I have to admit, the Marvel movies are getting really old for me. I didn't care for Infinity War at all. Just sort of felt numb throughout it, like things were happening, but I just didn't care.
Part of the problem is that I've read all the comics that they are basically adapting - and the comics were better. They make all these little changes to the characters and lore, and almost universally it is for the worse. Like Batman the Animated Series was not the same Batman as the Tim Burton movies or Adam West show. It's all Batman, but they sort of had their own identity beyond "sort of like the comics". I feel like the Marvel Cinematic Universe is closer in feel and style to the animated show The Batman. They changed a lot of things, none of them for the better, and ultimately created a show that you were cheering for the moment when it starts to seem like one of the better Batmans.
Like take Spider-man. There's a TON of good Spider-man material out there. I know Dan Slott gets a lot of shit (and is another writer who drank too much of the Kool-Aid) but some of the stuff he did with Peter was pretty cool. Spider-verse, Spider Island, Horizons Lab, Superior Spider-man, Renew Your Vows, and so on. He took a 60 year old character and not only did new things with him, he took old things to their logical conclusions (kind of like how Geoff Johns took an old Alan Moore issue and turned it into The Blackest Night, probably Green Lantern's highest point).
But what did they do with the movie? Peter is in high school... again. Peter Parker has been an adult in the comics for decades. He's been married and had kids. And I'm watching Homecoming thinking, at the rate they make these movies, they'll literally never get to the good stuff. And then MJ not being MJ. What's the point of reliving the past if you are just going to remove all of the valuable things from it? Is the pursuit of diversity so important that you'd shit all over your own characters to achieve it? (The answer is yes, based on Marvel's comics in the past couple years)
The movies are okay, at best. The novelty of them being big budget adaptations of the comics I read has kind of faded. I mean, if you haven't read the comics they are all copied from, they might seem pretty exciting. But then, I'll take Brubaker's run on Captain America over The First Avenger any day. Civil War was a sprawling mess of a cross over (though a brilliant concept with some great moments), but at least it had more than, what, 8 super heroes in it?
The worst part is, they have been shitting up the comics for several years now, so I don't even get those anymore. What they did to Iron Man should be against the law. These days, I just read Astro City - more for what it was than for what it currently is, but there's enough moments of pure catharsis that make me think Busiek still has some good stories left in him. Oh, I guess I also read One Piece, if that counts (it probably doesn't).