Is Disney a good corporate parent for Marvel?

[The Overlord]

After all the choas with Warner Bros and DC, I have to ask is Disney a good corporate parent for Marvel?

I don't like Disney, I think they are ruthless and amoral, but they are very good marketing and branding. They seem to be handle mergers better than WB.

[markhyperion]

Yo. They throw money at every property and just trust in those who create. From ESPN, to Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, etc. This might be the best company in the world to run Marvel.

Lets be honest. They gave a boatload of money to Marvel to create a movie based on a 3rd tier character...aka Iron Man (sorry fans he was). All based on the idea RDJ would carry it. They gambled and it worked.

Has Disney made a bad move? They made Star Wars relevant again. They made comic movies the only thi g people care about. If anyone even says a Pixar movie is bad you're shunned for life.

One bad move actually. I'm looking at you Aliens in Indy 5. Yikes

[ARkadelphia]

The first Iron Man movie came out before Disney bought Marvel.

[jb681131]

No Disney is not good. Quantity & Money doesn't necessarely equal quality. And here it's the case, quantity & money but no quality.
For exemple the last Spider-Man movie had worst visual effects than a 15 years older Spider-Man movie that had a smaller budget.
Planet Hulk is one of the most entertaining Hulk comics, Thor Ragnarok was one of the least entertaining superhero movie ever.

The best MCU movies are all the pre-Disney ones. Isn't that odd ?

[FFJamie94]

No Disney is not good. Quantity & Money doesn't necessarely equal quality. And here it's the case, quantity & money but no quality.
For exemple the last Spider-Man movie had worst visual effects than a 15 years older Spider-Man movie that had a smaller budget.
Planet Hulk is one of the most entertaining Hulk comics, Thor Ragnarok was one of the least entertaining superhero movie ever.

The best MCU movies are all the pre-Disney ones. Isn't that odd ?

I hate disney as much as the next guy and I'll admit the effects on these movies are... not great.
But can we really say the Incredible Hulk is better than some of the post Disney MCU movies?
I mean I enjoyed it as a kid, but is it really better than Guardians of the Galaxy or Infinity War?

There's not enjoying something which I get, I'm not the biggest MCU fan, but then there's comparing over a decade's worth of film to two movies.
If we're talking about effects, then yeah, Incredible Hulk looks better than most MCU movies. If we're talking about movies themselves, I don't think it holds up that well.

[Digifiend]

The first Iron Man movie came out before Disney bought Marvel.

Yeah, wasn't it distributed by Paramount? That's also why Universal having Hulk's distribution rights wasn't a problem later in 2008 when Incredible Hulk was released - it only became a problem when Disney took over Marvel. They saw out Paramount's contract, then started distributing MCU films themselves.

[Omega Alpha]

Well, at least it isn't Warner...

[Mike_Murdock]

On the comics side, they're fairly hands off. Arguably, the resources of Disney don't help because Marvel is able to churn out an incredible amount of product and might do better if they didn't flood the market. The movie side trusts Kevin Feige. The only real area that I feel a big Disney influence is in theme attractions. But it's more of Marvel impacting Disney than the other way around.

So I would certainly say that it could be a lot worse. Marvel really hasn't been an independent company in living memory.

[9th.]

No Disney is not good. Quantity & Money doesn't necessarely equal quality. And here it's the case, quantity & money but no quality.
For exemple the last Spider-Man movie had worst visual effects than a 15 years older Spider-Man movie that had a smaller budget.
Planet Hulk is one of the most entertaining Hulk comics, Thor Ragnarok was one of the least entertaining superhero movie ever.

The best MCU movies are all the pre-Disney ones. Isn't that odd ?

Which Pre Disney movies are we talking about??? Outside of Ironman of course.

[Tofali]

I'd say yes and no. Quality control has been thrown out the window since there was a directive to produce content to feed the beast that is Disney+

[Jabare]

Yes. By several metrics and in comparison to their only competition

[Frontier]

Too much movie synergy, they canceled the best Avengers cartoon only to deliver a lackluster Avengers, Spider-Man, and Hulk cartoons, but as a whole I would say most people view their use of Marvel as a success.

[Username taken]

Just to clarify, the first Marvel movie that Disney got involved in was the Avengers. And that movie was still distributed by Paramount.

Prior to that, the movies were Marvel studios movies (it was operating as an independent company then) that were being distributed by Paramount.

All this being said, Disney has overall been good. Without Disney we wouldn’t have gotten Black Panther or Captain Marvel movies because they answered to a racist and sexist madman. Ultimately, Marvel being with Disney has given them more leeway to experiment with lesser characters. I’m not sure the Infinity Saga would have been as big as it was without Disney behind them (those movies are the most expensive ever).

Also, Disney hasn’t directly interfered in the creative process of the companies they acquired (I,e Star Wars, Lucasfilm and Pixar), they simply finance and allow the creatives do their thing. Yes, they obviously have corporate targets which they pass down but the success or failures Marvel and co experience is down to each one of those companies creative choices.

The only issue I see now (and this is recent) is the mining of Marvel content for Disney+. That seems to be stretching the guys there a little thin and there seems to be a scaling back of quality control. Previously, it was a very tight ship with a rather small creative team. But now, it seems the guys making these decisions can’t oversee everything. Obviously this problem was make worse by the pandemic but I hope they tighten stuff up as they move forward.

[Username taken]

Yo. They throw money at every property and just trust in those who create. From ESPN, to Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, etc. This might be the best company in the world to run Marvel.

Lets be honest. They gave a boatload of money to Marvel to create a movie based on a 3rd tier character...aka Iron Man (sorry fans he was). All based on the idea RDJ would carry it. They gambled and it worked.

Has Disney made a bad move? They made Star Wars relevant again. They made comic movies the only thi g people care about. If anyone even says a Pixar movie is bad you're shunned for life.

One bad move actually. I'm looking at you Aliens in Indy 5. Yikes

Disney had no hand in the making of Iron Man.

That movie was produced years before the merger.

[Digifiend]

It was released two years before the buyout. They bought Marvel, then promptly disposed of Power Rangers, which is ironic as Marvel is partially responsible for PR's existence via the 1978 tokusatsu Spider-Man, without which Super Sentai probably wouldn't exist, plus Marvel once published MMPR comics.