood, at least recently, hasn't used these elements really all that successfully. Much like its Norwegian and Greek counterparts, there's many stories that can be told using those worlds and those writings.

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