I wasn’t really sold on the MCU from the beginning, as I wasn’t a fan of the Iron Man comics. I saw it anyway, at the behest of a good friend (who actually did like the comics) and I was blown away. After that, if a Marvel movie came out, I went and saw it, whether or not I cared for (or even knew) the source material. This got me to some great experiences I would have never imagined liking, ie: Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man.

But for me I started looking a bit more critically after the release of Iron Man 3. I thought it sucked, so I realized then that although the MCU has a disproportionate number of real winners, it can still have losers, it’s not a given. So I would wait to see what public opinion was before I’d spend money to see it in a theater. I still saw a lot of them in the theater. Most of them. Right up until Avengers Age of Ultron. I hated that movie so much that I’ve never seen another Marvel movie in a theater since. I’ve seen most of them after their theatrical run, streaming - some have been quite good, most have not.

So yeah. Big fan of the comics when I was a kid. Reluctant fan of the MCU turned enthusiastic - then turned reluctant again. I still haven’t seen Deadpool and Wolverine yet, but it’s on the agenda.